Quote Hi all,

I want to edit a video clip to provide a visual effect similar to the cloaking/invisibility from the Predator movies. I have seen that some other products achieve this through applying luminescent displacement distortion to the video layer containing the subject to "cloak" (with the rest of the background of that layer removed with a green screen and chroma keying).

I can handle the green screen and chroma key work, and I can fade the subject with a blending overlay which makes a ghost-like figure, but I don't really know how to create distortion effects for that cool look from the Predator movies.

Can anyone offer some helpful advice?

Thanks!

It takes two renders, and three layers to complete.

1st render with two layers

Track 1: Clean background without your actor. Effects are vertival stretch, squeeze, and horizontal stretch. Set values on effects to Degree and Offset of 3, and Size of 125.

Track 2: Your actor, keyed out. I did mine by making the actor layer into a mask using color director, which worked well. (Actor white, background blacked out.)

Render.

2nd render takes three layers
Track 1: Just your clean background without the actor.

Track 2: The first render file. Key out the black background on this track (easy if it is that mask-style, as you can just luma out the black.) Apply Abstractionism. Detail is 81, and Color Count is 13.

Track 3: Your actor, masked out just like in the first render. Apply Abstractionism again. Same settings as track 2.

Render and you are done!

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It takes two renders, and three layers to complete.

Wow, your screenshot result looks pretty good!
Thanks for detailing the approach you took. I'll give it a go.

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Wow, your screenshot result looks pretty good!
Thanks for detailing the approach you took. I'll give it a go.

Hi,

Elynde has posted a fuller tutorial approach on the Showcase forum here:
https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/82212.page#338517

It's a great effect!

Cheers
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