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Matrix effect tutorial?
I think that some time ago I saw a Matrix-effect tutorial on the COW — but can’t find it by author’s name. Anyone know where it is?
Thanks!
— BC
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Where you referring to bullet time, bullet ripples, or falling text?
A quick search including the archives for matrix tutorial gives quite a few results like this one: https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?univpostid=333498&forumid=2&postid=333498&pview=t&archive=T and this one https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?univpostid=538192&forumid=2&postid=538192&pview=t&archive=T for the falling text. Digital Anarchy makes a plugin for it, and ParticleIllusion has a preset for it too.
If you’re looking for the bullet ripples/trails, bullet time, or other threads on matrix text then do that there forum search thingy. It works wonders.
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sorry, no. I was referring to the effect where the character is frozen mid-leap, and the camera rotates around him/her.
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Check out this previous post. The effect you are referring to is known as bullet time, mainly because the original Matrix used the effect to stop a bullet or other lethal entity while the camera repositions and resumes action.
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=859122
Ken Blankenship
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hi Bob,
Effect is labelled variously as Time-slice, Time Freeze, Bullet Time, Flo-mo, etc…
Almost all available links including How to are here but hardly any using AE -
I once did a Bullet Time. It was of course a dirty cheap trick for the unexperienced eye and for watching it just once. Cheapest trick ever, I would say, with the use of a semi-circular travelling. Here’s what I did:
1) A chair in the midpoint of the travelling circle, so the camera always points to it. But the chair can’t be seen.
2) Put an actress on a chair making one of those Karate Kid gestures. Shoot her jumping from the chair for the end shot. Make several good shots of it.
3) Put her again there and show here one of the former good shoots in freeze frame plus the current shot direct from the camera, imitate it as much as possible. Shoot move the travelling till the point of the first position. Several good shots are needed here, too. Remember, She has to stay as quiet as possible and the chair should not be seen in the entire shot.
4) Once the shoot was like I wanted, I stayed with the camera completely still, removed the chair and asked the actress to jump to that position. MANY shots needed for that. The more one of these frames resembles the end of the travelling, the better.That was all on production. We also recorded several movements without the actress.
5) Take the best versions (good results and most seemless differences between all of them and choose the frames that are most like each other. Transfer them to photoshop and erase the actress using the empty footage.
6) In AE, morph the inbetweens over that empty footage. Yes, that filter from AE was enough for it, don’t remember the name right now, the one that morphs masks.
7) Use the matrix music. This always works.Seen from now, perhaps the best would have been to take the shoots in order. I didn’t have time for thinking all that at the moment, I was desperately asked to do it when they had all the stuff and one hour for shooting. I never liked the cheap taste of the final effect, but they were happy whit it.
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the author’s name Satish Kumar. Satish Kumar demonstrates the famous Matrix style Bullet-time effect in Premiere: A man leaps in the air with a gun, fires a shot, and then hovers in the air while the camera moves around him 180 degrees. To create this effect, we have the shot of the man leaping in the air as a video and 6 still shots of him in the air at different angles. We will morph between the still shots using the WinMorph plug-in for Premiere. This morphed video is composited with a moving background giving the 180 degree camera rotation effect.
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