SONY VEGAS - Font and FX Templates Question

[PantherX]

Does anybody know where, or what the name of these Fonts/effects Templates come from??


this hip hop video is lame as hell but the effects at 1:33 and 1:46 (so on) are Templates that I think can be added into Sony Vegas or Adobe Premier. Does anyone know where I could find it??
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/v...6045B50ekF687o9


The same question for this video as well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8xpA-T3Dog

[budwzr]

That's all custom work, no template.

Ya gotta be an artist, PLUS have a tremendous compositing ability, to understand how to go about making that kind of stuff. That first video is not "lame". That's pro work.

They're targeting a specific set of eyeballs. Standard Pimp/Player motif.

The fonts are standard fonts. But they've been extruded, skinned, bumped, lighted, shaded, and animated in a 3D app, then exported as a PNG sequence to get mixed with the rest of the content.

The "wall" in the first video is a "Plane", or "layer", transformed in xyz-space. It's 2D, but rotated in 3D. IOW, it's flattened.

If you want to make stuff like this, you need high-end software. You can fake it with cheap tools, but there's still a huge learning curve just to be able to "See" what's being done.

You have to be able to dissect it mentally into elemental parts. It really is like a fancy salad. Everything melds together and takes on a higher form.

So your thinking would be, hmmm...I see that lettuce in there, but it looks different somehow. Did they chop it like that? Did they stylize it with a bump map? Or play with the colors? Why is it pink instead of green?

Then you would go about creating the "elementals", the basic units, first. Like the individual text characters saved as SVG, then maybe some textures, and get a cheap 3D software and do the animation.

Art is made from the background to the foreground, in layers. You lay down your "far away" stuff first, then work your way to the front. You put everything on its own layer.

[poisondeathray]

2nd one is definitely a template from videohive.net for after effects. There is nothing unique or custom about it, there are dozens that look almost identical

UMMMM.... Maybe you should look here:
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/360111-SONY-VEGAS-Adobe-Premiere-Font-and-FX-Templates-Question

[budwzr]

Are you serious? Man, that's bogus. No wonder AE is so popular. For ten bucks you can claim you "made" something.

[poisondeathray]

Are you serious? Man, that's bogus.

serious about the double posting, yeah

And if you don't want to pay the $10-20 to save time, you can actually find step by step tutorials on aetuts+, there are several that look almost identical clones . (For AE only, that would be seriously difficult to to in vegas alone)

[budwzr]

Thank you very much Mr. Sheriff. And BTW, the OP did request info for Vegas or Premiere, not AE.

[poisondeathray]

Thank you very much Mr. Sheriff. And BTW, the OP did request info for Vegas or Premiere, not AE.

Yep, and I'm clarifying the 2nd one is not possible in Vegas or Premiere , without some extensive use of other programs (....But then you might as well just use those "other programs" )

[PantherX]

Thank you everyone for your informative responses! I guess I have no choice but to learn AE at this point even though I have no Idea how to use that program as of yet. I was really hoping for a Sony Vegas Template that was similar to these effects :/

[minidv2dvd]

vegas can do some pretty good stuff, you just need to work it out yourself.

here's some moving 3d title work done in vegas in under an hour.

[Brainiac]

I had no idea that this was a cross post, otherwise I would have replied to this thread. And I know that the op did ask about Vegas and Premiere, but something like he was asking about just screams AE or some other compositing software.

Brainiac

[budwzr]

I don't know what happened. PDR flipped a badge out on me and said I was "double-posting".

So we're only allowed to post one reply to each thread apparently. I get so used to texting, that I just do this automatically. Now Brain is saying this is a cross-post, so one of these threads are no good, I guess.

Hey, you guys are Far..., I mean "Smart" Fellers. I'm just an Okie from MissKokee. I used to hunt al-a-gata for a livin. I just knock em in the head with a stump.

[poisondeathray]

I don't know what happened. PDR flipped a badge out on me and said I was "double-posting".

Hahaha , you've been around long enough to know not to double post. I was hinting politely for the OP, because he started 2 threads


Hmmmmm anyone recognize this ?
http://videohive.net/item/blockbuster-trailer-2/5430843

And this is the font
http://fontzone.net/font-details/trajan

Generic stuff. Dozens like it on videohive and similar template sites. There are free step by step tutorials on aetuts+ for stuff like this .

Templates definitely have their place - they can save you lots time . But if you use a template, my strong advice is to customize the hell out of it. Because people in the FX industry can tell what is "real work" and what are generic templates. If it's for personal projects, no biggie, but it's almost like a "faux pas" if it's for paid clients . WTF are they paying you for then, right ?

But back to the original question - I think you might be able to do some extruded text with 3rd party plugins in vegas eg. boris continuum . But it won't be as good as doing it in AE , and I don't know of any templates for vegas that do that sort of stuff

[poisondeathray]

Hahaha ....Hip hop video "template" recipe:

Rented luxury car(s): check
Gratuitous girls in skimpy clothing: check
Big ass gold chains: check
Homage to Tupac/Biggie/<insert deceased rapper here>: check
Crotch grabbing STD itch: check


Ok, but on a more serious note . The 1st video doesn't really deserve mentioning for templates because it's something easily done in any program that has z-space. (You're not going to find a template for something like that). Lack of z-space also rules out premiere/vegas. Brainiac basically described how to do it in AE in your other thread

[aaronlbs]

digital juice got come out with fx templates for sony vegas

like ready2go templates for sony vegas
http://www.digitaljuice.com/products/product_lines.asp?plid=323

also toxic themes templates for sony vegas
http://www.digitaljuice.com/products/products.asp?pid=2489

[budwzr]

That stuff sucks. Stale. Amateur-ish. Check out Aurora 3D Animation Maker. It's like a plug-in but stand alone. Cheap too. It's pretty good actually. I use it frequently. It's basic, but with a little creativity you can come up with good stuff.

If you ask specific questions, you can get specific answers. You just want to make something like those samples? Post the frame(s) you want a breakdown on.

Can you do that? If not, you're really hosed.

I made this with Aurora3D (A while back). Sorry I can't put anything more current. Too many art thiefs around.



I put the Sparkle and Text on it in Vegas.

[budwzr]

This one shows couple of VegasPro tools. I'm not a pro or artist, but someone that really knows how to make art can do a lot. This example is simple and very basic compositing.

All done in Vegas, but I cut out the butterfly in a paint program, then animated it to flap, then the rest. You sort of morph it along and that's the general idea and process used but on a poorman's level, hahaha.

Motion Graphics is kind of the "Subliminal Message" component. You can pop a frog out of a baby's ear and sell baby swimwear with more impact. Actually, what you want to do is flow in and out of a theme. Like this one goes from nature into fractals, which is symbolic of the hybrid lifestyles that mix tech and earth.