Like other lens flares, I've got some controls, here for the Global controls of the lens flares. You can see that the lens flare gets added and with the effect still selected in Effect Controls I can play with it's on screen controls to move where the center point of the lens flare is located. I'll select the effect and apply it to the clip in my 6_5 composition. I done a search in my Effects & Presets for mFlare from motionVFX and if you have it installed, you can follow along. So mFlare is another stand alone lens flare package, available from. MFlare offers a variety of presets and it's own interface for lens flare creation. Not a lot of people know about this because the company makes products primarily for Final Cut Pro X and Apple Motion. To create flares in Final Cut Pro X, you can buy a collection of “titles” and by positioning these get more or less what looks like a lens flare.- MFlare is a plug-in produced by motionVFX. But titles don’t move with the subject causing the flare unless you move them with it, using keyframes. That’s tedious and often not very accurate. In addition, most lens flare offerings don’t even come close to the real thing. MotionVFX created mFlare 2, a plugin that uses the Mocha tracker to bind your lens flare to the subject that you want it to move together with. It’s also pretty close to a real lens flare if you create an “Organic” one. MFlare 2 is a plugin developed by MotionVFX, a European developer who is becoming an important competitor of FxFactory. Its plugins and effects are of a very fine quality and most plugins have mocha tracking technology on board. MFlare 2 lives in the Effects category of Final Cut Pro X’s Inspector. It has an impressive number of presets, neatly organised in Anamorphic, Cinematic, Organic, Offscreen and SciFi sections. I was especially interested in the Organic category, as that one holds the flare effects that come closest to the real thing. I tried it with a shot of a large square in my native city, Antwerp. I shot at an angle that I knew would normally cause the sun to generate flares. In this case, I deliberately used a lens that was not “flare sensitive” enough, as I planned to add a nice flare in post using mFlare 2. In Final Cut Pro X, after dragging the mFlare 2 plugin to the clip on the timeline, I was greeted with On Screen Controls (OSC) that contained buttons for editing the effect, for tracking and resetting. I used a preset that came close to what I needed, tracked the sun and then watched the effect. Not too much to my surprise - given my previous experiences with MotionVFX’s plugins - it looked exactly as what I expected from having created similar shots at roughly the same angle using a zoom lens with no lens hood attached to it. The mFlare 2 effects have two sets of configuration settings. The first are the basic ones that appear in the Final Cut Pro X Inspector, the in-depth ones let you change the components of the flare itself and can be accessed only from the OSC Edit button. Components include the Iris, Glint, Loop, Orb, etc. Each component can be made to glow differently, be more or less transparent, etc, etc. The Inspector settings also contain some basic appearance parameters, such as the colours used, grain, etc. The greenish horizontal streak - a component of the effect that had four of them - that only appeared after I panned away slightly from my light source was a bit too opaque to my liking, so I delved into the OSC Edit effect settings.
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