Andy Williams
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Under your layer effects go to your glow options, and next to the glow color option select the drop down and choose original colors, make sure “glow based on” is set to color channels.
Andy Williams
Animator at MTD Gaming/Precision Technologies
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Im not sure what project files you downloaded, but based on the first screenshot you uploaded it looks like there are just some masks, camera layers, adjustment layers (all things that you cant physically see in the final production).
The second screenshot looks to be a bit more complicated, but also looks to not really have any visible layers besides some solid layers.
This is just a guess but if you got the project files off of a website they might be more of a template for a final production with no actual source material. Im not quite sure though I would have to take a look at the files myself. Where did you get these project files?
Andy Williams
Animator at MTD Gaming/Precision Technologies
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https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/
Video copilot is awesome, especially once you know your basics fairly well. The guy that does these tutorials is fantastic but in the more advanced ones he will use shortcuts that you have to know about to keep up. He does have some basic tutorials that are really nice to get you going. I’ve watched almost all of his tutorials and he does a lot of animations over live footage which is really cool. After working with AE for a few months every day and watching all of these tutorials and some on YouTube, I feel very confident with the software!
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New Comp:
Make a new layer -> Solid -> black solid
Add your lens flare effect and do whatever you want with it, keyframe it, do what you want with it.
Duplicate that layer (CTRL + D) or Edit -> Duplicate
Turn they eye off on the first layer
Set your TrkMatk drop down options on the second layer to Luma Matte “First layer name”You might lose a bit of the brightness of the flare this way but it works just fine (you can turn up the flare brightness under the layer effect options), turn on transparency grid and you can see you have removed the black background. Just another way to do it! 🙂