moving image warping

[Peter Litwinowicz]

Looks like what you are doing in the test footage was the following;
1) creating a circular matte
2) generating lines emanating from the circular matte the use the color found on closest point from a given location to the edge off the circle.

You can use our RE:Fill to do this. It’s intended use is to fill in “dead” pixels, but you can also do cool kaleidascope and ray-type effects with it by simply providing a matte. See the gallery here: https://www.revisionfx.com/rfilgal.htm . Look particularly at the last two examples. There’s a demo version in the Downloads subsection for RE:Fill on our website you can check out. RE:Fill is $99.95.

Cheers,
Pete Litwinowicz
https://www.revisionfx.com

[Aaron Stella]

Actually, there is a plug-in called “light wipe” that will achieve that effect identically. If I didn’t know better, I’d say that’s exactly what they used.