From the course: After Effects Guru: Time-Based Effects
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Understanding CC Force Motion Blur vs. Pixel Motion Blur - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Guru: Time-Based Effects
Understanding CC Force Motion Blur vs. Pixel Motion Blur
- After Effects offers you two effects that can simulate motion blur by blending multiple intermediate frames together. Both effects are waiting for you under the Time category of the Effects menu. So the question is, why we need two effects that does exactly the same thing? Well, they don't do the same task. One is designed to work on a synthetic live effect and the other is more aimed to help you with render the movie. In order to understand it better, let's see one example. So first, let's take a look at what we have over here by creating a quick run preview. I'm using, by the way, 0. This is the same short-cut for both Mac and PC. And this scene is setup with two layers, so the lower one is a time-lapse video and the upper one are synthetic particles which I've named Leaves. You can double-click this comp in order to investigate it further, but I'm just going to say that this our particle system inside After Effects which uses this leaf animation in order to create what we've just…
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