Cycore Mr. Smoothie, how to freeze the color loop?

[Erik Eliason]

Hi Dave!
I did download it – and read it but what it says I already figured out intuitively:

Color Loop
Use this pop-up menu to determine the direction of the gradient. Choose one of the following options, AB, BA, ABA and BAB. (A and B are the sample points)

There must be a way to shut this off, right?

[Erik Eliason]

I figure as it has a stopwatch, maybe there’s a script one could apply to freeze the loop?

[Todd Kopriva]

You appear to be trying to use the effect for something that it wasn’t intended for.

If you’re trying to map colors to something that you can control in this fashion, check out Colorama.

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[Erik Eliason]

Hi Todd,
what I try to create with Mr Smoothie is the metallic texture, which I add Tritone to. Something like this picture:

https://forumbilder.se/CD3JP/goldenface1

As Color Loop animates the samples of the image, it makes the texture wander and seems to read the image differently across the time of the sequence, which was not what I had in mind tweeking the plugin:

https://forumbilder.se/CD3JP/goldenface2

I can’t really figure out how Colorama could create a texture that fluid?

Thanks for replying, Dave and Todd //Erik

[Erik Eliason]

Dave,
so I can’t use Mr Smoothie to create my above given example for more than a frame. With your After Effects experience could you give me any suggestion of how to create a metallic effect from the footage in a similar style?

Best //Erik