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FCP X Adjustment Layer: BG You’ve gotta Flare for it!
BG: Adjustment Layers in FCP X
“BG You’ve gotta Flare for it”
This is an FCP X adjustment layer, made using a Motion Title preset.
Flares…we’ve all used them, loved them, hated them….and then used them all over again 😉
When used appropriately and in a subtle way flares can really add something to your project.
FCP X Adjustment Layer: BG You’ve gotta Flare for it!
– Onscreen controls to help adjust
+ Size
+ Location
+ Outer ring scale
– Flare intensity
– Flare Falloff
– Choose your own colours for the various flare elements
– Streak Intensity
– Streak Count
– Ring Width
– Glow FalloffDue to this been made from a motion title preset, you access the adjustable parameters from the Title tab of the inspector.
Screenshots:

Drop the folder inside this zip called BG You’ve gotta Flare for it! into the following directory:Movies / Motion Templates / Titles / BG Adjustment Layers /
For full installation instructions please refer to the README inside the zip file.
Cheers,
BG
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6 Replies
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Good idea. Just a shame that the Motion Lens Flare is not really a lens flare in any real sense of the term and there are no optical components, fine for a static lens flare, jnot fine at all when you try to move it 🙁
We’ll still need to buy decent third party plug-ins (Knoll Light Factory, etc.) for anything serious …
Simon Ubsdell
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Agreed, Motions “lens flare” is pretty weak.
One of the very best implementations of realistic lens flares that I have used that react to the environment that they are in is the lighting tools native inside Flame 2012. VERY Nice!! Even works inside a stereoscopic comp. Pity about the cost.
The circle ripple filter in Motion seemed to provide ideal onscreen controls for this preset in FCPX though.
Cheers,
BG
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Even the stock AE one back in the day was nice.
I always thought that the flares that were available for shake were the best ones I have seen.
I can send you the Shake ones if you want to see them.
David
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Lord Herbert
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[David Battistella] “I always thought that the flares that were available for shake were the best ones I have seen. “
Yes they were nice!
So much for the talk over the years of them rolling a lot of shake’s functionality into Motion. I think they really missed a trick there.
Cheers,
BG
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Motion would be killer if it had nodes instead of layers.
Only Color had nodes and it’s suffering the same fate.
Maybe nodes are bad luck at Apple.
David
The Anamorphic flares in shake ruled.
David
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The shortest answer is doing.
Lord Herbert
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[David Battistella] “The Anamorphic flares in shake ruled.”
They still do – Shake continues to work for me day in day out, despite being EOL. One of the best programs ever written for anything – until Apple got their dead hands on it 🙁
Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com
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