Motion blur options?

Hello!
I'm working on a new project. Footage is being recorded from a game at 300 fps (then resampled to 30). I'd like to achieve the same motion blur as for footage take with a normal camera. I tried a few things but I'd like to see if there are some other options:
Plain frame blending from framerate resampling from 300 to 30.
Reel Smart Motion Blur plug-in without frame blend switch on. Looks pretty decent at first sight and renders reasonably fast. But under closer inspection it shows a lot of incorrect interpolation at a lot of elements.
Reel Smart Motion Blur plug-in with frame blending switch on. Similar to the previous example.
CC Force Motion Blur plug-in with interpolation switch on. Produces a great result at a cost of really long render times. Also i have no idea where to set the shutter phase (native shutter and interpolating dont work together?).
Are there any other options?
Thanks a bunch.

Hey guys,
its been a while and Im playing around with motion blur of high fps footage again.
I've tried the effect CC Wide Time which blends a designated number of frames before and after the current frame.
I have footage recorded at 1000 fps. In comparison frame mix would blend 40 frames into a single frame (1000 fps to 25 fps) which would represent a shutter angle of 180° (i believe). That doesn't look smooth enough in my mind, so in CC Wide Time i set the values to 80 frames total (39 ahead, 40 behind, 1 current just to be accurate ), which represents the shutter angle of 360° with a phase of -180°.
Now the problem is that i would like to time remap the clip. After a precomp i time stretch the clip to obtain the real life time scale - 1000 fps to 25 fps, with the motion blur i describe above. If i enable time remap and start playing with slowmotion the intensity of motion blur intesity (blurred frames) stays the same, which isnt right. A way to fix that would be to use a linear 40 -> 0 frames blended corresponding to the velocity achieved by timeremaping, but i cant seem to find a way to use clip velocity in expressions.
I could use timewarp and use speed value instead of time remap, but that seems like a pain especially when i think of applying ease to the keyframes.
To think all of this could be avoided if CC Force Motion Blur would offer shutter phase.
Any thoughts on the issue?
Thanks!

Similar Messages

Motion Blur in PPro CC 2014?

Is there a motion blur option in Premiere Pro CC 2014? This is something that would be incredibly useful in a long-form documentary project with hundreds of moving images. Normally, I'd send a few images over to After Effects, but enabling motion blur on simple keyframe zooms in Premiere Pro would be a huge a time saver when there are hundreds of images.
Thanks,
jb

No, that is a job for AE but you can file a feature request.
FEATURE request

Scaled down, rendered clips have weird motion blur

I have a project I'm doing in FCP 4.5 on a G5. I have several clips that I have scaled down to 55% and have positioned at even X,Y coordinates. The project is rendered, but I get a weird motion blur happening - like when you're watching a low grade QT movie. I have copied and pasted the sequence into a new project/sequence timeline and re-rendered. I have motion blur selected in my main user preferences (render options) and in the sequence settings (render options).
Any ideas why I'd be having this problem? I don't want to have to go to the length of recapturing the source footage, but I'm almost at that point.
Any thoughts?
Jaimey
Powermac G5 Dual 2Ghz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Are you monitoring this on an external NTSC monitor or TV? You cannot judge the quality of your images as viewed on the computer screen.
#2 Playback is blurry
Shane's Stock Answer #2:
1. Disable overlays on the canvas
2. Make sure you've rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787
DV footage requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or NTSC monitor routed thru your camera or deck.
Shane

Motion Blur Seams

Is Motion Blur broken? When rendering 3D surfaces with Motion Blur I get visible seams.
Example - 2 same-colored Solids, butted up against each other without a gap look like one big Solid. But if the camera zooms by the seam between the two Solids becomes visible ... the blurred area becomes less than 100% opaque.
I thought of the CC Force Motion Blur but the render times for my HD comp are insane.
I know this is comparing apples to oranges, but if I perform the same setup (2 planes, moving camera, motion blur) in Softimage, mentalray blurs plane 1 into plane 2 but never 'reveals' the seam with a decrease in opacity.
I tried changing the Renderer but the only option now is "Advanced".
Thanks

This is just an artifact of how motion blur is calculated in AE. In real life, motion blur happens to the entire image as seen by the eye or the camera. In AE, on the other hand, each layer is blurred separately for efficiency. It's just as if you place two layers side-by-side with their edges meeting, and applied a blur to each layer. You'd get a transparent seam where the blurs overlap, since each layers' pixels are at less than 100% opacity. You can get even uglier artifacts in some cases when a 3D layer's motion blur actually intersects with a layer that would otherwise obscure that blurred layer. Layers can even appear to render out of order in some cases, thanks to this phenomenon.
If precomposing isn't possible the only way to work around this problem (other than resorting to using something like Force Motion Blur on your entire comp) is to add a layer behind the seam to create the illusion of a continuous surface. It can be really tricky, but it is possible to make it look more natural.

No blur and motion blur effect available in the spin blur gallery

I saw several videos where the new spin blur was demonstrated.They all had the option "blur effects & motion blur effects ( with strobe strenght, flashes etc...) but when I open the spin blur panel those options are not there.

hi Bijouz,
Resetting Blur Gallery should do the trick.
Edison

Mirror, Cast Shadow,(Motion) Blur, Extrude Layer Styles

Layer styles are useful because of their parametric and their non-destructive natures.
I'd like to suggest new layer styles, of commonly used effects, that would help to automate lenghty tasks.
Mirror would create a reflection of the layer that fades with distance, it is commonly used in the products pictures of a famous computer /music player/phone manufacturer, and is even available as a word art in Powerpoint! Another common name for that effect is "wet floor".
Proposed settings would be to be able to select the direction (bottom by default), the angle of the reflection, the starting point of the reflection (so that the object/layer can appear to be floating in the air above the reflecting surface), the distance/curve of the fade, maybe an option to desaturate, lighten/darken, and/or blur with distance) There could also be an option to increase/decrease the width of the reflection. An additional eye candy would be to be able to distort the shadow with a map, for effects like waves, but we are way over in the cliché mode...
Cast Shadow would be very similar to the mirror effect, and would simulate the shadow casted by a light placed behind the object/layer. It would use most of the controls found on the Mirror layer style, or it would be available when one desaturates the mirror effect.
Motion Blur would create the effect of a displacement of the layer. It should be able to create the lenght of the blur, a start fade (so that the whole object/layer is not blurred, but only part of it). The fade could have two settings: flat or parametric. Flat would blur based on a gradient, while parametric would fade the blur according to a fixed distance to the edges of the layer. It would be very useful to be able to create a path that the blur would follow, but I'm not sure about the best interface: on image, or in a dedicated widget.
Blur would be a simple blurring routine, that would alleviate the need to create smart objects, and use smart filters.
Extrude could be the equivalent of creating step and repeat copies of a layer/object. It would create nudged copies of the layer simulating a third axis.
Controls would be: angle, distance, fade, where the copies become desaturated, blurred, and/or would have lower opacities.
I hope that other users will chime in with proposed refinements, or additional (useful and feasible) layer styles they'd like to see.

I like these Pierre.
Also
Noise - at the moment its possible to use Pattern Overlay and generate patterns to put grain texture and noise into layers. But a layer style with the correct parameters, grain size, blur, intensity, saturation (Saturation applies to the saturation of the noise not the image), would be useful.
This brings me back to feature request made about a year or so ago, that it woud be possible to sample overall image 'noise'or 'grain' and to apply this to areas. It would use image analysis tecniques, although Im not sure yet what these would be - to create an 'average' grain structure for the existing image (probably the base layer but this could be redefined). This would mean that any bad retouching (blurring or image softening) could be more easily salvaged, and would also mean that its easy to do much more destructive editing, more freely on an image than before, without the worry of banding on output.
If I think of any others I'll post them

Magic Move goes Motion Blur

I have a horizontal strip of thumbnail images which I am using Magic Moves to navigate left and right between slides.
When I increased the number of image thumbnails to approx >20 (still determining limits) the Magic Move 'motion blurs' the images for the duration, even if it's moving at a snails pace of 160 px in 3 seconds. Grouping the images makes no difference. Saving the images as a single image file the Magic Move works as normal. However – and this is the problem – I need hyperlinks on the images so the single image file is not an option.
The motion-blur effect threshold is undocumented. Any assistance gratefully received.

Yes this was my instinct too regarding transparent hyperlinks. It seems the limit for these thumbnail images (each one is 160px x 90px) is 22 and then it motion-blurs. I just tried with 17 images and 10 or so transparent rectangles and it worked okay. So seems they aren't such are drag on MM
Was trying to make the whole thing modular so client can re-arrange and substitute into the thumbnails (image placeholders) and the projects slides they link to which is why I wanted it simple. One thumb with one hyper-link for each project; all grouped together to help MM along. I'm trying to convince my client KN is better than PPT and he can't understand it when I come across limitations, no matter how much complexity he keeps throwing into the brief as I go! This whole scheme was actually impossible prior to MM due to hundreds of possible transitions 28x9 approx. that would have required move builds.
Now he wants the flexibility to add projects without me :/. Which is why I resisted the transparent links above single file with a few extra empty boxes for expansion. He and his staff may struggle to comprehend the madness!
Thanks Tulse

Advanced Radial and Motion Blur

Adding a couple of additional settings for radial and motion blur would be very appreciated.
Currently they are applied to the both sides of a sample.
Can we also have:
- limited motion blur which is applied to one of the sides of a sample
- radial blur with two additional options: one with blur towards the centre and one - away from the centre.
That would allow rear and front curtain flash synch immitation.
A couple of other useful improvements for the radial blur:
- optional preview inside the dialogue for positioning the centre of the blur (preview can be static if performance does not allow)
- ability to position the centre of the blur outside of the frame
Thank you,
Alex

Think about this a bit.
Take a simple case: a blue box on a white background, and a blur to the right. On the right edge of the box, the blue pixels get blurred into the white background - just what you want. But on the left edge of the box, the white pixels get blurred into the blue box -- not what you want. And that will happen for any blur**, because it doesn't know about edges, or planes, or foreground/background -- it can only blur the pixels in the image.
You can do directional blurs today with several tools in Photoshop. But you cannot do shape isolated blurs on a single layer because the blur has no way of knowing what should contribute and what should not: what's in front, and what is in back.
What you can do is isolate the foreground shapes by putting them on a separate layer, so the background colors can no longer contribute.
But those "perfect" motion blurs you illustrated aren't going to happen with a single filter operation.
** Edge preserving blurs like SurfaceBlur and Median may look like they know about edges, but they don't. They still operate on values and don't understand separation or direction.

Motion Blur help.

Alrighty, I'm using Photoshop CS4 Extended, and I'm having troubles with motion blur.
When I set the angle to anything above 60 really and distance to about 300 it crashes saying Adobe Photoshop CS4 has encountered a problem and needs to close.
This happens every time. So I tried restarting Photoshop, then restarting my computer, then I uninstalled and reinstalled fresh and it still crashes when I begin to use motion blur, infact I believe it even crashed just by opening the motion blur window for over 40 seconds.
Any help or ideas?
Thanks in advance!

Thanks a lot Mylenium! I'll do that in a few minutes, by the way heres an update with some more information.
Photoshop crashes when I change the angle to 49 or higher, anything lower is fine.
I went to my event viewer and I found this:
Faulting application photoshop.exe, version 11.0.0.0, faulting module mmxcore.8bx, version 11.0.0.0, fault address 0x0000d62a.

My text moves to the wrong place when I apply motion blur!

Hello friends! thanks in advance for any able to solve my problem. when ever I apply motion blur to moving text it repositions the text permanently.... I have to delete the motion blur effect in order to have it text stay on course...any suggestions?

"Delete the motion blur effect"? Sounds like you are applying an effect, rather than turning on motion blur.
Please provide a detailed explanation of the process that causes the problem. If possible, post a screengrab as well.
Note that Motion Blur, at its core, does alter the position of animation by blurring the disnace between two moments in time. When you activate motion blur, it samples the position of your text at multiple points in time to create the illusion of motion blur. If your text is moving very fast, the results can be surprisingly major.

How do I select an image with motion blur so that I can put it onto a different background ?

How do I overlay a image with motion blur on a white background (like the first image) onto a different background (to look like the second image)? any help would be greatly appreciated, many thanks ,ed
Message was edited by: motoredd

I’m afraid you may have bitten off more than you might want to chew.
The resulting pixels of an in-camera-blur combine information about the color/brightness of back- and foreground (edit: the result of surface properties and lighting conditions) with motion (basically transparency for this task) in such a way that it seems exceedingly difficult (maybe even improssible) to isolate the foreground in a »pure« form.
One may get a halfway decent mask (as the backgound is at least almost uniform and brighter than the foreground elements) but you may have to manually decontaminate the transparent areas, otherwise the masked object in front of a dark background would have a bright edge.

Motion Blur doesn't work in Final Cut Pro

I've been working on stuff and int he past Motion Blur worked and now when I use it the motion blur has refused to work as a preview or after I render it. Is there something i'm doing wrong that's making it happen?
I'm using Mac OS X Leopard, the latest final cut pro and i'm using blue and green screen and Chroma Keyer and image control sinc ei'm making a sillouette and it's worked for me before.
If someone can reply and suggest anything that would be awseome.

Does your object to be blurred actually move...if not then use a blur filter
When you check the motion blur box and click the disclosure triangle what is the Blur percentage? did you try increasing it? If so does it make a difference?

How to add motion blur to the shatter effect?

I am trying to add motion blur to the shatter effect, iv created my own custom shatter map with text that remains after the effect is complete, i have tried to add motion blur through the other blur effects and i have not found one that will do the motion blur correctly.
what im wanting is for there to be motion blur on the pieces that are shattering, any suggestions?

There are suggestions toward the bottom of this page, including a tip using the Timewarp effect. I found this by searching for 'motion blur'.

Imported video has "motion-blur" artifacts, but original is fine.

Hi,
I've just purchased a Samsung SMX-F30 standard-def camcorder. I've shot a few clips and decided to test its compatibility with iMovie. iMovie recognised the camcorder with no problems and imported all my clips without any hassle. However, when I play the clips in iMovie if the clip has any motion, say an arm or hand being waved or head moving, then the image blurs in a way I can only describe as "interlace staggering". That is, alternate lines in the fram shift position left and right alternately. This is really annoying as you can imagine!
A few details about my setup other than the machine details below:
Clips recorded in 4:3
iMovie defaults when importing
iMovie version is 8.0.2 (I think)
iMovie imports to an external firewire 500GB hard drive
Clips not analysed for stabilisation after import
Camera records in "H.264/AVC Format" according to the manual
Recording at approx 5Mbps
Camera was using built-in electronic anti-shake
I hope someone can suggest a few things to try as I've just returned to movie making after owning a Mini-DV based camcorder 10 years ago!
Thanks
Stuart

His book gives specific directions and more info on AVCHD with frame rates and bits...so definately buy the book. Your question: It kinda depends on your set up. Many people need to import into imovie 9 just so they can get an editable copy of the footage. So then you make your way over to the events folder and import the events into another program for turning it into progressive and de-interlacing it. You have to becareful because you will have duplicate footage.
He goes into details on how to do this. I have a different workflow because i import on a different machine using imovie6 since i am working with tapes. Then i convert it before i import it again into imovie. My DV footage doesn't get motion blur though so i am only doing this workflow to ensure no quality loss.

Motion blur is messing up my composition

Hey all,
I'm working on a project which involves 3d space (using camera tracker). Everything is going fine until I needed to turn on motion blur for a layer. When i switched it on for the composition, things start to get weird. If you play the video, the null objects visibly "rotate" instantly, move from spot to spot randomly, and it's obvious that something is not right. When i turn off the motion blur, the object right themselves.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I think i can work through it by creating a new composition then dropping the existing into that and turning on motion blur there, but i would rather be able to work with it in the same comp.
I'm working with 1920x1080p footage 30 fps in CS5.5 on a macbook pro 2.52ghz intel core 2 duo. If you need any other info just let me know.
Thanks
Dan

OK, here's my best guess. When you turn on motion blur time samples differently. The keyframes that are causing the problems are at a z rotation for the camera of 179º. This made me think you were experiencing a gimbal lock with your camera moves. When the camera gimbal locks the camera orientation flips. It has nothing to do with motion blur being enabled on the layers.
I seldom apply tracking data directly to a camera for this reason. I almost always apply the tracking data to a null then parent the camera to the null. This will prevent gimbal lock problems with the camera.
There is a solution that may work for you. Open up the composition settings, the Advanced tab and change the Shutter phase to 0º. This should prevent the gimbal lock that you're getting. I wouldn't call this a bug, but a better workflow would have prevented the problem in the first place.

Motion blur options?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for