Wormhole effect...

[Raxian]

Greetings!

I am trying to create a wormhole effect utilizing two pieces of footage. One is the main action sequence and another is a "Wormhole" (another video that has like a tunnel effect). I want to use that footage in a section of tree's that form a portal.

Currently I am attempting to use the Track Matte Key, but I have seen videos utilizing the Legacy Title...which works...and another video that uses color matte's with the Track Matte Key on the original footage.

Now here is the issue. If it was just a still piece of footage (like a logo on top of another piece) I get how that can work...but the main source is moving so I attempted to use the pen tool to create a mask for every frame to move along side the "portal".

Now currently I have a Track Matte Key on the original footage (V1), A Color Matte on V2 which I specify in the Track on V1 and then the wormhole footage on V3. I tried to just specify the wormhole footage on V3 with V2's Color Matte, but that didn't seem to work. I had to redraw the mask every frame to fit the scene.

Now I do have a wormhole effect in the space I created, but it is dulled out and dark (the color is bright shining red...but this looks like a Transparent barely seen effect. Opacity is at 100% on the mask and such. What am I doing wrong? (to give you an example, If you have ever seen the show "StargateSG-1" I am trying to do something similar to the stargate. Where the  shimmering gate is displayed while the rest of the scene's are being produced. Most video's I have come across are just based on one scene over another on a static circle or text. Any help would be appreciated

As I mentioned before, I could try to do a legacy title, but I have to create a new title for every frame and each title will have to be adjusted to move with the action. On the flip side, the video's do come in clear with that method...but as you can tell, it would be very tedious to do it that way.

[Richard M Knight]

A few screenshots might help us visualise what you are trying to do.

[Raxian]

Ok, here are the screen shots. I had to fix it a bit as I had two matte's on top of each other. I have been hitting my brain against the wall on this.

[Raxian]

Any Idea's? As you can tell the second picture looks cool..but it has no color and is faded. The last two pictures has the wormhole effect that I am looking for, but give me your honest opinion on how it looks? I was trying to create a gateway effect that I would run into, but it looks to much like its artificial? At least the shadowy one looks more actual (even though that isn't the effect I was going for) I didn't want to just use static.

[Raxian]

Any suggestions?

[Joseph Dacchille]

Maybe make sure you have no adjustment layer above your wormhole, and check the color blending mode.

[Joseph Dacchille]

Sorry, no suggestions. I'd have to work with the footage to really understand.

[Raxian]

Would you like to have the footage to see what I am trying to do? It's only

a few moments out of a main video (The whole scene I think doesn't take

more then a minute or two at the most)

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