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Realistically lighten up burnt coals
Hi there,
I am in the beginning of investigating a good realistic way, of helping footage of burnt coals seem as if they are still burning.
for example;
helping something like this:
https://tinyurl.com/nrdk38slook as if it’s more
https://tinyurl.com/q92tj23I thought of playing with a matte of the dead coals and help it with some fractel and turbulent noise,
adding color, glow and tweaking to realism.
I assume it’s a possible way.
Adding particles will help (here is a great and very in depth tutorial I stumbled upon: https://vimeo.com/79823940 ).I was wondering if anyone experienced a similar task, or if anyone has any thought.
Any discussion would be appreciated!
Thanks
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I tried this, and it kind of worked. If you tweak it right it may do what you want. Bring in your footage, apply CC Threshold to it, adjust it to where the white coals are pretty much the only thing selected, bring in a red solid underneath that layer, change its track matte settings to “Luma”, bring in your standard footage beneath that. Add a blur to the threshold footage, and to feather it out, and play with the color, modes, and opacity settings until you get what you are looking for. That might do the trick for you.
Edit: You also could try a darker red to start and composite a lighter red on top with a slightly less blur effect, giving it a highlight effect. You could also just add a glow and try to tweak settings that way, maybe add a wiggle for a type of flicker feel to it.
Edit2.0: I just tried it with the red layer’s mode set to overlay and that seemed to look really good.Best,
Derek Boettcher
Creative Management
BTH Media Group
https://bthmedia.com
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