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Creating a trail effect using CC Wide Time

Creating a trail effect using CC Wide Time - After Effects Tutorial

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Creating a trail effect using CC Wide Time

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- Another popular look is the trail effect. It looks like a combination between the echo effect and some heavy motion blur. You can create this effect using combinations of several effects, or you can try to use the CC Wide Time Effect, which is a temporal blur that designed to enhance the motion appearance of any object that is shot against a stationary background. This is one of the easiest effect to use, but you need to prepare the layers and separate them prior to using it to really get the most out of it. So this time I'll start by showing you the final version first. You can find it under the final comps folder. So I've already opened up number 3.3 Wide Time Final. Let's just see what we are going to create. Okay, it looks quite cool and it is very easy to achieve. I'm going to close this final state, and let's just see what I've already prepared ahead of time. So we have this layer of the footage itself. This is how it was shot, apparently using a fast-motion camera and then…

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