• Apple Motion

  Flash Bulb Effect

  Posted by K-1 on June 13, 2005 at 12:17 pm

  How do you create flash bulb effect in motion? For example,

  I’d like to create flash bulb effect in between 2 still photos. Like a transition except it would fade to white.

  Thanks!!!

  Greg Niles replied 20 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Greg Niles

  June 13, 2005 at 3:56 pm

  Add a white color solid on top of the 2 photos that quickly fades in and fades out at the transition cut point. It’s easy to do:

  1) Add a color solid generator to your project, change the color to white.
  2) In the timeline or mini-timeline, shorten the timebar color solid to about 10 frames, position it in time so that it overlaps the end of the 1st photo and the beginning of the 2nd photo.
  3) Add a Fade In/Fade Out behavior to the color solid.
  4) Change the Fade In time in the dashboard to about 3 frames, change the Fade Out time to about 6 frames.
  5) Position the time cursor on the cut point between the 2 photos and drag the color solid in time until the pure white frame is exactly at the cut point.

  There are other methods that involve using a combination of a brightness filter and keyframes, which would give you a more blown-out photo effect, but this is a good method that is fast to set up.

  — Greg

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