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Sparkle effect
Hi,
I need to make Sparkle effect on Jewelry footage. Is there any way I can make it easily?
I have AE 6.5 Professional version. Please advice!
Yoshi. -
6 Replies
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The plug-in you want is Trapcode’s Starglow
A terribly inelegant work-around would be to use CC Light Rays — and motion track the jewelry one item at a time; then paste that motion tracking data into the CENTER field of CC Light Rays.
Alternatively, RENDER–> GLOW and adjust threshold until it gives a nice diffuse “glow” around the jewells — not the same as a sparkle — that’s exactly what Starglow would give you…
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Or you can just simulate Starglow. It’s extremely simple (unless you want to incorporate ALL the features).
Here’s How:
1. Duplicate the footage. Add hue/sat to it. Use this to pull out all the saturation. Then add a Levels. Crush down the blacks and gammas agressively. Then clip the whites a bit. The point being, you don’t want to see greyscale anymore, you just want the very brightest bits to be white and everything else black. Add a Gaussian blur to this layer. Except make the blur horizontal only. Now crank the blur waaay up. Now add a glow effect. Change the glow colors to hues you like.
Now Duplicate this layer with these effects on it. On the second layer, change the gauss blur to be vertical-only instead of horizontal.
Now set these two additional layers to SCREEN transfer mode. Now you have a starfilter effect on only the lightest parts of the image.
Chris Smith
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Wow!! That was elegant and superb!! I just tried it — worked great!!
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I cheated some rendertime out of this using directional blur. I think its marginally faster than gauss.
help me out dude!
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Cool. I was assuming it would be worse. The good thing then is, you can write a nice little expression linked to a slider to rotate the directional blur on the 2 layers so the sparkles rotate.
Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com
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