Part 1: Frame Blending & Motion Blur in Final Cut Pro 5: Free Tutorial

Video Transcript

" This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip, I will be talking about frame blending and motion blur. So let's talk about motion blur and frame blending. So now motion blur, motion blur affects any clip that has motion whether it is a moving subject in a video clip or key frame motion effects that you have created. Now the motion blur parameter allows you to create an exaggerated motion blur in ordinary video clips. So for example if you apply motion blur to a clip where someone is standing still and they are just kind of waving their arms, their arm becomes blurred as it waves while the rest of the image remains sharp. This happens even though the arm waving is not actually key frame motion effect such as a computer animation that was rendered without it. A motion blur can also add blur to layered clips that are moving due to the key frame motion affects such as animated motions along a path or rotation, changes in scale or distortion. This way animation motion within Final Cut Pro can be given a more natural look to it as if the moving clips were actually recorded with a camera. So I went ahead and prepared something which is just this little animation here; let me enlarge it for you so you can see it and it just kinds of moves along, you know it hits a couple of points and then that last movement is fast. So I just kind of move the picture along. This is some video that I just kind of moved. I shrunk it and moved it. So now what we can do is we can go ahead and change the motion blur to that. We can add motion blur. So that is over up in your viewer so why don't you double click that clip to bring it up in your viewer. It's under the motion tab here."