Apply StepMotion to a clip in your timeline, like any built-in video effect. (Don't know how? Click here to see how to apply and use CreativEase effects.)
Create a custom effect by manually adjusting. Generally the power of StepMotion can be most easily accessed
in two steps:
STEP 1. Adjust the
Delay times. Higher values create longer
delay times. For ghosting and soft
dream-like effects set Light and Dark to the same value. To
instead create dark or light object trails behind the moving subject, set Light and Dark to different values. Long
delay times can produce interesting effects. You can make some objects slowly
appear and/or disappear, or even completely remove moving objects from the background.
For example, you can modify a high-speed sunrise clip to be without people/cars
flashing by and without wind-blown trees jerking.
STEP 2. Adjust the Reaction sliders. While Delay sliders vary the delay time (thus set the
ghosting/trails length), the Reaction sliders control
the trail's style/visibility. Negative values add blur to moving elements in
the scene; positive values produce contrast trails that visually enhance the
moving objects.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The StepMotion effect combines frames from different times in a clip. It is available only where (and as long as) such frame access is possible (Premiere, After Effects and VEGAS currently). Note that applying the StepMotion twice on the same clip can dramatically increase the rendering and response time.
After Effects: A clip's mask and any previously applied effects are ignored when StepMotion is applied. The workaround is to pre-render the clip's other effects before applying StepMotion. |
