[Renevatia]

Originally Posted by darkshark

Lens flare is pretty awful. You might have better luck if you change the lens type to the 3rd option (don't have AE open right now, I forget what size lens it is).

Try this:

Delete your lens flare.

Create a new solid, black.

Apply two or 3 lens flares to this solid, all of them the third option for lens type.

Right click on your black solid and change it's blending mode to screen.

Arrange the flares to the left side, center, and right side of your text shatter.

apply a gaussian or box blur to the solid layer with the flares on it.

animate the flare brightness to start on the frame it shatters.

animate the flare brightness to fade out as the brightness of the shatter fades as well.

You might want to create a long rectangular mask over your flare solid, the length of your text, and feather it out so that your lens flare brightness is kind of centralized over your text instead of being global.

I think that would give you a really, really nice effect.

Ive tried all three, this one is the only one that looks remotely non-crappy in this occasion. Probably because the lack of a back ground. For the rectangular shaped mask Ive tried that too, I was hoping for a transformer flare type look but it didn't work out very well either. Only solution i can think of is if I make the flare myself out of some other tool or just paint over with a animated mask/opacity.

Start time for flare I was thinking of something like an external sources that makes it shatter instead of self ignition thats why I offset it as is, I will try the other one and maybe throw a few things here and there. I think I need to edit the flare color too.

Really like the flare set on copilot tho lol