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  • Jason Coleman

    July 18, 2012 at 4:21 pm

    It may NOT be Final Cut. They could be using After Effects or some other program, BUT. You can certainly pull this off with alot of tedious work and photoshop. Create your masks in photoshop import them into final cut and mix down the video clip with the mask. From that point you shouldn’t hav any issues.

  • Mark Suszko

    July 18, 2012 at 4:58 pm

    This is actually easier to do than you might first think, but it requires some lateral thinking. In Apple Motion, you can generate particles and map specific video to the particles. The particles can actually be any shape you want. If you look at the wider versions of the polkadot shot, there are only a few clips, each repeating. So you build the effect once for each source, and just copy-paste it and add the camera fly-out move in 3-d.

  • Mark Suszko

    July 18, 2012 at 7:31 pm

    I would do it in AE or Motion rather than in Final Cut, because the overall quality can be better due to the virtual 3d camera moves you can apply to a high rez comp. You could build and keyframe all those tracks in the NLE timeline, but getting the camera pull-out effect would be harder.

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