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LightsaberV2 Preset – Motion blur gives me bendy sabers?
Hi all,
I am quite new to Adobe After Effects 7.0 Pro but have really gained interest in it. Especially from Andrew Kramer’s excellent free tutorials.
I stumbled upon Andrew’s LightsaberV2 preset after searching for a more effective way than the standard pen tool method.
Anyway, I have some footage of a short fight and thought I would rotoscope the blades using Andrew’s V2 preset and following his tutorial to the letter in particular animating backwards to view the motion blur.
However I have hit a problem. In my footage, whenever there is extreme dynamic movement such as a twirl of a blade. I go to the next frame and line up the saber but the motion blur sometimes causes it to bend/distort and corkscrew. I have not touched the shutter speed, but have tried it in the composition settings but it makes no difference.
I have also tried breaking it up into seperate layers but it still severely distorts. It’s not the backtiming, it’s something else. It’s probably something I am missing, but the motion blue really causes it to distort. Turning off the blur corrects it for the layer but then the sabers are not interesting. It’s almost as if After Effects does not agree with my assessment of the rotoscoping. I cover the blade but it distorts. I am definitely using the start points and the end points.
Apologies if this has been posted before. I did do a search but found nothing.
Many thanks.
David.
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3 Replies
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You may want to turn the shutter speed up. Unfortunately there are limitations to the easy way of doing things and perhaps you may have found one. To calculate motion blur based on 2 points isn’t always going to be perfect so I recommend learning other methods as well.
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Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I tried the shutter speed but it makes little difference.
I think it’s the motion blur that’s the problem not the preset.
I’ll try some workarounds.
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It must have taken forever to edit those Star Wars saber scenes.
Thanks for the tutorial. Here’s my first saber attempt. 100 hours later.I didn’t use the motion blur for that same reason.
Instead of setting the key frames one frame at a time doesn’t Affter Effects 7.0 have a feature similar to one in motion 3.0 called track motion? Even though it took forever the end result is rewarding.
Off to particle illusions…..
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