Description
This effect has been on every feed for weeks, and it's easier to recreate than it looks. Here's the full workflow: film two frames, turn them into X-ray skeletons, and animate the transition with AI video.
Erin Erickson walks through the whole thing, from the shoot to the final glitch and smoke layers that keep it from looking like generic AI output.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Why this effect keeps going viral
00:43 Filming your start and end frames
01:54 Why a strong image foundation matters
02:09 Screenshotting your frames for the image generator
02:14 Finding the X-ray skeleton in Envato's stock library
02:31 Riffing: inverting the image so the bones go black
03:33 Prompting the video generation (action + camera only)
04:00 First generation, and what it got right
04:26 Treating AI footage like raw footage in Premiere
04:43 Glitches, sound effects, inversion, and smoke
05:12 Final result
05:23 Giveaway details
KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Your image references do the heavy lifting. Strong first and last frames give the video generator far more to work with.
• When the references already carry the look, your prompt only needs the action and the camera movement.
• AI footage is raw footage. Speed ramps, glitches, sound design, and texture are what separate a clip people watch from one they scroll past.
Follow Erin: https://www.youtube.com/@Erin_Erickson
#xray #videoediting #aivideo #halloween
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