Can motion blur be done in Avid ?

[Jon Zanone]

After Effects.

Jon

“The Almighty tells me He can get me out of this mess. But He’s pretty sure you’re F%$#*D!”

[Geraint Pari huws]

bcc plug ins – bundled on nitris, there may be a trail version avaiable has nice time based filters

[Michael Hancock]

You can totally do motion blur in Avid. It’s just a little tricky, but once you get your head around it it’s really rather easy.

This is how I add motion blur to text.

1. Say your text is on V2. Step into your text effect, copy the matte to your clipboard.

2. Step out of your text effect, cut the matte onto a layer above your text effect (V3).

3. Remove the matte effect from your text layer on V2. This leaves only your fill on V2.

4. Add blur to the matte (V3), then add a Matte Key effect.

5. Keyframe your matte key effect and blur to simulate motion blur and do your move. For example, you want your test to fly on from offscreen right over 8 frames. Keyframe your position (first keyframe offscreen, at frame eight keyframe it where you want it to land). Now do this with your blur–First Keyframe set horizontal blur (for horizontal movement–vertical, naturally, for vertical moves), then at about frame 4 or 5 set another keyframe the same value as your first keyframe. Then at frame 8 make the blur go to zero. This gives you a lot of blur coming on then snaps off when your text lands.

WHY THIS WORKS: Because you are blurring the matte before the matte key you get motion blur without bluring the background (which you would normally get if you applied a blur to a matte key effect). I do it all the time using Sapphire effects.

If you have BCC Blur use that but set it to apply to Title/Matte. That way you don’t have to cut the matte onto a higher layer, etc…

If you have neither Sapphire or BCC (or any blur effect), see this post https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=45&postid=860678 on where to get a free blur effect.

SIDENOTE: Depending on how much blur you add, you may need to add it to your “fill” layer as well, or better yet make your “fill” layer a solid title in the color you want your title. Otherwise you’ll see where the blur goes beyond the fill, leaving dirty edges.

Mike.

[Oakmozart]

Great tip, Mike! I’m definitely filing this one away for future usage.

I must admit that I’m lazy though…I tend to just throw money at a problem to make it go away. That’s why I bought Avid FX (well, Xpress Studio if you want to get technical). Create my media, drop into Avid FX, add motion-blur and anything else I want, pop-out of Avid FX back to XPro, then render. Voila! Motion-blur!

Take care.

It’s not the tool you use, it’s the end product that counts.

[Editvenkat]

i also needed this effect n tried it.
it works fine.

thanks a lot

venkat

https://www.venkatrocks.com/