Underwater effect in Vegas? how to do it?

[rocco123]

I would like to create an underwater effect in Sony Vegas. Im not talking about muffling audio, im talking visual, like the image moving smoothly in ripples or something, like in the game Quake 3 Arena, if you go underwater the camera does this. I don't know how to explain it. PLease help

[budwzr]

Try the Displacement Tool in "Compositors". Use a doughnut outline, make it up yourself in a graphic editor.

[rocco123]

Try the Displacement Tool in "Compositors". Use a doughnut outline, make it up yourself in a graphic editor.

I don't get what you mean, unless I see it in a video I don't think I can make it.

I tried this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdyi07JWLrk

But im not able to manually set the keyframes in a way where it looks like a seamless, smooth loop (the ripple effect constant looping and moving)

Is there any tutorial to do what I want to do specifically??

[rocco123]

I think this may be what I need:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5a_nuYHpsU

I would just need a 2D seamless loop of a ripple effect, then I attach it to my video in the underwater scene and that's all.
Where could I find some nice ripple loop avi?

[rocco123]

I have managed to get what I wanted more or less using stock footage of water flowing, I used the composite tool so the video is moved triggered by this stock footage of water, it looks cool except I can't apply it to the full screen, there's a corner of black where nothing happens as you can see here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5a_nuYHpsU&t=3m30s

I've tried the duplicating thing but It doesn't work, the effect is not applied on those corners.. this is so confusing.

[budwzr]

You can capture a ripple from any video in Vegas, but I need to go back and research how I did it.

[rocco123]

I was finally able to get it how I wanted. I used the Height Map instead of the other one, and tweaked with settings until it looked good. I parented the video to some stock footage of water filmed from the top.

[budwzr]

OK, yeah, I mentioned wrong tool. Alzheimer's.