Re: help with motionblur optimizations - alternatives?

["Tim Leydecker" <BauerOink(at)gmx.de>]

Hi Lee,

thanks for the link to revisionFX, I had thought ReelSmart MotionBlur
to be a lot pricier. Admittedly, I don´t even have the $150 for the
pro version (personally would go for the AE version) currently but
that´s a matter of time...am about to upgrade to the Adobe Production
suite and will probably just add the plug-in to that shellout then soon.

Can you give examples where reelsmartmotionblur didn´t work?

Pierre Jasmin of revisionFX is an active member of the highend3D maya
listserver, usually really responsive and open to looking at anything that
may break or stress "his baby". I´d forward it, as I´ll try to buddy him for
a student acount anyway - he´s probably nothing to do with sales, thought.
(May as well result in my email being put in his spamfilter. lol.)

Cheers

tim


----- Original Message ----- 
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Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: help with motionblur optimizations - alternatives?


I've found for most jobs ReelSmart Motion blur does a pretty good job -
Also afford you the luxury of being able to tweak the blur amount in post.
It's all done via the FXtree which is nice.

http://www.revisionfx.com/mblur.htm




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---I´m sorry if you get this twice, I had used a wrong
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Hi guys,

I´m running into problems in tuning the speed of
motionblur calculations. I suspect I do something wrong.

I have a scene, 650 000 tris, xsi_ambientocclusion
piped into the ambient slot plus one pretty large and
highly sampled arealight. Renders at roughly 1min10
with reasonable AA (Box -1/2, 0,075 threshhold).
(768x432px)

If I activate motionblur, shutter close at 0,5 and set
Evaluate SRT for entire frame, Deformationblur to on,
treshhold to 0,1 and keep the steps at 1, I get a rough
12min per frame. Quality is decent, no problems with that.

Unfortunately, I won´t be able to use 3D motionblur with
such a speedpenalty, because I can´t throw more machines
at it to speed up turnaround but would have to bring pass
time down to max. 3min/frame or 10min for all (~5) passes.
I simply don´t have the time+budget to up any of that.

So, I´m desperately looking for alternatives, any tips
you´d bewilling to share? Stuff I could read up on?

Cheers

tim


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