I thought I'd share a simple idea I had for my wife's 40th birthday DVD intro.
I used a free photomosaic software found at: http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/ and then I put it all together in Sony Vegas with other photos moving (and dropping into) the larger photomosaic.
This is my first, shorter, rough draft, (the final was longer, with a lot more photos and different music) but you'll get the basic idea I was going for.
Click here for the .veg file (you will need to add/replace all of your own photos, music, etc).
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Making of the "Artistic Effects" video
Programs used:
Sony Vegas - www.sonymediasoftware.com/
Additional Transitions:
Additional Filters/Plugins:
Since the song was repetitive (and my little Canon A520 digital camera only shoots 30 seconds at a time in 640x480) I had already decided to break the song up into various sections. Which I also knew would help when it came to applying all the effects to the footage.
I used Vegas to export all the images from the cameras original AVI files (cropping each section of the video first, so I only extracted the ones I really needed) and put them into separate folders titled as if they contained a song; i.e. Intro, Chorus, Middle, Ending, etc. I then closed Vegas because I knew the rest of this endeavor would take a while!
I opened Paint Shop Pro and imported only one (1) of the images so I could experiment with the different Graphic Art filters mentioned above, to get the artistic looks that I wanted. When I was happy with a certain technique, I recorded my selections as a “script”.
There are several different Art Programs that have the ability to run scripts, but a lot of people never use them. When it comes to applying the same art filter to just one or 400+ images, a script (and batch processing mentioned below) comes in very handy!
If you’re not familiar with scripts, basically what its doing is recording each change you’ve applied to the image. So if you go to “Script” then click “Start Recording” (or however your art program states it) and then you proceed to lighten the image, rotate it, crop it and finally change it to black & white; when you save the script, it will do all four of those steps for you with just one click. If, by chance, the filter you used runs as “interactive” in the script (meaning you have to click “OK” after it applies the changes) most scripts can be opened and edited. You’ll want to change any reference to “default” of “interactive” to “silent”. Then the scripts will run entirely without you.
To apply the custom saved scripts I made to over 400 images, I did them in batches and used what Paint Shop Pro calls (luckily enough), “Batch Process”. With batch processing you pick the files you want to convert, (in my case and entire folder full), the script you want to use, the image format you want them saved as and the location (folder) you want them saved into. You then click “Start” and… walk away!
I say walk away because, depending on the type/complexity of filters you’re applying and the amount of changes there are in each script, processing multiple pictures could take hours.
I then imported only one batch of the edited photos at a time into Vegas, (for each section of the song) and rendered that one section as a new video. I did it that way because of the fact that I had to match my singing (lip-sync) to the song as well. When all of my batches were done (sounds like I’m baking cookies!) I brought them all together again into Vegas as one video and applied the transitions between each section that I thought would match the artistic feel of the entire video.
Sony Vegas - www.sonymediasoftware.com/
Additional Transitions:
- Pixelan: SpiceMaster – www.pixelan.com
Additional Filters/Plugins:
- Adobe Gallery Effects (not sure if these are still available?)
- Alien Skin (Snap Art, Eye Candy, Xenofex & Splat) - www.alienskin.com
- Flaming Pear (Lacquer) - www.flamingpear.com/
- Virtual Painter (was made by JASC before Corel bought Paint Shop Pro?)
Since the song was repetitive (and my little Canon A520 digital camera only shoots 30 seconds at a time in 640x480) I had already decided to break the song up into various sections. Which I also knew would help when it came to applying all the effects to the footage.
I used Vegas to export all the images from the cameras original AVI files (cropping each section of the video first, so I only extracted the ones I really needed) and put them into separate folders titled as if they contained a song; i.e. Intro, Chorus, Middle, Ending, etc. I then closed Vegas because I knew the rest of this endeavor would take a while!
I opened Paint Shop Pro and imported only one (1) of the images so I could experiment with the different Graphic Art filters mentioned above, to get the artistic looks that I wanted. When I was happy with a certain technique, I recorded my selections as a “script”.
There are several different Art Programs that have the ability to run scripts, but a lot of people never use them. When it comes to applying the same art filter to just one or 400+ images, a script (and batch processing mentioned below) comes in very handy!
If you’re not familiar with scripts, basically what its doing is recording each change you’ve applied to the image. So if you go to “Script” then click “Start Recording” (or however your art program states it) and then you proceed to lighten the image, rotate it, crop it and finally change it to black & white; when you save the script, it will do all four of those steps for you with just one click. If, by chance, the filter you used runs as “interactive” in the script (meaning you have to click “OK” after it applies the changes) most scripts can be opened and edited. You’ll want to change any reference to “default” of “interactive” to “silent”. Then the scripts will run entirely without you.
To apply the custom saved scripts I made to over 400 images, I did them in batches and used what Paint Shop Pro calls (luckily enough), “Batch Process”. With batch processing you pick the files you want to convert, (in my case and entire folder full), the script you want to use, the image format you want them saved as and the location (folder) you want them saved into. You then click “Start” and… walk away!
I say walk away because, depending on the type/complexity of filters you’re applying and the amount of changes there are in each script, processing multiple pictures could take hours.
I then imported only one batch of the edited photos at a time into Vegas, (for each section of the song) and rendered that one section as a new video. I did it that way because of the fact that I had to match my singing (lip-sync) to the song as well. When all of my batches were done (sounds like I’m baking cookies!) I brought them all together again into Vegas as one video and applied the transitions between each section that I thought would match the artistic feel of the entire video.
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