Chromatic aberration, how to add?

padieg wrote on 10/14/2014, 9:25 AM

Hello,

Maybe this was posted before, but I was not able to find it. Is there a way to add a chromatic aberration effect to a clip? I tried with Echo, but it didn't give me great results.

Thanks!

Diego

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browj2 wrote on 10/14/2014, 12:18 PM

Hi Diego,

Did you try under Effects, Art filter, Quantize? After that you can play with substitution, colorize and other effects.

padieg wrote on 10/14/2014, 2:22 PM

Hi Diego,

Did you try under Effects, Art filter, Quantize? After that you can play with substitution, colorize and other effects.

Hi John,

Thank you for that, I tried it but still no good results. Not sure if it is possible to achieve this effect in MEP.

Diego

browj2 wrote on 10/14/2014, 3:42 PM

Hi Diego,

I had to look that one up. Too much information to absorb today.

Do you have something more specific that you are trying to do? Maybe an example of what you want?

Take a look at the Pixelan ChromaWarp 2 plugin. If it looks promising, you can download and try it. A large thin X will be left across the screen wherever a Pixelan effect is used.

terrypin wrote on 10/14/2014, 3:45 PM

Hi Diego,

Could you post a screenshot or link to an example of what you're trying to copy?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

johnebaker wrote on 10/14/2014, 4:43 PM

Is this what you are looking for? Best view at 2:1 or full screen

This example was created as below

Place image or video twice on two adjacent tracks eg tracks 1 and 2 as shown below

Select one of the objects and adjust colour eg for track 1 in my example

Repeat for second object but make the colour adjustment in the opposite direction in my example

and set an offset using Movement, Size/Position adjusting Left or Right as required.

Note in my example I increased the with of the two videos by 20 px to allow for the offset applied to the second video

Adjust the transparancy of the lower track to give as a near correct colour where little or no abberation visible.

HTH

John

padieg wrote on 10/16/2014, 4:59 PM

Hi

Is this what you are looking for? Best view at 2:1 or full screen

This example was created as below

Place image or video twice on two adjacent tracks eg tracks 1 and 2 as shown below

Select one of the objects and adjust colour eg for track 1 in my example

Repeat for second object but make the colour adjustment in the opposite direction in my example

and set an offset using Movement, Size/Position adjusting Left or Right as required.

Note in my example I increased the with of the two videos by 20 px to allow for the offset applied to the second video

Adjust the transparancy of the lower track to give as a near correct colour where little or no abberation visible.

HTH

John

Hi John and everybody,

That's exactly what I wanted to achieve!! As I work with CGI animations, this effect adds a more "real" look to the images. Will try that and let you know, thanks!!!

Diego