• Adobe After Effects

  Dirty Glass effect

  Posted by Take Two visual media on October 19, 2007 at 12:11 pm

  I’ve seen this effect latley on some commercials and for the MLB playoffs. The effect makes it look as though the camera is looking through a dirty window. The “window” des not move it’s just a static layer but it creates a cool effect. I’ve seen it where there is some water rolling down the “window pane” as it were…cool look.

  Can anyone clarify how this is done?

  Mike Clasby replied 18 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Nicholas Toth

  October 19, 2007 at 5:00 pm

  Take either:

  1. Dirty Glass/muck/anything
  or
  2. Footage of water dripping on a solid color

  Place it above what you want to look ‘dirty’, and play with your blending modes (hit V to enable your arrow tool, then hold shift +or- to toggle) until you acheive what you want. Its pretty easy.

  Videocopilot.net has a good tut on how to insert a window, but it also shows you how to muck one up!
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  Nicholas Toth

  October 19, 2007 at 5:02 pm

  You can do this in post animation. Ie: in Avid/fcp/premiere, so you don’t have to re-output EVERYTHING all over again upon recieving changes.
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  Mike Clasby

  October 19, 2007 at 6:10 pm

  1) Waterdrop running down a window.

  Here is a post of an earlier question for a water drop on an apple, sub in you layer of what’s seen thru the window/glass for the apple.

  Basically it’s CC Blobbylize on a dupped copy, referencing as a Blob Layer, a recomposed animated mask (drop shaped, can be many) on a White Solid. Add a little drop shadow and you get a convincing waterdrop/teardrop.

  https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/898170

  2) Dirty window.

  As for the dirty window, see Andrew’s latest:

  https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=86

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