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photo flash – fade to white effects
i’m making a shortmovie with a feeling that could be discribed as the scary vision part in the movie “the ring”. In this movie i would like to “photoflash” the images … so you flash certain images – they get faded to white and back to the image. (see it alot in music video’s and police soaps). A normal fade to white feels kind of dul. Are there good tips for creating fade to white photoflash effects?. artyfarty stuff? use contrast changing or other plugins … etc ?
thank you
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Add Brightness and contrast effect, use three keyframes, set the 1st one to 0, and second one to between 90 – 100, then third key frame to 0 again. make sure time interval somewhere between 8-12 frames.
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Hello,
I am not sure if this will work for what you need but it may be similar enough… In the past I have taken a solid that is a very saturated light blue, almost white, and put it on top of the layer I want to “flash”…
Use the “add” transfer mode on the light blue solid.
then you can keyframe the opacity of the solid from 0-100% to “blow out” the highlight areas to white…
maybe that could work for you.
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hey Nils, I’d look through the archives. I personally have explained how to simulate this effect (a film camera stop and start) many times (look at last week back at the topic MAN ON FIRE effects for example). To do it right takes not only a keyframing of the contrast, but also keeping the saturation in check (because increased contrast will crank the saturation way too high which the real flash won’t do). Also you need to do a time remap at the same time. Furthermore your velocity curves need to be a spike and not linear.
Chris Smith
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tnx for the tips both …
yes – that add transfer might help to create the trick … normal fades feel kind of … normal … it has to have something cathy to it … the blue saturation and add transfer might do the trick… maybe gonna make a brown, sepia solid – works more for the feel of the movie. maybe even add some shine to it to really give it a ‘light flash’ feeling to it.
so this is the only way to produce photoflashes? fade to whites with contrast and brightnes or opacity? are there even better transitions to use for this effect?
tnx
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okay chris – MAN ON FIRE look and effect would be great to achieve 😉 …. still learning AE – so it will be a alot of trail and error trying to understand and create this effect how you guys explained it in the other thread. Deffinately gonna try it … tnx!
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The effect you speak of is when you stop and start a film camera. As the motor slows to a halt, it over exposes the film and the film undercranks until it stops. Then when you start the camera again the process is reversed. So when ever there is a stop then start, it is the flash frame effect. SOmewhere in the early 90’s people started including these flashes in the edit. Then they went out of their way while shooting to hit the stop/start switch on the camera repeadedly while shooting to purposefully put “Flashies” all over their footage. It was used so much like Swing tilt lenses/ Flo green telecin
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using a cyan or sepia solid in “add” mode is effective, but it doesn’t turn your black areas completely white at 100% opacity. If you duplicate the solid layer, then you can get a solid white burn out, which still has the tinting effect as it gets more opaque. You can then play with two different colour solids with different speed opacity curves to get a more complex effect.
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tnx fot the tips guys!!
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