Step By Step 2: Pixel Effect

So for my next experimental piece i chose an effect that seemed rather interesting, i found an effect that creates a pixel like mask over the top of your footage & once i played around with the effects properties i realized there were some interesting designs you can come up with here is an example along with my second step by step guide, again the final piece will be listed at the end.

So first i had to import my selected clip, i chose this clip from Andrews MMI that i was camera - op on. So once i had imported the clip i then pressed "Alt" and dragged the clip above onto the next timeline duplicating the following clip. This allows us to use the blending options again creating some rather spectacular visual effects.

So to locate the desired effect, you first need to go to your effects & presets, there you find the effects folder, i scrolled down until i found the "stylize"option which opens up a variety of options, the one in particular that you are looking for is "Mosaic". You then need to drag and drop the effect on top of the copied clip. You will then be [resented with the effect in the image above. to control & manipulate the effect you will need to move onto the next step, changing the properties of the effect.

You are presented with three options once you get to the effects panel, the first two allow you to change the amount of vertical & horizontal blocks. I changed my horizontal to 75 & my vertical to 3 this gave the effect you see above. As you can see you are now seeing the shapes of the original clip coming through but in order to make that more visible you will have to go to the opacity settings on the copied clip & change the blend mode to "Screen".

Once you have changed the blending mode you will be left with the effect located above, its a striking effect which could be used for such things as music videos & other forms of artistic & out there media. The finished effect is located below.