OK Go's WTF? Video Effect

[BlackMagnumFilms]

This doesn't quite work for me, when I click Composite In Front it stays the same. Could it be because my camera quality's not great?

[BlackMagnumFilms]

@BlackMagnumFilms Wait, I'm an idiot, I didn't use a greenscreen. My bad! Thank you, it works.

[treebobjoe]

Your PC seems to be running slow. What are the specs u got?

[TheDoofuspower101]

you need to merge the BAT. virus (windows) with the echo tool, to get desired effect

[happynessinajar]

This is probably a really simple question, but what did you do to the background to make it black?

Also, thanks for this video because I'm using your steps for a project in school

[MissCMDProductions]

I tried this effect using a clip i shot in front of my green screen. i keyed it using final cut pro then i exported it into a quicktime. I imported it into after effects and it did not work at all. Then i went to that website you got you clip from and it worked perfectly. What is wrong with the clip i shot? What did i do wrong?

[topherthevideoguy]

@MissCMDProductions You probably didn't render it with an alpha channel. If you have After Effects, it is probably better just to do all your keying, as well as effect right in that app in one project.

[NOMONEYMOVIES]

i thought it looked better the way Mystery Guitar Man Did it Less Echo frames make it 200 instead.

[tchanabc]

Is it at all possible to do this effect in final cut express 4?

[topherthevideoguy]

@tchanabc I don't think it is man.. unless Trapcode Echospace can install for FCP Express... doubt it though. look for some kind of timewarp or echo effect in your effects.

[tchanabc]

@topherthevideoguy alright thanks i'll check

[Metallikatzz]

can you only do this in after effects. cause i only have sony vegas =(

[inusuki511]

This is awesome but when i try it with my own footage it doesn't work. I have Keyed out the background so it's just a person but do i have to export it a certain way? please help.

[topherthevideoguy]

It sounds like you don't have the Echo effect configured correctly... you have to make sure you have an alpha channel

[inusuki511]

How would i go about doing this? Everything worked when i got a footage from that site.

[topherthevideoguy]

you should be able to follow the tutorial exactly... I think you are just missing one step or parameter. Double check the tutorial.

[inusuki511]

I did it again and it worked thanks

[topherthevideoguy]

I figured it was some small thing you forgot... :)

[MrDontShootMe]

essentially it's the same thing as filming something with slide projector film, then laying each frame on top of each other. because the film is clear (or in the video's case they delete the green room behind them) you see everything underneath of it.

[DaveLowe28]

I'm having real trouble getting the previous frames to remain static. They continue to play following the motion of the following frames.

Is there an option I'm missing to prevent this from happening and just have static frames?

[visualfxtuts]

thats strange... do you have all the same parameters set as in the tutorial?

[DaveLowe28]

Yep, it's been buggin me for ages.

[visualfxtuts]

hmm, have you tried resetting preferences? it seems like it shouldn't be animating the echos... sounds like a glitch..

[DaveLowe28]

If by clicking reset above the effect, I've tried it. Maybe I just have a special echo effect instead of the normal one lol.

[visualfxtuts]

hold control, alt and shift at the same time while starting up AE... that trashes the preferences file.

[DaveLowe28]

No good I'm afraid. Thanks very much for your help though. I may just try a re-install and if no luck then I'll just scrap the whole effect lol. Only wanted it to mess around with anyway.

[Indestrox]

@DaveLowe28 - I know this is a pretty late reply but I've been having the same problem. Did you ever manage to solve it? The only way I've managed to do it in CS5 is to have the echo time set to 0.02 or lower. Not sure if this is a glitch with CS5 or not. Hopefully this answer can help someone out.

[travitos16]

Thank you my friend for this tutorial

[rsihackyou123]

can u do it with final cut?

[visualfxtuts]

Probably not, does Trapcode Echospace work with FCP? if not, then there probably isn't a way... remember FCP isn't a VFX type app... it's an editor.

[rsihackyou123]

k thank you and what is theTrapcode Echospace website?

[rsihackyou123]

is there any other way?

[bruceaveryfilms]

Hey, just saying thank you for this tut, mad work.

[noahdanielsmith]

excellent tutorial.

[Swannou]

If your video was pre-keyd i guess we can't do this effect without a green screen isn't it ?

Whatever if the background doesnt move at all ?

[topherthevideoguy]

Yeah, you have to have an alpha channel, because the foreground paints onto the alpha channel.

If there's no keying done, you don't have an alpha area to paint onto.

[Apocalypsesnowboards]

Hey, im kind of new in this video editing but iI was wondering if this was possible with a moving camera, like a camera who woulf follow some one walking from left to right, with the echo effect only on the person moving ? So the background will stay the same ( not so good at english, hope you get what i mean)

[visualfxtuts]

I guess it could work , you just have to make sure you have a clean alpha channel, which would mean a large green screen studio

[visualfxtuts]

Actually thinking about it more, it wouldn't work, because say, you have the person centered in frame walking somewhere, he wouldn't be moving around in the Alpha space, and therefore would even look like he was moving... You would have to rig an expression to have his echos float away from him...

[ateboard102]

do you know of an equivalent effect using vegas :/ ?

[visualfxtuts]

I don't know Vegas, but I am guessing there isn't a way to do it in vegas...

[ateboard102]

yea i just had a quick look and it doesnt look like it,

thanks for promp response

[SirBensley]

I'm guessing your footage was pre-keyed?

[visualfxtuts]

Yeah everything from Crowd Control comes pre-keyed.

[W4rD0g72]

hey i'm first :) anway neat, nice to learn about a new effect keep it up i love AE