• Adobe After Effects

  symmetrical patterns

  Posted by Tom Rowan on July 21, 2005 at 6:22 pm

  I used to use digieffects harmonizer filters for symmetrical designs in after effects. I haven’t installed it on OSX yet because I’ve heard some of their filters cause problems. Are there anything that can duplicate these effects?

  Tom Rowan replied 20 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jean Hauptman

  July 22, 2005 at 12:18 am

  The haromonizer filters were unique and underutilized. You might like Trapcode’s 3d stroke. It lets you replicate the strokes on either the x y or z axis, and the right controls can get symmetrical stroke patterns similar to harmonizer. There’s always after effects echo, which I don’t like. The Boris Trails filter is a lot better – in fact, you can probably get excellent results with that filter as well.
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  Joseph W. bourke

  July 22, 2005 at 2:22 pm

  Tom –

  If you really like to do things from scratch, you might want to try creating waveforms in Illustrator, white on a black background, in various shapes and sizes (vary the height of the wave and the period), then send them over to After Effects. I would make them larger than your working video size (if you work at 720 by 480, maybe try 1440 by 480, or 1440 by 960) to give you room to stretch or compress the waves.

  Bring them into After Effects and layer them over each other in Additive mode, then add various glows, maybe the Trapcode Shine effect, and colorization, animate them, and you’ve got your own toolkit to recreate Harmonizer’s effects pallette. Maybe not as elegant as the Digieffects interface, but it will sure render more quickly.

  Joe Bourke
  Art Director / WMUR-TV
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  Tom Rowan

  July 22, 2005 at 7:36 pm

  Great suggestions! Thanks, everybody!

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