Breaking Glass/TV zoom effect?

Tryptic · Post by **Tryptic** » Sun May 18, 2008 2:41 pm

I'm not 100% sure what you'd call this effect, so that's about as close as I can narrow it down.
Anyway, I'm making a video using KillSwitch Engage's "End Of Heartache". (Yeah, I know, not a completely original choice, but...) And I wanted to use the effect they use in their video for the song, which looks like this:

The video breaks up into what almost looks like a highly pixelated image, which then zooms in, to show a clip on one of those little mirrors. (The image is about halfway through this transformation.)

Anyway, I wonder if there is a way to emulate that in Adobe? I've tried searching for tutorials,but have had no luck, probably because I don't know what to call this effect.
I have PS CS2, but AfterEffects 7, and only Premiere 6.5 so if there's some sort of plug-in that might work with them, or something that would also be great.
Thanks in advance!

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun May 18, 2008 3:26 pm

Wow, that would be a VERY hard effect to reproduce. It's based on a technique called photo mosaic which you can read about on wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_mosaic
The specific technique used in that video would appear to be "3d scatter mosaic". I'm not sure what software could do that for you, or even if any freely available software can.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Sun May 18, 2008 3:26 pm

The best I can figure is a bunch of layers of masked images with a total canvas that's really large in AE. Camera manipulation gets you the zooming and panning, and the fade into the effect is done at a higher layer into this composition.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Sun May 18, 2008 3:30 pm

Er Yea, actually watching the video in question - they are photo mosaics (Fancy ME missing that). I can point you to the software I used making genkaiten, but i don't think they've advanced to 3d layering yet.

Tryptic · Post by **Tryptic** » Sun May 18, 2008 5:58 pm

All right. Thanks for helping me figure out what that is and what it's called.
Since you say there's probably no way to do that exact effect, is there an effect you might suggest that could emulate it (in a sort of "tribute" way)?
I'd considered something along the lines of WMM's "breaking glass" transition, while merging it with a zoom in/zoom out similar to what Vlad Pohnert did in his "Memories Dance" (where the camera zooms across what looks almost like a wall of paintings).
Would you consider that an adequate emulation?

Again, thanks for the help.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun May 18, 2008 7:05 pm

After effects has a "shatter" effect that you might be able to utilize in some way. Perhaps zoom in on a single piece of it and overlay some video into that piece which you zoom in on. Would probably be hard though.

The video Olinuses a cool effect that's kind of similar to what you want... but completely different really... you might want to check it out though, around 3:15 in the video. I'm not sure exactly how its done though, off the top of my head.