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  • how to destroy image

    Posted by Tiho Brahe on June 4, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    Hi people,

    I have a footage shot on digital Beta but final video needs to look like a video stream on internet (let say like flv video on you tube).

    My idea is to play with codecs. To export video in some really bad quality codec to reach all those big pixels, blur, noise and destroyed colors.

    Anyone have some better solution? Is there some plug-in that do that? Even better is there some tutorial about that?

    thanks in advance

    ps
    this is my first post here

    Immanuel Morales replied 17 years, 11 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Lars Bunch

    June 4, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    Hi,

    Gen Art’s Sapphire Jpeg Damage plugin sound like what you are looking for… (At least if money is no object.)

    But it sounds like your idea of exporting to some really high compression codecs set to low quality would do what you need at a considerably cheaper price.

    Lars

  • Ron Coy

    June 4, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    just know that if you do use the wrong codec, you won’t be able to import and use that resulting footage in After Effects without first converting it to a non-temporal codec. Things like mpg and h.264 toss out keyframe info that AFX requires to render out a movie.

  • Tiho Brahe

    June 5, 2008 at 8:35 pm

    thx for responds

    so I tried with codecs and I must say, could be better. I will try more since I don’t have any special plugin for those stuff

  • Immanuel Morales

    June 6, 2008 at 12:28 am

    Here’s a way to get something similar without any 3rd party software.

    Duplicate your original footage and turn off the top layer.
    then do the following to the bottom layer –
    1. Apply MOSAIC and ADD GRAIN (in that order).
    2. Make your MOSAIC blocks large as well as your grain settings.
    3. in ADD GRAIN, under the “Animation” flyout, make sure you have “Animate Smoothly” checked off and “Animation Speed” set to something moderately slower than the default value.

    Turn back on the top layer and turn it’s opacity to half, blending it into the marred footage. Then use an adjustment layer to gaussian blur the whole thing say, 3.5 or so..

    i’d keep messing around with this stuff.. it can be taken much further

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