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Justin Timberlake Specrum effect “Love Stoned Video”
Hi Everybody
Maybe anyone of you can help me.
I want to create an effekt like in the
Justin Timberlake Video “Love Stoned”How can I transform video footage in a way that
it fits in a generated spectrum like in this Video.It would be great to get some responses.
Thanx Benjamin
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3 Replies
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Well, there’s a LOT going on here. But I wouldn’t say that an audio “spectrum” is what you’re looking for.
The two main components seem to be audio “waveforms” which are animating in time to the music, and video of Justin which has been degraded until it looks like television scan lines.
A basic form of the audio waveforms can be created using AfterEffects by applying the audio waveform effect (found in Effect > Generate > Audio Waveform) to a solid, and using your music as the “audio layer” in the effect control panel. This layer can then be thrown into 3D, duplicated a bunch of times, and distributed in z space, to make the textured contours you see in the video. These won’t have quite the look of the waveforms in the video, but they give a basic idea.
The second element, video degradation, is similar to what AfterEffects’s “Bad TV” animation preset will achieve, though they’ve got a lot of additional masking, warping, movement, and “particular” effects thrown in for good measure.
What you’re looking at here probably took a team of people several hundred of man hours to achieve. At least that’s how it looks to me. But the basic concepts are definitely achievable in AE.
Oh, and when the waveforms become lines which dance around? I’m going to guess they used Trapcode’s 3D stroke, or else a similar piece of software for a completely different platform.
Anyone else have ideas?
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We looking at it here too and came to pretty much exactly the same conclusions as you, achievable in AE using exactly the effects you mention but they probably used something with a bit more hardware acceleration, it’s hard to get the timing down for something like that without a really beefy system.
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Hi im new here, im not brilliant with after effects i must say but i do know bits and pieces and im still learning but i managed to pull of the lovestoned effect on a still image with the spectrum still moving.
i put the audio waveform effect onto a solid as in the previous post and set the still image as the audio layer ( before hand i had added music to the image) then to get the image to only appear inside the spectrum like in the lovestoned video i changed to blendmode of the solid spectrum layer to multiply and it works.
thanks
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