Light Beams SFX Video (Like IPod Nano Commercial)

I think this one is SO COOL!
See it for yourself (if you don't like it, at least watch through the first 45 seconds, then it gets really cool)

Some info...

Time spent creating effect: 1.5 hours

Time spent on first render: 1 hour.

First render result: Messed up the camera and had to redo it

Time spent on second render: 1 hour

Second render result: Forgot to render the sound AND used the wrong settings and ended up with a 3 gb file with no sound.

Time spent on third render: 1 hour

Third render result: It seriously fucked up. I don't even know, it was just all these flashes.

Time spent on fourth render: 45 minutes

Fourth render result: Uploaded to youtube and facebook, found out that the audio was off sync. Couldn't figure out why. Re-rendered.

Fifth render took another 45 minutes, but I fell asleep in the middle of it and didn't get it uploaded until now (8:45 pm). I really hope the audio sync is ok...

Some more info... I didn't physically animate the swirly's path. (Although I can if i want to.) I just created a set of rules for the camera and the swirlys to follow and let it run for 2 minutes, then set up a glow effect that increased with the the music intensity.

I initially had it so that the swirly's actually moved with the music, but it was way too jumpy and didn't look nice. The effect is actually still there; I didn't remove it, I just lowered it a bunch. If you look closely, the place where the swirls emit from jumps a little bit to the tune.

Anyways, I'm really really happy with this one. But I was too fed-up with rendering to bring it into Premiere and fade the sound in/out nicely, or to add my name or anything

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• After
• Effects
• IPOD
• Nano
• SFX
• special
• effects
• light
• beam
• swirlies
• swirl
• techno
• electronica
• cowgirl
• hackers

[eramiaka]

please song name ? :)

[Janook]

Cowgirl by Underworld

[OldBlueJeansXo]

That is AMASING! Very very very good! Is there any way you could do it with multiple colours instead of just green (like it switches colours from green to blue ect.)

[Janook]

Yes, that's completely doable. I'm considering making another similar video, where the light beams change colors with the beat.

[eliarab]

great video...any tips on how to do that ?? ....10x anyway and good luck

[soul2310]

i really like it. keep it up ^^

to bad i have no clue to do such stuff ...

[auob2008]

good lihgt .....

[ZacharyCort]

so i have adobe aftr effects and i hav no idea how 2 do this but i sooo want 2! any help? did u use a tutorial? thnks!

[jaysatanfox]

You should have done something more than wiggle(x,x) tbh

[cradleofcorpses]

all adobe releases have mac versions...