Sweet!! I can’t wait for this!
It looks WAY better than the default lens flare in AE!

another great stuff!
truly amazing!

thanks AK!
you’re the man!

CANT WAIT!!!

This is great!

wow can’t wait

YAY! im going to buy this right when it comes out

wicked cant wait to get my mitts on this

This looks amazing!

This tutorial is brought to you by…JJ Abrams

or plug-in…not tutorial

Awesome! Looks very nice, can’t wait!

Looks awesomeeeee!

very cool!
It looks so much more realistic than the built-in lens flares.

This is going to be a very useful plugin.
Thanks so much Andrew, can’t wait!

Cool..I would be keen to see how diffrent this will be than Knoll light factory. The 3d AE light integration looks really really good..If it works with 3Ds Max imported lights via Max2AE or equivilant…I’m sold!

I’m guesing the Lens flare research was gained from
Star Trek? (shining mag lights into anamorphic lenses) and replicating those into digital versions.

Congrats on the new edition to your family btw..kindest regards to you all!

Amazing!
Looks awesome.

Outstanding!!!! They can use it for the next Star Trek Film

whoa! …very excite!

Hey James, I’ll answer your question because it is about this 1 feature. Yes 3D lights exported from max (boomer labs) and cinema 4D will work including color and intensity!

DO WANT!! thanks ahead of time, AK. I will be getting this for sure!

wow, always working on something new. thank you~

This looks really exciting. It was like just yesterday AE2 came out.

Awesome, looks like they used that for the Star Trek film. So many lens flares in that movie, its nuts.

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is absolutely SUPER!!!

woooooooooooooooooooooooot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey andrew one question:

will it be compatible with cs3?

and is this the tutorial you told us you are going to put? or another one? thanks

Cool! So these are fully 3D lens flares? Is this like Knoll Light Factory? What’s the difference?

Unbeliavebly awesome. I confess that when you said you were going to create a new plugin, I wondered what else you could come up with…well, that was better than I expected.

Thanks Andrew…I know I was sneeky about asking a question! – That is truly an amazing feature that opens up the integration of 3D lights in a scene.

I for one thank you for working this out…I can think of many applictions where this will be an amazing aceleration of handling light/lens effects for motion graphics and visual effects.

I look forward to this coming out!

Hey Andrew,

Awesome, I can’t wait for this!!!

just the ticket Andrew. I’m an absolute lens flare maniac.

November is going to awesome cuz this new product might be coming out and all the sick games to, sort of going off topic but i really cant wait to buy it

What about the matte plug-in? Is it in development?

J.J. Abrams would be proud.

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cant wait!!!!!!!! oh, and by the way, id buy it even if it was $1,000!

Kinda reminds me of Flashforward… only the titles though. Really nice looking and cannot wait to use some elements of the Many many features you say you have lined up for us!

Gonna be as epic as AE2!

WOOOOOWW… didn’t you just have a little one? I can’t understand your work ethic how do you do this all? That is truly amazing

@ MovieMaker: Knoll Light Factory has very clean perfect lense flares primarily for motion graphics. This plug-in looks like it has more imperfect, “dirty” looking flares that are suitable for visual effects as well as motion graphics.

Bout time someone took this job to task! We needed some 3D lens flares.

Whoa, when I saw the video, my jaw literally dropped. I was like :O.

Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! plug in

ALRIIGHT! cannot wait.

I had my doubts for this but it looks pretty good. I’ll have to look at the price though. I have to realize the difference between wants and needs :X

You sound tired from the baby haha. On the flip side, this looks really cool, my initial thought was what happened to knoll light factory, but this looks very original and neat.

That looks very cool Papa Kramer!

Very cool, Andrew. I too have been studying anamorphic flare more than I care to say. :p

I know you said it was still in development, and you flares look great, but the flares in that video needed some more rounded artifacts mixed in with the square ones on the anamorphic center line.

I’m sure you already know this though. Anamorphics will produce rounded or squared artifacts, or both at the same time depending on the lens and light source.

Todd Vaziri at ILM did Star Trek’s anamorphic flares, so you might want to talk to him about it.

Looks great though so far, I will definitely be buying this product the minute it’s out.

Everytime Andrew Kramer plans/comes out with a new product, it’s like waiting for the next best… I don’t know use your imagination. I WANT IT!!!!!!

SWEET!!!!!!!! Looking forward to seeing more!!!!!

Phil

WOW… this is the greatest thing ever!!!

Mr. Kramer trying to get rich now….GO FOR ITTTT!! You deserve it. But beside that, seems like a great product. You’ll see my $150:)

Now I’m sure you’ve got this covered (cause as you said, it was just a preview), but just in case:

I noticed that when the camera panned in, you could see the horizontal line way before the “light source” came into view.

And if you look at real lens flares, the horizontal flares are very short at first, and appear just before the light source comes in.

Now again, I’m sure you have this covered and my suggestion is a moot point; but as I said, just in case.

Keep up the good work A.C.

Alright so I read the description and im saying to myself “Are you serious? I am not going to pay like $100 for being able to make lens flares, which i can already do!”, but then I watch your quick demo video… God dam, you know how to work a crowd. I’m sorry for ever doubting you.

Andrew, I have a question on your speaker panning preset.

I’d just like to know, does that panning preset support 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound???

Looks rate good!

Did you create the plugin in Pixel Blender? Or the AE API?

It looks great… I’m anticipating new information about this as well as the release.

Have you considered a normal email newsletter? Not just the occasional newsletter to announce big releases.. but a normal monthly newsletter. (I do know that it would be much more time consuming, but just a thought.)

Andrew,

Please tell me this will be a 16bit or 32 bit plug!!!
I’m sick of the little yellow sign!!!

Lou …

wow, sounds very useful indeed! cant wait to learn more

no more painly long expressions

Andrew this plugin looks amazing! Now I know you said to hold questions but, will there be other types of lens flares aswell?

50000 lines of code ain’t cheap.

I can’t even explain how excited I am about this. This thing will be purchased the second PRE-orders are available.

THANK YOU!

wow..this plug-in is the much awaited plug-in..to be purchased all over the world..this is sooo cool..and nice..i really like and love it..your so great and hard working with 50,000 lines of code..your so god damn after effects angel from vfx world..my god, save me..

Pixel blender? no.

waaaaw
i don’t know if that will be in the final plugin, but those chaotic lines are soooo coool!

can’t wait andrew!can’t wait:)

Kinda cool. I don’t know if i’d ever want to do that though. Probably not. I’ll have to wait and see some of the other stuff it can do!

This plugin looks pretty sexy, feels a lot like Trapcode Lux.

I’m with Steven, at first when I saw the price I was kind of bummed that I probably wouldn’t be able to buy VC’s latest product, but the video already sold me, and as you said I’m sure that it is just a fraction of what it can do. Now go spend time with your new family Kramer!

Roll it out already … love your products and ready to spend $$$

simply fantastic, and if you showed us only 1% of that what it can do, then im already impressed definetely gonna buy it.

I’m pretty interested to see what else this plug-in can do.

great!!! if i’m not wrong i saw a lot of this effect in the new Star Trek movie. Cool stuff

It seems this will be a top plugin… Work quickly, we all want to see the final result.

Thank you!

I want this so badly ! Can’t wait !

Best product you have ever made. Not even close. And yes, I have loved a bunch of them.

Gonna blow up Knoll Light factory’s domination.

Roll on November.

Looks quality! Superb!!!

Wow, quickmatte, video blog, a new baby, and now this? You must be really busy right now. Can’t wait to see all of the other features. Keep up the great work, man!

Not fair. I was almost finshed in my plugin of this.
I wanted a knoll light factory type plugin that had features like this one and everything else it could be.
(hit head against wall)…(ow)

still a very good plugin though and im glad of the gpu function.

for this monster only 150 dollar? its amazing!!! i want it!!!!!

O man i want it badlly

I need a new plugin to help me pick my jaw up from off the floor…. ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!!!

~bellacose~

How much will this plugin cost?
-David

Congratulations Angrew! Can’t wait until this comes out!!! One request – please finish it as soon as you can, I just CANNOT wait for this!!!

And don’t listen to little low life idiots… This is a great product, people will always find something to complain about. Give someone a brand new 5 series and they will complain that it’s not the M5… Good job again, I fully support your work and products.

Great plug-in i can’t wait to get it.

OMG!!! I just saw STAR TREK movie and loved the way lens flares looked!!! This will be really nice!!!

Hello Andrew,
I think you have a little mistake in creating this plugin. When a you don’t see the light source, you shouldn’t see the horizontal long lines of light (don’t know how to call them…).

In this video, even if the light source goes out of the picture, these lines are still visible.

Ori.

Wow… Amazing AK.

Sweet baby Jesus!

I cannot wait for this plugin.

50,000 lines of code? Are you writing a MCP?

$me horny for more! xD

Remind me of the 80′s in the 3D side of the prod.
I think I still have a lens flare hungover from then and probably won’t have a use for your plug.
But anyway it’s nice to see your team going the plug dev. way !

Wow, you’re on fire!

It’s funny how you don’t think much of a plugin or a specific feature, but then must have it as soon as it is announced.

As much as I’m really excited about this product, it feels as if you’re getting into too much work.
I mean there are tons of things which were announced and never mentioned again.

Quickmatte, video blog, and the t-shirt contest are a few at the top of my head.

Still, good luck, and congratulations on the additional family member!

This is truly awesome, I can’t wait!

man ilove you
ithink u the most importent designer in the world

I’m inspired !

putted on my wanted list Andrew :p

make it so….number one

hay andrew,i think u r tired,because ur voice is not as good as the tutorials voice.

but it seems a very powerfull plugin. we r waiting for it.

Andrew, how well will the plugin interact with Knoll Light Factory?

cant really wayt for it!

Awesome stuff AK.
Keep it up.

I’m excited to hear more about it. Because right now, i’m not sure it will be usefull in so many situations. Hopefully, i’ll change minds

Looks fantastic mate, really looking forward to the final product!

my dream came true…finaly we can add realistic flare to lights this plug in should have been an after effect ¨light¨ standard option thanx Andrew cool plug in waiting a long time for something like this

AK,
The plugin looks great, and I am looking forward to purchasing it. I guess its just a rule for me…..AK comes out with a product, I have to buy it!

Looking forward to hearing more details about the features in the upcoming weeks!

Thanks AK!

This is brilliant Andrew, it was always possible however it would require a massive work around. Nice job, big market for this!

This looks like another must-have VCP product! Well done guys.

To anyone who’s unsure about the price – Knoll Light Factory is $400, so $150 for this is very good value!

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, i cant wait!

OOOOhhhh yeahhhh…. i been looking 4 dis… First i saw dis in “fringe” i was shock, amaze. The flare is unique it isn’t ordinary.

U created this sir? wat is 50,000 lines of codes?

Andrew! It looks cool, man! I can’t wait!!

That is amazing . That’s what I was waiting for and to be honest it reminds be a CSI flashlight – lens look, which is imo amazing in CSI Miami – not only flashlight but many lighten objects.

u read minds kramer..beyond words !
luv !

MY GOD AMAZING!!!

wow awesome, u r only 1 who can read our mind about what we need…….

It’s so funny, I’ve been noticing your lens flares for a while, and i’ve gotten knoll light factory to look similar but it never looked quite right! Happy to hear about this. They looked great in the miniature car video you did.

Please!!! Hurry Up with that plugin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need it haha

I heard the price will be $149.99

I just came on net and i was thinking, i really really need now some cool lens flare, and recently that i cliked to this blog!
this is MIRACLE!!!!

what price man???it’s free!
they said it’s free

Can’t wait to see how they react to wiggles and motion tracking! Looks like a wonderfully powerful plug-in!

This is insane! He is insane! (FRINGE)

Sounds great. To give a brief intention of what it’s exactly like, could you explain in what way it’s different from Knoll Light Factory?

*Does shatner impression…

There’s. A lens flare on. My. Composition. A beautiful. Lens flare.

Andrew asked not to ask questions but there are already 27 question marks on this page! (yeh, I was board so I counted them) Hang on to questions

And… it would be cool if you could add a tutorial on the lensflare-technique you’re using in the Action Essentails 2 Promo. Just an idea.

Um, Wow! Dude, this looks sweet!
It’s like Knoll Light Factory, but awesomer (because it’s from VCP)
I can’t wait!

How much? freeware?

I’m a bit of a Trekkie so this looks great for photon torpedoes.

OMG!, i what that so bad, don’t forget release a mac version andrew, congrats for ur new baby, and thnks for video copilot

Nice Flare!! when its gonna on sell? can’t wait to use it for my current project..
cheeeerrssssss

This plugin looks fantastic. You’re finally offering some competition to Knoll Lens Flares, which is horribly outdated.

Please Please tell me that these flares will work in 32Bit floating point. If they’re clipped to white, that’s not so hot.

Thanks, I can’t wait to get my hands on it.

Wooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww you are the best dude…..I can’t wait.
you are a great inspiration for me work.

Thanks for all.

Yeah, Andrew’s said hold onto your questions.
We need to see all the other features too just to see that it’s really worth it.

Although, I do agree with one person, “How is this different to some of Knoll light factory’s stuff”

Wow this is great, I plan on buying after effects in a few months and all you’ve done is help. I can’t wait to apply the wiggle expression to the velocity of a particle emiter!!! Its kinda funny how no one else I know understands what I mean when I say that, not even my fellow film artists.

TO EVERYONE READING THIS CHECK ME OUT ON YOUTUBE I’M MEDIEVALFILMS

Holy Bacon! Incredible! Amazing! man… it seens to be a fantastic plugin.

Awesome………..

awesommmmeeeee…………

You think that kind of automation comes easy? Or cheap? Do you know anyone who can connect eight connection machines and debug two million lines of code for what I bid for this job? Cause if you can, I’d like to see them try.

Thank God! I hate using the lens flare plug-in in AE. I can finally start using lens flares that don’t make things look cheap half the time! Bought.

“LENSFLARE PORN” – a term I made up to describe movies like STAR TRECK and TERMINATORS.

Now we can do it on our demon face youtube videos!!
Maybe the demon face eyes can glow and become lens flares!!

Seriously great stuff. Saw the autotracking feature….looks cool. Nice to not have to keyframe the flairs they just follow the brightest part.

Dean: Classic.

looks amazing!!!

really cool. i’m going to buy it!

wooow very cool men yupi please more more

Epic fail, the default lens flare in AE will never be topped (cough! cough)! What a huge waste of time.

Actually it is awesome. Nice work.

Hey Andrew. Can i assume that you had something to do with the lens flares used throughout FRINGE and Star Trek? When watching both shows it is obvious that Abrahms has an affinity for the optical flare and was always curious if your company did any of the work on those.

Andrew looks like a real interesting plugin. Cant wait till november

Looking great I can’t wait

Very useful and very good work as usual!

Andrew is back in God mode!

can’t get it to play. Just get the preloader nonstop. Other vids on the site work though. Weird….

Hi Andrew, I think I saw this effect in new Fringe episode, am I right? Pretty amazing, keep inspirng people, greetings from Poland.

Regarding the demo video. Maybe it’s a trick of the light, but the flares behind the text seem to remain behind the text. Shouldn’t the flare artifacts render on top of everything else even when the light source is behind the object? Also, will partially obscuring the light source on the flare correctly alter the shape of the piece that’s emmitting the flare?

Andrew
I’ll pay for this.
Great as usual.
Thanks for sharing infos.
From Paris – Euclid

Looks great! Looking forward to it!

Whoa! so cool… want it nao mac vrs please

US150,00 looks expensive, let’s wait and see what else it does. It will probably be worth.

Keep the good work Andrew.

Knoll Light Factory is $399.00, our plug-in will be under $150… I’ll let you guys decide

Andrew,

This is a great plugin. What kind of video card you use for GPU rendering? Looks like it will be much more smoother to do work if you have a good graphics card. Not specifically the flare work but generally. Do you have any recommendations?

Best,
Hari

There is another consideration:
with all the free material you can find in this website $150 still aren’t enough…

Hmm good point Andrew, Knoll L. Fact. is $399, while this will be around half that. Worth buying from what I am looking at. And this is only the surface of what it will be capable of? WOW!!!

hey =D
this promises to be a nice product, looking forward to it!

I only got one question for you, how are you developing these plug-ins? I mean, what IDE, language, SDK etc, I can’t find info on this :S

Best, RjM

Plug-in look pretty exciting.
This flares will be really cool in motion graphics.It also will be really good in movies.I was thinkin’ about creating these kind of lens flares which I have seen in Fringe.They are awesome.Thanks Andrew.

ANDREW KRAMER……….DO NOT TEASE US…..WE WANT OPTICAL FLARES OR WE WILL RIOT…..YOU HAVE 24 HRS TO SELL OPTICAL FLARES

This needs to come out near the end of oct. so I can get it for my birthday!!!!!! CAN’T WAIT LOOKS EPIC!

that’s so great i can’t wait until you release it
GOOD LUCK

I see…..looks like a basic plug-in, but I’m mystified with what you’re goin’ to do with it,

Amazing work Andrew!
cant wait to use the newest plug-in of VC!

I want to work in the SFX and motion graphics industry. This site is one of the motivators pour moi. Hiring? I am willing to start as a key grip on your projects.

Nice Work Great Plug-ins
Good work Andrew

I am wondering if we can importing our Lens Flare Shape which we make it in Photoshop or Illustrator to open choices to edit our own Lens Flare Look ..?!

you know some People like to draw there Elements Lens Flare and add it to AE and make some Fun

if this Plug-ins open it will be exiting and interesting …

Master plugin. Thank Andrew and all the staff at Videocopilot

Hey Andrew, ! Andrew ! Aaaandrew! Hey ! here , no left , more left more stop exactly here. Hi

Knoll-Light-Factory is 149$ !!!! but don’t compare your work with other’s product. We like VideoCopilot products and I think this is better than Knoll-Light-Factory.

We all saw the interview with Andrew. We all know that Videocopilot moved and just grew out of its diapers. Flares were around since the old ages. One of the first effects we saw around. Optical Flares is like Videocopilot’s first steps. Can’t wait for Videocopilot to start saying it’s first words… that will probably be a particle system… The really good AE 3rd party plugins are in my opinion way over priced. I’m sure VC will eventually take over the plugin industry as their plugins are WAY cooler and more fit to our needs. This is because Andrew communicates with us and visa verse and knows what we need. Great job!

Looks promising! 150$? In VCP relatons it seems expensive, but compared to others it´s an hot deal…

Awesome

Will the GPU Rendering function work with SLI ?

Yeah, ressurection of old good flares seen in Chriss Cunningham videos. Good idea to make it controllable.
Of course it is looking good, like confusing came from nowhere lens flare in Star Trek. Need to be shure where to place it.

Sweet!! I can’t wait for this!
It looks WAY better than the default lens flare in AE!

A few others have mentioned Knoll Light Factory, I’m also interested to see how this compares as I use it a lot for very subtle flares and blooms. I’ve had a lot of issues with KLF since upgrading to CS3 and switching to 64bit so anything that can come close (or surpass it) without crashing or being a PITA would be great…and $150?…sounds good to me.

The only thing that concerns me is that lens flares are going to be everywhere again just like the early 90′s. It amazes me that shortly after your tutorials the effects can be seen everywhere, first the blood cells, then the light streaks, then the blueprints…I’m not sure I can handle flares on every TV commercial and showreel.

Unbelievable, this looks great. Hey you guys can be the next Google are Microsoft of the after effects world.

If thats only 1% of what this plug-in can do…the f**k me this is the best plug-in ever! Congrats Videocopilot!

Hey Andrew;
i realize you mentioned that the product was unfinished, but i was wondering if the blocky/blotchy look of the light streaks will be ‘blendable’, to sort of soften it up. While the current effect looks pretty good, it may [obviously] not always be desired outcome. Regardless, i’m just asking because i didn’t see any control that would hint to an adjustment of that sort. Cool Plugin though.

@kamal98, I think Andrew will go bigger then that… we will all stop using after effects and start using AE (Andrew Effects)

In advance forgive for my English.
Excellent work, as well as always though I work practically only in 3D.
Always amazed and during too time it was pleasant an accurate statement of a material and a constructive approach.
Thanks huge for the given information and the future connected module, though and not the free!

Awesome plugin! Looking forward to trying it out! I can already see how this is more robust than KLF!

I almost pulled the trigger on Knoll LFP, but now I’m definitely going to wait. I’m sure yours will blow it away…

Looks like you’ve been listening to your forums!

I think it’s a good thing. Easy and Powerful.
Andrew, can you tell projects you worked on? I feel you participated in dr. House VFX =).
Best regards.

You are doing great job. keep going on.

Dude!!!!…..what does my lens flare say…..Sweet!!!!

Knoll Factory Producer: Looks like we’re out of a job.

Ian Malcom: Don’t you mean extinct?

Oh I like the bling mister!!
Very nice!!

I know you said under 150$, but do you got any idea on how much i will cost more precisely than under 150$?

Looking forward to the product, and answer

Best Regards
Aleksander

I’ve already got Knoll Light factory. It is insanely awesome. So….I guess I’ll wait for the next….TUTORIAL. A new tutorial would be awesome. We’ve had so few recently….

can’t wait for this!

this is perfect. i want to buy it today.

i almost bought knoll light factory for the last project. but $400 just seemed pricey for an effect i may not need again. i ended up using the built in afx lens flare. that said, i have been doing a lot more 3d lens flares lately and the $150 pricepoint is a no-brainer ($100 is more of a no-brainer, but whatever).

great work. once again, you’re helping our stuff look better. awesome.

u r hot, man! too bad u r married, lucky wife u have ur tutorials are awesome!

150 dollars?! thats some serious mulah for some lights?! dont get me wrong andrew i love your site and i think your one of the greatest after effect people out there but… c’mon even if its under i mean 100 dollars is too much in my opinion

Well the price isn’t set yet, I just know it will be under $150 and more than $100. All I can say is that it is a major piece of software, probably 50 X more complex than TWITCH and that is no joke. And remember, you haven’t even seen the plug-in yet just 1 feature:)

Awesome! This looks a lot like the flares you used in Star Trek. Amazing work.

Very cool! Can’t wait to see more! No wonder you guys haven’t been cranking out as many tutorials as you assumed you would. *thumbs up*

Does it works for mac????

Nice! Send me the first copy and I’ll through in and extra $15.00
P.S. I have all you software.
Thanks!
Larry

wow Andrew! looks very intersting!

Andrew, are you the one that program this Plug-in?

Andrew, how will this product compare to Knoll Light Factory? Also, I’m a Lense Flare Enthusiast(Hope I spelled that right.) I use it in all my work . Cannot wait for this.

You are seriously whacked…and that’s why we love you.

Any idea of when it will be out?

This plug in is amazing! it is really going to benefit all the projects I work on at my job and on my personal projects. I have tried countless times trying to get a the of a 3d lens flare and it never works…UNTIL NOW! thanks Andrew for inspiring all of us and taking time to create such amazing products! you rock!

Go Ahead Andrew!!

I know for sure it will be an amazing plugin. VCP has always rocked, may it be a free tutorial or a product for few bucks, they are all amazing as always!!

TEAM-VCP is full of genius guys.

Regards
Sandy

Kneel before Zod?? NOOO!!!! Kneel before AK (The God of AE and Motion Graphics)