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  • burst like soap bubble

    Posted by Fran Zine on March 9, 2010 at 12:43 pm

    Hi does anybody know if there is an effect in after effects, that could let burst a video like a soap bubble?

    i have two little videos, and as final i would like to let these two videos like a soap bubble.

    for any help deeply thankful.
    greets from germany

    Bill Kelly replied 16 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Michael Szalapski

    March 9, 2010 at 3:55 pm

    Unless you’re talking about slow motion, a real soap bubble basically just disappears. There will be a few little soap particles, but it really just goes POP and is gone.

    However, I assume you mean you want it to blow up and disappear outwards. You could use a distort effect, such as Bulge. Coupled with Effect>Transition>Iris Wipe.
    You’ll need to adjust the parameters of the iris wipe to make it look round (make iris points a higher number), then feather it.

    Assuming I assumed the effect you were after correctly, that should do the trick.

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  • Bill Kelly

    March 9, 2010 at 10:32 pm

    The Scatterize effect may also work for your situation. To make it look good, you would most likely want to introduce a blur on the scatterizing (is that really a word) layer as the scatterizing is taking place, and enable motion blur for the layer and the comp.

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