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<p>I'm proud to present <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">FilmStrip</span>, an experimental AS3.0 library that lets you process code-based animations to video with natural-looking motion blur. Take a look at the sample video I showed at Flash on Tap <a title="FilmStrip sample video" href="http://blog.mosessupposes.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/filmstriptest.mp4" target="_blank">here</a> (MP4, 800k).</p>
<p>Yes, some sad little red dice -- quite a demo huh? But pause it and step through the frames and you'll see some very realistic motion-blur, produced by FilmStrip. This looks quite different from a standard directional box blur. (It also isn't realtime, it's a series of Flash-generated frames saved out using AIR and processed to MP4 with FFmpeg.)</p>
<p>FilmStrip is a small, snap-on utility that is designed to be used with your existing projects. It can render Papervision3D scenes or Sprite-based scenes, and even stack various 2D and 3D scenes in a single render. FilmStrip is extensible to other 3D environments and <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">works with any tween engine includ</span>. Capture modes include WHOLE_SCENE for a fast snapshot series, EACH_OBJECT to generate unique blurs based on actual motion, and blur modes include NONE, MATTE_SUBFRAMES and SPLIT_SUBFRAMES -- plus a bunch more blur settings for fine tuning. </p>
<p>Toss in some animated Pixel Bender and BitmapFilters and you might be doing some fairly decent post-processing, right out of ActionScript!</p>
<p>Filmstrip and accompanying project filmstripAIR (frame dumper & playback utilities) are available here:<br><a href="http://github.com/animoto/" target="_blank">http://github.com/animoto/</a><br><a href="http://github.com/animoto/filmstrip/" target="_blank">http://github.com/animoto/filmstrip/</a><br>
<a href="http://github.com/animoto/filmstripAIR/" target="_blank">http://github.com/animoto/filmstripAIR/</a></p>
<p>More details at the <a href="http://labs.animoto.com/2009/06/07/presenting-filmstrip/" target="_blank">animoto labs</a> post.</p></div>