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Simulating camera shake

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Simulating camera shake

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at how to create camera shake or simulate camera shake because there was a little bit of a delay to see the explosion a little bit, makes it so that's a little bit more forgivable, a little bit of camera shake. the camera a little bit. "much more intense than that." These are very subtle, even Earthquake is not super ridiculous. And for this, what I'm doing here, And for this, what I'm doing here, I actually did want something (laughs) fairly kind of ridiculous, a little bit over the top. I wanted something that would have motion blur, as if a camera was kind of on a tripod and got jolted by this blast. So here are the settings I use, I kept Frequency at five, and I left Master Amount and Scale Footage at 100, and I left Master Amount and Scale Footage at 100, and I adjusted Amplitude X and Y to 40, and Shake Complexity to three. And then here's the key, I went down to Motion Blur and I changed the Motion Blur Amount to High, and I changed the…

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