Fast Moving cars


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Fast Moving cars
by Rolanda on Jun 5, 2006 at 5:15:23 pm

Whenever there's video of a city, they have the cars moving really fast and blured out. How do you select out the cars to get the blured fast paced effect?

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Re: Fast Moving cars
by John Cuevas on Jun 5, 2006 at 5:29:28 pm

Most of the time this is done in camera by using a very slow shutter speed.

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Re: Fast Moving cars
by Steve Roberts on Jun 5, 2006 at 5:31:32 pm

The footage was probably shot with some combination of time-lapse and slow shutter or wide shutter angle.

To add blur to moving elements in shot footage in After Effects, consider the Reelsmart motion blur plugin.

To make the cars go faster, play the footage faster. But you knew that. :)

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Re: Fast Moving cars
by mark harvey on Jun 5, 2006 at 5:34:59 pm

Also add a quick shake to the final image (I'm thinking wiggler), it will help sell the effect of speed.

Mark

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Re: Fast Moving cars
by Chris Smith on Jun 5, 2006 at 6:35:56 pm

BTW, you can do "cheap" timelapse now without renting a camera and intervelometer. If you have a digital SLR cam, Canon and Nikon both give you free software to control the camera. The frames it makes can be imported into AE as a movie. Obviously set the shutter very slow to get the blurring.

Chris Smith
http://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

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