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After Effects Anamorphic Lens Flares Tutorial

2 Comments Published by Matthew Jeppsen May 1st, 2010 in Lenses, News, Post-Production, Tutorials

Next Wave DV has posted a lengthy tutorial on how to use Video Copilot’s Optical Flares plugin package to integrate realistic high-quality lens flares in your next production. So now you can make your work look like Star Trek, or Transformers, or any number of popular music videos. It’s an effect that is at times overplayed, but one you’ll no doubt be asked to create at some point, so better arm yourself with knowledge! Watch below.

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  1. 1 Jeremy Toth May 1st, 2010 at 11:10 pm

    Great tutorial, is there a way to use Optical Flares in photoshop for still images as I am primarily a photographer and this software looks very realistic!

    Cheers

    Jeremy

  2. 2 Matthew Jeppsen May 2nd, 2010 at 7:37 pm

    @Jeremy Surely the plugin won’t work in Photoshop, but there might be some workaround to roundtrip your stills through After Effects and then back into PS. Kinda a backward way to do things though…perhaps there’s a comparable lens flare plugin pack for PS instead…

    -MJ