From the course: After Effects Guru: Mastering the Timeline
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Smoother speed changes with frame blending - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Guru: Mastering the Timeline
Smoother speed changes with frame blending
- 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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Improving playback with Draft 3D1m 46s
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Smoothing movement with motion blur2m 47s
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Scaling vector objects with the continuously rasterize switch2m 16s
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The collapse transformations switch2m 14s
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Smoother speed changes with frame blending4m 35s
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Working with adjustment layers2m 45s
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The effect of the layer quality and sampling switch2m 4s
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