Neel Potgieter Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 Hi everyone! Would any of you perhaps know how to or can advise me on how to achieve a shot where: An actor walks in front of a car and open the door. The camera jibs down and track with him and pushes in (as an example. The point is that the camera is moving). I need the car to be sharp without motion blur, but I need the actor to be blurry! So a bit like a motion control timelapse, but the actors motion is in real time. I hope that makes sense. Here is an example...except I dont want the actors to have a sped up / timelapse quality in their movement. It needs to be real time. Thanks so much for any help with this. P.S At the moment I am thinking motion control robot doing multiple passes at different framerate/shutterspeeds, but I am worried that the compositing where the blurry parts are will look rubbish on the car.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neel Potgieter Posted January 23 Author Share Posted January 23 I forgot, I am also interested in getting some of these smudge blur effects. Anyone out there have some advice on how I can get this? Again, Many Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted January 24 Premium Member Share Posted January 24 Seems like a job for a post VFX supervisor. They can add more motion blur to just the moving people and not the car but first they'd have to roto the people to be able to isolate them from the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neel Potgieter Posted January 24 Author Share Posted January 24 Thank you David, I will of course run this by VFX, I was kind of hoping there is a clever way of doing it in camera. So do you think that's impossible to get? Thanks for your advice, its much appreciated ; ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted January 24 Premium Member Share Posted January 24 Only possible in-camera if the people move but the camera and car don't, then you can use a low frame rate and a 360 degree shutter angle to get blur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neel Potgieter Posted February 14 Author Share Posted February 14 (edited) I was thinking that another solution could be to use a 3D rig, with one camera set to slow fps/shutter, and the other set to normal. Then in post they have the choice to mix or not. We will have one day of motion control, but the other two days for the shoot I need another "cheaper" solution... Edited February 14 by Neel Potgieter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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