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Smoother speed changes with frame blending

Smoother speed changes with frame blending - After Effects Tutorial

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Smoother speed changes with frame blending

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- Frame blending is useful if you have footage layers, particularly if you change their speed. Now, this isn't going to really affect any vector layers or text layers, but if you have frame based material, frame blending can create new frames when you change the speed of a clip. For example, if you slow a clip down, it's going to naturally show you each frame twice, but if you turn on frame blending, for those in between frames, it will create an opacity blend. Let me show you. Let's switch back to comp four A. And at the bottom here, I'm going to turn everything off except for the bottom-most layer. In this case, we have a rendered graphic. It's a movie file. And what I want to do is stretch this. If you don't see the stretch column, just right click and choose stretch, and I'll set this to 300%. Now it's three times as long. If I need it to be even longer, I could say 400%, and now it's long enough for my project. Now, when we play this, watch what happens. Here we go. And I'm going…

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