Josh Paulson
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I did a slideshow for a bar mitzvah using childhood photos to make up a larger image of the kid playing la crosse. I used a program called Shape collage that I bought fairly cheaply online to make the collage, and then used the “overlay” transfer mode to lay the mosaic over the final image, or logo in your case.
There is a replicator internally in Motion, and you can import an image sequence (multiple images with files names of at least 3 digits in sequential order) Just select the random start frame checkbox and adjust the parameters to arrange and move the images. You can also use transfer modes to show through the mosaic to reveal your logo this way.
Hope that helps or at least gives you some ideas!
Josh“Cool it preppy.” – A.C. Slater
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I do this a LOT for logo loops. I start my image off screen to the left or right, then add a move behavior to the image to bring it to the center. After a moment, I add another move behavior and move it off the other direction. I like to set the move behavior to “ease both (in and out)” for a nice natural motion.
Easy to copy and paste for multiple images.Josh
“Cool it preppy.” – A.C. Slater
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$20 an hour is very low. You can edit mulicam in FCP realtime with the multiclip feature and maybe do an entire project in an hour! You have skills and should be paid for them. I’ve seen production houses charge from $75 and hour to $150 for work similar to this. Since the edit machine is your, you should charge like you’re the owner of your own business. But it’s all about striking a balance with your client and doing what you feel comfortable with. I just think $20/hour is low for an experienced editor.
“Cool it preppy.” – A.C. Slater
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No I haven’t, but I will right now!
An editor’s work is never complete. It is only abandoned when time has been exhausted. – paraphrase from Leo da Vinci
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Have you ever seen a movie where you feel like all the best parts were already shown in the trailer? This is that. hahaha. I’ll post a link for the full length soon.
An editor’s work is never complete. It is only abandoned when time has been exhausted. – paraphrase from Leo da Vinci
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Hey Stephen,
I just wanted to share the trailer for the 48 hour film fest I did using this effect. It goes by pretty quick but I’m very pleased with the results. Someone else in the film fest must have also been reading this thread because I was not the only person to use this in the competition! 🙂 Thanks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIFMLWR9iKk&hd=1
Josh
An editor’s work is never complete. It is only abandoned when time has been exhausted. – paraphrase from Leo da Vinci
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And thank you for your patience as well!
Josh
An editor’s work is never complete. It is only abandoned when time has been exhausted. – paraphrase from Leo da Vinci
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OK, I started over again from scratch, and now it seems to move around. I placed a 0% opacity square (same size as canvas) in the same group as the original shock wave animation. Now it moves around and is shown in proper position in the displacement map on the bottom footage.
Now I just need to figure out how to get rid of the original footage without losing the displacement. (I drop opacity to 0 and the displacement no longer appears)
Dropping it to source to 20 and bumping up the footage’s vertical and horizontal doesn’t bother me I guess…
Thanks for you help and patients Stephen!
Josh
An editor’s work is never complete. It is only abandoned when time has been exhausted. – paraphrase from Leo da Vinci
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Thank you so much for your help Stephen. I appreciate it a TON.
I think I am almost there! I placed the background into a group and placed the displacement filter to the group instead of the background image.
That blew up the distortion to the size of the canvas instead of the image size. Great!
new video of distortion shock wave with fixed resolution grouping
But here’s where your tutorial and my dilemma are different, I think. You are able to move your affected object (video of fire) around within the canvas. My image is fixed. (Currently image of skyline, but will be video footage)
So there are controls to affect the vertical and horizontal distortion parameters, but I can’t seem to move the distorted area off center without moving the footage from center. For this test, I’d like to move and scale it over to where the original shock wave video is over by the building on the left.
It’s almost like the parameters for the distortion filter are missing a positioning control of some sort…?Thank!
Josh
An editor’s work is never complete. It is only abandoned when time has been exhausted. – paraphrase from Leo da Vinci
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Thanks for the suggestion, but from what I gather in your tutorial is that I can only apply the distortion to the center of an image, video, or group. No matter what combination of grouping I trying I cannot seem to get around this, unless I position my actors gun in the dead center so the shock wave will line up correctly? Is there no way to reposition the distortion off from the center?
An editor’s work is never complete. It is only abandoned when time has been exhausted. – paraphrase from Leo da Vinci