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Pixel Motion mode - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 10 Time Games
Pixel Motion mode
- [Narrator] In the previous movie, we showed how frame mix mode indicated by this dashed line, underneath the frame blend switch column can help smooth out slow down motion and soften morphix footage. For example, we started with some aerial clouds. Now hold down option or alt, drag it in to replace. You'll see we have some very nice smooth motion. However, it doesn't always work that well. Open up the Comps, 10-Pixel Motion*starter, where we have this man, walking around his car, towards his plane. Yup, that looks like a tough life. Notice that we already opened up the stretch column and slowed this down by a factor of 300%. And again, you can right click on any column header, and choose or hide any of these columns. If I was to enable frame blending, for this layer, in frame mix mode, and also turn on frame blending for this composition, so I can see a preview. You can already see these echos, or ghosting, appearing around the edges of this man. That is the result of adjacent…
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