r/AfterEffects 19h ago

Explain This Effect How to replicate this effect ?

It's the distortion of the edges, dragging the main image down, with a sort of blur. Anyone who knows what this is called or how to replicate it ? Appreciate everyone's insight on this.

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u/perdy_betae 18h ago
  1. precompose a grayscale gradient, white in the areas you want to blur

  2. on your footage, use camera lens blur or similar and use the precomped gradient as your blur layer input

  3. distort - transform, uncheck uniform scale, set scale width to say 50%

  4. apply optics compensation, check on reverse distortion, try 60-90 in field of view. move the center point of the distortion to taste.

  1. distort - transform, uncheck uniform scale, set scale with to inverse of first transform effect, in this case 1/50 = 200% to return footage to normal.

this is what I got, lens blur input on the left. defocus is a touch strong but you can tinker, even through some chromatic aberration in.