• Adobe After Effects

  collage effect

  Posted by Malcolm Desoto on June 19, 2008 at 4:44 pm

  You’ve seen that effect where the make a video clip look as if it’s an amalgamation of several shoots? for example, the eye would be large and darker than the hand etc…

  This could be easily done by duplicating you video layer multiple times, creating a square mask,and then adjusting the scale and levels properties. However, this would take a bit more time than I have to spend. Is there an effect/preset that I can apply that would produce a similar effect?

  Thanks.

  “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” –Albert Einstein

  Malcolm Desoto replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Kevin Camp

  June 19, 2008 at 6:24 pm

  this will probably produce a more random effect than what you are looking for, but it may work….

  duplicate the footage/image and apply the magnification effect and a color adjustment (i used exposure) to the duplicate… then try these expressions:

  for the magnify effect:

  ‘center’ expression:
  seedRandom(index,true);
  x = random(0-width/2,width*1.5);
  y = random(0-height/2,height*1.5);
  [x,y]

  ‘magnification’ expression:
  seedRandom(index,true);
  random(100,200)

  ‘size’ expression:
  seedRandom(index,true);
  random(50,150)

  for exposure effect:
  ‘exposure’ expression:
  seedRandom(index,true);
  random(-3,2)

  after that you can just duplicate that layer and it should produce different rectangular magnified sections of your layer with slightly different exposures… you could get a really crazy effect by removing the seedRandom function from the expressions so a new random value is set on every frame…. (or maybe not…)

  Kevin Camp
  Senior Designer
  KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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  Malcolm Desoto

  June 19, 2008 at 8:39 pm

  Thanks! I’ll give it a whirl!

  “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” –Albert Einstein

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