How to Create Light Wrap and Edge Blur in Adobe After Effects and Eyeon Fusion

http://vfxhaiku.com/2009/10/how-to-create-light-wrap-and-edge-blur/

Light is scattering | Wrapping around your objects | Making them real

In this tutorial, we take a look at how to create light wrap and edge blurs in Adobe After Effects and Fusion 5. We use some footage from the book "The Art and Science of Digital Compositing" by Ron Brinkman.

If you have any comments or questions, please, feel free to ask!

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[almaawali90]

@isotropydotca No, I didn't try that for some reason. If it works, that would make life a lot easier. Thanks :)

[isotropydotca]

@almaawali90 Cool, that makes sense. Did you try Precomping your keylight'ed footage, rather than rendering it out? That might be easier than pre-rendering if it works.

[almaawali90]

Thanks for the tutorial, helped a lot.

Something worth noting, I had to pre render the foreground layer before adding all of the light wrap effects on it. This technique doesn't work if the layer that you are planning to add a light wrap to has 'Keylight' in it.

What I did was I duplicated the foreground layer which had keylight in it, I rendered the duplicated layer as Lossless with Alpha. Then I replaced the duplicated layer with the rendered footage. And finally I proceeded with the tutorial

[SJMITCH1986]

@isotropydotca Thank you, I'm still fairly new to after effects so I just know the easy ways thus far. It's likely i'll refer back to this when I get more into optimization for after effects. Would love to learn some Nuke.

[isotropydotca]

@SJMITCH1986 Refine matte is extremely slow to process compared to this recipe. I'd go with this over the Refine Matte effect any day.

[SJMITCH1986]

could you not simply use a Refine matte and feather in after effects?