Creating Explosions in Pinnacle Studio

Hey Guys.

I've seen a lot of places that offer advice on how to do effects in many different video editing programs, but not many for Avid's Pinnacle Studios. Sure, You can't beat After Effects for effects editing, but the software is much more expensive and maybe you didn't buy a program intending to do that many effects.

What I'm going to do is explain how to do a simple explosion effect in Pinnacle Studio 12, which is the newest version of the software.

The following video was created as a example of the effects... It is made entirely in Pinnacle.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1704610/bomb_squad_movie_trailer/

The effect I will teach you begins after the 1:20 mark.
In the following Steps I will show you how to create these effect.

Step 1 Step 1

Imagine, if you will, that you have two actors running away, just as an explosion occurs behind them. To make things easier, place your camera on a tripod and do not move it. First, film the area with no one in it (just incase), also grab a few seconds of complete silence to use incase you instruct your actors and need to be able to cover up the deleted audio. Now film the actors running away from the explosion.