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Forced Motion Blur doesn’t work
Hey all, I have a quicktime file with alpha channel of these caps being thrown in the air.
I tried applying CC Forced Motion Blur but the effect doesn’t do anything. I thought that this may be due to the alpha channel, so I rendered the quicktime file out with a white background and imported it back into After Effects and applied Forced Motion Blur again.
Still no effect…Why isn’t this effect working on this clip? Any ideas?
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4 Replies
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CC Force Motion Blur is used for other effects that do not support AE’s native motion blur rather than adding motion blur to footage.
ReelSmart Motion blur is a third party effect that does an excellent job of adding motion blur to footage.
Depending how much movement you have between frames, Wide Time may be able to help, it simply composite frames in front and in back of the current frame, which can have the effect of motion blur when the motion is no too fast, but may not give the desired effect on faster motion.
Timewarp can also be used, it’s closer to ReelsSmart Motion Blur, just set the speed to 100 (so you don’t effect the time, and then enable motion blur in the effect and tweak setting from there. I’d suggest using the manual shutter control and adjust the shutter angle and samples.
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Thanks, For whatever reason, CC Force Motion Blur has no affect but Directional Blur works…
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After Effects also offers Pixel Motion Blur, which is the effect you’re looking for instad of force motion blur (which as Kevin mentioned is for adding lotion blur to effect settings, not footage per se)
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Thanks for the clarification!
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