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Displace Effect Media

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The displace effect uses a video, image or theme media item as a displacement map for the underlying video and effect tracks. It's used to create many distortion filters like wave, ripple, glass and more.

Displacement maps work by moving each pixel in the underlying video by an amount that's based on the transparency of the same pixel in the displace visual. For instance, a video of concentric circles radiating outwards will approximate a ripple filter when used as a map.

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