Tutorial: Creating a Lens Flare in Adobe After Effects
This tutorial will show you a quick way to create an animated lens flare effect that can enhance your transitions, lower-thirds, 以及更多使用Adobe After Effects CC 2014.
Lens flares are very popular effects than can be used in transitions, lower-thirds, 标志, 还有其他一些地方. The flash effects they produce are good attention-getters that you can include in your videos. This tutorial will show you a quick way to create one using Adobe After Effects CC 2014.
对于这个项目, I will create a full-screen lens flare that can be used as a transition effect to switch from one piece of video to another. 打开After Effects, we can create a new composition by selecting the Create New Composition button within the Project panel.
在这里 we will see the options for creating a composition. We can name our composition and then set project parameters. For this example, we’ll choose the 1920x1080 preset. You can also adjust the framerate, duration, and some other options in this window.
选择镜头光晕效果
下一个, we’ll add a solid black layer by navigating to Layer, 在New下扩展选项, 然后选择固态. 在这里 we want to make sure the color of the solid is black. By default, After Effects will use the same color you previously used for these settings. We can change this by clicking the color square and choosing black.
The great thing with this technique is that we will be modifying a Lens Flare effect that is prebuilt in After Effects. This is a nice timesaver as it does a lot of the work for us.
We’ll access this effect by navigating over to the Effects and Presets window and searching for Lens Flare. The Lens Flare option under the Generate folder is the effect we’ll want to use. We can drag this over to our solid layer in our timeline and let go. This has now applied the effect to our solid layer.
自定义效果
现在, we can make some adjustments to the lens flare in the Effects Control panel. 在这里, 你可以重新定位信号弹, 调节亮度, 更改镜头类型, and blend this with any footage that would be underneath this layer.
对于这个项目, we are going to adjust the Flare Center and the Brightness and then animate these from left to right on screen.
我们将从动画中心开始. We’ll move the Center properties of the flare so that it starts to the left. 一旦我们有了起始点, 我们可以点击手表图标, which creates a keyframe for our starting point. 现在, anything that we do to the Flare Center properties will animate over time since we have activated the keyframe options. We will now move ahead in time to about 1 second. 下一个, we will navigate back to the Effect Controls panel and readjust the flare’s position parameters.
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