I want to do this effect!

[AlexConquest]

I can't really explain it, but I want to make it look like what the audience is watching is being filmed at the time. So it has the red flasing REC dot in the top corner, the battery power level, and everything like that.

Help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[TeeSav]

i know what you mean.

its easy go into photoshop and design a title that says Rec and interlace the video. that should work

 

[Will Vincent]

I know there's an after effects plugin for this somewhere out there, but the name of the plugin escapes me at the moment.

As TeeSav said though, you could easily just mock up a display screen in photoshop and drop that over top of your video. If you can find your camera manual as a PDF, you should be able to open the page with the symbols in photoshop then copy & paste to create a new custom display.

 

[shmengie]

Profound Effects CameraPOV

Not sure what NLE you're using, but there is a package out there called Profound Effects CameraPOV which has exactly what you're looking for. The only problem is, it appears the company just went out of business in July of 2008 Perhaps you can Google it and find it available somewhere...

 

[Will Vincent]

Profound Effects CameraPOV

That's the one I was thinking of.

 

[Sean.D]

In high school, I used Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 and I know that Final Cut Pro has the same features. I had to do a scene where I pretended that my school's security cameras were catching me in action, so all I did was turn my footage black and white and used the included title maker. I chose which font looked very security-ish looking, picked a small enough font, put it in the bottom right corner, and it looked great.

As for the battery level, just as TeeSav said above, you can use Photoshop to design a battery level and set it against a clear background and place it on top of your video. But really, unless you want it to look really convincing, I think the REC in the corner of your video should suffice if you're just trying to get a point across.