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Motion Echo.

Ghost trails, strobe, long exposure or feedback from what moves.

Drag to compare. Left: the original clip. Right: the same clip through motion.echo, rendered by the app.

What does it do?

Motion Echo leaves copies of moving parts behind them: ghost trails, strobe, accumulated long exposure or feedback, with count, spacing, decay, opacity and blend. It works without any AI analysis. This demo uses the default settings.

Creative ideas

  • Long-exposure light painting from a dancer.
  • A strobe effect on fast movement.
  • Trails that only follow the subject (isolate).

How to use it

  1. Open the Effects tab.
  2. In the left rail, under AI FX, click motion.echo.
  3. Choose the mode, then count, spacing and decay.

Level: easy. Undo anything with ⌘Z.

Example preset

  • motion.echo — default settings

The exact settings of the demo above. Save yours with presets › save in the inspector.

Render notes

Rendered on demo footage: hair whipping in the wind.

Rendered by @@ennuienoir (headless export) from a single shot of our demo footage, encoded for the web: H.264, no sound.

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