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Re: beam effect is shaky
by Kevin Camp on Jun 25, 2009 at 8:35:21 pm

you could try to generate your motion blur.

i'll assume your beam is on a solid and not set to composite on original... take your beam comp into a new comp and apply the echo effect. try setting the echo time to -0.003, number of echos to 30 (maybe more) and decay to 0.9. you'll need to try a few echo operators for the effect you are looking for, but maximum usually looks most natural, but screen or add may make it more glowing...

you may need to further refine the echo time value if the instances of the beam are not closely spaced. also, number of echoes and decay will determine the length of the motion trail.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

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beam effect is shaky by Victoria Murphy on Jun 25, 2009 at 5:49:00 pm
- Re: beam effect is shaky by Kevin Camp on Jun 25, 2009 at 8:35:21 pm
  - Re: beam effect is shaky by Victoria Murphy on Jun 25, 2009 at 10:26:30 pm
    - Re: beam effect is shaky by Kevin Camp on Jun 29, 2009 at 3:19:33 pm
      - Re: beam effect is shaky by Victoria Murphy on Jul 1, 2009 at 5:18:00 pm

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