Need transition effect guidance

[SlowRoasted]

I want to do a transition effect for my flash site where, after the previous screen fades out, the new one looks like it is sucked out of a small hole. So the new screen starts out skinny and distorted and looks like it is sucked into its full position. Any idea? photoshop distortions? after effects?

[.soulty]

hmm, possible, probably with ae/filters and masks. im sorta confused on what you mean by "starts out skinny"?

[SlowRoasted]

like this

[.soulty]

ah ok so the hole is aligned to the left, and its like spat out on screen? sorta like a reverse vaccum (hover for the americans)

[SlowRoasted]

Yeah exactly. It doesnt have to be on any particular side, or even come from a hole, I just need the vaccum effects.

[.soulty]

very sure you can do this in ae, if not even with the default warp/distort filters. I havent got ae here at work so can't test, but you tried googling vaccum effect in ae?

[.soulty]

geeez that took ages, i searched and searched and finally found it..

http://www.digitaltrove.com/prime/prime.html

one of the right, named conveniently "vaccum" ;)

[SlowRoasted]

sweet thx. That's what im looking for, but costs over 300:(

[.soulty]

and i think its only osx, lol.. sorry dude, thats all i can find.

[SlowRoasted]

No it's cool. I got a mac coming in the mail. Thats a great find. Might buy it.

[.soulty]

ah ok thats cool then, i dont have a mac here or at work, so was a good find until i noticed that. oh well, if you get the effect up let me check it out. ;)

[theflash]

Are you going to use flash 8???

[SlowRoasted]

Yeah.

Will do soulty

[theflash]

I feel it might be possible to implement such effect using bitmap data...

But it depends how large your image is, otherwise it might take a lot of resources...