Creative COW | David Nerlich | Activity https://creativecow.net/members/davidnerlich2/activity/ Activity feed for David Nerlich. Fri, 15 May 2026 18:33:07 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.5.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 918e28444f2dc7181d09321e98c42dfe David Nerlich replied to the discussion Make lens flare reactive. in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/make-lens-flare-reactive/#post-2474143 Sun, 30 Nov 2025 05:27:24 +0000 Reply to Make lens flare reactive.

Thanks Roland, a clue maybe. It’s going to take a minute to figure out what you’ve done here visually. Please let us know if you upload an aep.

However I’m very happy. Mask control isn’t vital for my purposes and your expression has made it possible to have the flare controlled by a hidden layer so I can put all sorts of moving mattes derived from…

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]]> c75cc31d79140004a89dd33aa1886247 David Nerlich replied to the discussion Make lens flare reactive. in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/make-lens-flare-reactive/#post-2474119 Sat, 29 Nov 2025 11:27:01 +0000 Reply to Make lens flare reactive.

Roland, that’s working really well! Thank you!

However the mask doesn’t seem to do anything but cut a hole in the layer.

]]> bc552c58ed5f8b5c418cda67c07ff927 David Nerlich replied to the discussion Make lens flare reactive. in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/make-lens-flare-reactive/#post-2474114 Sat, 29 Nov 2025 04:08:57 +0000 Reply to Make lens flare reactive.

Thanks Roland. Expression error. What have I done wrong here?

]]> 6a8a3f99084c8cb0ce30a9f61a6071a9 David Nerlich replied to the discussion Make lens flare reactive. in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/make-lens-flare-reactive/#post-2474112 Sat, 29 Nov 2025 03:51:40 +0000 Reply to Make lens flare reactive.

Thanks Dan. This worked! However a shortcoming with the result is there is no control, as it’s been all ceded to the underlying image layer. It would be good if there was a secondary brightness control or threshold to control the degree to which the brightness is affected.

Another option would be if the brightness could be driven by a copy of the…

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]]> 234b73880ce432309c82494917975241 David Nerlich started the discussion Make lens flare reactive. in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/make-lens-flare-reactive/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:25:33 +0000 Make lens flare reactive.

Can I get the brightness of the native AE lens flare to:

A: Vary with the brightness of the underlying pixels at the flare centre position.

B: Disappear behind a matte layer or when travelling out of shot.

Video Copilot’s optical flares do both so there should be a way?

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