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MPEG4 Video  |  2012-12-07  |  21.4 MB  |  1198x720  |  15fps  |  9 minutes, 37 seconds
Transcription: To create the plasma trails, let's create a new black solid. Call it Trails. And we'll just make that a different colour. OK. Now use the Pen tool. The shortcut for that is G. And we'll just draw a mask like this. Now, exactly what style of line you want is up to you, but this is the basic idea. A few clicks, you've got roughly something that looks roughly like a plasma trail line. Now, to fill that out, go to Effects and Presets and find Vegas and apply that. Now we need to change stroke to mask path. You can see there it's appeared but it's in segments so change segments from 32 down to one ...