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  • Anyone know what plugin or filter is being used in this screenshot ?

    Posted by Joey Campbell on April 23, 2013 at 8:13 am

    Hi – I’ve seen this effect in a few showreels – its like a distorted offset. Is it using videocopilots Twitch or is it another plugin ?

    Joey Campbell replied 13 years ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Fernando Mol

    April 23, 2013 at 12:59 pm

    It’s called chromatic aberration, there are some plug-ins out there that can do it. Internally, you can tweak a few layers inside After Effects to achieve it. And yes, Twitch can do it.

  • Joey Campbell

    April 24, 2013 at 11:10 am

    Thanks Fernando

  • Greg Neumayer

    April 26, 2013 at 6:14 pm

    A filter’s probably faster, but it’s not necessary if you want flexibility. You need to make 3 copies of your image, then isolate the red channel in one, the green in one and the blue in one using something like Channel Mixer on each. Then layer them back together (maybe the Multiply or Add transfer control?) Add a wiggle expression to the anchor point or position of your layers and Viola!

    Channel Blur would be another filter you may want to play around with for other aberration looks. It basically blurs a specific color channel.

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  • Joey Campbell

    April 26, 2013 at 8:30 pm

    Thanks Greg

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