How do you create these effects in Motion?

[Tim Goodwin]

Hi drarsky

Ok, well I’m going to give it a shot but as I’ve only had Motion for a little over a week things aren’t looking good. I did try applying the Glass Distortion to an object but couldn’t seem to get thing lined up properly. I also tried usiung the Displacement filter but couldn’t animate it correctly. I’ll keep trying and hopefully someone will chime in with some helpful hints.

FWIW I posted a request over on motionvfx for a video translation of the tut so we’ll see what happens.

Thanks
Tim

[Jim Kanter]

The magnification effect can be achieved by changing the scale of the video clip and masking it to reveal only a portion of it..

Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
http://www.dfilminst.com

[Tim Goodwin]

Hello drarsky

Ok, I was able to at least get something that resembles a pane of glass passing over a clip.

First I needed to understand that a comp in AE is a Layer in Motion and that a layer in AE is essentially an Object in Motion. (sorry if that is simply stating the obvious)

I went ahead and created the Glass Effect comp as described in the tutorial. I used a Basic 3D filter to “spin” the color solids on the Y axis. I then imported my footage and duplicated it. I applied an Image Mask to the duplicate and dropped the Glass Effect layer in the image well. I also added a Glass Distortion, Refraction, and Gaussian Blur to the duplicated object. All this is in the top Layer with Blend Mode set to Combine. The original clip is contained in a second layer with the blend mode also set to combine.

It doesn’t look very good at this point but it is at least a start. If anyone else has any insight as to how to improve upon this basic concept or an alternative way of going about creating this effect I would sincerely appreciate your input.

Thanks
Tim