How to do this effect

Laurie Gibbs
February 27, 2009 at 2:54 pm

Hello,

One way of achieving this sort of effect is to duplicate your footage twice and to use the tint tool on the top 2 layers of the footage:
map black to red on one layer and black to green on the other.

Set their blending modes to Multiply (you could experiment with some others). Apply levels to both layers and decrease the input white values to brighten the footage. Then slightly offset the position of these two layers from your original footage. This should give you your green and red edges.

Then it is a case of experimenting and fine tuning the effect. I hope this helps.
David Bogie
February 27, 2009 at 3:29 pm

Look under Channels.
Could be done as an anaglyph but more likely you just need to move the channels independently. or you can pull a luminance copy of your footage and tint it blue or red and move them separately.
You sort of play with stuff till you get what you want or can figure out how to keyframe.

bogiesan
Joey Burnham
February 27, 2009 at 7:10 pm

Or if you have BCC you can do a BCC Directional Blur on the red and blue channels.
Joey
Kwaku Nyantekyi
February 28, 2009 at 8:36 pm

I believe that Ahron Robinowitz did a tutorial on this effect if I’m not mistaken. It’s somewhere in the tutorials section.
Johannes Ring
March 10, 2009 at 10:34 am

Thank you all for your help!

/J

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