Re: Video Copilot Optical Flares Cs5 Crack
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Most of the tutorials I found didn't really deal with obscuring, but in the few that did, they just selected the foreground in the drop-down, and it worked. Like this one here, particularly Rick Gerard's reply with the animated gif.
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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!
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lens flares in post fell severely out of favor as After Effects' stock flare effect became more and more tired and outdated.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.
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 Optical Flares Plug-in incorporates 3D lens flares with AE lights, live visual preset library, and dynamic triggering of animations. In addition to chromatic aberration, it supports real textures and up to 32 bpc color. The preset browser allows you to share and swap presets, and save all settings in a single place. You can also save and reuse individual objects, and expand and build new presets.
The Pro Presets is a collection of 50 detailed high-end flares set up with shimmer animation, edge flare-ups and more. This collection offers greater versatility to the 60 built-in presets as well as providing creative ideas and usage of elements. Also, each object can be saved and combined with your other lens flare presets.
Video Copilot Optical Flares for Mac is an impressive plug-in for designing as well as animating realistic lens flares in After Effects. It has got loads of 3D lens flares with AE lights. The interface of Video Copilot Optical Flares for Mac is very user friendly and intuitive which will allow you work with it easily. You can also download KeepVid Pro for Mac.
Lens flares are common post-processes that were rendered popular by the infamous "Lens Flare" filter in Photoshop which can be easily recognized in many synthetic images from the early 90s (and still today in images from suspicious websites as it's quite official that this plug-in, although serving its purpose in its time, is now a proof of arguable taste).
I won't linger on the optical details of what creates which lens-flare artifact, I'm only concentrating on their visual aspect. For that purpose, I relied on a well known After Effects plug-in called "Optical Flares" by Video Copilot ( ).
On top of the default additive blend mode, the people at video copilot also used a mode quite familiar to Adobe products users (but not so much to realtime graphics programmers) called the screen mode. I'll talk a bit about how to achieve this mode using our standard blending pipeline in graphic APIs as it's not that easy !
First off, this thing is rich in features that will revolutionize the way you work with lens flares in projects. Gone are the days where you have complicated workarounds to link lens flares to 3d lights to move them around in 3d space or trickery to create anamorphic looking lens flares. We all know how annoying little workarounds like that can be, and that time adds up especially when you are working on a big project! Simple things like these are what we need in a lens flare generator! I swear its like they stalked the message boards and took every want and workaround and made it a feature. You can map your lens flares to the luminance of a layer, you can add textures to overlay onto your virtual lens so that whenever the flare moves over it you see that texture, there is their unique "dynamic triggering" system that makes flares sparkle or move when they get close to a certain area, and that is just the beginning!
Now the biggest pull about this plugin is the 3d capabilities, and we're not just talking you can move these around in 3d space and they have mass, but the interoperability with layers in After Effects; being able to utilize 3d layer occlusion where the flare moves behind an object while being obscured like in the real world; tracking to AE lights: using their colors, intensities, or being able to map an instance of Optical Flares to lights that start with a certain letter. Then there is the ability to track to lights from a 3d scene saved out of Cinema 4D, or 3ds Max using Max2AE or whatever other program you can use to transfer your 3d data into AE, you can actually map your OF flares to follow the lights set up in your external 3d app of choice with ease... its crazy the way they have really simplified the process and hassle of working with flares.
Next comes the interface... ohhh the beautiful interface. You might think my drooling over something as the GUI of a plugin is ridiculous, but I have to be able to enjoy myself inside of a program to actually want to continually use it, and this got an A+ in that department. When you first come into the Design Interface you notice it looks nothing like any other plugin on the market. There are tons of preview screens, one big one for previewing the flare (which you can toggle the background to show or not... awesome), and all the littler ones are for previewing your individual elements that update as you move your flare around in the preview window. Each of these objects can be controlled by the global parameters, as well as delved into deeper by just clicking on each element and modifying it separately from the rest. You can also add a wide range of core objects or modifications of those objects to further customize your flares and you can also save those for later as well as custom presets. The preset browser ain't too shabby either, with a ton of already made presets (and way more, if you get the Pro Presets Pack - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED), you can apply, re-save, access and share presets across the preset network with people all around the world!
So now comes the big question... is this worth it? Are you kidding me? Do you actually have to ask that? Of course it is... this is probably one of my newest favorite plugins to work with, given the wide range of possibilities, ease of customization, and and the massive amount of extra little features that are built in. The uses for lens flares is almost infinite, you can integrate them into anything you create. If you are looking to add a bit more oomph to your projects, want to go a little nuts and boost After Effects' internal lighting system, or just simply want a really cool plugin to have fun and experiment with, get it. It's really a no-brainer, this is no doubt going to be one of the next big plugins to have for motion graphics and visual effects artists alike.
If you have Adobe Photoshop, adding a lens flare to a photo is not to hard to do (here is a tutorial to get you started). But that takes owning the software and all that time. Now a new application from Brain Fever Media called LensFlare makes it easy to do lens flares with your iPhone. It is available in the iTunes store for $0.99. Here is a demo video
The Lensflares in Star Trek 09 didnt bother me in the least. It sounds like JJ wanted to add something different and unique to the visual that wasnt viewed in the previous movies. I say go for it, its a step in the right direction for that particular movie.
To me, the use of lens flares in Trek 2009 kind of gave me the effect of seeing that all-white pristine new bridge of the Enterprise-A at the end of Trek IV. I liked it, but I agree; a little less in the sequel might be a good thing, guys! ;)
However you stand on the lens flares in the new Star Trek, one of the products mentioned in the original post (VideoCopilot Lens Flares) is good for making photon torpedoes too. I made this video the other day:
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