Light Trails

Smear bright pixels along a direction for single-frame long-exposure streaks.

Written By Massimo Albanese

Last updated About 4 hours ago

Smear bright pixels along a direction for single-frame long-exposure streaks.

Location

Optics / Light / Light Trails

Select the layer to edit Light Trails in the Effect Panel. Open Parameters below for individual controls.

Double-click a control label to reset it. Use its function button to add keyframes or a driver.

Control	What it does	Default	Range	Nudge	Animation
Angle	Direction or rotation angle for the selected effect mode.	0	0 to 360	1	Continuous keyframes
Blend	Sets how strongly this effect is blended with the source image.	screen	Panel-defined	Continuous	Panel-dependent
Decay	Decay setting for this effect.	0.85	0 to 1	0.01	Continuous keyframes
Highlight Threshold	Sets the highlight threshold at which this effect begins to affect the source.	0.7	0 to 1	0.01	Continuous keyframes
Intensity	Sets how strongly this effect is blended with the source image.	1	0 to 1	0.01	Continuous keyframes
Knee	Controls how softly the knee transitions.	0.08	0 to 0.5	0.01	Continuous keyframes
Length	Sets the length of the generated or processed detail.	8	0 to 50	0.1	Continuous keyframes
Length Unit	Chooses whether length is measured as a percentage or pixels.	%	Panel-defined	Continuous	Panel-dependent
Samples	Quality count for sampled blur modes. Higher values are smoother and slower.	64	1 to 256	1	Continuous keyframes

madphase 1.4.0

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