hey again guys, so far u lot have bin a gr8 deal of help and im very thankful for it. now ive came to the end of my film and am starting to edit the action/gun fight scenes. ive read sumwhere on a site - www.matthawkins.com - how to editing muzzle flashes (gun flashes) onto the final piece. now it seemed to work up until a certain point but its basically becuase i have adobe premiere pro and it shows how to do it from an earlier version. now i am wonderin and pretty much beggin neone who can help or write up how to put muzzle flashes onto the final piece usin adobe premiere pro and not after effects. as b4 ne help that u can give me would b an absolute lifesaver so ill wait for a response. cheers.

I'm assuming this (http://www.matthawkins.com/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=5&pid=36) is the tutorial you were speaking of... I didn't see it mention after effects even once, so.. what's the problem you're having? Premiere Pro should be pretty similar to the version they're using in the tutorial. :)

If you want a good alternative program.. get alamDV2
It's somewhat expensive, but very worth it.
http://fxhome.com/alamdv2/

I saw this site earlier today, the prices aren't too bad, and it's supposed to work with pretty much any editing solution.

http://www.firearmfx.com/

right ok i probably seemed a bit confusing. the site i used was this http://matthawkins.com/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=5&pid=36. it contains a tutorial on making muzzle flashes. i get to the point where i have to make the image transparant and reposition it. i cant seem to do this. i was wondering if neone knows how to and that can help. cheers.

i forgot to say that yea it doesnt mention after effects but other tutorials i have tryed and other people i have spoke to say to use it. but being who i am, i cant afford this kind of software. so thtas the only reason i said nething to do with after effects.

just a quick thing. When I was adding muzzle flashes to our short film Imagine I tried a bunch of ways. The way I found worked best for me was.

First went to the frame I wanted the flash on, exported that fram as a picture file. I opened it up in photoshop and dropped my flash onto the spot I liked. Then in the layer that has the flash change it's setting to screen(this makes the black see through and the flash is becomes translucent. At this point you can save the pic, but I like adding a bit more. I go to the airbrush and make the color white and change the opacity to 5% and I paint in the areas I think the gun flash would brighten. You can see in the pic below how I painted on the arm and face. I'm no artist but it's only on for 1 frame. You barely notice it, but it looks really cool like the shot is actually happening. Here are the elements I used, if I can get them to work. Hope this helps.

http://www.beneathreality.com/muzzleflash2.tiff

http://www.beneathreality.com/10col.jpg

http://www.beneathreality.com/10coldone.jpg

It's amazing what the eye catches, even without us knowing it.. nice job on the extra highlights there mac. ;)

Thanks will. The details are very important but they take time.

hey again guys, so far u lot have bin a gr8 deal of help and im very thankful for it. now ive came to the end of my film and am starting to edit the action/gun fight scenes. ive read sumwhere on a site - www.matthawkins.com - how to editing muzzle flashes (gun flashes) onto the final piece. now it seemed to work up until a certain point but its basically becuase i have adobe premiere pro and it shows how to do it from an earlier version. now i am wonderin and pretty much beggin neone who can help or write up how to put muzzle flashes onto the final piece usin adobe premiere pro and not after effects. as b4 ne help that u can give me would b an absolute lifesaver so ill wait for a response. cheers.

For BROKEN, we did all our muzzle flashes in Apple's Shake. Here is one of our VFX breakdowns: http://www.whatisbroken.com/webdoc_muzzle_small.html

Click here to check out the trailer: http://www.whatisbroken.com/broken_trailer_enter.html

Check it out.

Peace out!
Alex
http://www.whatisbroken.com
http://www.enigmafactory.com
http://www.alexferrari.com