I have to admit I didn’t know about this until fairly recently. I have always been disturbed by the lack of Motion Blur in Premiere Pro, when it was in Final Cut Pro 7 and so easy to turn on (though the render time was brutal). And likely that is why I missed it here, because I always just used the standard Transform effects within every object.
And the standard Transform effect does not have a motion blur, to get a motion blur on text or a shape in Premiere you need to use the Transform Effect in Video Effects, Distort Category.
The Transform effects add these controls.
If you use the Transform effect to move objects you can turn off Use Compositions’s Shutter Angle and change the Shutter Angle to get a motion blur.
0 is no motion blur and 360 is max motion blur, but 180 is normal motion blur (a 180 degree shutter on a film camera).
I am in a 23.976 sequence and created a simple Essential Graphics text object.
I created as simple animation with it coming from the top and moving to this position over 12 frames within the Transform Effect.
This is half way through the move with 180 degree shutter.
This is with 360 as the shutter angle.
And this is with a 90 degree shutter:
So it is very easy to have motion blur on a moving object in Premiere Pro using the Transform Effect.
Now if this effect is in here, I don’t see why Adobe can’t just add the same controls into the normal move controls, so you can get motion blur without using this effect, and make it as easy as it was in Final Cut Pro 7, you just switched it on in the timeline window.
I am assuming they would have to rewrite all the normal transform controls, but hell it would be worthwhile, as it should just function like this.
Still at least Motion blur is here and is able to be used within Premiere without having to go to After Effects.
