CoreMelt Shatter V2:
Introduction
Shatter is a set of over 30 plugins of grunge and stylised effects, to create unique and stylish looks for motion graphics artists.
All plugins render using the graphics card of your computer for fastest performance and all effects can render in high precision float colour depth.
General Features
Graphical Multi-sliders:
Many of the plugins in CoreMelt V2 products use custom sliders to intuitively demonstrate exactly what the slider controls when thresholds or color based sliders are used.
These sliders allow quick setup to get the feel of creating a look for a plugin, but they cannot
currently be keyframed. If you need to keyframe these controls use the popup menu "Interface" menu to change the controls from "Custom" to "Standard" and you can then keyframe every parameter. You can hold down “ctrl” when dragging any slider to get increased input resolution.
Graphical Texture/Mask Pulldowns:
Masks or built in textures such ad the Imageflow Fx frames now appear as thumbnails in the menu to allow you to select them easily. You can also add your own masks to the CoreMelt Masks menu by creating a folder in your home directory "~/Library/Application Support/ CoreMelt/V2 Vector Masks". Any PDF, AI or PNG image files placed in that directory will be available for all CoreMelt plugins to use as built in masks. You can customise other texture browsers in the same way, a full list of directories is in the full documentation.
Quick Start:
Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, Motion, After Effects and Premiere Pro
- Create a new composition
- Drop in the content you wish to edit.
- Bring up the "filters" panel ("Video Filters" in Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express)
- Browse to the "C2 Shatter - Grunge and Stylised" folder
- Drag the filter you want onto your content
- Alter the settings until you have achieved the desired result.
List of Plugins and Parameters:
3D Image Grid:
Tiles the image in an infinite repeating pattern in 3d space and allows a “camera” to be flown through the effect in order to create interesting motion graphics styles. Can be set to an automatic random camera move or manually controlled.
Unique Parameters:
- Auto Animate:
- When this option is checked the plugin will run through a random camera movement overriding the Image Position parameters below.
- Image Color:
- Color of the image.
- Blend Mode:
- Select blend mode from a pop up menu.
- Copies:
- Copies of the image to repeat.
- Seperation:
- Seperation between each copy.
- Fog Density:
- Control the fog density as the image fades.
- Image Position Parameters:
- Alows you to manually keyframe the image position in space with rotation x,y,z and position x,y,z.
- Auto Animation Parameters:
- Controls speed of auto animation and whether the image is randomly rotated or not.
3D Image Grid Generator:
Tiles a graphic in an infinite repeating pattern in 3d space and allows a “camera” to be flown through the effect in order to create interesting motion graphics styles. Can be set to an automatic random camera move or manually controlled.
Unique Parameters:
- Auto Animate:
- When this option is checked the plugin will run through a random camera movement overriding the Image Position parameters below.
- Image Color:
- Color of the image.
- Blend Mode:
- Select blend mode from a pop up menu.
- Copies:
- Copies of the image to repeat.
- Seperation:
- Seperation between each copy.
- Fog Density:
- Control the fog density as the image fades.
- Image Position Parameters:
- Alows you to manually keyframe the image position in space with rotation x,y,z and position x,y,z.
- Auto Animation Parameters:
- Controls speed of auto animation and whether the image is randomly rotated or not.
3D Image Random Spacing: 
Repeats images randomly in 3D space and allows you to fly a “camera” through the resulting graphics. Can be set to an automatic random camera move or manually controlled.
Unique Parameters:
- Auto Animate:
- When this option is checked the plugin will run through a random camera movement overriding the Image Position parameters below.
- Image Color:
- Color of the image.
- Blend Mode:
- Select blend mode from a pop up menu.
- Copies:
- Copies of the image to repeat.
- Image Rotation:
- Rotate each text string around z axis.
- Seperation:
- Seperation between each copy.
- Camera Position Parameters:
- Alows you to manually keyframe the image position in space with rotation x,y,z and position x,y,z.
- Spread Parameters:
- Spread the random copies randomly within the x,y,z ranges defined.
- Auto Animation Parameters:
- Controls speed of auto animation and whether the text is randomly rotated or not.
3D Image Random Spacing Generator:
Repeats a graphic randomly in 3D space and allows you to fly a “camera” through the resulting graphics. Can be set to an automatic random camera move or manually controlled.
Unique Parameters:
- Auto Animate:
- When this option is checked the plugin will run through a random camera movement overriding the Image Position parameters below.
- Image Color:
- Color of the image.
- Blend Mode:
- Select blend mode from a pop up menu.
- Copies:
- Copies of the image to repeat.
- Image Rotation:
- Rotate each text string around z axis.
- Seperation:
- Seperation between each copy.
- Camera Position Parameters:
- Alows you to manually keyframe the image position in space with rotation x,y,z and position x,y,z.
- Spread Parameters:
- Spread the random copies randomly within the x,y,z ranges defined.
- Auto Animation Parameters:
- Controls speed of auto animation and whether the text is randomly rotated or not.
3D Infinite Scroller:
Provides a repeated texture plane that can scroll infinitely in any direction, using some built in textures or using an image from an imagewell. You can control speed and camera position of the movement.
Specific Parameters:
Speed X,Y: set movement of the plane in X and Y
Fog Softness: adjust to change falloff of the image to the horizon
Animation: choose manual X,Y or set a random motion
3D Lit Sphere: 
Projects the image onto the outside surface of a sphere with controllable light position.
Unique Parameters:
- Sphere Color:
- Color of the sphere texture.
- Light Color:
- Color of the light.
- Shininess:
- shininess of the sphere's material.
- Specularity:
- specularity of the sphere's material.
- Blend Mode:
- Select blend mode from a pop up menu.
- Light Transform Parameters:
- Alows you to manually keyframe the light position in space with position x,y,z.
- Sphere Transform Parameters:
- Alows you to manually keyframe the image position in space with rotation x,y,z and position x,y,z.
3D Shatter:
Shatters the image into squares which are randomly placed in 3D space.
Unique Parameters:
- Z Spread:
- controls the maximum difference between the closest and furthest away images in the Z dimension.
- Fill Ratio:
- choose what percentage of the panels are filled in, 0 = none, 1 = all.
- Num H:
- Number of horizontal images to break the source image into.
- Num V:
- Number of vertical images to break the source image into.
- Seed:
- Change this to vary the random placement of the squares in 3d space, using the same seed will always guarantee the same square placement.
- Scatter:
- randomise the texture placement.
- 3D:
- tick this box to enable the 3D transform controls.
- 3D Pos:
- control the x,y and z position of the shattered image.
- 3D Rotation:
- control the x,y and z rotation of the shattered image.
3D Sphere Map:
Tiles the image onto the inner surface of a sphere as a repeating texture. This can be used to create some interesting environment effects as backgrounds for motion graphics.
Unique Parameters:
- Scale:
- Scale of the sphere.
- Texture Scale:
- scale of the repeating texture on the image.
- Auto Animate:
- When this option is checked the plugin will run through a random camera movement overriding the Image Position parameters below.
- Auto Animation Speed:
- Speed of random animation.
- Rotation X,Y,Z:
- Use this when auto animation is off to manually keyframe the sphere rotation.
3D Text Cloud:
Repeats text randomly in 3D space and allows you to fly a “camera” through the resulting graphics. Can be set to an automatic random camera move or manually controlled.
Unique Parameters:
- Auto Animate:
- When this option is checked the plugin will run through a random camera movement overriding the Image Position parameters below.
- Image Color:
- Color of the image.
- Text:
- Text string to be repeated randomly.
- Seperator:
- each section of the string divided by the seperator will get randomly repeated. eg "Random / text goes / here" repeats "Random", "text goes" and "here" as distinct blocks of text.
- Font Name:
- Select the font to use from a pop up menu.
- Font Size:
- Choose the font size.
- Blend Mode:
- Select blend mode from a pop up menu.
- Copies:
- Copies of the image to repeat.
- Image Rotation:
- Rotate each text string around z axis.
- Seperation:
- Seperation between each copy.
- Camera Position Parameters:
- Alows you to manually keyframe the image position in space with rotation x,y,z and position x,y,z.
- Spread Parameters:
- Spread the random copies randomly within the x,y,z ranges defined.
- Auto Animation Parameters:
- Controls speed of auto animation and whether the text is randomly rotated or not.
3D Text Grid:
Repeats text in 3D space and allows you to fly a “camera” through the resulting graphics. Can be set to an automatic random camera move or manually controlled.
Unique Parameters:
- Auto Animate:
- When this option is checked the plugin will run through a random camera movement overriding the Image Position parameters below.
- Image Color:
- Color of the image.
- Text String:
- Text string to be repeated in the grid.
- Font:
- Select the font to use from a pop up menu.
- Font Size:
- Choose the font size.
- Blend Mode:
- Select blend mode from a pop up menu.
- Copies:
- Copies of the image to repeat.
- Seperation:
- Seperation between each copy.
- Fog Density:
- Control the fog density as the image fades.
- Image Position Parameters:
- Alows you to manually keyframe the image position in space with rotation x,y,z and position x,y,z.
- Auto Animation Parameters:
- Controls speed of auto animation and whether the text is randomly rotated or not.
3D Ventilator Shaft:
Tiles the image onto the inner surface of an infinitely long repeating 3d shaft which flies towards the camera. Can be used with built in image textures or as a filter on an image.
Unique Parameters:
- Use Built in Image:
- Activate this to use one of the built in images from the Image pop up.
- Image:
- Select which image to use from the pop up menu.
- Image Color:
- Image color.
- Fog Distance:
- Fog distance.
- Fog Softness:
- Fog softness.
- Speed:
- Speed of the movement towards the camera.
- Blend Mode:
- Choose blend mode from a pull down menu.
3D Ventilator Shaft Generator:
Tiles a graphic onto the inner surface of an infinitely long repeating 3d shaft which flies towards the camera. Can be used with built in image textures or as a filter on an image.
Unique Parameters:
- Use Built in Image:
- Activate this to use one of the built in images from the Image pop up.
- Image:
- Select which image to use from the pop up menu.
- Image Color:
- Image color.
- Fog Distance:
- Fog distance.
- Fog Softness:
- Fog softness.
- Speed:
- Speed of the movement towards the camera.
- Blend Mode:
- Choose blend mode from a pull down menu.
80s Music Video:
Creates video feedback effects similar to those produced by a Fairlight CVI 1980’s video synthesizer. This can also create some interesting effects when applied on text or other simple graphic elements.
Unique Parameters:
- Copies:
- Number of copies to create.
- Final Angle:
- Final angle of the last copy image.
- Final Pos:
- Final position of the last copy image.
- Over or Add Copies:
- Choose whether to blend or additive mix each copy.
- Posterize:
- Activate color posterisation.
- Random Movement:
- Turn on random movement. This overrides the final position parameter.
- Random Speed:
- Turn on random speed.
- Pseudo Color:
- Turn the image into a false color image between three colors before applying the effect.
Analog Glitch:
Creates a glitch effect similar to the distortion created by an old, out of tune TV set.
Codec Damage
Creates the effect of compressing the clip and creating compression artefacts.
Colour Blocks:
Creates a square pixellation effect, but does not create pixels across the whole image.
Digital Glitch:
These effects allow you to apply behavior style effects to still images. These are particularly useful when you are given text for titles or a pack shot as an image file instead of being given the font and typing the text out. In this case you cannot use standard text behaviors in motion but you can use these effects instead.
Corrupts, blurs and jitters the image randomly in a variety of ways with control over the frequency and strength of each effect.
Unique Parameters:
- Master Glitch:
- overall control, fade this down to zero to reduce all glitch effects to nothing.
- Jitter:
- turns jitter effects on/off.
- Blur:
- turns blur effects on/off.
- Fade:
- turns the fade effects on/off.
- Corruption:
- turns the data corruption effect on/off.
- Shadow Pop:
- turns the popping shadow effect on/off.
- Jitter Frequency:
- speed of the jitter effect.
- Jitter Strength:
- strength of the jitter effect.
- Jitter Opacity:
- opacity of the jitter effect.
- Max Blur:
- choose the maxium strength of the random x/y blur effect
- Fade Strength:
- choose the minium opacity that the fade effect changes to.
- Fade frequency:
- choose the speed of the fade effect.
- Corruption Percentage:
- choose what percent of the image gets corrupted.
- Corruption Frequency:
- choose how often the corruption randomly turns on. 1= always, 0 = never.
- Shadow Pop Frequency:
- choose how often the random show pop images turn on. 1= always, 0 = never.
Distort Cellular:
Distorts the image through a moving cellular pattern in either a glass or displacement style.
Unique Parameters:
- Strength
- Strength of the distortion.
- Scale Cells
- Scale of the distortion cells.
- Soften Cells
- Controls blurring of the cell
- Ripples Speed
- Speed of the cell ripple movements.
- Distortion Type
- Choose glass or displacement distortion from a pop up menu.
- Show Texture
- Allows you to see the distortion texture so you can make fine adjustments.
Distort Liquid Metal:
Reflects the image onto a moving pool of a metallic liquid. Can create very stylised animations suitable for DVD menu backgrounds or other cases where you want to distort an image to the point of being only an abstract pattern.
Unique Parameters:
- Metal Speed
- Speed of movement.
- Metal Height
- Height of reflection field.
- Metal Radius
- Radius of reflection effect.
- Soften Ripples
- Blurring of ripples.
- Ripples Lifetime
- How quickly the ripples die down.
- Ripples Speed
- speed of movement of ripples.
Distort Liquid Vision:
Unique Parameters:
- Ripples Strength:
- strength of the ripple distortion.
- Soften Ripples:
- softening of ripples.
- Liquid Scale:
- scale of liquid effect.
- Liquid Speed:
- speed of liquid movement.
- Distortion Type:
- Choose glass or displacement distortion from a pop up menu.
- Show Texture:
- Allows you to see the distortion texture so you can make fine adjustments.
Distort Pond:
Unique Parameters:
- Ripples Strength:
- strength of the ripple distortion.
- Ripples Center:
- center position of distortion ripples.
- Ripples Lifetime:
- How quickly the ripples die down.
- Ripples Speed:
- speed of movement of ripples.
- Soften Ripples:
- softening of ripples.
- Distortion Type:
- Choose glass or displacement distortion from a pop up menu.
- Show Texture:
- Allows you to see the distortion texture so you can make fine adjustments.
Distort Rain Drops:
Unique Parameters:
- Ripples Strength:
- strength of the ripple distortion.
- Ripples Lifetime:
- How quickly the ripples die down.
- Ripples Speed:
- speed of movement of ripples.
- Soften Ripples:
- softening of ripples.
- Distortion Type:
- Choose glass or displacement distortion from a pop up menu.
- Show Texture:
- Allows you to see the distortion texture so you can make fine adjustments.
Distort Ripple Across:
Creates a ripple effect that wipes across the image over time.
Distort Shower Door:
Unique Parameters:
- Strength:
- strength of the ripple distortion.
- Soften Bumps:
- softening of ripples.
- Scale X:
- scale of noise in X direction.
- Scale Y:
- scale of noise in Y direction.
- Distortion Type:
- Choose glass or displacement distortion from a pop up menu.
- Show Texture:
- Allows you to see the distortion texture so you can make fine adjustments.
Distort Water Drops:
This effect is similar to Distort Pond however instead of being Random it allows you to precisely control the timing of a single water drop. A use for this in a real job might be to make the distortion effect coincide with some action that happens in the video, eg a persons finger touching the image or an object landing on the screen.
Unique Parameters:
- Strength:
- strength of the ripple distortion.
- Number of Ripples:
- The number of ripples emitted.
- Ripples Max Size:
- Max size before the ripples fade.
- Falloff:
- Fall off of each ripple from the first ripple.
- Ripples Center:
- Center position.
- Spacing:
- Spacing between each ripple.
- Soften Ripples:
- Blurring of ripples.
- Animation:
- Key frame this parameter to precisely control the ripples speed. The drop animation starts at 0 and ends at 1. By keyframing this to match action coinciding with the video you can easily match the ripples to the desired motion.
- Auto Animate:
- When this option is checked the Animation parameter is over ridden and the animation happens starting at frame 1 of the composition.
- Distortion Type:
- Choose glass or displacement distortion from a pop up menu.
- Show Texture:
- Allows you to see the distortion texture so you can make fine adjustments.
Distort Waves
Distorts the image while pulsating the displacement map creating a wave effect.
Grunge Border:
Creates a grungy moving textured border around the outside of the clip.
Panel Vision:
Tiles up to eight source images randomly into any number of rows and columns.
Unique Parameters:
- Image 2-8:
- drop up to eight images into these image wells which will then be randomly placed to fill the rows and columns of tiles.
- Num Images:
- controls how many of the images are used.
- Fill Ratio:
- choose what percentage of the panels are filled in, 0 = none, 1 = all.
- Num H:
- Number of horizontal images to break the source image into.
- Num V:
- Number of vertical images to break the source image into.
- Seed:
- Change this to vary the random placement of the images in the squares, using the same seed will always guarantee the same square placement.
Scanner:
Moves a rectangle which magnifies or pixelates the image over the image. Can be set to random movement or to manual keyframes. Also has an overlay which can be used to provide a different style of effect.
Unique Parameters:
- Display Overlay:
- Turn on a magnification style rectangle.
- Overlay Color:
- color of the overlay image.
- Pixelate:
- Choose whether the image is pixelated in the scanner rectangle.
- Magnify Parameters:
- Choose the amount of magnifaction of the rectangle.
- Rect Parameters:
- Set the size and x position of the magnification area.
Slice Layer:
Slices the layer with a randomly moving pattern of slices.
Slices:
Generates slice patterns with uniform, random or interpolated widths.
Vintage Newsprint:
Overlays both a dot screen and a channel separation to create an effect like old misaligned newspaper print.
Unique Parameters:
Chroma Separation: The amount by which to separate the red, green and blue parameters.
Wrap Around:
Wrap Around distorts and stretches the image to either side with controls for stretch, shift and camera position.
Specific Parameters:
Stretch: how much the image is distorted in the middle
Height: image height
Diameter: diameter of cylinder image is mapped onto
X Shift: Rotates the image to either side
Common Parameters:
Blur Options:
- Use Fast Blur
- Uses a gaussian blur which renders at the same speed regardless of the blur width but does not animate smoothly. If you notice any rendering artifacts or need to animate the blur width then disable this option and re-render the effect.
- Repeat Edges
- Extends the image at the edge of the screen in order to stop black coming in when blurring to edge of screen. This option slows down rendering considerably in some cases.
Hi Lo Threshold Parameters:
Many effects use a High-Low threshold effect in order to precisely control the range of luma values which an effect should be applied to. For example you can control which luma values an Optical Glow or Sparkles effect will start to apply. The low threshold value is the point below which the effect does not apply at all. The high threshold value is the point at which the effect is at maximum strength. By adjusting these parameters to match the appropriate levels in your video you can get subtle roll off effects on glows and other plugins.
Breakup Controls:
Many glow effects have an option to mix noise through the glow to generate a speckled difusion pattern. The following parameters appear when this option is ticked.
- Breakup Strength
- how much to multiply the glow by the noise.
- Breakup Scale
- The scaling of the noise pattern.
Customisation Options
User Created textures and gradients
VeeYou will make directories in your home directory preferences to allow new textures and gradients to be added. Any vector or raster images (JPG, PNG or PDF are recommended) added to that folder are made available in the image selector list for the appropriate texture type.
For example, to add a new gradient, copy the image into the folder: /Users/**your username**/Library/Application Support/CoreMelt/Assets/C2 Gradients/ (texture images are placed in the "C2 VU Bars Textures" folder)
You do not need to restart Motion, just hit the reload button on the left hand side of the selector list to refresh the list. User made images will appear at the top of the list.
Mask Options
Almost every effect has a mask option that limits the range of the effect to a portion of the image. You can either use a range of built in masks or use the image well to apply your own clip as a mask. Please note that in Final Cut Studio 2, the Mask Options group only appears when the "Use Mask" checkbox is ticked.
Note, on plugins which spread out from an area and expand the image (glows and blurs) the Mask area is the source area which the glow or blur will spread out from, not the outerlimit of the effect.
- Preview Mask
- Shows the mask instead of the final output so you can adjust it precisely.
- Invert Mask
- Inverts the black and white areas of the mask, so reversing the area of the mask.
- Choose Mask
- Use this drop down menu to select one of the 24 built in mask shapes. If you select "Use Image Well" then a mask image well appears which you can drop your own mask layer into.
- Blur Mask
- Tick this to soften the edges of the mask shape.
- Blur Strength
- Amount in pixels to blur the mask shape.
- Mask Position
- Move the mask around the layer with this control
- Mask Scale
- Scale the mask in both X and Y together.
- Mask Aspect
- Adjust the aspect ratio of the mask shape to stretch it in X.
- Mask Rotation
- Angle in degrees to rotate the mask.
Support Options
You can post support questions to the CoreMelt user forum or use the support form on the CoreMelt website.
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