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police car flashes (blue-red)
hiya,
does anybody know where there’s a tutorial or maybe a suitable plugin to recreate the flashing of a police car.. I know i can do the lights in different ways but what im looking for is more a spill that will come out of the lights at the top of the car and create depth, if that makes sense??
i have trees and other layers that the car drives behind and i’d like the lights of the flashings to look realistic in a dark/night environment…
thanx
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trapcode has a plugin called lux that can create 3d volumetric lighting effects that would probably be useful.
you may be able to fake volumetric lights it with cc light burst or cc light rays on a small colored circle that would be your ‘light’. the combine that with some glow, probably set to use a&b colors, then adjust the threshold, radius and intensity.
cc spotlight could be used to add a spotlight effect sweeping around the surrounding scene, or you could try an adjustment layer with a color adjustment effect (hue/saturation set to colorize might be a good one to start with, but there are many that would work), then add a circular mask on the adjustment layer, feather the mask and animate the mask shape to make it ‘sweep’ around the scene.
adding a lens flares and animating those to pulse as they sweep then colorizing those to match the lights might help too.
Kevin Camp
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thank you very helpful!!
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you could also simply create red and blue solid layers, create circular masks with feathering over each light, and then set the solid layers’ transfer modes to “add.” Then adjust their opacity based on need. That should do it.
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Shroomly,
You might need to precomp the tree. The effect works best when all of the layers used with the expressions are the size of the composition. Just put your tree in a new comp the size of your working comp and bring that new tree comp back in adjusting the expression accordingly. You might get an error when you bring the precomp in, but that is fixable by changing the name of the target comp in the expression.
Thanks,
Trent
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