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After Effects trails of light in time-lapse movies
I’m fairly new to After Effects, and I’m not sure what kind of tutorial I’m looking for, but I’ll try to explain it.
I’m really into time-lapse photography. Specifically involving people moving around. What I want is to have tails/trails of blurred light that follow the persons as they move around. Much of this effect is already inherent in the time-lapse itself, but the blurry trails created when doing time-lapse do obviously not contain light, but the blurred effect is already there. I would somehow like to colorize these already present blurs.
So how do I add light and trails of light to the already inherent blurry effect that comes when capturing people during time-lapse? I’m imagining the light should be as tall (or wide, or both) as the objects moving around. I guess it’s similar to the light streak tutorials when people move their fingers or hands on screen to simulate writing with light. Lights follow the finger, and in this case I want light to follow the persons moving around.
Any help or feedback would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks 🙂
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You are on the right track- the Particular tutorials that you are referring to are a great starting point. Work in 32bit and you will get some really cool results. Here’s a good tutorial:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/light_streaks_2/Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
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Thank you so much for the pointers and the link, Ted! Can’t wait to get started with this. When I do, I’ll post the results.
Thanks again 🙂
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Yes, I mentioned that the blurry effect is already inherent in time-lapse photography, at least when dragging the shutter. However, I want to add light effect to these blurred motions. Thanks anyway though 🙂
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