ReelSmart Motion Blur (RSMB) Premiere Pro Examples.

NOTE: You need RSMB 3.0 or later for these examples. You also need Premiere Pro.

This directory contains several projects to help explain features of RSMB.

Important: These tutorials assume you have read the manual that was put on your disk with the plugin upon installation.

Before opening the project examples, make sure to move the movies from the SourceMovies folder into this folder (make sure the movies are in the same directory with the Premiere Pro projects, otherwise Premiere will not find them).

01_RegularRSMB

Simple example of applying RSMB to a piece of footage. Notice that the alpha of the source footage is blurred correctly. Also note that the footage itself is used for the tracking.

To do: Play with the motion blur amount to increase or decrease the amount of motion blur.

02_RegRSMBWithCorrection

There are two composites in this example. The footage to be blurred is dark and does not track well. The sequence labelled "Problem Shown" shows that motion blur is not added because the footage is too dark for RSMB's tracking to "see" properly. In "Problem Corrected" a brighter version of the footage is used for the RSMB's tracking (see the Motion Src clipwell in RSMB's settings). Note the difference in the motion blur added to the scene.

RSMB PRO examples

03_LayersExample

This sample project shows how, with RSMB Pro, you can use a matte to separate foreground and background for even better results when an object in front passes other objects. Compare the difference between regular RSMB (the "Problem Shown" Sequence) and using RSMB's foreground layer separation (the "WIth Layer Separation" squence). The matte movie used to separate the footage into foreground and background layers was rotoscoped by hand.

Note that the clip 'LayersFGMask.mov" has been placed in RSMB Pro's FG1 Matte clipwell (in RSMB Pro's settings).

In particular, note how the motion of the hand affects the blurring of the neck in the Problem Shown sequence. This inappropriate blurring is corrected in the "With Layer Separation" sequence.

04_MBWithTrackHelp

This sample project shows how, with RSMB Pro, you can get better results by guiding RSMB the use of a few judicial Track Points.

The sequence "Problem Shown" exhibits what happens with regular RSMB. Note that the motion blur does not follow the motion of the footage in the lower left corner on the first frame. The problem is really apparent on the second frame of the frootage.

Note that the Track Point settings of RSMB Pro are on Pages 2 and 3 of RSMB Pro's settings.

The sequence "Track Help with Points" shows how you can guide RSMB... in this case with 8 tracking points.
For you to do and notice:

• Note that the Use menu for for RSMB's Track Points 1 through 8 have been set to Main_BG,
• Note that the motion blur, especially on the second frame, has been corrected.
• To see the RSMB's track points, Draw Geom to All. To turn off, set Draw Geom to None.
• Because we've helped with tracking guidance, we've set the Motion Sensitivities to 100.

05_MBWithGeomOnly

This sample project show how, with RSMB Pro, you can add motion blur by simply using the movement of guiding geometries (either track points or splines). To illustrate this point, the motion blur in this example has been applied to a still image.

For you to do and notice in the 2 comps where RSMB Pro has been applied:

• Note that RSMB's Image Track checkbox has been turned off.
• Note that the Motion Sensitivity is set to 50, limiting the extend of the applied motion blur. Turn the Motion Sensitivity to 100 and note that the motion blur is now applied to the entire image.