Reel Smart Motion Blur

There's a lot of talking on the internets at the moment about Twixtor, particularly this video.

But I want to draw your attention to another of their products Reel Smart Motion Blur.

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I discovered this product when I was researching a retiming tool and playing around with twixtor and also Kronos from The Foundry.
I needed something that could produce an acceptable result in a PAL broadcast environment from gopro footage shot at 30fps, the added spice was that the gopro shoots with autoexposure and when the it light it's exposing for gets bright it starts to increase the shutter speed.

I was working with footage shot inside a car driving in The Outback, it was very bright outside! And as the car was driving past fences, telegraph poles, windmills, even the occasional tree, dropped frames stood out like dogs...

I took the 30p footage and spread it out over 50 frames in a 50i timeline using Compressor, this gave a reasonable solution in low light, but in the brighter footage we were getting presenters with 7 fingers when they moved their hands.
RSMB applied to the footage at 30fps before the retiming fixed it all up beautifully.

I've also discovered that it works very nicely on motion graphics created within FCP, infinitely better than the excreble 'Motion Blur' option in the Motion tab and much more convenient than 'sending' to Apple Motion or creating the graphics in Adobe After Effects.NB. You have to nest your graphics and apply the effect to the sequence rather than apply the effect to the graphic elements directly.

Did I say it cost $89.00! and works inside FCP
http://www.revisionfx.com/products/rsmb/overview/

Try to ignore the terrible website, the product is actually quite good.

MSP