Bring the footage into Premiere, and place it onto your timeline over another visually interesting clip.
To do this, take some video of an object with a solid color (sign, statue, dumpster, etc.). This is an effect that I haven’t seen very often, but it turns boring footage into a trippy spectacular. All you have to do from here is go to Opacity > Blend Mode > Screen. This will blend the two clips and reveal the bottom clip beneath the top subject, but not the white background. Drag it onto your timeline - along with a visually interesting video to layer underneath. First, take a clip that has a subject against a stark white background. This opening sequence actually requires loads and loads of rotoscoping and blending, so I’m going to show you the easy way to create it in Premiere. You may have seen double exposure treatment in photography, but the only example I can think of for video is the intro for True Detective. Add an opacity dissolve to the end to get rid of the hard cut-off. Now, your footage will ghost trail into the next video. Create a keyframe at the beginning of the overlap through the “vertical displacement” settings (we won’t be using horizontal displacement, so you can just set that to zero.) At the end of the overlap, create another keyframe and type in “5000” to the vertical displacement settings. Drag the “displacement map” effect onto your top clip. To create this effect, drop two clips into your timeline, and overlap them by a few seconds.
The displacement wipe ghosts luminant pixels into the next frame by using displacement maps.
This is a transition that our friend Todd created for After Effects (Thanks Todd). The Delta frame settings will create the “bloom” effect on your videos, and the I-frame settings will help pixels travel and track onto your next clip, creating the mosh effects you’re looking for. You can choose from presets on a dropdown menu, or you can toy with the settings yourself. Open up the datamosh plugin, and it will prompt you with a few different options.
DATAMOSH PREMIERE DOWNLOAD
In the past, you’d have to download an old video editor that would “accidentally” corrupt the footage, but luckily, there’s now an After Effects plug-in to help you datamosh in one click.įollow the download instructions for the plugin, open After Effects, and drag two clips into your timeline next to each other. As you can see in the video, datamoshing is a process of purposely corrupting footage to make the pixels act strangely.