Need to interlace or slightly blur footage

[Roli Rivelino]

Have you tried exporting to Colour? If not, give it a go, go to the geometries room and add a tracker, then room 2 (can’t remember what it’s called) and add a vignette and attach it to your tracker, then you can do what you want blur it, black it out, whatever you wish.

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[Rafael Amador]

Hi Darin,
[Darin Derstine] ” as mine that the license plates are too blurred just by the fact the footage is interlaced or show with a shutter speed of around 1/30 sec. “
That’s call movement blur and is due to the shutter sped, nothing related with being Interlaced or progressive.

I don’t understand what are you trying to do.
What is reverse-frame-blending?
Did you blended your footage somewhere?
Are you trying to hide the plates?
Are you trying just to addd movement blur to your 1/500 stuff?

Whatever the shutter speed or being progressive or interlaced, what is the problem to mask the plates and blur them?
rafael

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[Gareth Randall]

Hi Darin,

As others have said, what you want to achieve is nothing to do with interlaced or progressive.

Check out this FCP tutorial on YouTube: Blur Face EffectThat’s exactly what you want to do, although you’ll obviously need a different shape than a circle to cover up the licence plates.

[Roli Rivelino]

Nice tutorial, simpler than my solution.

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[Darin Derstine]

I should have said that I already can successfully blur the license plates out. I’m trying to avoid doing all that handwork.

The movement of my footage and the Mpeg2 compression blurs it enough on the DVD when the footage is playing, the only thing is when paused, the freeze frame is sharp and the license plate can be read.

I’ve noticed on some consumer DVDs I have with similiar footage (shot with Red camera), when the DVD is paused, it shows a blended image of the 2 frames, instead of a clear freeze frame. This blended still frame is what I’m trying to achieve. I am applying a de-interlace in compressor, because when I don’t do this, I get horizontal interlaced scan lines showing on horizontal movement in the footage.

Alternatively, a solution might be with a filter that can affectively simulate a slower shutter speed e.g. 1/30 or 1/60th of a second (since my footage was shot at 1/500th of a second).

thanks for any help.

[Rafael Amador]

[Darin Derstine] “Alternatively, a solution might be with a filter that can affectively simulate a slower shutter speed e.g. 1/30 or 1/60th of a second (since my footage was shot at 1/500th of a second). “
“Re_Vision Movement Blur” is what you need.
It will make your footage look as originally shot with whatever shutter speed you want.
Amazing results.
rafael

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[Gareth Randall]

[Darin Derstine] “Alternatively, a solution might be with a filter that can affectively simulate a slower shutter speed e.g. 1/30 or 1/60th of a second”

To be blunt, the professional way to do it is as demonstrated in the YouTube clip. If you want to avoid doing it the proper way and find some weird alternative involving simulating different shutter speeds, you’re probably going to be largely on your own 😉

[Andrew Kimery]

I nominate Andy’s Region Blur.
Link

It’s free and I much prefer it to the method described in the YouTube video.

-Andrew

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[Rafael Amador]

[Andrew Kimery] “I nominate Andy’s Region Blur.
Link”
Easier, faster, and as professional as the “YouTube” way.
rafael

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