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  • Anyone know how to create a good dot-matrix effect on stock footage?

    Posted by Raphael Rogers on September 2, 2014 at 11:13 pm

    Saw the monsters dark continent trailer and loved what they did for the news footage type stuff. Look at the 15second mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cadxeA__v4

    Anyone know how?

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    Kevin Camp replied 12 years ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Todd Kopriva

    September 3, 2014 at 12:09 am

    One very fast way to get that kind of sparse pixelated look is to use the CC Ball Action effect with the Grid Spacing and Ball Size set much lower than the defaults.

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  • Raphael Rogers

    September 3, 2014 at 2:10 am

    awesome thanks

  • Kevin Camp

    September 3, 2014 at 5:59 pm

    the grid effect will also work… small grid size, small border, enable invert and stencil alpha options

    grid renders faster than ball action, which may make a difference if you are doing a lot of these or combining with other effects.

    Kevin Camp
    Art Director
    KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

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