simulating a slide projector in After Effects

[Justin Productions]

Hey,

Look at this: https://www.videocopilot.net/videotutorials/old_film-look/index.html

Add a wiggle expression.

You might want to create black solid, do an elliptical mask “around” the comp window and put the mode to “Substract” and feather the edges.

Good luck.

Justin Productions
Tangerin01@hotmail.com
Adobe After Effects 6.5 Professional

[Steve Morris]

I experimented with this 2 months ago. I stopped with the project because I decided to handle the photos a different way. The project was not fine tuned yet, so don’t base an opinion on my work from this. I had to go through and replace my old family pictures with some generic ones. I hope I did not mess anything up. I am rendering the sample for you right now. I will post it when it finishes rendering.

I was trying to duplicate my dad’s old projector.

I used a 3D comp with lights and camera. I started out by trying to pass light through the picture by using the command that allows the colors to show through as a shadow, but decided against that.

Here is what I did.

I got a photo of a screen, then added some water stains, like ours had.

I added a very bright light between the slides. Something that would blow out the highlights. I then moved a very blurry copy of the slide from the side (our projector brought the pictures in from the side). I masked out the blurry slide as it hit the screen, and replaced it with a sharp copy. As the slide came in, I lowered the intensity of the light. I also added motion blur to everything that moved.

I was going to place a photo of the area where my dad would show the slides behind the screen, but did not get around to it. It was not easy to add the photo behind the screen due to the 3d comp.

I also changed the house lighting as the projector started.

I never got around to adding the sounds. That would add a great finishing touch. I did not want to drag out the projector. We only have one bulb left. I blew a bulb the last time I had it out. I don’t know if we can get more bulbs for that old thing.

Let me know if you come across good sound effects for this.

[Steve Morris]

Here is the link.

https://s122.photobucket.com/albums/o249/stevem1928/?action=view&current=slide.flv

I made everything go about twice as fast as it should really be played (trying to reduce file size). If you watch it at half speed, it looks a lot better.

[Brian White]

I’ve created an AE composition for a personal project to simulate a slide projector. Just drop in 9 jpegs and follow the Read Me on Text Layer 1 to see how to create your own 30-second simulated slide show. Includes sound effect.

You can download the project here:

https://www.geocities.com/navyspeedo/SlideProjectorCompfolder.zip

Read Me
1. import 9 jpegs into project
2. change After Effects-Preferences-Import-Still Footage to 0:00:03:00
3. drag jpeg 1 from project list and drop into timeline above text layer 1
4. align starting point of jpeg1 to starting point of text layer 1
5. drag jpeg 2 from project list and drop into timeline above text layer 2
6. align starting point of jpeg2 to starting point of text layer 2
7. repeat with jpegs 3-9 to text layers 3-9
8. delete text layers (optional)

[Lee Higginbottom]

Thanks Brian,

I had the idea of doing this and just wondered if there was something out there… This thread on Cow came up first when I searched on Google. Thanks for saving me a bunch of time.

Lee Higginbottom

[Rollo Hollins]

Hi Brian

Im looking to create just this effect. Is there any chance of using your previously attached project as a template? The link seems to have expired now.

Any help would be much appreciated

Best

Rollo

[Evmorfia Dimitriou]

Hi there, Brian,

wanted to know if this Zip is still available somewhere? Geocities is down now, but i’d REALLY appreciate if i could get my hands on this file.

Thanks!!

[Brian White]

I’ve uploaded the file to a new location:

https://www.filefactory.com/file/b079ed3/n/SlideProjectorCompfolder.zip

Let me know if the link doesn’t work.
Brian

[Evmorfia Dimitriou]

Worked like a charm! TONS of thanks!!

[Maite Leon]

Thanks you very much, when i will upload my video I tell you.