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mFlare2 comes with 100 pre-built flares and you can buy more Preset Pro packs for Optical Flares too. You can then save and re-use these presets whenever you like. That said, both mFlare2 and Optical Flares have really intuitive visual designers that make it easy to build something from scratch if you want to take the time and have the design aesthetic. Given that there are so many different moving parts you can use to create your own lens flare, it’s probably best to find a preset that comes fairly close and then break that apart and customise it from there. In this image, I’ve cranked up the size and intensity of some of the iris shapes and a really large corona ray within DaVinci Resolve so it’s easier to see what’s going on. Watching the Vox video above will help to explain some of the mechanics behind these kind of shapes, but if you’re looking for that classic ‘anamorphic’ lens flare then streaks are mostly what you want. The image (above) duplicates the elements that Video CoPilot’s Optical Flares offers, but most of the plugins contain the same kind of shapes and effects. Video CoPilot Optical Flare elements, click to enlarge.Įach of the plugins describes things a little bit differently, when it comes to the elements of their lens flares, but each plugin allows your to control and customise them to high level of detail. If you can believe it, there used to be a time when cinematographers actively worked against lens flare! Understanding the elements of a Lens Flare Thanks to all three companies for providing me with a copy of their product for the purposes of this review.įor a history of the use of lens flare in cinema then this short video essay from Vox has got you covered.
The Pro Preset flares look fantastic and are really well designed. Optical Flares – Video CoPilot’s plugin has been used on numerous Hollywood films and is without doubt the most powerful lens flare plugin you can get for After Effects. The on-screen controls and in-built tracker also make it really intuitive to customise the flare and animated it’s position. MFlare2 – This FCPX based plugin has the best looking interface of any of the plugins, in terms of interface usability and features. There are a few handy presets and very detailed controls but nothing very visual to aid creating your own presets. ResolveFX Lens Flare – It’s great to have something built-in to DaVinci Resolve Studio for creating lens flares, but feels like a beginning rather than a fully featured and finished plugin. We’ll get into the detail of each plugin as we go, but for a quick summary here’s how I would describe them: That’s why spending the money required to enable you to build your own 3D flares – which can go behind objects, reflect off their edges and a track with your camera movement – can be such a good investment. These baked-in flares are handy when you just want to quickly add a lens flare and don’t have one of these paid for apps to hand, or installed on your client’s system, but they can only take you so far.Īlthough you could hand animate these ‘baked-in’ layers to some degree, being able to control the size, position, intensity and movement of individual elements in the flare makes for a far more convincing effect.
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These three tools allow you to create bespoke lens flares that you can animate and composite into a scene in a far more seamless way than ‘baked-in’ lens flares like the ones you can download (in 4K and up!) from this post: In this post I’m going to take a look at adding optical flares to an edit and grade, using three different paid-for tools DaVinci Resolve Studio, Video CoPilot’s Optical Flares for After Effects and mFlare2 for FCPX from. DaVinci Resolve Studio vs Video CoPilot Optical Flares vs mFlare 2.Create bespoke animated custom lens flares.
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How to add Real Optical Lens Flares to your Edit and Grade
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