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Adding realism with motion blur

Adding realism with motion blur

- [Instructor] In the previous video I showed you how to use the Time Remapping option to control time using key frames as well as to create smooth transitions using the Auto Bezier interpolation. The result looks nice, but we can make it even more realistic by adding motion blur that would be part of this clip if we were spinning the drone faster in real life. So there are two ways to achieve this look. I'll pause the playback and I'll select the clip. The first one is to go under Layer, and then Frame Blending, and then switch it from Off to Frame Mix, which is going to create small transitions between each one of the frames that gives us this look. And it's more smoother and nicer. But I want to exaggerate the effect. I want to really smear the entire look of the frames when we have this fast spinning motion. So I'll pause the playback again, and I'm going to take away the frame mixing by clicking once and then…

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