Description
Video Copilot Optical Flares Overview
The Video Copilot Optical Flares Plug-in enables you to design and animate realistic lens flares in After Effects, and comes with 60 built-in,
real lens inspired presets and tutorials (over 90 min). It is suitable for use in applications such as 3D animation, motion graphics, commercials,
and music videos. You can also use it for, graphic transitions, compositing, special effects, and combine it with particle effects.
Equipped with an intuitive design interface, the Optical Flares Plug-in comes with 12 unique lens objects and 50 custom lens objects, and allows
you to rename and rearrange them. The interface also features integrated copy-paste function, and supports duplicate objects and undo/redo.
It also features a large pop-out preview window and can show BG in preview window.
The Optical Flares Plug-in incorporates 3D lens flares with AE lights, live visual preset library, and dynamic triggering of animations. In addition
to chromatic aberration, it supports real textures and up to 32 bpc color. The preset browser allows you to share and swap presets, and
save all settings in a single place. You can also save and reuse individual objects, and expand and build new presets.
Using the Optical Flares Plug-in, you can add final touches to motion graphics, realism to your virtual sets, and flares to live action footage.
It allows you to simulate concert or stadium lighting, visible atmosphere with lighting, and bright lights in your scenes. You can also build a
virtual light array for music videos and blend 3D animations. In addition to support for fake volumetric lighting, the plug-in enables you to
draw focus to a product or graphic, and accentuate highlights or contours.
Key Features
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Enables you to design and animate realistic lens flares in After Effects
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60 built-in, real lens inspired presets
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5 Video Tutorials training by Video Copilot president and founder Andrew Kramer (over 90 min) - teaches usage of optical flares with real world examples and thorough information on making complex lens flare presets from scratch
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Suitable for use in applications such as 3D animation, motion graphics, commercials, and music videos; you can also use it for, graphic transitions, compositing, special effects, and combine it with particle effects
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Equipped with an intuitive design interface
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Comes with 12 unique lens objects and 50 custom lens objects
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Allows you to rename and rearrange lens objects
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Integrated copy-paste function
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Supports duplicate objects and undo/redo
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Large pop-out preview window
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Can show BG in preview window
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3D lens flares with AE lights - automatically calculate size and intensity based on your 3D lights; generate lens flares from AE 3D lights
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Live visual preset library
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Dynamic triggering of animations - Recreate organic animation with various trigger types and trigger area can be previewed for precise animations
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Chromatic aberration - enables you to simulate realistic color bleeding around the outside of the lens; helps make the lens flares look more organic and natural
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Supports real textures - 25 built-in textures; add realism with lens artifacts from actual photographic elements to create genuine lens flares
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Supports 32 bpc color
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Preset browser - allows you to share and swap presets, and save all settings in a single place; save and reuse individual objects and expand and build new presets
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Add final touches to motion graphics, realism to your virtual sets, and flares to live action footage
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Allows you to simulate concert or stadium lighting, visible atmosphere with lighting, and bright lights in your scenes
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Build a virtual light array for music videos and blend 3D animations
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Support for fake volumetric lighting
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Allows you to draw focus to a product or graphic and accentuate highlights or contours
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On-Lens Simulations - simulates dust and scratches on your lens that can be seen by the light source
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3D Occlusion - works with 2D and 3D layers. Obscures layers by alpha and gamma to simulate light source going behind objects in the foreground.
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Luminance Tracking - generates a lens flare from bright spots in your video such as a particle system or matte layer
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Mask Positioning - animates lens flares along the contour of complex shapes with ease
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Auto-Shimmering - adds smooth flowing shimmer to elements with self-propelling animation
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Chromatic Aberration - simulates realistic color bleeding around the outside of the lens
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Light Flickering - makes lights appear more energetic with random light flickering featuring a unique seed for each light source
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32 Bit & GPU Ready - renders up to 32 bpc offering high color fidelity as well as enhanced speed with graphics card acceleration
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Flexible Core Objects - helps build lens flares with the use of 12 powerful core objects
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Precise Translating - controls the position of each object with distance, offset and custom translation
