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Is this possible in after effects?
Ok, so i have stationery camera on a tripod with a black background and a dancer moving across frame. The dancer is lit up like a rainbow using an off camera stage light setup.
What i am trying to do in after effects is have the dancer move normally from end frame to end frame but have the light that is reflecting from her body leave a trail on the background.
Can this be done in after effects and if yes how?
P.S. echo seems to leave to much of the dancers structure when i am only after the light trail.
Thank you in advance.
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2 Replies
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Try pre-composing a copy of the dancer so that you add colour correction effects and blurs. Then apply the echo to this. It should be a lot less solid.
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you can also use blending modes on the precomposed layer. Something like “screen” will leave only the bright parts of the image. You can use a levels or curves effect to crush the shadows and get rid of everything except the projections.
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