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Favorite recipes for glow effects
Hey all,
This question is totally subjective, I don’t use glows on footage much, just the occasional glowing text. But, I have a nice little project I’m working on which I think could use some glows.
It’s a girl playing the piano, shot widescreen, all I used was a big softbox overhead so it’s real pretty. I’d like to put a warmish halo/glow on her, but there are so many in my effects bin I don’t know where to start. BCC chroma glow looks nice, though I have to disect it to find out how to controll it, it’s a bit complex at first glance.
So, any thoughts to make this look classy would be gratefully accepted, if there’s a plug I don’t have I could always look at getting it.
Thanks!
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Old favorite… put duplicate clip above, then add blur. Apply clip with “screen” composite mode. Adjust opacity and blur of uppder clip to taste.
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Ooopps! That BCC plug is colorize glow, sorry!
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Motion has a nice set of glows as well if you have it. I like the Bloom.
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Yes I use the bloom glow in Motion quite frequently.
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Hey Bret,
Wow, I remember that, it was first described to me from the Meyer’s AE book, they called it “instant sex!” Those Motion effects sound good too, I’ll do a round trip later and see how it goes. Thanks guys!
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