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Creating a battle scene black bar "ninja" effect help
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Hello everyone!

I am extremely new to video editing and this software and was wondering if anyone could help me create the effect in the subject of this post. The clip is simply a closeup of someones face yelling something and near the end of the clip, I want a black bar to come from the top and bottom of the screen that stop around his eyes, as to create that cliche "ninja" battle effect. I wish I could link an example from somewhere but I can not for the life of me find any, and google isn't really helping me much here. I'll continue looking and put it here for reference if I ever find something today.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you!



EDIT: I think I figured it out by creating my own PiP object and just having to black rectangle move in.

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ynotfish
Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline
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Hi RazorCat -

While you were figuring it out, I was making a little "how-to". Here it is anyway...



I put the two "shutters" I made during the screen capture on DirectorZone, if that's of any use now that you've worked it out for yourself

Shutter Up - https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/176469626

Shutter Down - https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/176469625


Cheers - Tony

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That's perfect! Way easier than I was going about it. Thank you!
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