Tutorials for Shatter Effect?

[Beau Brotherton]

Dave,

Thank you for your help. My first problem is getting the logo to explode through out the entire frame. This will be exported into FCP in a DVCProHD sequence, which is 16×9 of course. The logo to be shattered is tall and skiny, so there is about a 1/3 of the frame left on each side. Right now, the logo is exploding with in itself. I need it to explode outward, beyond itself into the rest of the frame which will have a background.

Let me know if you have any thoughts.

Thanks again,

Beau

[Rhett Robinson]

Without knowing exactly how you brought your logo in, it sounds like your problem is simple, and you need to precompose your logo layer, making it the same size as your 16X9 comp, *THEN* apply shatter. You’ll like learning a little about shatter though, so I would definitely take the time to pick up some info, instead of just using the defaults in the effect. It makes powerful use of the comp camera, can use a custom shatter map (Depending on the logo, a duplicate of itself might give a great effect)… there are a LOT of variations, and it’s a great plug.

[David Bogie]

You may need two copies of Shatter applied to your logo, onece to use the logoo as the custom shatter map and another to render the parts that don’t explode as invisible. It’s all quite confusing.
The switches that control “render pieces” and “w render white as opaque” are confusing as heck. I can’t even remember what they’re really called.

TotalTraining.com once had several of Brian’s older SHatter tutorials online but they’re gone, alas.

SHatter is tremendous fun but, honestly, just keep twirling down the triangles. How can you expect to figure it out quickly?

You may

[Beau Brotherton]

Thank you all for your help. I think I am finally at a point that I am somewhat satisfied with the effect. I ended up importing the image to FCP over a black screen, then exported it back out as a still image. Then brought it back to AE and put a Luma Key on it to take out the black, and viala!

The only thing that I’m not sure how to do, is how to make the sequence slower in AE. I tried doing it in FCP, but of course it looks like I am slowing it down in FCP.

Is there any way to take the effect that I have and make it nice and smooth slow motion?

Beau

[Rhett Robinson]

Alright, so sounds like you skipped the precompose suggestion, but at least in some way, ended up with an image the same size as your comp, so it should work better (without knowing anything about your logo, one of the reasons I suggested it was that way only your logo gets “shattered” instead of the black background with it). If you *love* the way it looks now, but want it slower, you could go through time remapping, but it’s way too intensive most likely for what you want to do. Play with the gravity and strength settings and you should be able to slow it down (lower numbers)

Good luck!