how do I apply this hexagon shader effect on top of a base video at higher resolution?

[Cassius Marques]

You’re not being very clear…

What do you mean by “shader”? Your first link is a footage, if you need something like that applied to a video just use the blending modes.

Is this a better example for what you want? Just with hexagons?

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For an actual shader effect, to procedurally control the surfaces and interact with the video, you’ll need to either go C4D, draw you shape, place inside a cloner, and use the shader effector to control its many properties. (rotation, size, color, animation etc.) There’s a lot to explain here, you’ll need to work at it some more before we can break down any problems you’ll might have.

If you want to do that inside AE, trapcode’s Form plugin is your best bet. It will have almost the same controlling options one would get from C4D.

Cassius Marques
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[Maximilian Yuen]

thanks, sorry for not being clear enough but i have done it in trapcode form like you guessed.

[Walter Soyka]

A shader system would be great, but I too have used Form for exactly this before. The trick is using two instances of Form to create the offset/interlocking hexagonal layout.

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