How to do the Pitch Black effect in Vegas

In this tutorial, we will learn how to make Pitch Black effect in Vegas Application.
If you prefer a video tutorial, you can just go to this link -> Youtube Pitch Black Tutorial

Step 1:
Open Vegas application, then import your video.

Import video

Step 2:
Go to video section and click fx symbol. As an alternate way, you can just right click the video and choose Media fx.

Click fx symbol

Step 3:
Choose Gradient Map in the list of effects.

Step 4: Customize the gradients using the following settings.
1st Gradient:

R -> 0G -> 0B -> 0A -> 255

2nd Gradient

R-> 0G -> 0B -> 0A -> 0

3rd Gradient

R-> 0G -> 0B -> 0A -> 0

That’s it for the video effect, if you are using Gummy Bear as reference, it should look like this

Step 5:
For the audio part, right click audio, then choose Properties.

Step 6:
In the popup window, change the following:
Method: elastique
Stretch Attributes: Efficient
Pitch Change: -24.000

Step 7:
Render the video, you have successfully made the Pitch Black Effect.
Here are my videos in Pitch Black effect.

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You can also find me in Youtube -> Team Bahay