Pencil Sketch
How to Make Video Look Like a Pencil Sketch in Vegas
Sometimes a special effect can add that extra charm to a
video piece. One that I like is the animated pencil sketch. This effect uses two
video tracks containing the same video events, which are composited together in
a parent / child relationship using a Bump Map with near maximum Intensity and
Bump Height. Here are the step-by-step instructions:
Step 1: Select the event you want to make a pencil
sketch
Step 2: Add a Black & White Video FX to the event
and select the 100% Black and White preset

Step 3: Duplicate the video by copying it to the
track above it. You can just right-click on an empty part of the track
and select Duplicate Track from the context menu.

Step 4: Enable the Make Compositing Child
relationship between the two video tracks. (In Vegas 4 use Make Compositing
Parent)
Step 5: Change the Compositing Mode of the
upper track to Custom... and select Sony Bump Map. (this was
called Parent Overlay Mode in Vegas 4)

Step 6: In the Bump Map dialog, increase the
Intensity and Bump Height to close to maximum (depending on the image).
Fine-tune these settings for the effect you want.

This should give you a pretty convincing pencil sketch
look. For extra bonus points add a Brightness and Contrast filter after the
Black and White filter on the lower video track and you can really control the
amount of detail that's left in the Bumped image. You can get it down to just
outlines if you'd like. If you don't use the Back and White filter it will look
more like a pastel painting.

In these before and after shots below, you can see how you
can bring out a nice textured effect as if a pencil was used on parchment paper.
Those two handsome people are my Mother and my beloved Father dancing at my
wedding. Man, they loved to dance!

Happy Editing,

Johnny
“Roy” Rofrano |