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Recursive Portal.
An infinite tunnel of the image inside itself.
Drag to compare. Left: the original clip. Right: the same clip through recursive.portal, rendered by the app.
What does it do?
Recursive Portal repeats the frame inside itself: iterations, scale, rotation, offset, perspective and spin. This demo uses the default settings.
Creative ideas
- A spiral tunnel with rotation and spin.
- Off-centre portals with offset.
- Animate scale for a zoom into the frame.
How to use it
- Open the Effects tab.
- In the left rail, under VIDEO FX, click recursive.portal.
- Set iterations and scale; add rotation or spin.
Level: easy. Undo anything with ⌘Z.
Example preset
- recursive.portal — default settings
The exact settings of the demo above. Save yours with presets › save in the inspector.
Render notes
Rendered on demo footage: a silhouette in a bedroom.
Rendered by @@ennuienoir (headless export) from a single shot of our demo footage, encoded for the web: H.264, no sound.