Light Rays

I have a scene that was shot in a church and would like to add "God Ray's" coming through the windows.

Does anyone know of a plugin for FCP, Motion or AE that works well for this?

You said it in your subject line. LIGHT RAYS...it is in the VIDEO FILTERS area under GLOW.

Too much?


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The plug works for FCP, Motion and AE - will work in 8, 16 and 32 floating point and you can get from Red Giant. [www.redgiantsoftware.com]

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Ditto, Ben

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There's also a CoreMelt plug called guess what: God Rays. Does exactly what you're saying.

I ended up using Trapcode's Shine. Easy to use looks great in 16bit, I was too impatient to try 32bit.

These are very good plugins.

Thanks.

For next time, bear in mind that 8-bit and 16-bit compositing are the same thing only with more precision, while 32-bit compositing is an entirely different operation. While 8- and 16-bit uses a gamma curve, 32-bit compositing is in linear space, and most compositing operations work completely differently under the hood. It's not just about precision, it's a whole different process.

Yes, rendering in 32-bit can take longer, but the results are worth it. I can't remember the last time I rendered anything in 8- or 16-bit. Maybe a title card or two, but nothing that actually composites one layer on top of another.

OK, I'm rendering in 32bit to see if there's much of a difference.

Either way I'm pretty satisfied with the output.

16-Bit is just fine for Shine Chuck...good choice. 16-Bit will get rid of any steppy gradients and give a nice smooth glow without any "banding". You want a tip? You can animate the rays to shimmer by keyframing & controlling their detail and phase inside the "Shimmer" parameter. It looks like there's nothing to it...but there's a lot to the plug-in. You just need to dive in and play.

For what you need it for, you don't need 32-Bit IMHO unless you want to jack up your render time for kicks

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Glad you like it Chuck - I just used them in this exact way for a promo to create "God Rays" it was very rough but add the Shine and boom you get a very passable effect.

As Joey said - you gotta check out the other plugins and have a look at the tutorials and have a play because you can create some fantastic sequences with a bit more knowledge of the plugins.



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