Blurring

manicspike wrote on 3/23/2008, 10:45 PM

I was curious if there is a blur effect where it starts out as a blur, and then slowly wears off and becomes clear. I don't want to blur the whole scene, just a few seconds.

If not, I'll just split the event and put the blur in the first part.

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 3/23/2008, 11:03 PM

You use the keyframing on the bottom of the Gaussian blur plugin to give it different values throughout the timeline.

manicspike wrote on 3/24/2008, 10:55 AM

Okay, I gave it the extreme blur setting there, and put a keyframe marker at the start, do I clean it up with the 2D Shadow setting or something? There's a "Blur %" setting there.

Chienworks wrote on 3/24/2008, 12:18 PM

Add a keyframe on the little timeline in the effect window where you want the blurriness to be gone, set the blur % to 0 at that keyframe.

manicspike wrote on 3/24/2008, 12:35 PM

I don't get a keyframe timeline for video FX, only track motion and Pan/Crop.

Eugenia wrote on 3/24/2008, 1:19 PM

Resize the window then. The keyframes are there.

manicspike wrote on 3/24/2008, 8:49 PM

I honestly don't see them. I put in the blur and I get an option for horizontal and vertical range, and that's it.

Chienworks wrote on 3/24/2008, 9:24 PM

Try double-clicking in the title bar for the effects window. This should resize the window big enough to show all the controls. It should look like this:

If you still don't see the timeline, note that there is a thin horizontal space under the controls and above the timeline. Hover the mouse in that space and the pointer may change to a vertical doubleheaded arrow with double horizontal lines. Click and drag up and this will move the timeline into the window.

manicspike wrote on 3/25/2008, 10:35 AM

Ah okay, now I see it. Thanks so much once again.