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  • The shaky/vibrating slow motion effect

    Posted by Scott Sullivan on March 25, 2010 at 1:03 pm

    Hi,
    I don’t know the proper name for this, but am wanting to create this rather common shaky/vibrating slow motion effect often seen in movies and so forth.

    Does anyone here know how to do this in After Effects?

    thanks,

    Scott

    Michael Szalapski replied 16 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Steve Blacker

    March 25, 2010 at 11:57 pm

    Not 100% sure I understand the effect you’re talking about, but for random, jittery camera moves, you can parent the camera to a 3D null, then apply a wiggle expression to the position (and rotation, if you like) of the null. For more control, you can add a slider control to the null to adjust the amount of wiggle. There are tutorials for this sort of thing at videocopilot.net and elsewhere.

    As for the slowmotion aspect, I guess you could play around with timewarp to speed up/slow down your footage.

    It’s only work if you’d rather be doing something else…

  • Michael Szalapski

    March 26, 2010 at 1:39 am

    I’m with Mr. Blacker on this; I have no idea what effect you’re talking about. Perhaps a link to an example video (with a comment about at what time in the video the effect takes place) would be beneficial.

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  • Scott Sullivan

    March 26, 2010 at 3:40 am

    I’ll try to find some sample clip – something tells me though it is often seen in John Wu movies.

    Perhaps a better descriptin is more of a slow mo “stuttering” effect.

    Does that help?

  • Michael Szalapski

    March 28, 2010 at 10:22 pm

    I think you’re talking about a slow shutter effect. It’s achieved best by shooting with a slow shutter.

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