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This is a brief overview of Star Trek's classic transporter effect. With a little history and a host of examples, recreating this effect in your video editing software is fun and easy.

See videopia.org for more details and specific techniques.

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  • Adrian B 7 months ago
    Nicely done. Always an enjoyable watch.
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  • Rich Vernillo 7 months ago
    Eric,

    that was really good,

    i am a star trek fan so i really liked this one
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  • MidnightStar Video plus 7 months ago
    Your work is always of the highest caliber and very entertaining, keep it up!!
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  • paramon plus 7 months ago
    great work, always a pleasure to watch!
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  • Masoud Varjavandi plus 7 months ago
    Very nice. Loved the costume.

    Request for next tutorial video, I'd be interested to find out how the invisible shivering type effect is done, like in the predator.
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  • ⾺ Dan Huston plus 7 months ago
    Great vid as always and now I can't wait to go to your site to learn how to do it...beam me up!
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  • Dave Dugdale plus 7 months ago
    Great job! One of your best tutorials so far. Also I like the way to point people to your site which will help you make money from them buying your book.
  • Tim Warneka 7 months ago
    I agree ... great use of cyber entrepreneurism. You offer quality information for free, making people (hopefully) more interested in the information you charge for (like a book).

    (Now, where's my credit card ... ?)
  • Dave Dugdale plus 7 months ago
    I bought Eric's book which is pretty good so far (about 1/3rd of the way thru it). My hope is Eric can make enough $ from his book/site to produce one of these shows a week.

    I like the blend of entertainment and education.
  • Videopia plus 7 months ago
    I sure do appreciate the support, both financial and otherwise. Honestly, both expressions of support are equally encouraging, although BoA only cares about whether I can pay my mortgage or not.

    And yes, my only hope for the book is that it is readable, entertaining and that you learn a couple of things you didn't know before, hopefully at least one magic insight that makes the whole thing worth the money.
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  • Sean Miller plus 7 months ago
    That was awesomely geeky! I loved it!
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  • Tim Warneka 7 months ago
    Awesome video! Thanks for posting this.

    A slightly off-topic question: How did you capture the audio for your outside shots? (like 2:10, for example)?

    The audio sounds too clean to have been recorded outside.

    Did you do a voice over/ADR?

    Not a criticism, just a curiosity ... I'm going to be shooting some footage outside and I liked your audio.

    Thanks!
  • Videopia plus 7 months ago
    Polite, thoughtful criticism is always welcome: thank you Tim!

    And: Yes. Good ears. It was well-nigh impossible to get both good audio outside AND get windy foliage shots without a boom operator. Or a cameraperson (thus the terrible framing too). Shooting in a semi-public space wearing a homemade spandex Star Trek costume in the Florida sun was not very fun, so I did a couple of takes and that was that.

    I did manually do ADR, as you can hear. I got pretty close and considered trying to fake the outside sound better, but, other than dropping some ambiance in behind the track, I didn't do more.

    And, incidentally, it's a new mic. As you know from the other videos, I REALLY struggle with audio (don't we all?!), but I think I nailed it this time, at least as far as the studio sound. The new mic? Rode NT3 (3/4" diaphragm, hypercardioid). Love it. First mic I can genuinely say I love since I got my Sure SM57 a decade ago.
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  • Tim Warneka 7 months ago
    I discovered the NT3 about a year ago ... I love it, too! :-) I've used it to record ambiance at several keynotes I've given. I've also used it recently on a new leadership training video I made.

    I stand in awe of your ability to do ADR. I had to watch/listen to the video about 5 times to catch it.

    I've tried ADR and mine never comes as close as yours did in this video.

    I love to see a video on how you do ADR.

    Keep up the great videos.
  • Videopia plus 7 months ago
    ADR is a complete pain (although there are software tools that can definitely help). I hate it and only did it because I had no choice. The ADR is only close because total time is a few tens of seconds and two of the shots are pretty wide (and forgiving). Used the audio waveforms to line it up manually with the crappy/windy production audio (I don't even look at the video while trying to sync - that'll drive you insane). I definitely could have hidden it better with more ambiance (birds, a little wind) and bumping the EQ so it's not so bassy and full, but for a silly 2-day project, this is what we get!
  • Tim Warneka 7 months ago
    You're far too modest. I think you seriously did a nice job.

    Since I've learned about ADR, I'm always watching/looking for it in videos.

    I've seen some professionally produced videos that had worse (i.e., quite obvious) ADR than yours.

    Again, nice job! :-)
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  • Blake Whitman staff 7 months ago
    You need to start a channel!
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  • Galaxy Sailor plus 7 months ago
    Wow, this is cool stuff. I just discovered these vids and site and I am happy I did. I am going to catch up on more stuff I never knew but thought I did but don't.
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  • Gregor Wolf 7 months ago
    Your are one of my tutorial role models. Can't be better.
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  • Jeremiah Warren 4 months ago
    I saw some behind the scenes video a looooooong time ago (I was about 9 then...I'm 17 now) and they mentioned one of the transporter effects. They took water, added glitter, and stirred it up.
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  • Justin Ho 3 months ago
    Love it, great tutorial!
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  • bang 30 days ago
    nice one,
    just wanted to warn u, as i tried to visit your site, that i think u have been iFrame attacked.
    im using google chrome and had a security warning;
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