lens flare, After effects

[kippu]

is there a way to render out an animation and later add lens flare effects to the ceiling lights in the animation, like track it somehow and do it?

[SunGlare]

You can render lights in a separate pass, use it as tracking reference, apply flare to tracked data, and use it in composition.

 

or you can use this pass as a soure itself, will be faster, but then you cant keep the lens light effect.

[kippu]

ok tom, thats theoritically how i surmised it to be... am a very very novice in this ...so if you can help me through as a step by step or show me a tutorial... i be helpful..thanks

[Nic H]

Hi Kippu

 

Are you using self illuminated or vray light mat for your bulbs/lights?

The way I do it is to render a pass of just the light material with all lights and gi off. This produces a black and white image of the lights that you can use in after effects.

 

I use a plug in called trapcode that is excellent for lens effects/glows. Just apply it to the light pass layer and it will automatically make various types of glows / flares for you.

 

There must be a way to do it without plugins using teh light pass I just cant think of a easy way right now. hmmm.

[kippu]

i got a pass with the material id of those bulbs.... just not able to figure where to put that pass and how to comp it in..... maybe i should just stick to renderings and ask someone else to do it for me