Optical Flares Premiere Pro

[Allen Yerke]

Were going to look at an example project. Right now, example my project is in 16 bits per channel color depth. Now, the default in After Effects is 8 bits per channel. Why does this matter? Banding.

Anytime that you have gradients, and in particular lens flares, you'll see some banding going on. That is because in 8 bit per channel color mode, the red, the blue, the green, and the alpha channel only have 256 values to work with.

Alt click on the channel button again and you will jump to 32 bits per channel. This will improve the banding, but you can still see it. And once you compress your video you will see more banding. This is because the color compression is going to average the colors out and throw away some of the color information.

You can also stack this noise effect to improve the banding even further. So instead of just adding it to the adjustment layer, I'm going to copy this effect and add it to the 'optical flares' (called OF in the screenshot) layer just below.

Now when this gets compressed, especially for the web, a lot of that noise along with much of the tiny details of the video, will get compressed out. This is absolutely fine if you want to upload the video to something like YouTube, for example.

Add it to the render que and render the video. For this example we are going to use the GoPro CineForm YUV10-bit preset. One of the Apple Pro as presets would also work.

Element 3D is a creation by Video Copilot which essentially turns After Effects into a 3D modelling studio, and its capability is insane. It allows you to edit your 3D models with precision and unrivalled speed.

Trapcode Particular 4 is a plugin that allowsyou to create and add all sorts of particles to your video. This includessmoke, rain, light and much more intricate effects to increase the productionvalue of your film.

Another on the list created by Video Copilot, but one we cannot ignore. The optical flares immediately add a cinematic edge to any video footage. You can use the flares on multiple different motion graphics footage and really create a spectacle.

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