The Confusion effect (often stylized as CoNfUsIoN) is an effect that takes an appearance of mirroring that is reflecting from the left, inverted color and reversed audio, but the video itself is not reversed. It was created by Throathead, a retired logo editor, on May 18, 2014.
Instructions[]
Video[]
Variant 1 - LAB Adjust (original way):
- LAB Adjust - Invert Luminosity
- Mirror - Reflect Left
Variant 2 - HSL Adjust:
- HSL Adjust - Invert Color
- Invert - 100% Inversion
- Mirror - Reflect Left
Variant 3 - Color Corrector (Secondary):
- Color Corrector (Secondary) - Invert Color
- Invert - 100% Inversion
- Mirror - Reflect Left
Audio[]
All you have to do is to reverse the audio.
Video[]
- Adjustment/Curves - Invert Luminosity
- Luma - Inverted (Invert the curve by changing it from bottom left to top left, to top left to bottom right)
- Red - Normal
- Green - Normal
- Blue - Normal
- Crop - Try to crop the left half of the video.
- Copy paste the cropped video, and mirror it, and put it on the right side of the screen.
Audio[]
- Mute one of the videos.
- Reverse one of the videos to extract the audio, and unreverse the video.
Video[]
- Mirror - Mirrorv
- Color Inversion
- Mode: 2
- Invert Red: 0
- Invert Green: 0
- Invert Blue: 0
- Color Changer - Hue -61
- Color Inversion - Default
Audio[]
Reverse the video, extract the audio, and unreverse the video.
Video (Alight Motion)[]
- Move & Transform - Rotation -90°
- Invert - Default
- Hue Shift - 180.0°
- Kaleidoscope
- Reflections: 1
- Center X: 0
- Center Y: 0
- Angle: 90.0°
- Mirror - On
Audio (AudioLab)[]
- Use any online tool to convert your video file to audio.
- Open AudioLab.
- Scroll down until you find "Reverse Audio". Press the button.
- Select your audio file.
- Make your audio filename.
- Select the curved arrow icon.
- Import the reversed audio into Alight Motion, and mute the original video's audio.
Video (Filters)[]
- Invert Colors
- Hue/Lightness/Saturation - Hue 180°
- Reflect - Left
- Properties - Reverse
- Import the reversed video.
- After right-clicking on the reversed video in the timeline, click "Detach Audio", and delete the video.
Audio (Filters)[]
- Original video must have filter "Mute".
Video[]
- In Edit/Color, set Hue to 0 or 200.
- In Edit/Tools, apply Reverse Video in Video in Reverse.
- Go to Effects tab.
- Solarize - Threshold 0
- Mirror - Default
- Skip to Audio instructions.
- Unselect Reverse Video in Edit/Tools/Video in Reverse.
Audio[]
- After applying Reverse Video, right-click on the video, and click "Link/Unlink Video and Audio".
- Come back to Video instructions.
Trivia[]
- Lunana7437 has used a variant of this effect without the mirror reflection.
Preview 2 Effects | |
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Original order | G-Major 4 • CoNfUsIoN • CoNfUsIoN G-Major 4 • Devil's Blast • Chorded • G-Major • Crying Effect • Vocoded with Intel Inside • Diamond • G-Major 2 • Invert Color • RGB to BGR • RGB to BGR Reversed • CoNfUsIoN Reversed • Untitled fifteenth Preview 2 effect • Sponge Effect • Pitch Black • Crazy Diamond |
Commonly replaced effects | Might Confuse You • CoNfUsIoN RGB to BGR Reversed |
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Preview 1982 Effects | |
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Original order | G-Major 4 • CoNfUsIoN • G-Major 4 + CoNfUsIoN • G-Major 7 • G-Major 16 • G-Major 2 • G-Major 5 • G-Major 13 • Goo Goo Gaa Gaa • Green Lowers • Blind • Deaf • Deaf Major • Blind Major • Angry • G-Major 74 • G-Major 9 • G-Major 6 • G-Major 1 • G-Major 8 • G-Major • G-Major 10 • G-Major 12 • G-Major 18 • G-Major 19 • G-Major 36 (2018 version) • Luig Group • Not Scary • I KILLED X • Too Ruins Tree • Lost • G-Major 50 • G-Major 54 • G-Major 25 • Conga Busher • Ni Hao Kai Lan Major • Chorded • Clearer • Group • Helium • Helium Chorded • Helium Clearer • Clearer + Chorded |
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