Watch unofficial SLS video on youTube [ here ].

I am in love with this effect, admittedly it is the video that makes it ( view the original on the drill down ).

I totally wish I had a video that rendered small enough to post… Media Encoder kept pushing stuff out to 300+ MG (Adobe Media Encoder, you suck), and I don’t know Apple Compressor well enough to get a decent web-friendly video under 100 MG.

The original Video, before I abused it:

Because you have been good, here is a snippet of the code I’m using (before clean up):

private function drawPxl():void
{

	var _tempPxl:pxlclr = _pxlA;

	_parent.visible = false;
	var test:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
	do
	{
		var s = shape( _tempPxl.x, _tempPxl.y, _tempPxl.color );
		test.addChild( s );

		_tempPxl = _tempPxl.next;

	} while (_tempPxl != null);

	// remove all childeren
	while( _out.numChildren > 2 ) _out.removeChildAt(0); 

	_out.addChild(test);

}

// Make Squares
private function shape( xxx, yyy, clor ) : MovieClip
{

	var _shape:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

	_shape.graphics.lineStyle(1,clor,0.3);
	_shape.graphics.moveTo(-4,-4);
	_shape.graphics.lineTo(-4,4);
	_shape.graphics.lineTo(4,4);
	_shape.graphics.lineTo(4,-4);
	_shape.graphics.lineTo(-4,-4);
	_shape.rotation = Math.random() * 90;

	_shape.x = xxx;
	_shape.y = yyy;

	return _shape;
}

The above effect (Shower Door) is my favorite, it consistently looks the best on all videos. It overlays a random pattern of pixels from previous frames over the live video feed and blurs them at random.

Go to the next page to see 3 other settings: Rain, Embiggen, and Sunny Day.

Rain (Above)

Embiggen (Above)

Sunny Day (Above)

I don’t think all of these will make it to the final class, but once I got the class built in, it was a lot of fun tweaking settings. At the end of the day (for me) I am looking to completely distort the video data itself, all I really want is color and motion, because the videos are almost NEVER the real official video, but random photos, fan-video, logos, advertisement, and other crap. YouTube is to Music Videos what Andy Worhol is to Campbell’s Soup. …or maybe worse what Mr.Brainwash is to Andy Worhol’s Campbell’s Soup.

Maybe when I’m done I’ll post the full thinger. Hold your breath for it!

Video credits: Director, Editor, DP, Camera: Art Douglas
Produced by: Art Douglas, Matt Rasmussen, Stan Bush
Visual Effects: Matt Rasmussen
Makeup: Prell Charusanti
Craft Services: Cindy Douglas and Mary Jean Ohse
Production Assistant: Paul Wang
Starring: Leanna Pareja, Marie Lynn, and Stan Bush (as himself!)
Video Game Play and Capture by: Daniel Isaac Special Thanks to Holger Fath
Video Game: “Transformers: War For Cybertron” from High Moon and Activision