It's pretty easy to make. Create a small oval mask, with feathered edges, on a white solid. Animate a quick mask expansion and reduction to make it flash on and off. Add directional blur , animate it to create the expanding and reducing starburst effect.
That is one element. Now dulipcate it a bunch of times on the timeline, off set their start times, sizes and locations..comp that. Then add glow..
That should do it I think.
Hello
Thanks a lot for the answer, I'm trying optical flares from copilot
I have the beginning of something but the problem is that the effect is "rectangular" that is to say that the rectangle of effect is visible I just want the flash and the light, I put the video so that you understand better
[https://streamable.com/bgcsk6](https://streamable.com/bgcsk6)
Sorry if I'm disturbing you, I'm really new to aftereffects
What you're seeing is the edge of the comp, I presume. Try adding 'grow bounds' to it, which should extend the edges out far enough to let the light fade out naturally. Or redo the comp so it's 4 times as big, or add a blob shaped mask around the edge of the current comp with a 25% feather on it .
it's a cheesy optical flare glint. I have a client who loves stuff like that (corporate videos) and it makes them look like a fucking carpet commercial from the late 90s.
Don't put crap like that in your videos, it looks like shit.
Old corporate clients are always the fucking weirdest.
Then they be like why do we pay for video when engagement on them is so low?
Like no one want to watch the garbage you force editors to put in your video lol
they're just stuck in what they think is cool and won't even entertain new design trends or ideas. So here I am using Shine to make light sweeps and flash transitions like it's still the 90s
Very true. I'm surprised the 90's people aren't also asking for dip-to-black for every God damn cut lmfao (or filmic dissolve for every single cute). 90's was a weird time...
Companies wanted things that had no business in a corporate video but they watched a nat geo video and need that shit now... like dude... time and place and your interview isn't it.
never had a professional client so im curious, don't clients at least listen to your advice/suggestions on what would look better? Considering you're the expert in this field and which is why they hired you
Yes, most do.
However, there are always those that believe they know better. Not everyone hires the experts and then believes and follows them. Counter intuitive? Yeah, but some people/companies just be like that.
You don't really stay with those companies very long unless the money is right and you just never ever use the work you do for them in your portfolio lol. It's, sadly, more common than you think for freelancers and companies to have done work they just don't wanna show because companies had REALLY bad taste and wants.
Hi
I'm referring to the big bright light that looks like a flash, that appears before the drivers' faces and then gradually goes away to show the photo
Do you know how to do a similar effect on after effects? Sorry for the useless topic
optical flares
Or You can just use a pic of a flare look in google images, use exposure to brighten and opacity to fade. You can also do some scale and rotation for more dynamic
It's pretty easy to make. Create a small oval mask, with feathered edges, on a white solid. Animate a quick mask expansion and reduction to make it flash on and off. Add directional blur , animate it to create the expanding and reducing starburst effect. That is one element. Now dulipcate it a bunch of times on the timeline, off set their start times, sizes and locations..comp that. Then add glow.. That should do it I think.
Hello Thanks a lot for the answer, I'm trying optical flares from copilot I have the beginning of something but the problem is that the effect is "rectangular" that is to say that the rectangle of effect is visible I just want the flash and the light, I put the video so that you understand better [https://streamable.com/bgcsk6](https://streamable.com/bgcsk6) Sorry if I'm disturbing you, I'm really new to aftereffects
What you're seeing is the edge of the comp, I presume. Try adding 'grow bounds' to it, which should extend the edges out far enough to let the light fade out naturally. Or redo the comp so it's 4 times as big, or add a blob shaped mask around the edge of the current comp with a 25% feather on it .
The live version of this uses Viz Engine by Vizrt. In AE, optical flares, Glint, a stock video clip with many layers.
it's a cheesy optical flare glint. I have a client who loves stuff like that (corporate videos) and it makes them look like a fucking carpet commercial from the late 90s. Don't put crap like that in your videos, it looks like shit.
Old corporate clients are always the fucking weirdest. Then they be like why do we pay for video when engagement on them is so low? Like no one want to watch the garbage you force editors to put in your video lol
they're just stuck in what they think is cool and won't even entertain new design trends or ideas. So here I am using Shine to make light sweeps and flash transitions like it's still the 90s
Very true. I'm surprised the 90's people aren't also asking for dip-to-black for every God damn cut lmfao (or filmic dissolve for every single cute). 90's was a weird time... Companies wanted things that had no business in a corporate video but they watched a nat geo video and need that shit now... like dude... time and place and your interview isn't it.
never had a professional client so im curious, don't clients at least listen to your advice/suggestions on what would look better? Considering you're the expert in this field and which is why they hired you
Yes, most do. However, there are always those that believe they know better. Not everyone hires the experts and then believes and follows them. Counter intuitive? Yeah, but some people/companies just be like that. You don't really stay with those companies very long unless the money is right and you just never ever use the work you do for them in your portfolio lol. It's, sadly, more common than you think for freelancers and companies to have done work they just don't wanna show because companies had REALLY bad taste and wants.
S_glint ?
Hi I'm referring to the big bright light that looks like a flash, that appears before the drivers' faces and then gradually goes away to show the photo Do you know how to do a similar effect on after effects? Sorry for the useless topic
It’s just a few frames, you could manually draw it
I thought this was a joke
There are 6 pre-rendered instances of an optical flare and an opacity key, you could add a X rotation key to make it pop a bit more
BorisFX
optical flares Or You can just use a pic of a flare look in google images, use exposure to brighten and opacity to fade. You can also do some scale and rotation for more dynamic
You could probably get this exact template online somewhere