Photographic Flash / Flash from camera

[Don Greening]

Hi Matt,

There isn’t a stock camera flash plug-in per say but you should be able to create the effect fairly easily. Click on the Effects tab in the Browser then go to: Video Generators>Matte>Color Solid. Double-click the effect to load it into the viewer. Click on the Controls tab in the Viewer and change the colour from the default blue to white. Set your in and out point points to about 30 frames (or one second of video) then create a new video track in your timeline. Drag your color solid into the track above where you want the flash to occur in your original clip. You can adjust the opacity of the flash so that some of the picture in the track below will show through, just like a real camera flash. Keep in mind that a real camera flash rarely lasts more than one frame of video. Now you can reduce the time the flash occurs by editing its length. You may want to have the flash occur over a couple of frames so folks notice the effect more.

Most video editors try to get rid of camera flashes 🙂 Now you’re on your own.

– Don

[David Roth weiss]

If you add a camera shutter sound effect it will sell almost any white flash.

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[James Weber]

Or razor blade where you want the flash, and add a 5-10 frame Dip to Color Transition, set to an almost white (remember Broadcast Safe).

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[Tom Wolsky]

Five frames is way too long. Try applying color corrector 3-way and cranking up the blacks and mids, normal on one frame, too bright in the mids and shadows on one frame, go forward two frames and bring it down to normal. Even one frame of brightness, which is what a camera flash takes, will be visible.

All the best,

Tom

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[Dennis Leppell]

https://www.mattias.nu/plugins/
the Too Much Too Soon plugins/transitions are free, and the flashframe transisition should get the job done for you quickly.