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Creating video distortion
I’m making a fake news report, where the reporter is in a war-zone and is killed by an explosion, just as the picture goes blank.
I’ve shot the video, complete with shaking the camera around and everything for effect. I just completed a draft edit but it looks very lame and unrealistic now – like I obviously just cut it off. What I think would really make it look good is if I distorted the video and audio realistically, like having corruption blocks and fuzzy audio, and then went to black – is there any way to do this in FCP using a filter, or some outside method?
Here’s a couple of examples of what I’m looking to replicate in a controlled way:
https://img146.imageshack.us/img146/638/picture8bh3.png
https://img86.imageshack.us/img86/8774/picture7cy9.pngThanks
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I have a stash of video noise that I use for that — I seriously just found a really old, bad, VHS tape at my college and recorded 10 minutes of glitches. Stopping, starting, fast forwarding, etc. Then take just a few frames of glitchiness and overlay over video, with the Hard Light, Add, Screen, or Overlay composite modes — whatever looks best.
One time, we had a beautiful accident that created the perfect dropout effect… We had striped our tapes with bars and tone before shooting; one scene when an actor ran into the camera, the tape head slipped for just a couple of frames, and the bars and tone gltiched through. It was perfect. If you’ve got a little Handicam you could use, it’s worth a try.
If the report is supposed to look like it’s from a satellite feed, use QuickTime to make some low-quality encodes — try some of the mobile phone settings. You could cut in a few frames of those right before the video goes out, to simulate the bitrate dropping and the satellite losing the connection. Throw in a few freeze-frames, too — that also seems to happen with unstable satellite cameras.
Hope that helps. I’d love to see what you come up with!
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