Motion Blur

Hi
Im having a real problem with getting motion blur to work.
The animate manual is useless, and I cant find any questions or answers about ‘motion blur’ in this forum.
There is a great particle motion blur tutorial on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt_MWE1b7pE (thanks James) but its not helping me with my character that I want to rush off stage in a blur.
Can anyone give me some tips please?

so far i have a symbol (my character) with a motion path. Ive created a motion blur layer and duplicated the character layer and dropped this into the matte layer. But nothing happening (in either render or open GL views)

thanks for your interest
tim

Clone or Duplicate the whole layer on the motion path…
Move that layer below the original layer…

Create a Motion Blur effect…
Drag the Cloned Layer onto the Motion Blur, not the Mask…
(the Motion Blur effect automatically creates a matte for the drawing layer attached to it,
so it is not necessary to connect any matte to the Mask layer)

Play and stop your animation / click the Render View button…
The Motion Trail should be clearly visible in the viewport…
If necessary, adjust the blur settings in the Layer Properties…

Regards
Nolan

Try my tutorial on the light saber. At the end I use the motionblur to add that special bit.

Are you using Pro or standard?


I want to redo that tutorial you watched (or do an extension) cause I am better at using it and when I first did I was like wow this new feature is cool and nobody has even mentioned it.