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Muzzel Flash Tutorial
Still looking for a muzzel flash tutorial. There is a great one on youtube, but it is in French. I only speak and understand English.
The tutorial on Videp Copilot is helpful, but uses a muzzel flash avi. I want one that teaches me how to create one in AE7.
Money is very tight for me right now, so I cannot afford high-res footage. If someone is willing to help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.
TIA
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You could try masking a solid in the shape of your flash and fiddling with the setting to get whatever look your after. just experiment
Or you could try drawing them in photoshop, saving the image and using that as your muzzle flash as the flash only needs to appear for one frame.
Or do a Google image search and you should be able to find some good images of muzzle flashes on black backgrounds
or go check out detonationfilms.com as I’m pretty sure they have a bunch of free muzzle flash videos that you can use.
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I know some have created muzzel flashes with smoke using fractal noise with/without the evoultion keyframed. I havent made one like this before but I believe on one of the cds from videocopilot.com they have a custom muzzel flash tutorial. But the secret was a masked (shaped) fractal noise with maybe some coloring/glowing corrections.
Hope that helps!-Aaron-
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When I was asked for a shot needing a muzzle flash, I’d just watched Se7en. Right at the end of that movie, Brad Pitt points a gun towards the camera and fires a couple of times. When I went back and watched it frame by frame, it’s quite easy to reproduce the effect. And it only lasts two frames at most.
As the other guys have said:
1) Create a solid, onto that apply Fractal Noise, you can keyframe the evolution if you need to.
2) Apply Hue/Saturation and get the colour of the clouds to be a light yellow.
3) Draw a mask on that layer, so that it is roughly the size of flash you want to create.
4) Feather that mask quite a bit and set the layer’s transfer mode to Add.
5) What you should now have if a whiteout flash tinged with yellow on top of your gun.You can now either animate the mask or the mask’s expansion for the second frame, but the important thing is to only show that flash for the smallest possible time.
If the shot is in the dark, you could also add a second layer heavily feathered adding light onto the gunman.
If you watch TV shows like Mythbusters when they’re using guns the camera sometimes doesn’t even pick up a muzzle flash. The movies stylise this flash, so the temptation is to copy this exageration. I’m guilty of this too, I’ll admit, but I think this effect best works subtle.
Hope that helps
Graham
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Thanks, Graham. I’ll get to work on it tomorrow afternoon.
Thanks to all other posters as well. Your comments and help are appreciated as well.
Chaz
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