• Adobe After Effects

  Chromatic aberation Plugin??

  Posted by Steve Chrome on October 20, 2006 at 2:44 am

  Hi Guy’s

  You might be able to help me, i’ve seen this effect on the more arty documentarys here in the UK and it looks like a combination of Ghost images over the top of the source image but with some kind of chromatic abberation, as if the whole image has been shot through the edge of a thick mirror or peice of glass ??? i’ve even seen the effect on extended news pieces’s so i’m thinking it’s a stock avid plugin but not sure…

  Anybody know what this might be, and could it be done in AE or FCP ??

  Cheers

  Eddie

  Steve Chrome replied 19 years, 7 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Mylenium

  October 20, 2006 at 5:30 am

  Genarts has a good plugin for this in its arsenal (and they even have an FCP version), but they are rather pricey. The simple (and free) solution is to separate your RGB channels using the Shift Channel or Set Channel effects on separate, blur each of them with a different amount and then blend them back using “Add” mode.

  Mylenium

  [Pour Myl
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  Chris Zwar

  October 20, 2006 at 10:50 am

  Hi,

  Just thought I’d add that with Mylenium’s solution (separate your footage into 3 comps: Red, Green & Blue, then re-combine them) you can use a range of effects on your individual colour comps to get interesting results, including offset and optics compensation.

  In fact you can use this technique with the optics compensation plug-in to correct chromatic aberation from cheap lenses, as well as to introduce it.

  -Chris
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  Tony Kloiber

  October 20, 2006 at 1:09 pm

  Apple>Motion>Blur>Prism

  TonyTony
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  Steve Chrome

  October 21, 2006 at 4:43 pm

  Thanks guy’s!!

  i’m checking through what you’ve all mentioned, some are just what i’m after others are throwing up new possiblities…

  Cheers

  Eddie

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