Let me actually deconstruct how i did this project.
As you can see here i have one main piece of footage in the timeline that was just me
pretending to tap a hammer against the camera screen each time my hammer made contact with
that screen i just added a glass tapping effect so it made it sound like i was actually tapping
glass but i was just swinging my hammer towards my camera about a foot away during the second tap up
here i just added a free asset that i found at productioncrate.com that made it look like the
glass had actually cracked i'll leave a link to that down below in the description i also
added the sound of glass breaking along with that and i just timed it for when my hammer seemed to
make contact at what would be the screen but the real fun part about this was to get the glass to
shatter and have my entire image blow apart with my last swing so what i did was i went forward to
the point where i actually saw my hammer just make that bit of contact and in the upper right i just
hit the camera icon and that takes a snapshot of whatever's on screen i just saved that snapshot
to a file location where i could find it and then i opened up a photo editing software in this case
i'm using affinity photo but you could do this with photoshop or anything that works with layers
i went and found that image and brought it into my photo editing software now here's where the fun
begins i'm going to duplicate this layer so i have more than one now using my selection brush tool i
just let it find the edges and snap to them and sort of traced out an area where the glass line
seemed to be in one corner of that image if you can see here it's now lassoed and it's got this
area selected i'm going to turn off the duplicated track so i'm only looking at one and i'm going to
invert this selection so that everything other than that spot in the corner is now selected
i'm going to delete everything else and that now gives me one little corner piece that's down here
that sort of follows that shattered glass line now in the duplicated track above that i still
have the entire image let me turn off the bottom layer and enable the top layer for this one i want
to invert the selection one more time and remove that bottom piece that i've got isolated in the
first track so now you can see i have one layer that has all the rest and the lowest corner layer
that has just that bottom corner together they make a whole picture now in this top layer i'm
going to duplicate that again and basically just do the same thing i'll deselect and start again
let me choose an area up here with the smart select tool i'm going to invert the selection
and i'm going to turn off the top layer so i just see the second layer and let me erase everything
else that's going on in there so i've now created my second piece let me turn on the top layer and
i'm going to invert the selection one more time so that the opposite area is now selected let
me select that top layer and delete that and now you can see i have three sections a bottom corner
a second corner layer and what's left of the rest of the image let me just duplicate that
again and i'm going to complete this process just based on how many pieces i think i should have
once i have the right amount of pieces that i want all i did was i turned on each individual track
deselected everything that was left and then just exported each piece one at a time
now i knew exactly where i had captured that image so right at that point i brought each one
of these pieces into movavi as separate images i brought each image down into its own separate
track right on top of my main footage where that image broke apart and when each one is turned on
it gives me the illusion of having one complete image when it's actually many separate pieces
from here all i did was i just added keyframing on each track and moved each piece from where it was
centered off to another location using movavi's keyframing feature let me show you how to do that
if you've never used movavi's keyframing features before let me just right click in the timeline
and add an extra track and i'll bring one of the pieces down into the track at that point
now i have this corner by left clicking on it in the upper left and clicking on the drop down video
editing menu and then clicking on animation in the advanced tab i can click add animation and it'll
drop two keyframes on there automatically let me grab the first one and drag it all the way back
and then when i get to the second keyframe let me double left click on that and you'll
see that it highlights in the upper left i'm going to grab that frame by left clicking
in the preview window and moving that piece to another spot i can even rotate it a little bit
at the same time and have it move away now you'll see as this clip plays that one piece moves out
from where it was located to off screen and if you want to have that happen more quickly just
drag that keyframe closer to the beginning and you'll see that that action speeds up
do that to each piece and send them in different directions add a little sound effect on top
and a little glass splatter and boom you've created the perfect glass shattering effect
if you have any questions about how to pull this off feel free to leave me a comment
down below but if you want to learn more editing tips tricks and techniques in movavi
click the video that's on screen now or the one that i'll link underneath peace or pieces