• Adobe After Effects

  Effects on effects

  Posted by Jeff Zwicker on July 26, 2011 at 2:24 am

  I need to add a blur to a lens flare effect layer but not the video its self, the lens flare looks much better blurred but I want to keep the video sharp. PLEASE HELP.

  Angie Taylor replied 15 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Angie Taylor

  July 26, 2011 at 10:20 am

  Hi there,

  If you are using the standard Lens Flare that’s built into AE you can put the Lens Flare on a Black solid layer, place it above your video layer and change it’s Blending Mode to Add. this should knock out all black pixels and allowing the BG footage to show through.

  Hope this helps.

  cheers,

  Angie

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