NEED MAJOR HELP!!!!!!!!!

1. jjproductions
   Member

   

   Alright. I am making a trailer for The Catcher in The Rye for English Class and I need to know how you make objects around a person move faster then the person the video is focused on. Is this even possible with one camera and using sony vegas.

   Posted 4 years ago #

2. jburkhart
   

   

   Well if you don't have a multimillion dollar special effects house to work with...

   The quick and dirty way of doing this is to have your subject intentionally move in very slow motion, and have everyone else move normally in the shot. Then you bring it into Vegas and speed the clip up, much like if you were doing a time lapse. If you play around with the speed settings you should be able to get close to normal speed for your subject, while everyone and everything around him is considerably faster.

   Hope this helps. Be sure to post the video here when you're done. We'd love to see how you did it.

   JB 

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   Posted 4 years ago #

3. bobjr94
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   You could maybe do it with chroma key or green screen. Its the same way they put the weather map behind the weather man and put actors infront of computer made backgrounds in the movies.  Ive never tried vegas but Im sure its in there, I have it in several other programs Ive tried. Shoot your first video of everyone moving around and whatever the background is, then shoot the person whoever is going to centered infront of something that a solid color, usually green or blue. Maybe like washing a white bed sheet in green dye would work then try to get it lit as evenly as you can, so the computer can cut it out easiest. You can then stretch or speed up the background clip,add the green screen clip in and add a chroma key filter . You can even slow down the green screen clip if you need more of a speed difference. Then it will look like the person in the 2nd shot is in the first shot, moving at a different speed.

   Course the qulaity wont be something from a movie but it should be ok. If thats to hard then try the 1st way.

   Posted 4 years ago #

4. jjproductions
   Member

   

   Thanx you guys.  Im gonna try the first thing because I think I am just going to have the subject stand still.  It should be done in a few weeks, then I will post it.

   Posted 4 years ago #

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