Glitter effect

[David Bogie]

Motion tracking a lens flare layer, Unmult to get the flare really hot. You can add spikes and sparks easily enough in many plugs or create some as shapes. Why did you rotoscope the jewelry? CC Light Burst and Light Rays are good additional blippies, but what really sells this kind of effect is interactive lighting added to the scene. So the sparkles have highlights on your model’s skin or reflect off of other shiny items.

bogiesan

[Funny_grl40]

thanx for the info!

i had to rotoscope out the jewelry as part of an assignment. Besides making it glitter i’m also changing the color and making everything else black and white, and i also have to put these crazy ‘god rays’ in the background and foreground.

[David Bogie]

Umm, homework, eh?
Save yourself a bunch of hassle by learning to precompose or nest your elements separately . Or learn to prerender.

I do not know what your content is but you can prerender your isolated layer of the gem using the Animation codec with alpha and then import the movie. That removes all the processing required to do the roto and means you never have to touch the gem layer again in your main comp-just replace it with the movie.

You can duplicate the move as many times as you need to and apply effects separately to each copy of the layer.

You can now apply effects to the background layer, the plate, and not worry about them interfering with or altering your roto work.

bogiesan

[Martti Ekstrand]

[funny_grl40] “I’m not very keen on the idea of using a plugin either, however, i’ll do it if that’s the way to get it done. Any suggestions?”

Yup but it’s a plug-in:

https://trapcode.com/products_starglow.html

cheers