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  After Effects Optical Flares – Make only light show other layer help

  Posted by Alex Stein on July 8, 2011 at 11:52 pm

  Hi, my problem is basic but difficult to explain when written down. I have filmed me and my mates and have put it into an AE comp. I want to create a spot light using Optical Flares but I only want the video to show where it’s shinning. I want the part that the light isn’t shinning on blanket out.

  Any ideas?

  Alex

  P.s. Sorry if this is not clear – like I said hard to explain!

  Alex Stein replied 14 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Greg Burrus

  July 9, 2011 at 10:11 pm

  I believe I was able to achieve the effect you are looking for, although I don’t have optical flares but you should be able to do something similar with it from what I know of it.

  What you can do is put the flare on black solid and set the track matte of your footage to luma. I did an quick example I can post if you need it.

  Hope this helps

  Greg

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  Alex Stein

  July 10, 2011 at 4:31 pm

  Thank you very much for this reply, just what I was looking for! Been trying to figure this thing out for ages!

  Thanks again,
  Alex

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