Video Mosaic effect

[Edward Barfield]

Try the mosaic effect and play around with all the settings, such as number of horizontal and vertical blocks, blending mode (try difference, perhaps), and “mosaic” preset with cc toner.

[Simon Levshin]

OK thanks for that. I thought you’d need layer map though and use the luminosity values of the “footage” layer. I mean a compound effect perhaps that looks at another layer to effect. I want to map a bunch of images to a footage layer.

[Thad Ciechanowski]

There is a stand alone program called “Mazaika” that creates the mosaic. It only does one image at a time however. So you would need to create a tiff sequence and then generate a mosaic for each frame. Then put all the stills in a timeline. Probably easier to use a NLE rather than AE for that last step.

This could take a while since you have to do each frame individually. And if there are a lot of inages, processing can take a while; so my hunch is they are using some other plugin or streamlined workflow. But the method I described will work.

Good Luck

[Patrick Hearn]

Using a batch renamer on the resultant files from Mazaika or simply naming them numerically would mean you could just import as an image sequence rather than each image individually.