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Smooth light streaks HELP
Hello! Im trying to make light streaks that are very clean and organic looking…. I have tired using the Video co-pilot techniques as well as the AE tuts…https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/vfx/create-an-illuminating-light-painting-effect/ I know how to generate the light streaks…(i’ve been using particular) but when I key frame the movements Im getting really sharp lines… nothing smooth like I want.. is it because the object I am tracking has so much fast movement?
PLEASE HELP!
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since the streak in the tutorial is created by keyframing the emitter (well, the null hat the emitter is parented to), it may be that spacial interpolation of your position keyframes are set to linear, so you are getting hard angles at every keyframe.
select all your position key frames for the null. then choose animation>keyframe interpolation… from the window that opens make sure that spacial interpolation is set to auto-bezier.
you can adjust the handles on the bezier curves to fine tune the path if needed (this actually converts the point to continuous bezier, but that’s fine, if you want to get it back to the original, just use the keyframe assistant to set it back to auto-bezier).
Kevin Camp
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Good points Kevin. I’d like to add that the Smoother Keyframe Assistant may also come in handy here.
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