Smoke Wisp or Ink Drop in Motion

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Smoke Wisp or Ink Drop in Motion

Posted by Dan Welter on March 18, 2011 at 2:36 pm

I’m working on some HD Graphics video bumpers for a charity event and the Art Director has chosen an ink drop or smoke wisp print look. I’d like to match it somewhat in video. I found some composite videos from Digital Juice that would fit the bill BUT I haven’t got $250 bucks to blow on a charity project. Wondering if Apple Motion could achieve the look with it’s content. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
(Here’s a reference of the look)

DWelter

Stephen Smith replied 15 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 7 Replies
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Dan Welter
March 18, 2011 at 5:22 pm

OK skip it… just spent 2 hours jerking thru the smoke emitter world.
Ended up making a alpha movie and placing it in with white bkg. and speed variations… ect. Now on to the halftone stuff. Anybody got any better ideas please chime in.
(quick screen grab from motion)-

DWelter
Stephen Smith
March 18, 2011 at 8:22 pm

I think you will find a use for the $250 content outside of this project and it will be money well spent. As for the smoke…I would check out one that comes with Motion. Go to the Library tab, Content, Backgrounds, Smoke.mov. You’ll need to slow it down but it could do the job.

As for the Halftone stuff, you have a halftone filter and it can be found in the Filters section in the Stylize folder.

Hope this helps and best of luck.

Stephen Smith
Utah Video Productions

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Andrew Wilson
March 18, 2011 at 9:48 pm

Check pond5.com I did a very quick search and found this:

https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/152501/real-smoke-ntsc-slowmotion.html

This particular one is SD.. but it’s $15.

Quick note: I have no affiliation with pond5.

Andrew Wilson
WestView Digital Video & Design
http://www.westviewdigital.com
Stephen Smith
March 18, 2011 at 9:54 pm

The smoke.mov clip that comes with Motion for free looks very similar. The advantage to the Compositors Toolkits is that they are pre-keyed.

Stephen Smith
Utah Video Productions

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Dan Welter
March 18, 2011 at 11:29 pm

Thanks Andrew, I haven’t used Pond before and there’s a HD clip that works for 10 bucks. Thanks for helping out.

DWelter
Dan Welter
March 18, 2011 at 11:32 pm

Thanks for helping out Stephen. I’ve found lots of help before in your tutorials. Keep up the good work.

DWelter
Stephen Smith
March 21, 2011 at 2:27 pm

Happy to help and best of luck.

Stephen Smith
Utah Video Productions

Check out my Motion Training DVD

Check out my Motion Tutorials

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