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This is my submission for the Agentic Effects challenge. I used six black and white clips: a man adjusting his hat, a dog on the ground, an abandoned dome building, the man again, the dog again, and fire.
Here, I built two custom effects directly in Invideo Editor. The first is a Difference Offset transition at every cut, stacking duplicate layers with slight scale and position changes blended on Difference. The second is a CRT Signal Break that appears once per clip, with flickering grades, color fringing, scanlines, and flash frames.
For the finishing touch, I added synced SFX for every transition and glitch, plus one background track that slowly breaks down from calm to full distortion by the end.
Project link: https://invideo.io/share/Invideo-Challenge-RhwRGCTqeHr
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For this project, I combined surreal AI-generated visuals with manually edited camera shakes, white flashes, music synchronisation and carefully timed transitions using the InVideo Editor.
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Apparently, even artificial intelligence has a budget. 😉
Creative direction, storytelling and final editing by The Triadic Studio.
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I wanted to test whether Invideo Editor’s AI timeline agent could replace hours of manual node compositing in After Effects to create a cinema-grade VFX shot from raw mobile footage.
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The Footage: Raw 4K 60fps night plate of NYC with neon signs, streetlamps, and a wet puddle reflection.
Agent Direction: Using a prism refraction photo as a reference, I directed the agent in Ultra Mode to author a single custom shader that extracts luminance highlights, stretches them into 55° upward trails, and applies a spectral RGB dispersion gradient across the edges. It also layered a Screen composite and generated a procedural cyberpunk HUD tracking overlay.
Human Refinements: I manually used the exposed Inspector sliders to fine-tune the Highlight Threshold to 0.68 (isolating the Radio City marquee, streetlamps, and puddle reflection while eliminating building clutter) and dialed the Trail Length to 140 with an exponential falloff taper.
Editable Project Timeline:
👉 https://invideo.io/share/Chromatic-Stretch-GWJjyPAWPDb
Instagram Reel:
👉 https://www.instagram.com/p/DeB3NrJSbvd/
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I've always wanted to try out the X-ray effect that's been trending so I decided to create a motion-design introduction that introduces me, Charles Ogada, as a Full-Stack AI Engineer, founder, and product builder. Rather than making a conventional talking-head introduction, I used typography, geometric transitions, and visual rhythm to turn my own footage into a short, art-directed personal introduction, then added the X-ray effect on one frame so that it doesn't look too much.
The interesting part isn't just the final result. It's being able to describe a creative idea, see the agent build it, and then direct the next iteration and it gets it.
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I started with original footage of myself and directed the invideo Editor timeline agent to build the effect around my creative vision wich was a motion design type video introducing myself and using the X-ray effect. I then reviewed the generated result, refined...