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Correct answer Rick Gerard

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You'll have to isolate the tail lights. I don't have time to give you a step by step but I would probably start jacking around the Red Green and Blue levels and make the image black an white until you only have the red taillights visible in the layer. Then you pre-compose that layer and use it as a grack matte for a copy of that footage. You pre-compose both the track matte and the copy of the footage and run Echo on the pre-comp.

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Andrew Yoole
Andrew Yoole
Inspiring
June 29, 2018

I agree with Mylenium.

Duplicate the car footage layer.  Mask the section with the tail lights.  Use Levels or similar colour correction to isolate the tail lights.  Precompose.

Then add the Echo effect and adjust to taste.

FleekySky
FleekySkyAuthor
Participating Frequently
July 3, 2018

I did this, but it comes out weird looking and  not like I expected it to. Can you walk me through if its not to much to ask? Thanks!

R
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Rick GerardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 5, 2018

Thank you very much!


Levels and Colorama combined with a simple animated mask will separate the taillights from the rest of the footage to create the track matte. Then a little tweaking with echo, saturation and opacity will give you what you want. The guideline was put in to mark the position where we first see the taillights so that the maximum length of the streak would be possible. The project looks like this:

That's everything I modified in the layer used for track matte and the composite. The only comp not shown is Taillights wich only contains the track matte and the footage with Track Matte set to Luma Matte.

Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
June 29, 2018

A simple frame accumulation effect like Echo will do.

Mylenium

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