Smallville/Superman Running Effect? Help PLEASE!!

TeclmmlEd · Post by **TeclmmlEd** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:31 pm

Well im shooting a new video for my media class and i need the effect they do in smallville where when Clark runs it looks like he leaves a trail of himself but like in superfast speed.....what is that effect and how would i do it without having the whole video to do the effect. I only need 1 person to have the effect on. I dont want the old Superman effect where its a bunch of fades going fast of one person either >_>

If anyone could help me on this id greatly appreciate it.

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:13 am

Seems like you might be able to do this with either Ghosting, or Echo, or a combination of them.

Bakadeshi [AuN Studios] · Post by **Bakadeshi [AuN Studios]** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:15 am

hmm

this is tricky... I'm guessing you want the burry like motion trail behind superman when he moves very fast. I don't know how to get it to look exactly like that. but if you only want 1 character to do it, your going to have to use masking or some other method to seperate him from the rest of the footage first. It sounds like something AE might be able to handle better than Premeire. (which I have no experience with)

You might be able to achive something similar if you play around with the Ghosting filter along with the various Blurs, maybe directional blur, or try overlapping the same clip ontop of each other in stages using blur and different opacity levels. I've been able to come up with some pretty nifty effects with diferent combinations like that. (AR2, Eternal sky)

Playa round with different methods of masking and using the blur filter, and overlaying clips. Beyond that, I don't realy know....

TeclmmlEd · Post by **TeclmmlEd** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:35 am

Bakadeshi [AuN Studios] wrote:hmm

this is tricky... I'm guessing you want the burry like motion trail behind superman when he moves very fast. I don't know how to get it to look exactly like that. but if you only want 1 character to do it, your going to have to use masking or some other method to seperate him from the rest of the footage first. It sounds like something AE might be able to handle better than Premeire. (which I have no experience with)

You might be able to achive something similar if you play around with the Ghosting filter along with the various Blurs, maybe directional blur, or try overlapping the same clip ontop of each other in stages using blur and different opacity levels. I've been able to come up with some pretty nifty effects with diferent combinations like that. (AR2, Eternal sky)

Playa round with different methods of masking and using the blur filter, and overlaying clips. Beyond that, I don't realy know....

I figured it all out. Since i basically only had a video with non moving camera it was very simple to do it with ghosting effect. Well i got it all down and i smooth it down with some effects. I just hope Final Cut Pro has ghosting effect at my scoo! If not i have to record it on a dam tape and import to Final cut pro -_-. Oh those tapes take up all mah money. lol. Well thx for help you guys ^_^!

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:03 am

I saw a video talking specifically about how they made that running effect once. I don't remember it clearly, but I'm pretty sure they rotoscoped it, among some other things.

René D´Anclaude · Post by **René D´Anclaude** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:14 pm

http://www.creativecow.net/show.php?for ... index.html

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:45 pm

Yep, Making using the Mask function or painting a mask is a slow process indeed, but the only way to get awsome results...

The alternative is to use a green screen to film the moving object person in the fist place to eliminate masking...

Vlad

Bakadeshi [AuN Studios] · Post by **Bakadeshi [AuN Studios]** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:47 pm

that article just made me wish more that I had AE ;p