My cousin wants to create a lightsaber effect in his videos. How can he?
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use what the StarWars filmmaker uses, a long stick combined with computer effects to light the saber.\n\nBut it might be too hard to edit a while scene without specialized skill of a pro like the special effecter in SW, so just use a light stick and and computer to intensify the light saber effect
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I don't know what your budget's like, but if you can afford to spend a little money, go to A Sharper Image, where they have a remote control R2-D2 for like $50.  It's really cool, and your brother will love it!!!\n\nIf that's too much, how about some cool cardboard cut-outs of Star Wars characters for his bedroom?  Go to www.cardboardcutouts.com and look at all the cool Star Wars ones they have.  Merry Christmas!
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yehhh here are some really good tutorials that make it really simple\n\nhttp://www.freewebs.com/drops-of-jupiter/tutorials.html\nhttp://www.freewebs.com/pixellations/index.htm\n\nmy username on iconator is wh0000a, check me out XD
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Try with LiveSwif 2.2, it's free and you can design your own animations in the way you would do it with Macromedia
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The way I do it is through paint shop pro, or photo adobe then use animation shop, you can find a lot of great online tutorials using google
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Either draw it and scan it or if you are making it on the computer i would say adobe photoshop. If you want to try and animate it then some flash program - maybe fireworks??
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Photoshop you can liquify or smude tool. But not sure for video.
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Yes.Go to www.freemagictricks.com,they have got some.
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afterdawn.com has a lot of information on video authoring. \n\ntry them as its a very good site for this type of question
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Those files can be opened and edited with notepad or effectsEd. I could not find a download for the effectsEd file alone but it looks like it comes in the editing pack for Star Wars Jedi Knight II which can be found at http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=196 .
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Use photoshop.  One layer son, one layer uniform.  Use a layer mask.  Or email them both to the Liquid Guy.  He'll email them back to you merged.  liquidmaildump@gmail.com
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macromedia flash would work great for that kind of animation. You just need to look on the music bar where there's a beat (spike on the sound line) and insert a frame change on that frame.
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This is the best that I have found yet. Here is the link to the B&W actions, http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/TLRB&WConversion.htm .  Check out the rest of the site. The sharpening is also very good.
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try onion skinning in flash make frames and in each fram edit the mouths and legs in different directions.\nIn Fireworks\nMake frames of the same image at least ten. Edit each image separately and export as animated gif.
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Use SWiSH Max, Macromedia Fireworks\n\nUlead Cool 3D can be used for animated text.
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For this purpose you can use various softwares such as Ulead GIF Animator etc. You can find a trial version at Download.Com
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hmmm id dont think sooo but you can make a scene like a clip at   www.glassgiant.com