Optical Flare Eyes - Test
Link to the site where I got the packages:
http://www.videocopilot.net
Packages Used:
Optical Flares
Twitch
Pro Scores
Designer Sound FX
Film Magic Pro
Hope you enjoy this test. I am working on getting a tutorial video to you guys on how to do this.
But, here is how I did this (in case you are too impatient to wait til the tutorial comes out):
1. Import your Footage into a Composition. This will be your rough sketch to the final product.
2. Add your footage to the timeline and duplicate the footage once.
3. Put in Auto Color to help the colors look better.
4. Put sharpen unless you are in a dark room to make the footage look more clean and makes the colors have a bit more definition to them.
5. Put in Auto Contrast and this will help the lighting look better in the footage.
6. Put the Film Magic Pro Blue Crush or Film Magic Pro BlueEasy on an change the Start Luminance, Saturation, Color, Saturation 1, End Luminance to what you like. I did not change this because the face needed to have some light, but not too much light.
7. Duplicate the top layer and shorten it to the length that the Twitch effects will be. I say not that much because your Twitch Sound Effects are only about a second long.
8. Choose your Twitch Sound Effect and add it to the comp and choose whatever Twitch Preset you want. I like the Transformation Crazy Man effect. It give it a nice distortion, color change, distortion amongst other effects.
9. Once you have your Twitch Effects done, make a new composition and add your previous one into it. Track the eyes with a null object or you can go into your tracker and do it. If you do this, make sure you have a null object tracked to the tracker, so we can than track the optical flare to the null object.
10. Create a Black Solid, and open your optical flares plug in.
11. Go to options and choose your Optical Flare. I chose the Bay one because I liked it.
12. Make sure the optical flare is small enough. We are going to scale the Black Solid up, or we will be left seeing a tint in the footage (if the black solid is scaled down, you will notice a tint. I've tried to tint the footage the same color, but it doesn't work).
12. When done, click on the black solid and allow the "Render Mode" to be set on Transparent.
13. Set the Parent on the black solid to Null 1 or Null 2, depending on what the null objects name is for the eye.
14. Create another null object. Turn on the position, rotation and scale on.
15. Put the tracker onto the other eye and Parent that to the first null object. This will track both points on the eye the same way, so the flare can look the same when you parent both objects to the null you want it to,
16. Duplicate the optical flares and parent them to the null object.
17. Go to your Pro Scores pack and take the "Quiet" track. Loop the beginning, for the first note sounds like a flare, so we use it for the flare.
That is how I did the optical flares along with the video. It took me around 30 minutes to export it cause it was huge in effects. The file for exporting was around 180 MB.