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The Lightsaber Effects Thread
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krnbanguboi
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Mar '05
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Date Posted:
10/23/05 5:54pm
Subject:
The Lightsaber Effects Thread
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5/31/06 8:57pm (2 edits total)
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Alright. Many have noticed that I post alot of topics. So I decided to keep all my new effects and updates in this little thread here. I hope the moderators won't mind.
To start my new Effects Thread I decided to compare Ryan's old and new methods and Blake's method:
Ryan's Old method:
1.5mb-Click
Ryan's New method:
1.6mb-Click
Blake's glow method:
1.5mb-Click
All Clips in one for Easier Comparing:
1.6mb-Click
Also, be sure to check out the links here and here for more great lightsaber tutorials.
DV EDIT: Title changed at author's request
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NoLukky
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Aug '05
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Date Posted:
10/23/05 6:27pm
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RE: Brian's Effects Thread
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first of all i think ryan's old method is the best but what color r ur lightsaber suppose to be, becuase ryan's both methods are purple but the other method is more bluish for some reason so i dont know what color the lightsabers r suppose to be
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krnbanguboi
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Date Posted:
10/23/05 6:30pm
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RE: Brian's Effects Thread
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That's Batkin's glow method. It's supposed to be a rich blue.
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batkins182
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Date Posted:
10/23/05 6:32pm
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RE: Brian's Effects Thread
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10/23/05 6:33pm (1 edits total)
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Hey, could you send me the saber mattes and the unedited video so I can do the glows and tweek them and hopfully help you out. I think I'm on the trail to upgrade my method.
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krnbanguboi
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10/23/05 6:45pm
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RE: Brian's Effects Thread
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Sure. By the way this was the first time I tried your method and I like the excess of the glow give off. The frame rate is 15 and the video size is 320x240.
Empty Footage: RightClick>Save as...
SaberMatte:RightClick>Save as...
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Thrice3
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Date Posted:
10/24/05 10:21am
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RE: Brian's Effects Thread
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Round those edges. Effect---> Noise---> Median
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ObiJuan2080
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10/24/05 2:06pm
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RE: Brian's Effects Thread
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Something is wrong...I had to offset the two footages and the Black Matte saber still goes faster than the source footage
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krnbanguboi
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Date Posted:
10/24/05 2:36pm
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RE: Brian's Effects Thread
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weird. I didn't want to round the sabers because I just wanted to compare the glows.
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Kaat
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10/24/05 3:19pm
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RE: Brian's Effects Thread
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From the ones you've posted, I like the right one the most.
I've tried it, too. A bit unusual, but I kinda like how it turned out:
http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2KCOVIDVZZGIM2ITEOFR2486KG
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GuanoLad
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10/24/05 3:26pm
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RE: Brian's Effects Thread
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Why does this seem to be such an obsession for people? Considering how inconsistent light sabre glows are for each official movie, even within the same movie, why do people go so nuts over things so inconsequential?
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krnbanguboi
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10/24/05 4:18pm
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RE: Brian's Effects Thread
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Kaat at 3 seconds into the clip the saber prop is visible about 1 meter away from the actual core. Though I do like the spreadness of color to the saber glow.
GuanoLad we like to create more sabers because we as fanfilm creators have our own perspectives on how sabers should look like. And if we settled for ILM's sabers then we'd be boring and bland and there would be no TFN.
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Kaat
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Date Posted:
10/25/05 12:14am
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RE: Brian's Effects Thread
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krnbanguboi posted:
Kaat at 3 seconds into the clip the saber prop is visible about 1 meter away from the actual core.
Yeah, I noticed even while composing the thing. The footage was somehow damaged or something there so it didn't fit the saber matte at this very frame. But the rest was fine, so I didn't bother and hoped everybody would be so stunned away by the clip's coolness that noone would notice. 
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krnbanguboi
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10/25/05 10:22pm
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RE: Brian's Effects Thread
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So.. Batkins ya done yet. 
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batkins182
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Date Posted:
10/25/05 10:27pm
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RE: Brian's Effects Thread
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I'm getting closer. I'm trying to update my method. Here are my new results for my more updated method...
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Kaat
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10/26/05 3:43am
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RE: Brian's Effects Thread
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Quite good. But I guess a slight desaturation of the sabers to fit the footage better would help here. 
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Rhys
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Date Posted:
10/26/05 4:42am
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RE: Brian's Effects Thread
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I did change around the method i was using a bit in the end, and got pretty much identical RvB glows (Which is what i set out to do originally). Though it's not much different from the method i posted a while back, which is again not that much different from Batkins' (although the glows do come out a bit different), the method i posted i think got the glows pretty much the same as RvB, but i haven't been able to play with that much since cos my pc got unintentionally wiped about two weeks ago. I do still have the files, which i recovered after format, but haven't got round to sorting them out yet.
Basically, what i did change deviated slightly from this, which is the method i put together with what i put in my thread, though even though that's an older clip it's pretty much what i was aiming for.
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