Can you add motion blur selectively or is it always global?

[Mark Spencer]

It’s global.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net

[Zak Peric]

It is a global thing. You could apply motion blur to objects in your projects to preview what could be motion blur. You can also solo the layer and do a render preview with motion blur on. to solo the layer first select the layer or a group then go to object and press solo. Then do a ram preview.

[Phil Williams]

Thanks for the responses guys, although it’s not what I wanted to hear 🙁

I’m just about to start a project where I’d like foreground graphics to be motion-blurred while background graphics stay crisp, so I guess the only way to achieve that would be to render out the foreground graphics separately with motion blur and an alpha channel, and then composite them onto the backgrounds?

[Zak Peric]

See, you knew the answer all along.This is a good attitude to have, find a fix to a problem, implement it and move on.