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found it, time blend or something like that works great, thanks again!

Up In Flamez wrote:Hmmm, i think i can help you, but i have to ask, what version of after effects are you using?

it says it in the title of the post

AE 7.0 PRO

Kariudo wrote:directional blur may be good enough

Nah, that blurs it on *both* sides; what i'm talking about is when the object leaves an afterimage of itself that's blurry.

aka not an echo, because that's a crisp afterimage of itself, i'm talking about an afterimage that's blurry, etc.

I realize i'm asking a lot of questions, but trust me, this is going to good use :D I looked all through the effects and asked a few other people, but I can't seem to find an effect that can replicate "exposure". Basically, I have a circle (a note from a video game, think a spinoff of DDR) that's br...

screwed around and got some more help from zarxrax and it worked

Oh, awesome then, i'll try that and report back the findings

or should i just assume that effect's probably not possible with AE or something? (the latter one i was talking about)

The problem is layer management. In after effects, EVERY CUT RESULTS IN A NEW LAYER. If you have 700 cuts, you have 700 layers. In an NLE like premiere pro, you can easily have all 700 cuts in only 2 layers. In a video like whisper of the beast, the entire video is a composite of multiple clips. It...

Wanted to edit post, but if it's still that confusing, i'll just take a screenshot of the work area of the latest video I did for an example.

AE is not meant for straight editing. You can do what wavelength suggests, but that just sounds tedious and full of possible inaccuracies...I'd also imagine that the amount of layers would get insane and realllly hard to keep track of. Whenever I use AE (which is admittedly rarely), I make a video ...