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LIGHT | PARTICLES

These two videos each show two looping particle animations. 

Stock clips used:  Large blue glitters | Blue lights and particles | City lights | City lights large

The two videos below were made using elements from "Hard rain", "Hard rain with splashes- 3 layers" and one part of "Smoke Drifts - 3 layers". As with the other multi-clips, just cut the clips into three seamlessly loop-able, nine second segments and they can be layered, sized, animated, cropped, masked, tinted, re-timed and looped over footage or stills to assemble an almost infinite number of different 3D, HD effects. In After Effects, try layering clips with the opacity around 50%, using the excellent (free) Knoll "UnMult" plugin - different opacity settings on the different layers give different feelings of depth. 

Stock clips used:  Hard rain | Hard rain with splashes | Smoke drifts

RAIN

The first two videos show the three segments in each of the multi-clip videos "Large raindrops" and "Hard rain with splashes" 

Stock clips used:  Large raindrops | Hard rain with splashes

OPART | HYPNO

WATER

Videos showing the two looping clips in each of the two rushing water videos. Just cut either of these videos into two seamlessly loop-able, fourteen second segments and they can be looped indefinitely.

Stock clips used:  Rushing water loops 01 | Rushing water loops 02

The two videos below each show the separate elements from two hypno clips. Each segment runs just under ten seconds and is seamlessly loop-able - just cut the video into three pieces and you'll have three endlessly looping videos.

Stock clips used:  Hypno spiral loops | Hypno loops

BIRDS

stock footage collection

This low rez sample video shows a selection of the stock footage of birds. Each clip has been composed over a still image to show some of the effects possible using the black and white footage of bird animations. The free Knoll "UnMult" plugin was used to silhouette the birds against the still backgrounds. They can be layered, tinted and mixed with other stock footage (such as the smoke/fog and rain). 

Stock clips used:  Pigeons fly away, flap and swoop | Pigeon flock small | Pigeon flock swoops | Flock of pigeons flies over | Crows flying

SMOKE

Video showing the three looping segments of "Smoke Drifts - 3 clips"

Stock clips used:  Smoke drifts 

The two low rez smoke videos below were made using various smoke elements. Just cut the clips into three seamlessly loop-able, nine second segments and they can be layered, sized, animated, cropped, masked, tinted and looped to assemble an almost infinite number of different 3D, HD smoke effects.

In After Effects, the (free)  Knoll "UnMult" plugin works very well with all the smoke clips - it creates an Alpha channel and removes the black.

Stock clips used:  Smoke billows | Smoke drifts

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Multi Clips

A growing number of my stock footage clips are "multi-clips" - they consist of separate elements (usually two or three), each of which is seamlessly loop-able. For example, a 27 second multi-clip, made up of three, nine second loopable segments, can be cut into three equal parts, each of which can be set to loop indefinitely.

3D Layers

Some of these loop-able segments are also designed to be used as 3D layers (e.g. the smoke and the rain). The segments from these multi-clips can be set to loop and can also be offset in 3D space so that they appear to have 3D volume. They can be layered, combined, repeated, re-sized, offset in time, animated, cropped, masked, screened, tinted and looped, allowing for the creation of an almost infinite number of different 3D, HD effects.

Alpha Mattes and Luma Mattes

Some of the clips contain alpha or luma mattes. If you don't know how to use these, search online and discover their uses as masks. I've heard from people who have converted my footage to use in Flash and have successfully used the luma mattes there too. The black and white clips of the birds can be used as luma mattes, so the black and white bird videos can be placed on any background of your choice. As mentioned above, if you're using After Effects, any of the clips can be used with the free Knoll "UnMult" plugin which removes the black from the clips by creating an alpha channel - it works really well with the rain and smoke clips.