After Effects Tutorial: Anamorphic Lens Flares

Episode 10 of Next Wave TV: Tony's Vidcast

In this episode, I show you how to add realistic anamorphic lens flares to any digital footage using Adobe After Effects and Video Copilot Optical Flares.

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[petenicezz]

i have optical flares install on AE4 and i have AE5 but i'm having problem installing optical flares on AE5A. Do you know how i can install it on A5?

[NextWaveG]

@petenicezz I believe they have an update that you need to download.  Contact VideoCopilot for more info.

[superiorsoundstudio]

great tutorial! question for you how did you create that god animation video with the dog and grill on your website? DID you use illustrator? Lovin it!

[NextWaveG]

@superiorsoundstudio I designed the artwork in Illustrator and animated it all in After Effects.

[NextWaveG]

@jodroboxes Actually this is Windows 7 and it's faster than XP.

[PancakeRecipes]

I recently got a camera that shoots in 16:9, and to get the "film look" I have been cropping the top and bottom to achieve a 2.39:1 aspect ratio. But I was wondering how you frame your shots??? I have just been framing the shot in 16:9, and then manually moving the camera back a couple feet, but I want to find a better way to frame 16:9 for 2.39:1. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[ethanharveytv]

i see the flare in the preset browser/UI but not on my main output, can you help?

[baramin5kx]

Very useful technique! WHo would of known that using the luma matte will create realistic flares. Thanks a alot! Just added this to my favorites.

[jimmy70652]

@producedbyHANS I have same problem if recorded with green screen,how to do like this?

[producedbyHANS]

any way to mask when your original footage doesnt have a light source? (recorded with a green screen) i want to make sure the flare is "behind" the person the same way you did in the first part of the video, but i dont have a lightbulb or light source, any alternatives?

[dude4850]

Great teacher bro!

[EdgarFroez]

@RidingMad125 When you watch Andrew Kramer videos (he's the owner of Video Copilot), you will start to WANT to buy all his products, because he is such cool, humble and funny person, and he gives us the best After Effects tutorial totally free for us to learn, and a amazing basic tutorial. I learned after effects with him, before that i was shit on it. Just a note to clarify that his prices of his products are cheap compared to the benefits. Check out videocopilot(dot)net