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Which filter is it?
Hello,
When you see some video clips of cars driving fast at night on a city freeway or expressway quite often you will see the lights of the cars totally strung out if you know what I mean. Which FCP filter can do this and what would the setting be?
Coach
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3 Replies
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There isn’t one. A 3rd party solution may exist, but what you’re generally seeing is done in camera. Possibly time lapse with extemely slow shutter speeds or leaving the shutter open altogether.
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I was under the impression that many times, this is caused by transferring PAL to NTSC…. am I wrong?
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You can do this with a still video camera and long time exposure. We are using Canons, since they come with a free remote control program to do this from a laptop. Have a look at this month’s Cow magazine, and have a look at some stuff from Berlin: https://www.bili-rubin.com/timelapsereel_SD.mov
Some video cameras can do 2 or 4 fps with open shutter and get close.
But if you don’t have the streaks from recording, no filter will do this. You might give RS Motion Blur a try (www.revisionfx.com), but it’ll probably show side effects on the background if turned up that much.
Regards,
Uli
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