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  • Video being rewound effect

    Posted by Adam Bennett on July 28, 2005 at 10:52 pm

    Good evening people.

    I’m trying to create an effect to overlay on some speeded up footage to make it look like it’s being rewound (or fast forwarded I suppose). I have the bad tv tinderbox plugin but it just seems to make snow etc – I want 2 or 3 distinctly broken up lines, not snow evenly over the whole picture.

    Any ideas?

    Many thanks!!

    Adam Bennett replied 20 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Michael Duff

    July 29, 2005 at 12:11 am

    there are a few threads in the archives on this….but this is what I do…

    Record black onto a VHS. Then capture it into your machine while rewinding the VCR. So you get the horizontal lines with some noise and crap over black. Layer this up and play with some transfer modes.

    Also, play around with different ways of rewinding the footage, rather than just a straight time remap. Maybe posterise time or echo?

    Maybe distort the footage a bit while it is rewinding….A simple one could be the wave warp at 90 degrees stretching in and out real fast.

    ummmmmm…..maybe wiggler the position a little. Maybe wiggler some blur….OR, with the wave warp make a black/white matte and use it as a displacement map and compund blur at the same time.

    Adjust curves/levels?

    ……..hope this helps……….

  • Adam Bennett

    July 31, 2005 at 9:11 pm

    Thank you Mr Beer ; )
    Don’t have hookup to VHS but tried rest and works a treat!!

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