[Craig Hellen]

sepparating the subjects out can be as easy as creating a stopframe cutting (by masking out the duplicating the layer) the subjects out then make a freeze frame of the clip, import into photoshop and as best you can clone out the subjects, save as a jpeg or whatver, come back in and put the layer behind the masked subjects

now you have it separated, granted if you start the effect real slow the viewer may see some ahm.. problems with the background but i have sone similar things in the past with photos and they havent looked bad at all.

luma keyingis super simple for this stuff, cos all u wanna do is allow the highlights to be blurred jus apply it to the masked layers and tweak it so only the highlights are visible, then blurr the hell outta them and mayb add a little glow to finish!

use your trapcode stuff to add some particles etc and it should look ok

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[Craig Hellen]

have u sepparated the subjects as layers?
if you have then i’d duplicate up the layers adding different types of blur to them then maybe adding a luma keyed element and blurring that up to make it a little more organic. add the layers in sequence and then take them away in sequence as well but make the fade out faster,

maybe add a particle effect to the last few layers to disappear if u wanted to add a little razzmatazz.

Dunno if thats what you were after?

Gimme a yell if not

Co-Director Podchains Ltd
Video Producer / Motion graphics designer https://bexmedia.net

[Craig Hellen]

aww thanks for that, it really sorted me out! The expression can be used on lots of effects, very useful,

Thanks again

[Craig Hellen]

well i might be able to point you in the right direction…
https://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/particle-playground-on-fire/

thats a good fire tutorial,

the 3d style stuff, maltaannon did a fake 3d plugin which you can play with.
https://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/studying-ce-shapeextruder/

hope this helps, enjoy

[Craig Hellen]

I thinkt he boris compandium complete does something like this,

I found this tutorial too but i think this only gives you noise and not the distortion, but play around with fractal noise and using it as a displacement map and you might come up with something half decnt.

https://www.pixel2life.com/publish/tutorials/9/television_noise_create_very_realistic_broken_television_noise/

[Craig Hellen]

ah ha i think i found what Im after! I thought id post it up incase anyone else happened upon this post!

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/set_extensions/

Kramer is a legend! Wish me luck with the track!

[Craig Hellen]

if it is just a simple cube that you are after, there is a cool little script that you can grab
https://www.nabscripts.com/Downloads/downloads_en_1.php?id=7

make the side up in illustrator then run the script on that layer and a couple of options and BINGO

hope this helps!

[Craig Hellen]

no link showing up buddy!

[Craig Hellen]

Are your layers just standard layers and not comps? If they are comps make sure that u have the switches turned on in the individual layers in the nested comps.

[Craig Hellen]

thats a briliant idea on how to do it, im at home now but when i get back in the office on monday ill be sure to try it! thanks a lot I love the COW and the professional responses!

I do try and contribute back on the beginners forum!

You guys never fail me!

Craig Hellen

https://bexmedia.net (the final comp will probably make its way onto there in the next few weeks!)