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PORTAL BREACH — ANOTHER DIMENSION
What if reality could tear itself apart?
An ordinary tunnel. A mysterious energy source. A dimensional portal that opens, pulses, and collapses back into nothing.
For this experiment, I explored cinematic portal effects using AI-assisted editing, custom shaders, animated keyframes, energy distortion, and procedural visual effects.
From a clean cinematic scene to an otherworldly anomaly — built through an iterative creative workflow.
- Created with invideo Editor
- Custom effects & keyframe animation
- Sci-fi / Dimensional VFX
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Created for the invideo Agentic Effects Challenge.
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BEYOND THE VEIL ✨
What started as two simple fantasy scenes became a completely different world.
For this challenge, I wanted to create a cinematic transition where reality itself feels like it’s breaking apart before revealing another world.
Instead of manually building every layer, mask, distortion, and reveal, I directed invideo Editor’s AI agent to build the effect directly on my timeline. I could describe the look I wanted, let the agent handle the heavy lifting, then refine the result myself until it felt right.
That made the process way easier — I could focus more on the creative direction and less on the repetitive technical work.
From original forest → reality fracture → celestial world.
Built with invideo Editor. 🎬✨
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Wow🫨
Hey @invideoio and @contra, stop using small creators to farm free marketing data while running what looks like a total engagement scam.
Your #invideocontrachallenge promises an $11K prize pool and explicit access to a Max plan upgrade. I did my part. I submitted my workspace ID days ago. Contra even went ahead and featured my post publicly on the platform to boost their own metrics.
But behind the scenes? Total fraud.
You locked me out of the AI editing tools. You ghosted every single support ticket. And when the October 12 deadline is hours away, your garbage AI chatbot "Eva" sends me multiple automated emails telling me to go to the subscription page and PAY out of pocket for the tools you explicitly promised for free.
Are you seriously using a community challenge to bait-and-switch new users into forced paid upgrades?
This is disgraceful behavior. You are deliberately freezing out starter profiles and technical talent because you only care about corporate optics and ultra-well-known creators with big follower counts. Talent isn't measured by a follower count 🪵✨.
I am not filling out another useless form. I am not talking to another broken AI bot. A HUMAN community manager needs to wake up, check your support inbox, and manually unlock my Workspace ID right now. Stop hiding and fix my account.
Thank you for the info. I was just starting and now I will reconsider.
Lavender Paparazzi: invideo Editor effect
Primary effect : Rhythmic double flashes (like camera bursts) and a lavender glow.
Process note:
Starting footage: an AI-generated video I made earlier: a woman in a lavender field, with a perfume bottle.
What I asked the agent: This was my first time in invideo Editor. My first prompts were too complex and didn't work well. So I stopped and just asked the timeline agent what it saw in my cut. It suggested "Lavender Paparazzi" and I agreed.
What the agent built in about a minute:better flashes, in a double rhythm, like camera bursts; lavender tint and glow
sound design: camera shutter clicks, a soft breeze, dress rustling
What I refined: I asked the agent to raise the glow intensity from 12 to 18, then from 18 to 35. The glow has its own controls (threshold, radius, intensity, tint, blend mode). At the end I asked it to fix the audio and give me an honest opinion. It repaired the clipping and said the woman still competes with the bottle in the last scene, so I stopped adding effects.
@invideo.io @invideo.creators
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