Light Trails / Long Exposure Video Tutorial for Adobe After Effects AE CC
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
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Today I break down how to achieve this Long Exposure Video effect I used on a recent Toyota video.
I first break down how you can use the blending mode set to lighter color and offset duplicates of the same video offset by one frame. I then show you how to use the Echo effect set to Maximum to create the same effect.
How will you use this technique?
Thanks for making this video! I had seen this on Instagram a while back, you killed it - and very dope method. I'll take a whack at it soon.
Awesome, I'd love to check out the video when you do.
Thanks dan
for some video of a guyt thats hig as fuuuuck
I intend to use this and some kind of outline effect to get a light trail behind people like a beam effect
I like when people make tutorials and show how they've done a certain thing they've actually published and was well received by an audience. Liked this one and subbed too!
This is so beautiful, appreciate the tutorial, you´re the best! Love your work!
Great tutorial, one of the better ones I saw lately!!
This is brilliant! Thank you so much for the breakdown
YES! So glad you made this. Thank you thank you.
Hey Dan, thanks for sharing, very interesting effect.
Oh man I was looking for a way to do this effect! Thanks so much! Just subscribed :D
Thanks for subscribing!
thanks for sharing. congrats on a great spot!
thanks man !! im a big fan of ur work
thanks for watching!
Such a good tutorial!
Super cool! Thanks, mate!
thank you for sharing this info! Liked and subbed!
Good stuff Dan!
thats awesome, 100% going to incorporate this effect in a video
Awesome tutorial! I'll definitely be using this in the future. It would be super helpful if you mentioned shortcut keys has you go too. I'm pretty new to After Effects and have no clue about many shortcuts still. Thanks!
Elegant solution and a great idea! Nice work and thanks for the tutorial. I've been working on a scene that will benefit from this greatly :)
awesome please share when you complete the scene :)
youre sicko mode dawg, thank you!
Great tutorial, straight forward and easy to understand. Had no intention of using such an effect but might have a crack with some old footage!
Awesome, so great to hear!
Wish i knew what shortcuts you was pressing :/
alt + f4
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exactly
great tut!
Really cool technique. Going to try this with a motorcycle POV. Thanks!
That would be awesome!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing....
awesome thanks for sharing!
beautiful
tnx man
Awesome and original.
Mind blown. Thanks
thanks dude!
wow so nice dan.. keep it up ^
We want more tutorials 😍😍😍
This is really dope. You could probably use your technique and Lazy script for some rad time ramping
echo! great use of this old plugin..
Hey! Can you possibly do a video on all the keyboard shortcuts you used (directly searching for effects, bringing up the flowchart, etc.)?
Thank you for showing this walkthrough, one question I have is does recording in high frame rate and slowing everything down to half or third speed allow the effect to happen, or does that take the trails away? I've been keen to try this effect but haven't seen anyone able to do it in slow-motion outside of games
your technique is so unique and beautiful, however i was wondering if you could explain the part with the trackers a bit more in depth. i couldn't really understand it - you tracked the scene with the individual trackers, but were they put as layers for you to keep duplicating for the effect? like, how were they made as light sources?
thanks!!!
do you think this would work for a dialogue scene inside a car applying the technique on the passing environment outside
Love your stuff man, keep it up! One quick question, what are your render/resolution settings for when you post things to Instagram? I've noticed the quality of your videos are generally a lot better than mine after the Instagram compression, just wondering if I'm maybe rendering at too high of a resolution.
I get that a lot but I think my videos suffer from the same compression issues. I try to create the video in AE at full resolution, and then take the final render into QuickTime and export to HD... that's about it. Would you find a video on the topic helpful?
Dan Marker-Moore Thanks for the quick reply! Yeah, it would definitely be helpful if you get a chance to layout your export process. Been experimenting with a few different settings but good ol' Instagram always finds a way to ruin it. Thanks again
very cool effect!
thanks for the explanation!
btw, you might wanna lift your chair so that it's more convenient for you to use a keyboard :)
Heya Dan - just ran into this of Yours - GREAT stuff!! Works! Only didn't get exactly how to do the 3D tracking, in order to get more light. How-to-do-it..?? THX hombre ;- )
oh yeah - I see. just checked but don't see any 'Adobe Camera Tracker' plug-in on the web. Is it an AE plug? THX again!
Was 48 hours render the entire timeline, or did you do any intermediary rendering?
I've found rendering sequences to cineform really saves my sanity (and increases workflow dramatically), even if it's just for placeholding until the final export. It also saves you if any hard drives or SSDs dies, which will absolutely happen from time to time.
Thanks for the tut!
Yeah, I was trying a bunch of tricks to improve my render time, but I never converted the source files from h264... What really added to my render time though was the amount of layers I duplicated to create the trails and the radial blur I added.
ITS COOL
Did you mask the car man?
this is painterly!
cool
Idk how it would look but another thing you could do is rotoscope the car in focus and cut it out from the original clip and have them be separate clips. Then do the echo light trail thing on the clip without the car
Cool; I use the echo plugin these days, works the same way with selective blend and you get a bit of config with it. It's a shame that it's so processor intensive!
This is less of a tutorial and more of an "interview", not really taking us through the step-by-step processes of that awesome finish. But you did an incredible job, however you were able to do it, lol!!
*warp speed intensifies*
Bro! 3 computers running at once haha thats insane! Love this effect though, great job we should collaborate 🙌
When 3 machines are rendering the room starts to get noticeably hotter lol, thanks for watching !
Do you link the 3 computers to render combined or you rendering separate videos
wow.
Why is the audio all over the place- It’s either blasting or barely audible
what the name of the apps?
Do u think that I can do it on première too ?
you could do the layer stacking with lighter color mode in premiere, not the echo procedure.
Hey Dan, have you seen the iOS app called Spectre? spectre.cam/ It does this effect really quickly, so I'm wondering if in the two years since you've posted this, you've figured out a way to accomplish it without melting a computer? Haha. Great video, thanks for sharing!
POV: You're editing on my computer😭I've never felt so seen
I wouldn't give up your day job!
Thanks for the tutorial. Another awesome effect.
btw, do you know how to create this morph transition effect on this video, youtube . com/watch?v=ESpeo3VTvyc&t=122s
2 days of rendering??!? 😨
I always wear my hat inside the house too
Hmnn interesting. Natural displacement of the layers creates this effect? Who would have thought the solution was do simple [in theory, not CPU usage]?
I have seen a similar effect using Fractal noise and Warp and animating a mask.
While this video is a great showing your methodology, it does lack teaching which have not taken AE fundamental/essential training courses. Camera tracking is an advanced topic.
So while you could spend an hour teaching tracking, as s video critique, I think you could have added a disclaimer to say if you've had no experience with AE, please go to LinkedIn Learning or Pluralsight sight to watch a fundamentals/essential training course. Pluralsight is a bit expensive at $50 /mo. But the fundamentals course by Jeff Sengstack is outstanding. I highly recommend it. Once you've completed it, plualralsight will even give you a printable certificate.
Heck, the camera tracking lesson, however, is not until the intermediate course with Jeff Hurd of following the AE Learning Path on Pluralsight. You watch about 12 hours of video. If you follow this path. But once you know rhe fundamentals, tutorials like this video will still be easy to understand if you already have a base knowledge of AE.
Are you related to Jack Whitehall?
Really cool effect, just don’t see how it could be tangible for anyone other the professionals who have 3 or more computers to render.
And what happened at 6:48 hahahahaa
lol... i though I cut that out (WHOOPS!)... the computer froze on me, screen capture is a drag on the machine for sure
авесоме блэеть!
r u high?
You're using all these keyboard shortcuts but you're not telling us what they are or how to use them instead just expecting us to know
you explained everything but the effects tf
Well, since it took you 48 hours on 3, from what I assume considering your line work, Mammoth computers, I'll let you know what I did with this effect on my 6 year old MacBook Pro when our sun turns into a red giant and engulfs our planet in a fiery ball of oblivion. 👍🏻
That 48 hour render had a bunch more effects that bumped up the render time. If you are just creating the trail effect your render won't take as long... but it probably won't be quick ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dan Marker-Moore lol I'll give it a try and start a family in the meantime. Once my kids are off to college, I'll check to see if the render's done.
Fantastic work as always, man! Keep up the good work!
Nice video but in 2023 my GoPro 11 does this effort free.
to do cool stuff in ae i realized you need a nasa computer or something. 48 hours of rendering :/
You seem to be great at making videos, but not at making tutorials. Revise your steps and make a script so everything is fluid. If that's too much work, just cut the parts where you're guessing what you did or what to do next. Makes it look like you don't quite know what you're doing, extends the video unecessarily and makes it tiring to watch
Not the best tutorial honestly. You took too long to explain things, and you didnt show masking the car?! Just stacking the layers isnt enough.