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Video Copilot Optical Flares is the perfect way to add cinematic flair and realism to your footage! Enjoy creating intricate lens flares in After Effects with an elegant, user-friendly interface. Plus, Open GL acceleration makes it super simple and fast. So, you can make stunning visuals without taking up too much of your precious time. Bring some extra sparkle into life with Video Copilot Optical Flares!
The Render version of the plugin requires the same license process as the plugin itself but they can use the attached key file if they do not have access to the GUI (typical of AE Render or true nodes with no monitors).
The plugin is FANTASTIC, and ToolFarm made it effortless to download the plugin after purchase. The Plugin itself is Amazing, and everything they say it is. It has made my life so much easier, and my videos have come to life. I definitely recommend this product to people who are looking for that extra umph for their video editing.
It has a beautiful interface - makes using it great fun. As another reviewer said, it would be nice if there was a demo, but if you're looking for a flares plug-in just know that this is the one to get.
This is the new industry standard for Lens Flares! Optical Flares is by far the best plugin for creating lens flares. Not only are the possibilities endless but you can also create lens flares that look very realistic.The plugin comes with a variety (about 50-60) of presets wich are very helpful if you don't want to design your own lens flare. Plus it makes it very easy to combine different lens flares, position them with or without the help of AE Lights and much more.And it's fast. Even with a cheap graphics card you can preview the slowest lens flares in realtime. My last thought is just: Who needs Knoll Light Factory any longer?
As a compositor and motion graphics designer, light and lens effects can really mean the difference between a polished-looking or half-baked shot. Video CoPilot's Optical Flares is one-stop shopping for that final pass on your comp. Adding lens flares in post fell severely out of favor as After Effects' stock flare effect became more and more tired and outdated. But the highly customizable flare settings in Optical Flares helps breathe new life into that kind of design element, and more importantly, does a fantastic job simulating REAL flares-- hugely helpful in my work for matching shots acquired from different cameras. The do-it-yourself flare building options are actually quite daunting at first, so I depended heavily upon the really excellent presets that come bundled with the license until I learned the ropes. It's a great product and VCP's support are great as well when you have questions.
Ben Brownlee creates gorgeous realistic and stylistic lens flares in Photoshop using Boris FX Optics. The renowned Sapphire LensFlare has come to Photoshop! Find the most appropriate starting point for your image from the scores of professional presets. Flares are based on real-world lenses or stylized, graphic flares. Quickly customize these for your image, and combine multiple flares for stunning results.
Optics is a plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. 160 filters and 1000s of presets for color correction, film stocks, lens effects, lighting effects, and much more. Features Boris FX Sapphire - Emmy award-winning plugins used on Hollywood films.
The After Effects plugin already supports popup handling, so if Deadline detects this popup, it should just fail the job and dump the contents of this popup to the error log (which will indicate the licensing problem). Failing the job will kill after effects, which should result in this popup being taken down with it.
Create and animate realistic lens flares in Nuke with amazing speed and simplicity. It requires at least 1 full license of Optical Flares for Nuke. Video Copilot Optical Flares for Nuke does not have Flare Editor.
The professional plug-in community has really expanded in the last few years, with amazingly powerful effects being created by small and independent software companies. The capabilities of these plugins is largely impressive, but unfortunately, the price is often out of reach for those that are learning or simply need the plugin for one project.
For example, on the Trapcode Particular homepage Red Giant states that Particular can be used to simulate realistic smoke. The tutorial below (created by Vox Lab) shows us how to create smoke using only native After Effects plugins and effects.
Every single glitch effect found in Twitch can be created with a little time and effort in After Effects. Using the wiggle expression, combined with various effects and free video assets, you can quickly create professional glitch effects without third party plugins. The following tutorial created by Georgiiou illustrates how it can be done:
The Optical Flares plugin also has a Flicker section where you can further adjust the look of your flare. Change the Type to Sharp. Turn up the speed and amount to your liking.
This article shows how to modify the default Unreal Engine lens-flare post-process, from code to shaders. I always wanted to change the default Unreal Engine 4 lens-flares because it never felt good in my opinion. It's a post-process effect that lacks control and looks rather bland.
The fact it is broken too doesn't help (because of a UI bug) which means anybody trying to use it in a project will have some difficulties getting any artistic control over it.
So when a few years ago I stumbled across other games that displayed different kind of flares I started to wonder if it was possible to modify/implement something different. It's only recently that I was able to figure out how, mostly thanks to some updates of the engine that simplified quite a bit its rendering process.
A lens-flare is a composition of several behaviors based on the way light bounces inside the lens of a camera. While initially seen as defects, which is why expensive lenses and even specific protections have been made to get rid of them, flares have become an artistic tool to add details on an image.
Lens-flares exist in many shapes, which all depends on the way a lens has been built/designed but also on how the light enter the lens (straight, sideways, etc). Lenses from different constructors won't lead to the same visual results.
Some lens filters can even exacerbate some part of the lens-flares. For example star-light filters can create long lines on light sources (the number of branches depending on the configuration of the filter):
This is how J. J. Abrams created (and over-used) them in the movie Start Trek for example. Mr. Abrams deliberately shot flashlights at the camera to make sure glares and flares would appear on the image. In the Star Trek movie released in 2009 you can see the round shapes of the flares being squished:
So real lens-flares are nice, but they are not easy to replicate as simulating lenses and light rays that go through them can be quite complex. So in real-time applications, especially video games, different methods have been used to achieve a cheaper but still effective result. There are three general categories:
1 - Bloom Generation
Bloom is generated just before lens-flares. If the bloom intensity is 0, then neither bloom nor lens-flares will be rendered. If the threshold for the bloom is -1, then no processing is done and one the Scene Color downsamples is used as-is. If there is a threshold specified a different process generates the bloom effect. The result is then fed to the lens-flare rendering code.
Shader files (not Materials) are usually stored in the engine folder, but it is possible to reference them externally via a module or plugin. It is not possible to reference them directly in your project code because they need to be loaded earlier by the engine.
Open the folder where the plugin has been created (it should be in your project Plugins folder). Then locate and open the Build.cs file in the Source folder (mine is CustomPostProcess.Build.cs) and add the following includes:
This rendering pass is slightly different from the previous one we saw: this time we don't build a new buffer, instead we write into the previous one in additive mode which already contains the Ghosts.
It wouldn't make sense to to that into an intermediate buffer just to copy it back over the Ghosts afterward. So it's faster and cheaper to simply draw over the existing content. Since we are in additive more and lens-flares are lighting information, this works well.
When clicking on one of the checkboxes related to the lens-flares it actually executes a console command. This is very handy to debug stuff and do comparisons without having to look at the console to type the command.
This is a huge pack of lens flares of different sizes and shapes for you to play within your videos. Drag and drop them onto an adjustment layer in Premiere Pro, and change the speed, duration, and color to get the perfect results. Try using them as transitions to seamlessly move from scene to scene.
These sunbeams are a beautiful addition to any footage with a strong light source. Add them to natural environments, windows or doors to immediately create a dramatic effect. This Final Cut Pro X effect requires no plugins and can work wonderfully whether creating footage or stills.
This cool pack of 10 presets will easily add professional sunlight flares to your videos. Perfect for those romantic videos, family shoots, or even product promos, simply drag and drop to the adjustment layer and you are done!
More than just flares to enhance your images, these rolling lens flares are doubled with zooms and warps to create awesome dynamic transitions for your presentations and commercials. Use it in Premiere Pro without any plugins and immediately enhance your projects.
These stunning blue lens flares illuminate the corners of the frame and would work beautifully with fashion videos such as jewelry showcases. The 4K prores file gives you the flexibility to use it in any of your projects.
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