• Adobe After Effects

  time lapse with light blur

  Posted by Ross Marshall on March 5, 2007 at 2:40 pm

  hey dudes wandered if you could help.

  want to create the effect which I see on tv a lot of time lapse footage or speeded up footage with for example tailing headlights as cars go past. As
  if the shutter has been left open for a long time. I’m guessing that it is done on specialist film cameras but wandered if I could recreate it on video.
  We are using XDcam f330, which has time lapse capabilities; so I can do timelapse but still want the bluring tailing lights.

  Cheers

  Ross

  Mylenium replied 19 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steve Roberts

  March 5, 2007 at 6:57 pm

  I agree: use a digital still camera if you can. And the resolution of digital stills beats the heck out of video. For now. And you can shoot a sequence then import as a numbered sequence into AE.

  Just do a test with the camera’s meter on auto, spot, and manual first. You don’t want to create flicker that you have to fix later.
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  Mylenium

  March 5, 2007 at 7:50 pm

  Well, if photographic techniques fail, you can always use the Echo effect or particle trails nailed to the footage with motion tracking (which is probably more efficient, anyways)

  Mylenium

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