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  • random flashing like in 7even intro

    Posted by Charles Jones on July 29, 2009 at 4:35 pm

    in the intro to the movie Seven (with Brad Pitt) there is this random flashing that occurs – also – the text is moving very jittery – any idea on how this is done?

    CJ,
    MOTU UltraLite, FCP2 Studio, MOTU DP5, EX1 and EX3
    G5, MBP

    Grinner Hester replied 16 years, 9 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Ryan Hill

    July 30, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    Well, in the actual Se7en movie, they used an optical printer and beat it up while it was running.

    In After Effects, I could try to emulate the look by playing with blur, levels, position, distortion effects, and applying some fast wiggle and random expressions to all of them.

    I’ve also had a fun time printing titles out on card stock, taping it to a rocking chair and taking a bunch of photos of it.

  • Joel Granholm

    July 30, 2009 at 6:18 pm

    You might also check out Video Copilot’s Twitch plug-in for After Effects. It makes it easier to randomize (or “twitch”) a variety of parameters all at once.

    https://www.videocopilot.net/products/twitch/

    -Joel

  • Eric Sanderson

    July 30, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    One way i like to do this is throw an adjustment layer on your comp, play with the levels, maybe a transform position and scale, colors, get crazy with it…but then throw this script onto its opacity

    probability = 9;
    r = random(-probability+2,1);
    c = clamp(r,0,1);

    Math.round(c)*100

    adjust the probability # to control how often it glitches. Also if you want to glitch just the text you can use this, this will glitch in the y axis but you can throw the “s” in place of the “value” if you want to move the x as well, same if you want to add a z axis.

    probability = 3;
    r = Math.round(random(-probability+2,1));
    v = clamp(r,0,1);
    s = wiggle(10, 400*v);
    x = value[0];
    y = s[1];

    [x,y]

  • Grinner Hester

    July 30, 2009 at 11:21 pm

    You can keyframe it, ad shake pluigins or a combo of the two with added glows and blurs.

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