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Exporting Lense Flare
Hello,
What I would like to do is export an alpha of just the Lense Flare Effect. How do I do this without a background? I want to be able to put the lense flare over a picture in FCP. I know I can, but I don’t want to bring the clip from FCP to AE. Any suggestions? I am using AE CS3 on a Mac OS X
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8 Replies
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Render the clip RGB+Alpha, Animation codec, Millions of Colors+.
Joey Foreman
Editor/Animator
Nowhere Productions, Athens, GA -
but don’t you have to have at least a solid to apply the Flare effect? How do you make that transparent?
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Oops, I forgot that Lensflare doesn’t generate its own alpha. You’ll need a workaround.
Make your solid containing the flare blue or green. Then apply keylight. When you pick the color sample, choose an area completely outside of the flare.
You may get a slight color shift, in which case you can then apply the Hue/Saturation effect.Joey Foreman
Editor/Animator
Nowhere Productions, Athens, GA -
hey, good idea. I will give that a try.
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if you are talking about just ‘keying’ out the lens flare, then all you need is a free effect called unmult.
https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/unmult.html
download it and install it. then apply the lends flare to a black (must be black) solid, then apply unmult.the flare will now be on a transparent background (click the checker board button to see). when you render, render as lossless with alpha, setting the colors to millions+, rgb+alpha and straight (unmatted). this will give you a ‘keyed’ mov to take into premiere.
from:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/202/876504#876522 -
Oops, forgot about Unmult.
Joey Foreman
Editor/Animator
Nowhere Productions, Athens, GA -
Another way to do it is to render your lens flare out of AE with the black background, and when you get into Final Cut, put it over top of your footage and right click, choose Composite Mode and select Screen. Screen mode takes the black background away.
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Nice! Thanks guys
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