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moving light strip

Postby dimi_arachi » Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:12 am

like to know how you make a bright light moving strip going across the page.It's just like a flash light strip panning from one end to another.
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Re: moving light strip

Postby moehler » Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:55 am

I think you just need to do the following
1) Place solid color layer on the slide and make it the custom aspect ratio you'd like (Layers >> Layer Settings tab)
2) Change the layer to a adjustment layer ( Layers >> Layers Settings tab)
3) Adjust the brightness adjustment of the layer to 100% (Layers >> Editing Tab)
4) Set the keyframes to give you the movement you want. (Effects >> Motion Effects tab)

You can then play with it to get the final effect you want.

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Re: moving light strip

Postby TinaJ » Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:27 am

There is a set of transitions that do that as well.
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Re: moving light strip

Postby im42n8 » Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:24 pm

For some additional info,

You can use a gradient or solid color layer of a custom width and height. Adjust the width and rotation as desired (depends on what you're doing and how you want the "light strip" to look). Add some blur to the layer to feather the edges some. Change the opacity until you get it to look more like a light beam as it moves across/around the screen. In this case, the layer is the colored light. As a white light then, the layer should be all white, or close to it. This is like a light being shined on the layer below it.

When you use the layer as a adjustment layer, it will change the layer below it (the region immediately below the colored region of the AL). An all white adjustment layer (AL) has more impact/change than a non-white AL (that is, a black AL will show no changes. The closer the color of the AL is to white the more change you'll see). Changing the brightness will impact the brightness of the area beneath the AL. You'll probably still want to blur the AL to reduce the sharpness of the layer edges (use the vignette feature since adding blur to the AL will actually blur the area of the lower layer that's covered by the AL).

Adding keyframes to control the motion across the screen is important to get the movement you want for the light beam.

Hope this helps too.

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Re: moving light strip

Postby BarbaraC » Sat Feb 26, 2011 5:07 am

Take a look at what happens at around 23 seconds into the Neon video: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=17320
Is that the kind of effect you're looking for? It's done slowly here, but it's a simple matter of speeding it up to make it more like a quick flash. This effect was created using a mask.

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Re: moving light strip

Postby heckydog » Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:11 am

To me it sounds like a marquee effect. Chasing lights in a straight line.

Lots of ways to do it. One would be a static picture of a row of lights and a mask layer to alternately reveal/hide the lights in sequence.

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Re: moving light strip

Postby dimi_arachi » Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:02 pm

Thanks all. I will give a try on Dales way...
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