How is this effect achieved?

[Josh Fitzgerald]

Hello,

It is achieved by masking out the cup and using motion tracking to track its movement then this spacey layer has been put behind the mask.

Josh

[Scott Silvia]

Thanks man. Appreciate that. Is this only achieved in After Effects or can it be done in Final Cut?

[Howard Duy vu]

It looks like it’s a white cup, so you could use the luma keyer in FCPX (or use a green cup, etc). Also, according to that video, it’s doesn’t look like the space layer has any motion tracking at all. You could probably get away with keyframing it if you wanted to move it. If you want motion tracking, use Motion or After Effects.

[Bob Woodhead]

Yeah, not tracking the fill layer turns the effect into cheddar.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Bob Woodhead] “Yeah, not tracking the fill layer turns the effect into cheddar.”

And by cheddar, you mean serious cash?

😉

[Bill Davis]

I think this is a lot simpler than that.

Either white or color cup – use the simple keyer (luma or chroma) in X to knock it out. And put a still frame of the stars on the background plate track.

The star field doesn’t move to my eye, just the cup. So there’s no motion tracking going at all that I can see. The cup’s moving, not the background. So it’s Just an effect you could do in a few seconds with any software package (or $100 video mixer) for that matter.

Off topic but I wonder just how many of these kind of modest vanity-style music videos are being churned out these days? I bet we’d all be stunned if there was ever a way to actually count them.

Welcome to the era where every full elevator on the planet probably has multiple “video-artists” on board.

“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor

[Bob Woodhead]

lol… I doubt it

[Bob Woodhead]

And by cheddar, you mean serious cash?

meant to say “doubt it” to that…