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  • Old Movie Look – productivity suggestion

    Posted by Kalin Cahal on April 11, 2006 at 12:06 am

    Hello all,

    I’m currently working on a lot of layers that i want to sometimes get shakey(up to there just ussing the wiggler/noise is fine).
    But i’d like it to have the effect of frame mix at times:
    you see 2 copies of the frame at alpha 50% that are both moved away from the original frame(or 1 is on the original position of the frame).
    Now the thing is that it’s decently easy to do when duplicating layers, setting one of the layers to 100-alpha other
    and playing around with that… but that requires me to duplicate my layers which is a big speed loss, and productivity loss.
    Is there anyway to do it with just 1 filter&layer(which would compose in the traditional way i guess)?

    My second problem is with the typical “used” and “old” appearance which has some parts of the text shattered around.
    I’ve been using scatter but it only works with “grains” of size 1, is there any other actual filter that allows to do some scattering like that but with a custom grain size?(I know i could do it in photoshop but i want it to be animatable at times, and it’s really a tedious thing to do it on 200 layers)

    Thanks for any help,

    Kali Cahal

    Kalin Cahal replied 20 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Harryjf

    April 11, 2006 at 3:31 pm

    Maybe try using “Motion Tile” on an adjusment layer. Set the adjusment layer Opacity to 50%, or even try a different transfer mode.

    Use your wiggle on the Tile Center… or, using the expression: wiggle(5,100) on the center. Set “Mirror Edges” to on.

    Motion Tile is under Stylize, BTW.

  • Kalin Cahal

    April 11, 2006 at 6:54 pm

    i found a way for the duplicate!
    using the offset method with blend at 50%!

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