DVcreatorsFX: Blizzard
Mar 1, 2007 at 2:35 am in post visuals by
Here is a packet of freebie FX from the DVcreatorsFX labs… a snowy blizzard!
Just add a windy sound effect from Soundtrack Pro and you’ll want to huddle around the fire.
These animations are each a minute long and include an alpha channel so you can drag it right into Final Cut Pro (or Motion) over your video to add swirling snowflakes to any scene.
They utilize OpenGL and CoreVideo so they play in real time on most recent systems!
We’ve included versions for many video formats:
blizzard DV-NTSC
blizzard DV-NTSC 16:9
blizzard PAL
blizzard PAL 16:9
blizzard 720p HD
blizzard 1080 HD
Here’s how to use them in your project:
1. Drag the video clip you want to put snow over into track V1
2. Import the blizzard clip and put it on video track V2 (over one of your clips in V1)
3. Highlight the blizzard clip, and from the Modify menu, choose Alpha Type > Black
4. Grab your parka and make some hot cocoa!
Click here to download, should only take a couple seconds (only 75K for 6 uncompressed one minute clips)!
These effects are excellent and were required by one of the users of the Final Cut Express forum.
Thanks to the creator. I am still baffled as to how a 60 second DV effect can only be 20KB !