block transition with Fractal Noise

[Randy Cates]

I was hoping someone could suggest a way to have a gradient control the fractal noise. I thought of that (as well as the block dissolve transition with a controlling gradient).

I’m trying to get that “digital” feel you get with the block dissolve rather than have the squares flip. Unless I’m missing something in card wipe.

Thanks for the reply.
R.Cates

[Andra]

Hi Randy!

Take a look at this and let me know if it’s what you’re looking for:

https://www.eurovoice.nl/cow/FractalLowerThirds.aep

Look at Wiping fractals 2.
Basically, I’ve used an adjustment layer set to Hard Light with a moving ramp. Placed that over the layer with the fractal noise. To finish things of, I added an adjustment layer with a threshold on it, to have the blocks switch on instead of fading in.

Wiping fractals 1 is something I made because I hadn’t read your post properly the first time. I left it in ’cause I think it makes for an interesting effect none the less.

Yours,
Andra

[Randy Cates]

YAE! That’s it. I’m going to tweak the block size a bit but that’s the effect I was trying to get. There used to be a transition in an old Grass Valley switcher called digitrail (now I just spilled the beans, I’m old – and the youngsters are saying “what’s a grass valley switcher”) that I used for this.

I knew AE could do it I just hadn’t been able to figure out the combination. You can also do something like this in Photoshop but it was so long ago I did it I couldn’t put it together there either. Anyone know that trick? Just curious.

Thanks a scillion!
Randy

[Andra]

Glad I could help! Just giving back a bit of what the COW has given me so far 😉

Cheers,
Andra

[Randy Cates]

The cow she does rock! Thanks Andra, you saved the day!