Answers.Body: <p>To my knowledge, there is no Open Source tool with a built-in feature for producing that ghosting effect. However, I believe there exist the necessary tools for you to create the effect yourself.</p>
  
  <p>Breaking down what's happening, it looks like the effect consists of:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Freezing and extracting the skater from the background at certain moments</li>
  <li>Animating those freeze frames to track with the camera movement</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>There are Open Source tools to do just that. </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Rotoscoping to extract the skater from still frames (Gimp or Blender)</li>
  <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3STqy77jG50" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Motion Tracking</a> (Blender) to animate those stills to match camera motion</li>
  <li>Compositing (Blender) to put it all together</li>
  </ul>
  
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Answers.Text: Thanks. I did send you the bounty but will keep the question open in the hope some day some open source software will support this feature out of the box. -  So long i have to learn a bit more about blender.
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Answers.Text: I'd like to see more ready-to-use features like this, too. I'm hopeful that will happen as the open source software in this area matures.  Right now Blender is an incredibly powerful program--in many ways able to go toe-to-toe with industry heavyweights--but it often feels like with Blender you're given a million free LEGO bricks, and no instructions.
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Body: <p>I am wondering if "Ghosting" effects like the one in <a href="https://i.imgur.com/hrx96ar.mp4" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this video</a> are available in any Open Source software, like Blender.  </p>
  
  <p>Premiere Pro seem to call it "ghosting" while Final Cut Pro seems to call it "Ghost Trails".</p>
  
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Title: Ghosting effect with open source software
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ThreadText: # Ghosting effect with open source software
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-04-25)
  
  I am wondering if "Ghosting" effects like the one in [this video](https://i.imgur.com/hrx96ar.mp4) are available in any Open Source software, like Blender.
  
  Premiere Pro seem to call it "ghosting" while Final Cut Pro seems to call it "Ghost Trails".
  
  **Tags:** software-recommendation, effects
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-05-04. Score: 1
  
  To my knowledge, there is no Open Source tool with a built-in feature for producing that ghosting effect. However, I believe there exist the necessary tools for you to create the effect yourself.
  
  Breaking down what's happening, it looks like the effect consists of:
  
  * Freezing and extracting the skater from the background at certain moments
  * Animating those freeze frames to track with the camera movement
  
  There are Open Source tools to do just that.
  
  * Rotoscoping to extract the skater from still frames (Gimp or Blender)
  * [Motion Tracking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3STqy77jG50) (Blender) to animate those stills to match camera motion
  * Compositing (Blender) to put it all together
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks. I did send you the bounty but will keep the question open in the hope some day some open source software will support this feature out of the box. -  So long i have to learn a bit more about blender.  
  > **username_1**: I'd like to see more ready-to-use features like this, too. I'm hopeful that will happen as the open source software in this area matures.  Right now Blender is an incredibly powerful program--in many ways able to go toe-to-toe with industry heavyweights--but it often feels like with Blender you're given a million free LEGO bricks, and no instructions.  
  
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