Thanks to all three companies for providing me with a copy of their product for the purposes of this review.įor a history of the use of lens flare in cinema then this short video essay from Vox has got you covered.
#BRIGHTNESS TRACKING MFLARE PRO#
The Pro Preset flares look fantastic and are really well designed. Optical Flares – Video CoPilot’s plugin has been used on numerous Hollywood films and is without doubt the most powerful lens flare plugin you can get for After Effects. The on-screen controls and in-built tracker also make it really intuitive to customise the flare and animated it’s position. MFlare2 – This FCPX based plugin has the best looking interface of any of the plugins, in terms of interface usability and features. There are a few handy presets and very detailed controls but nothing very visual to aid creating your own presets. ResolveFX Lens Flare – It’s great to have something built-in to DaVinci Resolve Studio for creating lens flares, but feels like a beginning rather than a fully featured and finished plugin.
We’ll get into the detail of each plugin as we go, but for a quick summary here’s how I would describe them: That’s why spending the money required to enable you to build your own 3D flares – which can go behind objects, reflect off their edges and a track with your camera movement – can be such a good investment. These baked-in flares are handy when you just want to quickly add a lens flare and don’t have one of these paid for apps to hand, or installed on your client’s system, but they can only take you so far.Īlthough you could hand animate these ‘baked-in’ layers to some degree, being able to control the size, position, intensity and movement of individual elements in the flare makes for a far more convincing effect. These three tools allow you to create bespoke lens flares that you can animate and composite into a scene in a far more seamless way than ‘baked-in’ lens flares like the ones you can download (in 4K and up!) from this post:
In this post I’m going to take a look at adding optical flares to an edit and grade, using three different paid-for tools DaVinci Resolve Studio, Video CoPilot’s Optical Flares for After Effects and mFlare2 for FCPX from. DaVinci Resolve Studio vs Video CoPilot Optical Flares vs mFlare 2.Create bespoke animated custom lens flares.
#BRIGHTNESS TRACKING MFLARE HOW TO#
How to add Real Optical Lens Flares to your Edit and Grade
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