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Is it possible to speed up camera movement, without it looking sped up?
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With timewarp, I set the shutter angle to 180.00 at 5 shutter samples. I set the method to pixel motion. I went by a tutorial to get motion blur, but are these not as good of settings?
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Okay thanks. I suppose it’s okay if it is an obvious speed ramp, as long as the audience doesn’t mind. You seem them in movies like The Fast and the Furious movies, which looks kind of cheesy like a gimmick, so as long as it doesn’t look gimmicky.
But if it does look gimmicky, then I could accelerate and slow down later. However, is there a way to do that evenly and gradually in after effects, so it looks more natural, rather than just cutting out frames and guessing?
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Don’t pre trim the frames for AE. Let it have them all to work with. The time warp effect looks at everything to make the new frames. In newer versions of AE (which you may have) the enable time remapping feature has most of the tools that time warp has. Simply keyframe either effect using frame numbers (in the speed control area in the TW effect). The idea is: what frame number from the clip do I want to have show up on say frame 100 of the time line. Then later, what frame from the clip do I want to show up on frame 200 of the time line. From there you can ease the keyframes to your hearts content in the graph editor (in either TW or enable time remapping).
As for camera shutter angle, 180. Degrees is pretty standard for any shoot. I was thinking more like 5000. -
Okay thanks. But since I am trying to speed up the motion, would I want the program to create new frames? Wouldn’t that just make the camera movement take longer if there were new frames as oppose to cutting out frames, for fast motion?
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Technically every frame should be a new frame, made up from the frames that have to work with. If it not then it will look unevenly steppy since there are only a finite number of frames to pick from.
Yes there will be less frames than what you had to began with but each one of the new frames should be a combination of many of them since the “smear” will incorporate details from across a wide section of time. (that’s the sample rate in time warp) -
Okay thanks, but why does there need to be new frames if I want to speed it up? You say there will be new frames, but I can’t figure out the ‘why’, as to why that needs to be?
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Every frame of the speed up will need information from the frames that get “compressed” down in time to make up that frame and the smear that is the simulated blur. It won’t look like any frame that has come before so therefore its a “new” frame. You’ve already tried just cutting out frames and going with whats left and that didn’t work so again the frames we see will need to be “new”. There will be less frames than in the original but all the new frames need to be combinings of the old.
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Oh okay, I still considered the left over frames to be the same frames, but just with motion blur added on top of them, or at least that is how I saw it. But if I shouldn’t be taking out frames in order to speed it up, which feature do you use to do so, if taking out frames is not the answer?
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Let AE do it for you with either TImeWarp or Enable Time Remapping. I think the aforementioned Twixter will probably do a better job but I can’t guarantee it. Every clip has its own unique issues.
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Okay thanks, but when I let timewarp do it for me, the example I posted before, is what you get, and that wasn’t very good, was it? Or am I missing something?
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