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PRISM DISPLACEMENT
Prism Displacement distorts and displaces the pixels in your image with a prism-like, chromatic effect based on the luminance values of another layer.
Getting Started in a timeline
- Add video layers in the timeline for the displacement source and the image to be distorted.
- Apply uni.Prism Displacement on the layer you want to be distorted.
- Use Displacement Source to choose the video layer that you want to guide the luminance displacement.
Getting Started in a compositor
- Apply uni.Prism Displacement on the layer you want to be distorted.
- Use Displacement Source to choose the footage layer that you want to guide the luminance displacement.
Modify the Effect
- Presets are available to set the levels of displacement, or you can modify the settings yourself.
- In the Source drop-down, you have three options to guide how you want Prism Displacement to view that source: as a Luminance map , an Alpha (premultiplied with Gray) or as an Alpha (premultiplied with black) . Default settings begin with 50% gray areas as neutral, with white and black areas distorting the footage.
- Glass Refraction gives you a slider to control the amount of glass refraction happening.
- The Refractive Index is a multiplier to the Glass Refraction.
- Soften Displacement Map allows you to blur the edges of your map.
- The displacement amount of the Red, Green and Blue channels can be split individually by changing the Refraction Settings for each color.
- If you want to adjust the input levels of the displacement map colors, adjust the black, white or gamma levels using the Displacement Map Levels .
- There is a section giving you control on the Lighting that hits your displacement, allowing you to position the light in X, Y and Z, as well as adding a diffuse color.
- Stretch Map to Fit will force the displacement map to match the source image size, and is on by default.
- Bicubic Sampling gives a slightly slower, but more accurate, sampling method.
- The Wrap Mode shows options for extending edges of the image if the distortion changes the image size ( Border , Repeat , Mirror , Clamp ).
- Check View Displacement Map if you want to see the map being used without turning off your source layer.