Light Blur Effect

[Visual_guy]

Start with a thin white (or complimentary color) solid, maybe 100 x 8 pix and
apply a gaussian blur. Set the blur dimensions to horizontal, then crank it way out
to 200 or so. That should get you the shape. Throw on a glow & a bit more blur
(horiz & vert), and maybe some Trapcode Shine or Starglow.

Combine that with transfer modes & animated masks.

Rinse and repeat.

Brett

[Brandon Adams]

Thanks, sounds like fun, I’ll give it a shot.

[Chris Smith]

Reality:
If you mean the vertical smears, they change the timing phase of the camera so that the film is pulled to the next frame while the gate is still open insted of when it’s closed.

After Effetcs:
Make a duplicate of your footage. On the duplicate, add Levels. Crush down the blacks and gammas a lot, then clip the highe end just a little. So in the end, you have a very dark image with only the brighter areas showing. Now add a hue/sat and pull the saturation way down to balance the color back to the way it was.

Now add a directional blur and set it to vertical then crank the blur amount way up. Then on this duplicate, set it to Screen transfer mode.

If you set the levels and blur right, it should look very close to the camera phase effect.

If you were talking about the horizontal smears in Claudios work, those are lens flares from using the old Panavision C series anamorphic lenses.

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

[Chris Smith]

Coincidentally, I was doing lens and lighting tests Friday. Part of my tests were checking out the lens flares on Panavision C series anamorphic lenses. I think they are actually the exact same lenses that Claudio used on the Alpine spot. I know he used C series because I emailed and asked him once. There are only a set or two around and these came from the same place Claudio gets them (Panavision Woddland Hills) so these are probably they. Here is an excerpt from those tests showing how they flare. Notice that if you simulate it in AE with Knoll lens flares or whatever that your footage should change contrast in sync. You’ll see that the more that the flare hits the lens, the less contrast the image has:

https://sugarfilmproduction.com/LensTest.mov

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com