Creative COW | JohnBen Lacy | Activity https://creativecow.net/members/johnbenlacy/activity/ Activity feed for JohnBen Lacy. Sat, 16 May 2026 08:29:17 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.5.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 0ff09135b15bf602a6a4788e2c956f3c Johnben Lacy replied to the discussion Recreating the Echo Effect manually? in the forum Adobe After Effects https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/recreating-the-echo-effect-manually-2/#post-2338404 Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:34:33 +0000 Reply to Recreating the Echo Effect manually?

Thanks for the tip Blaise! I tried this, and it definitely makes the transition between echoes MUCH smoother.

I’m still having a little trouble understanding the best way to go from this motion blurred step to creating the full ring of the light trail, as it would still require an Echo Effect with about 1000 echoes. Any advice?

]]> 93e13dde5df1ae4373db5c9aa8ced400 Johnben Lacy started the discussion Recreating the Echo Effect manually? in the forum Adobe After Effects https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/recreating-the-echo-effect-manually-2/ Thu, 29 Oct 2020 14:00:36 +0000 Recreating the Echo Effect manually?

I have footage of a light bulb swinging around in a circle at 60fps. I want to create a long shutter effect that connects and blends all of the frames into a smooth light trail.

The first step I did was to increase the temporal resolution by doing a time stretch of 500% and setting After Effects to interpolate new frames. This looks terrific and…

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