Muzzle flash effects help needed

[Mylenium]

You just need to add some colored solid in Add mode and mask it out somehow. Check Andrew Kramer’s blemish removal tutorial to find some quick&dirty techniques how to get those mattes.

Mylenium

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[Iancorey]

The only time I ever did this, there was a miracle of good luck.

The key light just HAPPENED to be coming from the direction that the gun barrel faced. When the muzzle lit up, I cranked the bright/contr for one frame and this put the realistic flash in the room. This was all done in FCP before I knew the awesomeness that was AE.

So, if possible, light from the gun and hope for the best.

See:
https://redstarkgb.com/sevenday/balto_week_3.shtml

[John_ogroat]

Hmm quite tricky, could be easier if the effect was takin into consideration before the shoot,

If the face is fairly still in the shot, then i would save out a frame, open in photoshop, and on a new layer manually paint in black and white a matte. That is, ‘spray paint’ the face white where you want the flash to occur (presumably from the direction of the gun, eg if it is from the right then paint white highlights on the right of the face, right of nose, etc..) leave other parts black, and use blended greys in between.

then, in AE create a new solid that flashes for however long.. once for a single shot, lots for a machine gun etc.>animate opacity on the layer, use ‘hold’ keyframes to stop the layer from fading smoothly between flashes to get a more jerky animation.

then, bring in your photoshop matte, and place it above the flash layer in timeline. in timeline window change the flashing solid layer’s track matte to ‘photoshop pic LUMA'(photoshop has to be above it, and make sure the eye symbol is unticked so we dont see that layer).

What this does is make the flashing layer only visible where the track matte is white, and invisible where the matte is black. semi transparent in-between.

at least thats how i’d try it, not that i have had to do it before.

hope it helps,

gd luck

John

[Andrew Kramer]

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html

2nd down may help some.

Andrew Kramer
They’ll be on the COW soon, I just have to get some graphics made.

[Justin Productions]

Woah. Simply; woah. I noticed, about last week, the new design on your website and all the other demo videos but those..those tutorials..woah.

You should create a donate section. Seriously.

Justin Productions
Tangerin01@hotmail.com
Adobe After Effects 6.5 Professional

[50calguy]

Thanks for all the help guys.