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Lens Flare Video Effect

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Often followed by + Contrast + Sharpen

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Settings are written to the URL as you change them. Nothing differs from the defaults yet.

Put the sun in the lens. The flare is built from a light source you place: a bright core with a long-tailed halo, glare that lifts the frame around it, spikes from the aperture blades, and ghosts across the center.

Placement

Put Flare X and Flare Y over the brightest point already in the shot, such as the sun, a lamp, or a window. A flare anchored to a real source reads as optics; one floating over a shadow looks pasted on.

Intensity, halo, and spikes

Intensity and Halo Size set the glow. Starburst Spikes sets the number of diffraction spikes, from none to 12. The flare is fixed, so it works best on tripod shots, slow pans away from a steady source, and title backgrounds.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. The flare stays at Flare X and Flare Y for the whole clip. It suits locked-off shots or slow moves where the light source stays in place.

Reflections of the aperture from glass surfaces inside the lens. They sit on the line from the light source through the frame center, so moving the source moves them too.

That is veiling glare: light scattered inside the lens barrel lifts the blacks across the frame, most strongly near the source.

It is copied into the export unchanged when the container can hold its codec, and re-encoded when it cannot. A note under the export button says which happened.

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