Hello NM, and can anyone identify this effect/technique, link enclosed

[Matthew Brunn]

I don’t believe this is a plugin. It appears to be two images or video of the same subject and one slightly larger than the one underneath. I would do this in After Effects but I guess you could do it in FCP. To create the effect make a sequence. Create white bars with a matte and size and animate them to suit your project. Duplicate your footage in the timeline. Make the duped footage a bit larger. Make your “animation sequence” as your travel matte luma. Hope this makes sense.

[Greg Golden]

There is an After Effects tutorial here in the COW that helps you with this exact effect.

[Jeremy Garchow]

I think there’s an old Motion template that does that.

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[Tom Matthies]

I did an effect almost exactly like this. All I did was to duplicate the layers, blow them up slightly and offset them. Then what I did was keyframe my crops on the top layer. Just set your vertical crops to where you want the effect to start, add a keyframe, move the timeline to where you want it to end. Add another keyframe and then reposition the crops to the ending point.I added a few more layers for the multiple effects going at the same time. Rinse and repeat. Very simple and easy actually.
Tom