From the course: VFX Techniques: Building Replacement with After Effects

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Adding motion blur and final rendering

Adding motion blur and final rendering - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: VFX Techniques: Building Replacement with After Effects

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Adding motion blur and final rendering

We are almost finished with our project. There's just two more steps to take to prepare this rendering. The first is to add Motion Blur. We have the option to Motion Blur any of the static elements that are tracked, this will help make those various layers match the real footage a little bit better. For example, I can go to the AE3DTracker composition and turn on Motion Blur for anything that's being tracked, for example the cars. To do that I need to turn on the Motion Blur switch beside the layer right here and also turn on the Enable Motion Blur for the entire composition right here; as soon as you do that it's going to move that layer very slightly. Now since these layers are not moving very fast, it's going to be a very short motion blur trail, but it does soften it very slightly. You can also turn on Motion Blur for these other layers, like the Lamp, the Light and both Billboard parts, the shadow and just the Billboard. You can also turn on Motion Blur for any other layer in any…

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