Use Motion Blur in Sony Vegas Pro

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow.com. This going to be a tutorial on how to add motion blur on a video in Sony Vegas Pro.

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   First, let's look over the video real quick to see what the video looks like beforehand

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   Here we have some ducks in a small canal.

   

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   Now if we want to add some motion blur to this video, then we would go up to the top left and find the "View" tab

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   Then, go down to "Video Bus Track" and click that

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   Afterwards, this bar will come up at the bottom that says "Video"

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   Now, to add motion blur, right click in this bar and find "Insert/Move Envelope" and go over to "Motion Blur Amount"

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   Click that and then a pink bar will appear at the bottom across the screen

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   If we highlight over this bar, it says "Motion Blur Length is at 00:00".

   

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   Now let's say we want to add motion blur, we pull this bar up by dragging it up to 10, we can see just in the video preview box that it becomes a very shaky looking footage

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   To bring this bar all the way up to the top, then we'll have even more of a blurry look

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   Now if we want to see what it looks like, we can highlight over the areas by finding a bar with a little yellow triangle

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   Drag that across the clip.

   

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    Then go and find "Tools" and click "Build Dynamic RAM Preview" and then play the footage

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    This creates a very shaky looking but a little bit smoother looking video

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    That's a bit too much for what we want, so let's bring that bar down to 5

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    Then we can do the same thing and go up to "Tools", and "Build Dynamic RAM Preview" and play that

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    This gives us a little less blurriness and this looks good

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    Once we've done this, we can go ahead and render our video and that will be all we need to do to add motion blur to a video in Sony Vegas.

    

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I Don't mean hide it by blurring, I want to do linear blur as text outline?

Help?I Don't mean hide it by blurring, I want to do linear blur as text outline

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Why is there a Big X on my video when I put motion blur in it?

When I put the motion blur on my video,a Big Orange X shows up with a text in the middle which says: RE:Vision Effects,inc. It doesn't happen in the article.But it happened to me. I have tried: Download Twixtor because it's what I've seen people do. I think it was caused by: No idea, hasn't happened in any tutorials I've seen.

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Why can't I find "Linear Blur"? I'm trying to make a smooth transition?

I'm trying to make a smooth transition and I can't seem to find Linear Blur. I was able to find the envelope for Motion Blur but not this one

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