How To Make Glitch Effect in After Effects | Easy Tutorial

what's up guys this is Austin Newman with learning 5 where you can learn After Effects tutorials and just five minutes or less today we're gonna go ahead and jump right in by making a glitch effect like this it's very simple we can do it very quickly and in classic fashion we're gonna go ahead and do that so we're gonna hit command in on Mac to bring up a new composition or you can go up here go to new composition 24 frames per second 1920 by 1080 so that's HD settings alright so now that we have this I have in the description for this video a screen glitch effect I've linked it so you also will be able to get this this is a 720 file so let's go ahead and scale this up doesn't really matter where it is as long as it fills the screen now let's go ahead and turn both of those off the sound and the visuals we're gonna take our text tool and I'm gonna type you could type whatever you want but I'm gonna type glitch and I'm using the Futura bold font I'm gonna go ahead and align that with my line tool right in the middle there next thing we want to do is go to layer adjustment layer new adjustment layer and we are going to go to effects and presets I've already typed in displacement map you want to find that and drag that to your adjustment layer now you want to go up here to displacement map layer and make this react to the stock footage and also drag the stock footage right between these two and that is how you start now that it's starting to react we want to go back here to effects for adjustment layer and this is how you play around with this a little bit because depending on where you have these is how much it's going to react so vertical displacement you've got horizontal displacement whatever to your liking we can do you can go crazy with this thing or you can make it minimal next thing we want to do is we want to go down here to your text file glitch let's go up here and search for set channels I'm going to apply that to this right here and then while I have my text file selected I'm going to do command D or duplicate two times the first one Y you have the third one selected hit enter and rename this one red for the two hits enter and rename this one green and for the third hit enter and rename this one blue what we want to do is go up here and we're going to turn all of the blending modes on these two screen now with your red layer selected in your effects panel we're gonna go ahead and turn off green and turn off blue then we're going to go down to green and we're gonna turn off red and we're gonna turn off blue then we're gonna go down to blue and we're gonna turn off red and we're gonna turn off green now go back up to red hit P on your keyboard to bring up position and move it to the right a little bit go to green move that to the left a little bit and blue we're gonna move that down a little bit and you can play with those settings to get what you want and that's how you make a glitch effect if you learn something make sure to hit that big thumbs up button go ahead and give us a subscribe if you want to learn more After Effects tutorials and five minutes or less my name is Austin Newman you can find some of my work on Instagram at Austin makes films I encourage you to take a look around the channel if you're wanting to learn more after effects you can learn it quick and easy right here at learn and five and until next time we'll see you later [Music]

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Length: 3min 46sec (226 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 28 2017

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[u/Samsote]

So after tinkering a bit I managed to create the effect basically the exact same way that this guy does in after effects. I'll probably do a tutorial for it on Monday once I'm back in the studio as its a pretty cool effect, but for now I'll give you a run down on how to do it in Davinci Resolve.

Heres my final results along with some screenshots of node settings. https://imgur.com/a/vbsyhX6

So first off you want to create a fusion composition, and add a background node, merge node and text node. Connect the background node to the background input of the merge node and the text node to the foreground input of the merge node, so far so good very basic stuff.

Then type in what you want in the text node and resize as you see fit.

Now add a displace (Dsp) node and connect the merge node to its background input.

Then you want to import the displacement asset provided by FootageIsland this will make a mediain node, connect this node to the foreground input of the displace node. you can also add a transform node between the mediain and displace nodes if you want a bit more flexibility.

Now lets get to the real magic, the settings for the displace node, change type from radial to x and y, this will allow the red parts of the glitch asset to displace the text horizontally and the green parts to displace it vertically.

Now you can tinker with the X refraction and Y refraction to get the energy and style you are looking for, you can also use the X and Y offset settings to move it around as the refractions can easily make it loose its position.

Great, we are halfway there, now lets get on to the chromatic aberration.

What we want to do here is split the RGB channels of the text into separate layers and use the add composite mode to blend them together.This means that if we have a pure red text, a pure green text and a pure blue text wherever they overlap perfectly will be pure white, and the mixing of 1 or 2 of these layers will give a different color.

so to do this we create 3 Channels Boolean (Bol) nodes.To keep things organized will name them Red, Green and Blue

Connect the output of your displace node to the input of each of the channels nodes.

For the Red node you want to turn off the blue and green channel by changing them to black. For the green node you turn off the red and blue channels, and in the blue node you turn off the red and green nodes.

Now connect each of the channel nodes to their own transform node so we can move them separately.

But before we start moving them around we need to mix all the layers together again so we can see the results we are getting. To do this make a copy of your green channels node and connect the output of the red transform node to its background input, then connect the output of the green transform node to the foreground input.

Then make a copy of your blue channels node and connect the newly mixed green node to the background input of your new blue node. then connect the output of the blue transform node to the foreground input of your new blue node.

Now just change the operation in the inspector for your green_1 and blue_1 nodes from copy to add.You should now see the text back to being pure white, to get the chromatic aberration effect just move the 3 layers around using their individual transform nodes.

My final results wereRed - 0.495 X 0.5 YGreen - 0.49 X 0.5 YBlue - 0.494 X 0.496 Y

And there you go, that's how you make this glitch effect in davinci resolve. There's a lot of power for adjustments here both in the glitchiness itself and the chromatic aberration, so dont be afraid to try out different things.

For example you can rotate the glitch asset using a transform node to make the glitches happen at an angle instead of purely horizontally, or you can scale it up and down to get a more or less intense effect.

Good luck

[u/Samsote]

yes this is very doable with resolve, its basically just a chromatic aberration effect combined with a displacement map powered by a premade displacement asset.

I'll have a crack at it myself and can give you a step by step once I'm happy with the results.

[u/AEMalek]

yes i did a tutorial using a video instead of a text but its the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rH7EMAlb4s

[u/Oxffff0000]

Thanks a lot brother! You are amazing!

[u/JK_Chan]

Anything that's doable on after effects or final cut it's most likely doable on resolve and vice versa.

[u/TheVeloxElement]

The way the glitch mp4 file is able to react to the text is what I’m most interested in. I basically want to do an exact copy and paste of this effect and method but in Davinci