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Post #282349

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MeBeJedi
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Rocky Horror How-to help!
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Date created
14-Apr-2007, 10:25 AM
Are you using a particular video editor?

"first of all i need to know how to dgitally flip an entire movie horizontally, not just the video but the audio too."

The first part makes sense. I don't know about Premier, but Vegas makes this very simple. To my knowledge, audio can't be flipped "horizontally" (and I've been told music has no color either ), but it can be reversed. I had to do this for a church video where I needed Neo to land after flying. I found a scene where he takes off from the ground and reversed it. Luckily, the flying sounds sounded good in reverse, but if there's music or dialogue, it's going to get messed up.

"Secondly I need to know how to make a new video opening that includes clips from old movies,"

At this point (and forgive me if I'm wrong), I'm beginning to think you've not used a video editor very long, if at all. Most video editors are drag-and-drop in this regard. I'm not putting you down, but with the amount of stuff your project needs, you might need to make a reallllly good friend around here or pay someone to do this stuff for you - especially the cgi and rotoscoping.

"I also need to know how to make an entire movie black and white with the exception of one persons lips throughout the entire movie."

The B&W is easy, the lips can be a rather involved process. Like rotoscoping, it takes experimentation and experience to do something like this well.

"And lastly I need to know how to take a 1.66:1 aspect ratio dvd video and shift it up adding in a second video that I filmed underneath of it to create a 4:3 vdeo, I also need to know some rotoscoping fro this, thanx in advance everyone!"

Very easy. Again, it depends on which video you are working with. I take it there's no one who lives near you that knows this stuff?

[EDIT]

I made a quick XVID of the reversed Matrix footage. This is a compilation of different scenes put together to make a different video. There's actually two reversed scenes: Neo landing, and him taking off his glasses immediately afterwards. This was necessary because in the actual scene where he talks to Mr. Smith, he starts out not having glasses, and puts them on during the conversation. However in the prior landing scene, he lands with his glasses on. This little addition helps maintain continuity - at the expense of making Neo look like someone who can't just keep his damn glasses on.