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Making a silky water effect using CC Time Blend

Making a silky water effect using CC Time Blend - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Guru: Time-Based Effects

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Making a silky water effect using CC Time Blend

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- Caution, the principles of the two main effects that I'm going to cover in this chapter contradict the After Effects design and several types of problems can occur when using it. We'll start with a CC Time Blend effect that works as an echo effect which accumulates each rendered frame in the buffer. In order to use it, the source layer should have some kind of animation in it. In this case, I'll use a waterfall clip that has a lot of movement in order to create the famous silky water effect that you can get using long-exposure settings in camera. However, we are going to do it in post. So first, let's take a look at the mini waterfall movie that I have over here. This is very comforting. And I think it's worth to take a look at it for maybe a couple of seconds. And now that we are all relaxed, we can stop the RAM preview. Select the clip and then from the Effect menu, once again from the Time category, we are going to apply the CC Time Blend effect. The most important thing to know…

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