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I directed the look.
An AI editing agent built the effect. ✨
Meet “Hallucination”
A clean cinematic sequence transformed with RGB distortion, glowing highlights, shifting colors, and layered text.
I described the effect in invideo Editor, reviewed the result, and refined the look and text timing.
Check out the comments to see the videos of the before/after, actual agent conversation, and editable timeline.
Instagram Post:
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Agent Conversation:
Raw Footage, made inside @Invideo using Seedance.
Invideo Timeline editor
First set of Reference images for style generation.
Best scene effect:
not really sure about what it is called as
but the Agent described it as:
One thermal colour flash and a ripple across his face, colour that cycles through thermal palettes and snaps on the beat, liquid warp that melts faces.
I think it's Trippy, not sure
Okay!!
Text animation done inside @Invideo
at the secondary video effect:
Film grain, soft halation, and a faint colour fringe at the edges
RGB split creeps in, the light blooms, and trails start following the smoke. A zoom blur builds into the drop.
LinkedIn Social Media post:
https://lnkd.in/p/gZ94iSmH
Thankyou Ali!!
how much of the rgb distortion did you describe vs tweak after
Most of it came from the prompt. I described the RGB split and glitch look up front, and only did minor cleanup after.
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