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Repeat a clip 16times on the screen by a filter?
Hi,
I have been looking into effects to see if there is any filter that lets me repeat a clip 16times and fill the entire screen. I know I can do that if I simply paste the clip 16 times and place them manually, but I am hoping to find a better way to do so that t won’t take too much memory. (It’s kind of like “mirror” effect that you can do that manually but better to use the filter…)
Anyone has done something like this? Maybe I have been looking a the wrong spot? Your suggestion much appreciated!
Yoshiko
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5 Replies
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there is a trapcode plug in that does just this. check out trapcode’s website and go to the gallery 🙂
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Thanks for replying. I didn’t really see it in the gallery section though. Maybe in other section??
Thanks!
yoshiko
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Thank you for your response. I went to the site but couldn’t really find the multiply effect clip or info. Maybe in other places? Please let me know. Thanks!
Yoshiko
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do you mean the echospace plug-in?
maybe try using an expression (modified from https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=866995 ). Work out how big each square will be. So for a PAL comp (720×576) it would be 180×144. Pre-comp your footage into a composition this size. Then on the main timline add this expression to the position property
horizSpace = 180;
vertSpace = 144
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numCol = 4;
origin = [horizSpace/2,vertSpace/2,0];
col = (index – 1)%numCol
row = Math.floor((index – 1)/numCol);
origin + [col*horizSpace, row*vertSpace, 0]your footage should move up to the top left. Now duplicate the layer 15 times and they should all be distributed like you said.
This won’t really help if memory is your problem. A better way to fix a memory problem would be to render the footage as a proxy before distributing it 16 times.
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It doesn’t have to be sophisticated as that. What I’m trying to do is just like the tiling effects in Photoshop where you simply fill the stage by repeating a design.
Does it really require special plug-in to do it? I was hoping that it would come with something like this since there is “mirror” effect.
Thanks bunch in advance.
Yoshiko
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