From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)
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Using motion blur
From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)
Using motion blur
In order to get the best results, I strongly encourage you to turn on an option called motion blur. Motion blur is the natural blurring of edges caused by movement, whether those layers are moving, or the camera is moving quickly. You'll get the best results when you enable this. It will take a little longer to render and process, but it does add an extra level of professionalism. To enable this, you need to do it in two places. First, make sure you take a look at the top of the composition here and click the global switch for each composition to enable motion blur. Then view your switches and modes for the individual layers. You can see these here by toggling between blending modes and switches. And what you'll want to do is enable the motion blur for the original layers; not the reference layer, but the 3D layers. The camera does not support motion blur and it's not needed on the reference layer here that we put in to…
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