Quantum Leap ‘Leaping’ Effect

[Mrvestek]

Well guys? Nobody know how to recreate the quantum leap leaping effect?!

[Jim Kanter]

Haven’t seen Quantum Leap since it was in first run on TV many years ago. Post some photos if you can so we can see what the effect looks like if you want help.

Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
http://www.dfilminst.com

[Ron Lindeboom]

I agree, Jim. It has been so many years since I’ve seen Quantum Leap that I can’t even remember what they did. I remember that it was something to do with something else that did something and then something happened that triggered another thing altogether. Or something like that…

😉

Not meant as a slap, but simply a fully caffeinated reply to a rather unclear question.

Ron Lindeboom

[Ryan Hill]

It’s kind of a glowy effect, right?

https://www.quantumleap-alsplace.com/imagingchamber/projectQL.htm
https://www.sftv.ch/hoehl/ql/ql.htm

Shine plugin?

[Graham Quince]

Oh boy!

Shine would do this very nicely, but I’m guessing you don’t have this plugin.

So another way to do it is this:

Take a still of the ‘leaping moment’. And in either photoshop or After Effects masks, cut out the actor from the background – I’ll call it the Sam layer from here on in.

Back in the timeline, have your Sam layer above the original background timeline, so that the video runs until the point the leap occurs, then goes over to the still.

Duplicate your Sam layer and apply Hue/Saturation to the duplicate, which should be underneath your original Sam. Using colorize, change Sam to be light blue. I seem to remember Sam changing colour as he leapt.

Now use Gradient Wipe to fade from Regular Sam to Blue Sam. Change Blue Sam’s tranfer mode to Add to give it more energy.

Keyframing Blue Sam’s Hue/Saturation should also get him to turn completely white too.

Now underneath Blue Sam (or above if it works better) duplicate Sam once more and this time apply Fractal Noise. Set the contrast really high and the brightness low-ish and use Add tranfer mode again so we can still see the background.

Now the clever bit. Ish. Add Optics Compensation to this layer, reverse the lens distortion and really ramp up the Field of View. Voila, lines of light.

So, now you can go back and animate the Fractal Noise evolution, you can play around with the settings for the Optics Compensation, (maybe colorize that layer too) and generally improve on this basic technique.

I also seem to remember little bits of electricity coursing over Sam as he turned blue. The lightning effect should take care of that.

Phew…hope that helps.

Graham

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[Mrvestek]

Hey just found this thread via google again. Cheers for the help I’ll try that tomorrow thanks very much and sorry for the late reply.