Making a gun fire.

Okay, this is a little out of left field, but I wanted to share it with the forum, just for fun.
I recently bought some filter plugins from Virtix that promised a simulated "machine gun" effect. It works fine, but you can't get a "single shot" effect out of it, eg, for pistol shots.
So, Necessity being the Mother of Invention, I decided to work out a way to get the effect of a revolver firing single shots.
I filmed a closeup of me pointing my replica pistol and pulling the trigger, adding a "recoil" backwards jerk by suddenly clenching my hand. I fed that into iMovie, then scrubbed along to the exact frame where the gun jerks backwards. I saved that single frame as a jpg.
I put the jpg into Photoshop, and painted a spurt of flare and a bright halo around the muzzle of the gun. Saved that.
Then I imported that jpg back into iMovie, and pasted it as a Still frame right before the frame where the gun jerks backwards. I set the duration of the Still at 00:02. Added a gunshot sound, and there you have it.
You wouldn't believe how realistic it looks.
(It's probably an old method that everybody already knows about, d'oh!)

... very good discription of a techniqué called ROTOSCOPING:
Wiki explains...
it is a painstaking process, in case, you have to paint more then one single frame...
works with laserblasterfire and lighsabres too... :
(16 frames form the forthcoming: Anakin - The Very Early Kindergarten Days...) ;-))

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