Glares
by Davey Smith
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Apr 25, 2008 at 4:40:25 pm
I am quite new to after effects,
My question is, how do you do these glares on the video below , its sort of like a glare which looks as if youve shot against a light
here is the link to the video, the points in which I mean are at 33 seconds in and 50 seconds in and at various different points in the video, its like a stream of light which comes across the screen, its used alot nowadays, does anyone know how i can pull it off on after effects cs3?
Re: Glares by Lars Bunch on Apr 25, 2008 at 5:47:14 pm
Hi,
It looks like they shot footage at night, driving down the road so they got a lot of flared highlights from passing cars and streetlights. My guess is that they dropped this in as a layer above the singer and used a blending mode like Screen or Add.
Here it is important to crush the black levels on the glare footage. Probably the best approach is to shoot with a relatively broad range in the camera but then push the contrast up in AE. You can also add whatever color correction you need at this point. By pushing up the contrast, the singer is not obscured by a lot of random image noise, but the lights flare out and blow out some areas.
Re: Glares by Barend Onneweer on Apr 27, 2008 at 10:09:56 pm
They're called lensflares and you can either shoot them and composite them into the footage or create them digitally - in which case Knoll Light Factory is the industry standard.
