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Software Review: Motion Effects, Pg. 3



All parameters can be controlled numerically or via sliders, although the presets are good enough that you might not have to ever make any manual adjustments.

The included presets in most of these are surprisingly useable. There are some subtle presets, like one that makes it look like you’re on a boat, but even the ones that are crazy are crazy in a cool way, as opposed to a vomit-inducing way. I especially liked the “Jumping Image” preset in the Active Camera filter, which looked kind of like film skipping a few sockets in the projector. The “Wild Shaking” preset was also stylishly anarchic, and almost gave the effect of watching video in fast-motion.

The "Funhouse" preset in Wiggle is psychedelic, and would definitely look great in a drug/dream scene.

I also thought the blurs produced high-quality results, especially Shear Energy, which is an effect I hadn’t seen before in a plug-in. It’s kind of like a warp blur, and could definitely be useful in a sci-fi context. Likewise, the Zoom Blur effect would be perfect for a Michael Bay-esque flash zoom transition. However, as mentioned previously, I wasn’t able to use these to their full potential because of the lack of keyframing. (NewBlueFX let us know that Premiere Pro users can easily achieve this effect with their Motion Blends transition collection, which uses speed and tempo controls that don't rely on keyframing.)

But aside from that one issue (which might be platform-specific to Premiere Pro), and the duplication of effects in some of the others, the rest of the effects are really pretty cool and produce high-quality results.


In Adobe Premiere Pro, there is a keyframe toggle, but it only works on the "options" panel, which isn't very useful.


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