• Adobe After Effects

  help with a lightning flash effect

  Posted by Gabe Coates on September 19, 2008 at 6:18 am

  Hello all i’m new both to this board and to the After effects program but i’m hoping i can get a push in the right direction

  i’m looking for help on getting the lightning flash effect similar to the back ground movie on this site https://www.halo3.com/

  any help would be greatly apperciated

  thanks in advance

  Mark replied 17 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Mark

  September 19, 2008 at 11:54 am

  There is a preset in I believe either the backgrounds or synthetic catgeory that will get you pretty close to this. I would use that as a starting point.

  Mark

  Mark Harvey
  Senior Editor
  Le R
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  Gabe Coates

  September 21, 2008 at 9:32 am

  well that seemed to help with the flowing nebula effects but what i’m really looking for is help on the random subtle flashes of lightning.
  (trying to do a thunderstorm motion background)

  I’ve been trying to layer it between two layers of clouds with no success.

  any suggestions?

  thanks again in advance
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  Mark

  September 22, 2008 at 10:28 am

  A soft masked white layer set to add, then using expressions use the wiggle command….should look someting like this:

  wiggle(15,30)

  try it out….the first number in brackets is the frequency, the second number is the range of the wiggle (0-30)…the again I am by no means all that proficient in expressions.

  Mark

  Mark Harvey
  Senior Editor
  Le R

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