Video trail.

Harwin wrote on 2/5/2005, 3:22 PM

Well, is there any way to make a trail after you, like, having 5 images going after you. Like, you make a fast motion and then you see a trail coming after you, like on the first layer is the video and then right under that is one that starts just a 10:th of a second later, than under that another one which starts a 20:th of a second later and so on, thought of something like that, i dunno though.

DO you have any ideas on how to do this?

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Spot|DSE wrote on 2/5/2005, 4:22 PM

There are a couple ways. You can accomplish this with Motion blur, where anything moving becomes blurred. So, if you have a static camera shot of a boxing match, the ring will stay in perfect sharpness, but the boxers will blur because of their movement, and you'll have "trails."
Press CTRL+SHIFT+B to bring up the Video Master track, right click to insert a motion blur envelope. Warning, this takes a long time to render, so apply judiciously.
Another way is to use the Pixelan SpiceFilters, which have incredibly adjustable parameters in their tools, allowing you to determine how much, how long, and the depth of the blur.

mcgeedo wrote on 2/8/2005, 6:26 AM

And then, of course, there is the hard way (which is usually the only way I do things :-)
Make some number of copies of the video, each on it's own track. Delay each track a little more than the one above it. Composite and blur all of the tracks except the "leading" one. Good luck.