• Adobe After Effects

  assistance figuring out how to repeat a layer of bubbles or get a longer video

  Posted by Steven Dowden on February 21, 2017 at 6:50 am

  I got a green screen video with about 20 seconds of bubble time and i had to keep duplicating and the effect looks off when the first one ends and the new one begins over and over throughout my comp. what the hell is going on? how can i

  1.) find a longer video of bubbles (can’t find anywhere)
  2.) put the smaller duplicates together more seamlessly?
  3.) is there something i’m missing within after effects?

  here’s the link of my unlisted video i made using the green screen bubbles i imported

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlrs7EdTiFM&feature=youtu.be

  Tudor “ted” jelescu replied 9 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  February 21, 2017 at 7:44 am

  It looks like you need a simple bubble effect in AE that can last for the full length of your clip:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRe-z4la64g

  There are more complex and realistic ways of creating bubbles in AE but the above should do the trick for you

  Tudor \”Ted\” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist

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  Steven Dowden

  February 21, 2017 at 8:13 am

  I appreciate your reply.

  I have already seen that video tonight and I didn’t want the effect it had. That was foam which came out pretty fast and I wasn’t able to control the speed how I wanted. I tried using the built in bubble effect under effects > simulation > cc bubbles and was able to control the effect much better but the issue I am having now is ———> I can’t figure how how to make them look more like the bubbles in the first video I posted as far as transparency, without the black hue, and kind of that shiny look to them. <———-

  So to recap I’m not worried about looping over and over now (unless that’s easy to do) with the old bubbles but creating them and now I need help figuring out what’s in the arrows above.

  Here is the new bubble video:

  https://youtu.be/e7vbYk5-Grs

  Thank you in advance.
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  February 22, 2017 at 7:39 am

  If the bubbles made with the method in the tutorial I sent you are too fast, just precompose and then Time Remap. This will slow down the movement.
  As far as the look goes, you need to play with various transfer modes and try even using two instances of the same bubbles layer with different transfer modes.

  Tudor \”Ted\” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist

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