awesome! Thank you Sir!

Looking WAY forward to OF!

AWESOME!!!! your the best!!! thank you for all the tips you share.

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good update, I’ve just read that it wasn’t compatible with it, and Boom, you put this Update…!

It’s fantastic, yet so simple to use – even I can manage it – Many thanks

awesome! i cant wait for optical flares

Haha, awesome, thanks dude!

So when is it coming out? I really, really, really need this for a project that I am working on right now. This project will help me land a full time job.

You, Andrew Kramer, can help me and my family eat and have gifts this Holiday season. I do believe in miracles!

Cool Dr.Andrew))Tnnx

Thank u, Andrew!

As I said, u have the Power.

Hy Andrew!!!! thank you for this plugin

Cool plugin, thank you Andrew

Cool beans and blue jeans. Thanks.

Using VC Reflect on a project today for a newscast. Also can’t wait for Optical Flares!

Look… I really am not into kissing ass and sucking up to people. Really, I actually prefer it to be the other way round, but once again Andrew, I am left in awe and have to say you are undoubtably one of the most talented people on this planet. You are severely underappreciated my friend. Thank you for all the hard work you and Sam and the rest of the Hobbos at VC.net have done for the likes of myself and other VFX nutcases and filmmakers.

Looking forward to purhcasing the optical flares plugin… Been waiting a while for it.

YEAH! Thank you very much. Very useful stuff and FREE!!! Are you kidding me?

Im going to try it right now.

Cheers.

Can’t wait until optical flares

YOU THE MAN CAN’T WAIT TO OPTICAL FLARES

Very Nonsense and Nice!!!

Andrew, I like that you and your team care about your followers. Someone yesterday asked you about a bug on a PPC and now you take the time to solve this issue.

Congratulation for being the way you are.

Dude, what are you doing? See this is why I keep checking your site obsessively. (Shaking my head)

Ok, so this has nothing to do with the plug-in, even though it is awesome; but did you know JJ Abrams talks about you on the Star Trek DVD commentary?

You’re a lucky man.

I just think its so funny how many people follow this sight, its quite encouraging yet scary, I was strolling through some of the comments of the past & it seems like theres people who follow Andrew like its a religion, yeah this is a great sight I’m sure everyone appreciates what he does but try not to make it seem like you want to marry the guy (even if you secretly do), quit getting so happy & fight the urge to want to post “Andrew I love You, Your the Man” everytime a new update on the blog comes up. But thats just how I feel, if you have to say hi to andrew on every bog update to be able to sleep at night then my post isn’t going to change much, but for those of use who have self worth, well give thanks where thanks is due & continue working….

hahaha next year we’ll see commercials on every tv-station with a nice 3d-reflection and 3d lens flares…

I am still getting the
“Exception occured. Gernerated minidump.” Error

The effect settings do show up in the Effects window after awhile, but the last field is the Reflection Angle (nothing after that).

Win XP Pro SP2
AMD Athlon 2.7Ghz
512 RAM
ATI Radeon 9250
AE 7 Pro

For your debugging purposes.

@Andrei, that sound like an unrelated issue but please email the dump report after ZIpping it up first.

This is great news. I watched the tutorial yesterday, downloaded the plugin, then read the comments section and found to my dismay that it didn’t work on PPC Macs. Thanks so much Andrew for updating the plugin to work on PPCs.

Thanks Andrew

Just tried the plugin and it is showing up fine in the Effect Controls window when I apply it. One issue I’m getting though is that my floor plane solid and the picture I’m trying to reflect are both 3D layers, and the reflection is going “below” the surface of the floor. It is not visible unless I raise the picture up on the Y axis so it is above the floor. I tried all the different blend styles but nothing works. Just wanted to bring this to your attention. Thanks!

Awesome! Cant Wait for Optical Flares, oh and this reflection plugin is a MAJOR time savor!!!

All these awesome free plug-ins really remove any buyers remorese for the big items. I’m really looking forward to giving you some Flare cash.

I had no were else to say this.. Im watching the Star Trek blu-ray with the commentary were JJ drops your name on the title. F’ing Awsome and congrats Andrew!!!

Optical Flares will rock! I can not wait for it to come out…I’ll trade 3 camels, 1 donkey, and a years worth of wheat and barley for you magic lights….

perfect plugin and I’m waiting for 2 things …OPTICAL FLARES…..QUICK-MATTE….those are gonna help me big time!!

Andrew Sir Nice Plug-in………The Reflections Are Good…..But One Problem…….When I Add This Plug-in To A Video It Comes Like A Glass Effect And Sometimes Like A Wave Effect!!!!Whats Wrong With It?But If You Add It To A Text Or A Image It Appears As U Show In The Tutorial So Please Help………
I Have A cs3 Professional After effects………

Andrew Sir Cant wait for ur optical flares plug-in…….its awsome……….i have alredy uninstalled knoll light factory pro from my plug-in folder………that place is for my favorite plug-in optical flares……..cant wait to buy it

so if we aren’t running a mac and downloaded it a couple days ago should we update it? did you change anything except the mac compatibility?

Thank you a lot for this free plugin

Waiting for more

Andrew, can i just say thanks for this plugin. it has saved so much time and effort. Thanks again

Excellent scripting, idk why I was asking for the “code”… it was a late night. 5/5*’s on this plugin! I wish i knew more about java. I guess as the ol’ saying goes “if you dont know, ask someone” just be sure its a reliable source

WHAT IS OPEN SOURCE EXACTLY?

1. Free
2. Source Code
3. Derived Works
4. Integrity of The Author’s Source Code
5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
7. Distribution of License
8. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software
10. License Must Be Technology-Neutral

Sorry for my english, Thx for all Andrew, from Spain i´m watching your videos eventually, and i´m working with your teaching videos.
If you coming at Europe anytime to speak about AE, I´ll be there!
Ah, I´m unnemployment jeje if you needs a hand i´m waitting, i can send photographic and video material from Europe for your web, this is the less i can do for your help, good bye.

Thanks for such a quick response on the problem. Man you guys are great! I re-loaded it and it works flawless, loving it!

@Bill Kelly:

To prevent your 3D reflections being hidden by your ground plane, drop an empty Adjustment Layer underneath the layer that contains your REFLECT effect.
This will solve the problem.

Excelent, thank you for this. it is nice on 3d renders where I just need a quick reflection and don’t have the time for raytrace. can use it for shadows too, Thanks

Hi Andrew, I have a problem that I can not solve. Surprised at this, and write me how to solve please. Much thanks in advance!

Look:http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/6711/bugsu.jpg

Thanks again guys, sometimes I feel like we don’t deserve this….lol!…much love and respec…seeen!

waiting for 3 things : OF , QM and Serious fx 2…i hope all will be up this month

@Peter Somers (TC-Productions)

Ahh yes. That was in the tutorial. [Facepalm]
Thanks for the reminder. I must have had a brain crampl

thanks Andrew for updating us regarding on Optical Flares
all of us. . (your fans)

can’t wait too about that. .

thank you so much for lots of concern to your fans
and visitors of your site. .

i don’t know. . but your some kind of a
really great person. . and the rest of VCP cast. .

Amazing like always.

got one question thou…am i the only one or is the Poll of the What do you think: AE CS5 as 64-bit only….not working?

i can’t vote or check the results

Hey Andrew,

Indeed amazing as always,

Funny how once you are interrested by AE, you start 2 notice things. For instance, i’m from the Netherlands and like the USA has MTV.. we got TMF also a music station with an Awards-show and all. Well, i was watching it and then i saw “your Angry Monter” tutorial converted into intro’s for the nominees.. Kinda cool i thought.. likely i’m not the only one watching and enjoying your shows / tutorials. I hope you’ll continou for a long time, since i learned already so much.. and more each tutorial. You’re an insperation to all..

Yours truly… haha excuse me for my bad English

Joost T te D

Oh.. YA…

Totally forgot about QUICK MATTE…. that is a must have. Optical Flares and Quick Matte are two tools a VFX artist cannot do without.

GROOOOOVIEEEE !

thank u sir…………..thank u so much….

thank u for this plugin, sir u r my master…..
i am interested to learn more from u….
video tutorials clarity ,u r way of teaching AE Makes us to learn easily……

Thank you!
I will immediately use it.

Andrew,

Can you explain me (or us) the interest of the precomposition ?

Not for this tutorial, but in general… I’m a newbie in AE and i don’t understand very well why, in some cases, we must precomp a layer.

Thanks ! (from France)

Hi Akeenoya,

look at creative cow and search for the
“Pre-Composing and Nesting” (2parted Tutorial) from Aharon Rabinowitz. That should cover all your questions.

http://library.creativecow.net/tutorials/adobeaftereffects

Frank

Thanks dude…………………..

Happy Thanksgiving Mr. Kramer. I hope yours is filled with red cheeks and fat abdomens!

All I can say is “wow” what a great job on this new product your working on…hope its got a great price for the starving artist!

Thanks again to the Video Copilot Team, keep up the great work.

Ben Baker