• Adobe After Effects

  Rays effect in titles

  Posted by Cow_fan on July 13, 2006 at 2:18 am

  I’ve noticed this effect on titles and logos in most new tv commercials. The title (most of the time, the name or brand of the product) glows then emit rays that that some how points from one direction going to another. How do they do that? Thanks.

  Michael Duff replied 20 years ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Michael Duff

  July 13, 2006 at 3:41 am

  I’d say most of the time they use Trapcode’s Shine – you could play around with zoom blurs and such, but the shine plug-in will do a good job of it. There are a few other plug-ins that do similar things like “Light Burst” or something like that.
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  Cow_fan

  July 13, 2006 at 11:45 pm

  Thanks. But is it possible to use the plugins already inside after effects, without purchasing any 3rd party plugins?
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  Michael Duff

  July 14, 2006 at 1:39 am

  if you have a legitimate copy of AE then there is an effect called CC Light Burst that is bundled on the disks. It is pretty much like shine. Otherwise I can only suggest experimenting with zoom blur/glow/maybe lens flares/transfer modes

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