From the course: After Effects Compositing: 3 Advanced Matching and Looks
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Match motion blur: Animated keyframes - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Compositing: 3 Advanced Matching and Looks
Match motion blur: Animated keyframes
You're probably already aware that After Effects can add motion blur automatically to a keyframe animated layer. You may even know that this works whether you've animated position or rotation or anchor point or even a mask shape as I'll show you at the end of this lesson. But, not so many people know how the motion blur settings actually work, or how to fix minor things that cause them to mismatch, so let's take a look at that. Here I've added racing stripes to this car, so if I preview the scene. It's got a racing stripe that's nicely just tracked to it. And that's cool, but, obviously, we want it to actually look good. So, for that, I'll change the mode to Color, so it picks up all the nice specular over there, on the side of the car. And it needs some motion blur. I can control whether a layer has motion blur layer by layer using this check box. But it's not enabled for the whole comp until I also check it here. The reason for that is, sometimes when you turn it on, it's actually…
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