Creative Communities of the World Forums

The peer to peer support community for media production professionals.

Activity Forums Adobe After Effects Light Trail From Footage

  • Light Trail From Footage

    Posted by Yves Farhat on August 26, 2010 at 4:27 pm

    Hey, I want to make a light trail from a running football player on green screen.
    What I want is for the player to leave trails of glowing streaks from his own colors.

    Particular would work but I would have to make streaks for each part of his body and do lots of masks so I was thinking of an easier way with maybe the footage itself as a second layer to create the trails.

    any help would be appreciated.

    thanks in advance,
    Yves Farhat

    Yves Farhat replied 15 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
  • 3 Replies
  • Alperen T. ayhan

    August 26, 2010 at 6:00 pm

    In addition to dave’s advice, you can use trapcode form to do this job. with form you may have more efficient sequence, but echo is efficient too…

    Alperen T. AYHAN
    http://www.sinamasal.com
    Always cinema…

  • Michael Szalapski

    August 26, 2010 at 7:48 pm

    Reminds me of the old tutorial series from Bill O’Neil

    This one kinda sums it up. But if you go to Bill’s page and scroll down the articles, there was a whole series on this.

    – The Great Szalam
    (The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

    No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.

  • Yves Farhat

    August 26, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    Thanks guys, truly helpful.

    Regards,
    Yves Farhat

We use anonymous cookies to give you the best experience we can.
Our Privacy policy | GDPR Policy