Mantra VR | Magnifying Glass Tutorial
The Mantra VR Magnifying Glass effect can be used to help focus the viewer’s attention, and also for unique effects such as a searchlight. Charles Yeager illustrates some of those in this tutorial. The effect simulates one ore more magnifying glasses of arbitrary size and distribution, with a magnifying power that can be adjusted.
Mantra VR is a 360/VR plugin for After Effects and Premiere Pro. It is a set of 16 stylization and practical effects that you can apply directly onto your 360 footage, available now for $229.
Mantra VR is designed by the creators of SkyBox Suite, which has been acquired by Adobe, that are now fully integrated in Adobe Creative Cloud.
Mantra VR – Magnifying Glass Tutorial
Effect > Mettle > Mantra VR > Magnifying Glass.
Field Of View
“Draw Background” can be toggled off for a searchlight effect.
Duplicating the “Draw Background” and adding a Blur to your footage creates a focus effect.
The Recursion option zooms the magnifying level of the effect.
Multiple instances on the Magnifying Glass on the same point will focus on a single pixel.
Mantra VR.
360/VR Stylization + FX for After Effects and Premiere Pro.
A set of 16 filters with practical and artistic effects, with a Node Panel, Audio Reactivity and Globe Preview Panel
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Charles Yeager is a Filmmaker & Motion Graphics Artist currently residing in Arkansas. His projects have been recognized by Canon, Video Copilot, Vimeo, Filmmaker IQ, No Film School, Film Convert, BOOM Library & Filminute. See his portfolio at yeagerfilm.com.
Charles is the author of numerous tutorials on 360/VR video production in After Effects and Premier Pro. You can find them in the tutorial sections on the Mettle website.
