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Apply blur to a lens flare?
I have a shot where I’m rendering a lens flare using the in-box lens flare plug-in. The effect looks great save the fact it’s a little too ‘crisp’ and, for lack of a better descriptor, ‘CG.’ There’s no way to apply a blur or some other effect to mitigate the crispness and make it fit in with the video footage in a more natural way. I know there’s a ‘blending with background’ variable but all that seems to do is lower the opacity of the flare. Any ideas?
Thanks.
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Apply the lens flare to its own layer and then apply the blur plug-in.
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You might try putting the Lens Flare on a Black Solid above the video layer, then follow that with A Blur (still on the black solid) and use the Mode Screen. This seems to soften the lens flare.
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