i use final cut express, and tomarrow im shooting a movie with my friends with a ton of gunfire in it. is there any way i could get the gun shot spark effect with final cut express?

you're in luck go to detonationfilms.com and download their muzzle flashes. layer those in V2 set to screen or add - maybe a bit a of color correction to lighten the lights and darken the darks. sometimes a feathred crop is good too if a light rectangle shows up around the shot.

i went to their site and i cant find it

I found it here:

http://www.detonationfilms.com/free_stuff.htm

Those guys REALLY need to learn how to optimize a website. That page took forever to download in broadband. Gifs anyone? They're using huge graphic files.

-Chris
Studentfilms.com

yeah - seriously. maybe i should offer them a new site design in exchange for all the CDs so i don't have to download them. the site is on a slow server too - my DSL is only getting about 20 kilobytes/second on those downloads as opposed to it's normal 95k. oh well - it's FREE - those guys rock!

If you get bored try making your own muzzle flash in photo shop I think you will end up liking it even more because you did it yourself. Do it in photoshop you can find tutorials all over on google about how to draw them.

There is a great cheap special effects program that makes muzzle flashes, ghostbuster streams, light sabres and all kinds of stuff, easy as heck to do. Check out their website. www.fxhome.com AlamDV is the program I got from them. I thought it was so useful I actually paid for it! Can you believe it?!