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Happy New Year to everyone! Let’s kick this year off with some exciting news about Optical Flares. Our new lens flare plug-in will be available January 25 2010. That’s going to be one bright Monday and you can be sure to see some in-depth demonstration of the amazing features very soon.
This going to be a big Year at Video Copilot!

Can’t wait to buy it!
I’m so looking forward to this product.
Happy New year to all at Video Copilot. May you all have a wonderful and productive year.
finally!!! ![]()
and: happy new year!
Cool Beans… Looking forward to it.
yeahh… i cant wait
Nice, I’m getting that for sure
Good, count me in.
yes i was freaking waiting for this date… BTW happy new year Videocopilot and thanks for everything
each and everyone of you deserve all the credit you get and much more….
Hey I’m getting married on that day! what a gift! lol
Happy New Year everyone cant wait for the release Andrew
ohh come on!.. for a second there i though this was gonna be our xmas gift from you Andrew… guess gonna have to w8 1 more month… anyway happy new year! and i have no doubt at all that videocopilot will kick some ass even more this year.
Sweet!
I’m so glad to finally see the date. Can’t wait for the release and Happy New Years VideoCoPilot!!!
Ehe Happy new year too !!
That’s a great new ! I’m impatient to test this one ! =}
Looking forward to it. Any chance we can get an idea on the price for the plugin so we can start saving?
thanks,
George
Happy New Year Andrew!!!!
Can’t Wait!!!!!!!!
Happy New Year!!!!
I can’t wait…Can I buy it now and when your ready you can send it in
And it’s going to be an even “bigger” year for us, thanks to what appears to be bye-bye time to the limitations we have had with stock lighting effects.
Happy New Decade Everybody †
I will be adding that to my wish list
Happy New Year!
Can’t wait for this product to come out. It’ll definitely be great! Yo Andrew, love all the tuts you do for us (by ‘us’ I mean the better side of your audience XD)… Well, thanks and a happy new year to you.
I cant wait! happy 2010, andrew, and everyone there at the VC’s Headcuarters!
nice nice
happy new year
Happy New Year Andrew, looking forward to all new things to come !
Can’t wait for the release!!! Happy New Year to all!!
Phil
This is great news for the new year. I’m already thinking of ways I can implement it into my 2010 projects.
OMG!I nearly wet my future pants i’m so happy!
Thanks Andrew for coming up with cool stuff.
I can’t wait!!!
Very nice!
Any word on SureTarget?
Thought that would be out by now…
What about Sure Target 2, Iv’e really been hoping for a release date on that.
Nice! I’m so going to get this
Happy new year! Also can’t wait to January, 25. Optical flares is like the new SUN! XD.
My futuristic hopes are still alive. Great work, Sir Andrew.
saving my dimes! all the best to the videocopilot family and the growing kramer family in the new year!
Happy New Year master. thanx for 2009 looking forward for much more in 2010….peace
cool!!!! cant wait X)
Actually, I’m not very keen on Lens Flares, but I’m looking forward to your promo video, you do it like those tv commercials that makes me want to have that product, how do you do it, Andrew?
Happy 2010 to everybody!!!!
PD: In the First page of the website at the bottom, in the “Newest tutorials” the last one is missing.
this is all very very quite similar to the visuals seen in Star Trek.
not just this plug-in, but almost everything on your website…i like it
Happy New Year! Can’t wait to see what Video Copilot will be rocking this year!
can’t wait..am out of control.
Awesome!!! Cant Wait!
YES YES YES! This is BIG news! I need to get the money for it.
Thanks for all your hard work Andrew and team, you guys ROCK!
make a demolition tutorial! mixin cool thinks like 3ds max and others plugins, like RayFireTool…
Congrats Andrew! I’m sooo loking forward to it. I feel insulted by knoll light factory and it’s 3d flare s%&#.. It looks so old and dated! This is the real deal! I’ll get it 4 sure..
Yes yes yesss ![]()
Finally we had a release date ![]()
Thanx Andrew
Happy new year Andrew.Thanks for tell us optical Flares Release date.
Hopefully i will have enough to buy it because the lens flares in after effects are really not flexible. They don’t blend in that much.
love u andrew plz reply to this u r amazing truly amazing plz make some unboxing vidoes which u never make plz do so it will increase popularity of ur products! thnks andrew adobe launched new product!
AFTER KRAMER!
yeahhhhhh! plz reply if u like this product
Optical flare here I come baby, Kramer you re the boom!
if you’re about to have a big year then stop reading this and get to work.
i should stop writing stupid things for 2010 also,
but unfortunately, that’s in my wishlist for 2011,
for 2010 i know a thing called flares from a guy of
Sedonia called Andrewvithy Kremeritovitchy aka AK47-AE-C47,
a big weapon as you guess …
so … you’ll have to be patient until 2011
and accept my stupid comments. Life is hard.
Have fun during all 2010. Best.
A°
“WOW” can i say “WOW” i mean “WOW”
The moment many have been waiting for has finally revealed itself to the masses!
holy cow!!!
Happy New Year to everyone!!!
This Year is gonna be exciting than ever expected!!
MABUHAY VIDEO COPILOT!!!!
Oh man ive been waiting for this plugin for ages! I cant wait to try it out!
happy new year !
Ya !
Happy New Year
2010 will be more Exciting
Excellent, can’t to wait purchase this. Happy New Years Andrew and team!
Awesome! Cant wait to buy it!
Yay, can’t wait for this
happy new year to u and ur family
this is realy good.
cant wait andrew , cant wait.
tanx andrew & happy new year!
It’s looking like optical flare can be applied on luminous areas of image in a specific threshold automatically . is it so?
well if so, that would be fantastic!
So pumped… almost pee’d my pants
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERY SINGLE STAFF IN VIDEO CO-PILOT….KEEP ROCKING AND GROWING….ANDREW BRO, YOU ARE SIMPLY “AMAZING”….
Xcellent Adrew.. U r doing marvellous job. You can save much of time and much of mind.. haha… cool man keep it up.
absolutely cant wait!
Excellent! This is great new year news, really can’t wait to january 25th D:
Well, Have a nice year beginnig, I’m sure videocopilot will keep kicking asses and you will still be the king ![]()
Long life to Andrew.
Happy New year from Mexico. ;D
Optical Flares looks super bad…Happy New Year VC & Family
Excellent, I wish you guys at VCP a great 2010 year.
I am looking to buy some products soon. So don’t get rid of them, specially the filmmagic product.
looks awesomeeee….and i’m sure it will..
Like always
gre8, one more amazing event gonna come on 25th jan, its my birthday, thanks Andrew for giving me such a gift on ma birthday.
thanku Andrew sir,
and
Happy New Year
wooooooooohoooooooo awsome cant wait for this………..i will be the first one for that……………
HAPPY NEW YEAR ANDREW SIR………….
Big year indeed! Good luck!
Great buddy………. happy new year from india. OF and ST2 rocks.
Happy New Year to Video Copilot and the whole community! ![]()
Can’t wait to see Optical Flares in serious action – I’m still not sure yet whether I’ll buy it, so the upcoming presentations will help me decide.
hey there everyone happy new year.
the release date of optical flares is the day after my birthday
maybe andrew wanna gift the plugin…… ehhemmmmmm
Yeeeaaaah. life has got a meaning, for the first time in most cases. Without it most of us were just stupid monkeys. Fortunately this will not change in the future, yeeaahhhh
Yay, at my Birthday ;D
A very cool Present
Yeni yılda daha fazla tutorial görmek dileği ile herkese mutlu seneler:))
I hope to see more tutorials in the new year. Happy new year everyone
)
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G
CAN’T WAIT ANDREW!
happy new year to you too !
and thank you for the update.
Happy new year from Russia!!
HAPPTY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
OPTICAL FLARE (a nightmare 4 klf)
OPTICAL FLARE IS A GREAT GIFT FROM VIDEOCOPILOT TO VISUAL EFFECTS COMMUNITY!
THANK GOD !!! AT LAST !!!
yeah I can´t wait ![]()
and happy new year
day before my birthday, it’s like twitch all over again yay
Very nice! Will Optical Flares be a digital download, or will it be shipped via snail mail?
Honestly, I Am Hyped To Buy This, Especially With The Juicy Tutorials Included..
=] Good Luck Videocopilot In 2010
That’s just awesome…
Looking foward to february ;D
hurr e eeey ![]()
)
Now thats what im talkin bout Andrew… Ur work echoes all the way here(Lesotho)
Big-Ups to u and ur team
Stay blessed
That reminds me of a film like Transformers!
This sounds great Andrew, we’ve been looking for a great new plugin for our UK Film which being edited in AE and PR mainly, so this is going to be great!
Any news on SureTarget 2 yet?
Best
-Luke
Thats great!!! i cant wait for it
yyAaaaaaa famaily go rock this year
will not let it pass in peace
go rock with gfx go go go
Years have a good friend vfx
AWESOME!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
AND
ALL THE BEST THIS YEAR FOR VIDEO COPILOT.
Happy New Year all the way from France ! All the best !
Can’t wait!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR ANDREW
Great to here……………………thanks
Hello, my name is Sérgio, i’m Portuguese!
Hello Andrew, and all fans of VideoCopilot.
I wish Happy New Year to All!
I am anxious to have the next plug-in, The Optical Flares!
Andrew I want you to know that you are the person who teaches me, and inspires me, Thank you for your simplicity and willingness to teach others!
Much success to you and all your team!
I liked to working with you in the near future!
Good news indeed, Andrew. I downloaded the 3D Flare bete from Red Giant for Knoll LF Pro. It will be interesting to see what difference there is between Optical Flares and Knoll’s 3D Flares. I’m sure I’ll have to have both in my toolkit. Happy New Year and thanks for all the work you put into your site and knowledge you share.
Brett
cooooooooooool Happy new year everyone!!
Thanks to all of you for this cool plug-in and have a happy new year!
Happy new years to you all the Video copilot.e vomos waiting with great expectation
Very nice. Good jobe Adrew and happy new year
I’m getting this as soon as it comes out!
Can’t wait for it.
Happy new year Andrew. Hope this year is a big one.
~Adam.
Nice to see we finally can make some michael bay effects with this plugin.
Goodtimes!
Finally!
Could you make a tutorial about jumper effect too? but in your very elegant way…
Wow! We will wait of course)
Nice ![]()
Optical Flares & Bears… yumyum!
Happy New year to all of you guys!
1.
cooooll
what would we do without u?!
Very cool!
It will be so exciting to see this!
0.o that on my birthday:D I can’t wait to get it =D
happy new year to all on videocopilot!
Fantastic! Really looking forward to this release!
this is cool i like it watch i am going to buy it
Awesome!! Is the $139.95 price still firm?
Thats cool. And Happy New Year 2010 Andrew Kramer and team!!
Nice! this plug-in is awsome
video copilot Rules!=)
Epic! Thanks for all the hard work VCP crew and Happy New Year.
What font is the title in the image?
Yeah can’t wait to check it out !! 25th of January is going to be a special day ![]()
Happy New Year to all copilots ![]()
Here’s a little video in the mood of celebrating Christmas and New year’s eve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwMLpRyZwGU
Let’s wish this year will be full of good things and Great tutorials
thankssssssss happy new year
videocopilot awsome
oh my ..
Began to love 2010
The 1st good thing to look forward to in the new year. Happy Days to come!
Excellent news Andrew !
I can’t wait to see how powerful this new product is. I already found “Action Essential 2″ very useful and relevant, I’m sure “Optical Flares” will not disappoint me.
By the way, happy new year to the Video Copilot Team.
PS: As Luke asked a few messages before, what font is used in the title image ?
Happy New Year Andrew and for all the videocopilot’s moderator and users
Very cool, Andrew! Been looking forward to this since you first announced it! Hopefully maybe it will have faster render times than some of these other optical filters, but who knows. I’m sure it’s very complex algorithms and stuff…
I cant wait to buy it
andrew happy new year
Yeaaah!
That’s AWESOME!!!!!
That’s weird to have a “1″ between two “0″
Happy New Year Andrew!
Lookin’ forward to it, Andrew.
And a happy new year to everyone. :p
Great news. Is glorious day with you here. Can you teaching us how to fit pepsi can in the anus.
nice nice. whens sure target coming out.
WOW!!!! that cool!!! I need this so much!!! ^^,
lol
Happy New Year To All!!!
Can’t wait for the release!
But ehh… Andrew, you said in one of your video’s when you reach tutorial #100 it’ll be downhill from that point. Well, you reachted #100, but is it going to be downhill from now?
Because I would love to have some more techy and handy stuff, I dont need EVERY tutorial to be filled with an awesome effect, perhaps a little side-series like you did with basic training. And then in that serie’s how we keep everything organised and all that kind of stuff. Perhaps some expression tutorials because the one in the basic training section is a little too basic. I can do the basic stuff like wiggle and time*… but i don’t get the more advanced stuff!
Happy New Year Once Again!
coooooooolllllll…great great great thx for all tutorials
Happy New Year to all in this web site
I think its gonna be great plug-in or Super fantastic plug-in…
thanks mr.andrew for everything you did,,,you are always the greatist…
thanks a lot…
What about quick matte?
AK, I hope you in the new year can make a better AE effect, I am from China, and some video effects can not be watching and hope you will allow the effects of China’s producers watch your AE teaching video, thank you!
WELCOME TO CHINA
Dude…that’s amazing!!! How much is it going to be? I have everything you ever made except Action Essentials 1…I have 2…but I totally am getting Optical Flares. Thanks for everything, I did an intro with your stuff from evolution and riot gear and it might be on the discovery channel just so you know, the show is called “The Green Economy”.
just got back from chicago bulls nba game.
defiantly saw tutorial 47 Audio to Animation, 70 Speed Particles and twitch used on the “make some noise” score board graphics.
Awesome, another great product from Video Copilot, I can’t wait to get it.
ohhh thats great finally coming this great plugin…best wishes sir.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, Andrew!
This is the first great news in this year. I’m so excited!!!
MERRY Christmas Videocopilot, i Can’t Wait Left with OPtical Flares then am ok with your products, Thanks for the good work for community of Motion Graphics & Visual FX. Big Ups
Great news!! Happy New Year
I’ll take two please, To go.
OMG!!!! FINALLY!!!!1 im soooo happy!!!! i am gonna be the first person to buy this!…. =D
Great news!! Happy New Year
Any idea on how much it will cost?
yeahh, we all admire your work, even without knowing any detail, whether it is stable, whether it could catch up with Knoll (in particular with 3D Flare),etc. that all does not matter at all…….no, the vague commercial is enough for hysterical worship, yeaahhhh
Is it sacrilege?
Happy new year!
hi.have grate year.
hola mi estimado Andrew .. es un gusto saludarte, un fuerte abrazo y exitos en este año… bye
Thats my birthday
Astig! i can’t wait for that lens flare. any free VCP shirt on the 25th? please Mr. Kramer, i’ll exchange that with my camel!
regards and mabuhay,
Pinoy working in Oman
lol the release date is my birthday =D great!
Excellent news. I will make sure to set aside the money, because i really really want this product. I can’t wait to see it in action.
HAPPY NEW YEAR !! TOO ;pp … GOod Luck in 2010
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VIDEOcopilot 4EVER!
happy new year to all!!
hey andrew you and your team rocks……:)
let this year be a memorable one for you and your team.
waiting for january 25…:)
wow i cant wait ![]()
how much it will cost?
Good to here! Happy new year and lets see some great think this year
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I CAN’T WAIT FOR THIS TO DROP! I’m going to be the first one to buy it!
By the way Agent Kramer, Do you think its possible to give a run down of SA’s Color Finesse?…u always us curves for color correction and i wanted to know if there was a reason for that. Thanx.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!
…2018 out…
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happy new Year to everybody here and let’s gonna wait greattes thing about Andrew Kramer and Video Copilot
I’m getting this as soon as it comes out!
Can’t wait for it.
Happy new year Andrew nd sam
OMG. How fast the year passed by. I’m exactly remembering how you said in one tutorial:! Well 2008 wa great but now we get seroius” or something like that.
I wish everyone a haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaapyyyyyyy new Yeeeeeeaaaaarrrrr. Germany
Cant wait to buy it!
happy new year andrew , special thanks from iran , i cant wait for it rly and merry christmas guys
thx a lot for all this things that you put here….i cant wait to buy it =)
Peace & Love….
from
ARGENTINA
Hey Andrew .. can you show us still images of the types of real world lens flare you where able to re-create?
Did you also study old school camera lenses for this plug-in.
It might be too late but it would be cool if we could have a real lens icon and associate that icon with a perticular lens flare effect
anyway good luck with this plugin… Knoll light is the king in the movie/commercial industry. I hope that you achieve great success with this and go beyond the features that Knoll light 3D is “trying” to offers.
p.s: I just took a look at the OF preview video , and the interface looks a little to big meaning too fat.. it seems to take up alot of the screen space, let’s hope that it’s fun creating Lens flare in it … thanks
Better late than never Andrew .. lol happy new year to you and your family .. and Sam too .. lol
Can’t Wait to Purchase!!!
Whoa this product looks very cool.. ![]()
But hey Andrew.. I was watching Stark Trek’s Directors Commentary and they were talking about that Andrew Kramer “This 23 year old kid I found online.. and he is a brilliant guy” made the title in the beginning of the film and the Credit list in the end.. Are they talking about you.. Did you make the title in the Star Trek film :O
If that is so then I want to congratulate you!
And whoa that is just amazing..
And it looked like you used Optical Flares in this title..
This title looks very nice.. =D
Great job!
oh dear god…that really look slike a corporate design..
it will be a great product…I hope there will be lots of tutorials that Andrew will make about it…Just can’t wait to see,tnxx
great work keep them coming!!!
action essential 2 used in terminator salvation promo, made by john dickinson
Can’t wait for this : ) and I just want to let you know that “Action Essentials” was used in a Philippine movie entitled “Panday” and it won the “best picture” and “best visual effects” here in the Philippine. : ) thanks to you guys!
preview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTr4m4f-fgU
Info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang_Panday_%282009_film%29
Xcellent Andrew:)your products and tutorials are more professional:)…………it is better to post a tutorial on how to remove ropes that used in movies using after effects
That’s great I m waiting for Lens Flair Sir….
BRILLAINT!! 25th Jan is my birthday too!!
I recently bought the complete Videocopilot box set and I’m stoked, so this product should kick ass.
great ….. I m waiting for Optical flare
Happy new year from Republica Moldova !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That really looks incredible!
To all from VCP and who visits it: Happy new year!
I cant wait to get a hold of this the day its for sale! Thank you VC and Thank you Andrew Kramer for inspiring and teaching so much! Its time to AE!
Thomas Newman
Producer/Director
Bong Of The Dead
Congratulations! Much thanks and respect! You will always be supported in your growth, just keep the soul in VC and the sky is the limit….
let’s go to the future!!!
Passos – mg
happy new year
Coooooool, can’t wait to get this. Greetings from Switzerland
great ….. I m waiting for Optical flare wooooooooooooooooooooooooo……..
I’m ready
Thanks Andrew… Your products are great! Not only do you provide the tools, but also the inspiration to use them, not every company out there those that (it sounds cheesy I know). BTW, my wife got me a VC shirt for Christmas! So I am representing down here in Orlando.
Awesome.. I’m curious about this. Rock on!
Happy new year Andrew…
Thank you for all full training.
Out of curiousity, does anyone know what price range we’re talking about for this plug in?
Just my luck I will be out of town and away from my computer! But once I am back look out… ;O)
woooaaaa……..that wil be awesome…i can’t wait anymore
yes i cant wait to use it my fried
happy new year to AK
Happy new year and i am glad.
Hey, Andrew! Where did you learn those stuff in making such a good VFX effects.
Great Andrew!
And Happy New Year!
Happy New Year
Fantastic. Any new reports on SURE TARGET updates?
looking forward to it, Andrew… congrats on doing such a great job with everything… this’ll be a welcome addition to my AE toolkit… can hardly wait!
and happy new year Andrew and all the others here, let’s make it a great year.
k
Great news. Your release date is the day after my birthday. Anyone want to get this for me as a great gift!
CAN”T WAIT FOR THIS TO COME OUT>>>>> WANNA BUY IT RITE NOW
Mae ud es lo maximo , excelente comienzo de ano
Oh… my… gawd.. You just made my day. I can’t wait…. Aggh the intensity is killing me…. ALREADY!!!
woghh…..Happy New Year Andrew !! can’t wait for new year gift at 25th Jan.It’s gonna be a beautiful day all along…
OPTICAL FLARES > knoll 3d (gotta put something out to rival OF) flare
Greetings from Turkey’s Best After Effects Forum(www.after-effects.tr.cx)
We are waiting really hard Andrew.It looks fantastic.
Thanks for all.
Also please visit us.
every HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!
Wow! this is BREAKING NEWS for breaking news makers.NEWS CHANNLE gfx Designers like me.thanx a lot. oh!sory. Happy New Year 2 u “ANDREW”
lets kick start this year with VCP LENS FLARE
SO NICE.. IHOPE TO HAVE IT SOON…
Any idea what the price is going to be?
i m also waiting ths product???
Will it be Windows 7/64bits compatible?
thats cool
waiting for super 3d-matte panting tutorial with lens flares! -)
can’t wait to see
cool tis r on ma birthday
what’s up AK. Good luck with this new plugins. Hope it rocks as usual.
yeahhh!!! 2010 !!
good work
I can wait
Going to be accepting pre-orders?
i dont understand, it looks like just a bunch of bright lights in the picture, or has that nothing to do with it. by the way very nice picture i wish i knew how to make cool stuff like that in C4D, but i didnt even understand 3dmax
FINALLY!! OPTICAL FLARES IS AVAILABLE ON 25th of JAN!! CANT WAIT TO GET IT!!
Wow…..Great work
Next good work from Andrew..
Cheers from India
Good but not best
… 2 months after the actual release date.
Hi,Andrew,Happy new year~
your videos bring me a lot of help, Thank you very much.
I keep AE as one of my hobbies, And I started it from the sureTarget tutorial, It’s really really exciting.
By the way, When can we see the sureTarget2.0 plugin, I just can’t wait it~~
Hi Its very sweet and very great effects
create more plug ins like that ., Thanks
thanks andrew!this is well!
SO excited!!! I’ve been waiting for this for so long!!!
So Amazing! is it not, I am just wondering how and where to use it. What can I say I am looking forward to use it very much.
nothing to say just i want to say this site is very very very nice thnks for u r all toturial …..hope u always b success…keep it up …this all for that guy that he make this site.
to me it looks like knoll light factory,but since I dont know the full feature list Im hopping its going to offer smth more usefull.Thanks
Love this.
But hope its free !
Our products are not free, but they are very affordable and powerful. Good combination!
Heya Andrew, thiss looks like a winner! Good luck on the release and send some over when it gets released.
Cheers
RoRK
hey Andrew Kramer you are the best
can u explain me a little , how much time u need to creat a new toturial ?i mean the idea and creat the stuff .and tnx again .
I´ll get this one for sure!!
Will it feature obscuration layers like Knolls light factory?
Happy new year for all!
..
FINALLY!!
I wait your powerful products in interest..
But i have a question please..
can you make the products available in middel East?
I’am in syria..
How can i purchase the powerful products?
thank you for your time and effort
M.J
I hope this year will have more free tutorials for us Andrew
I LOVE YOUR TEAM… I mean I like them…like professional’s xD … I am not a gay xD what ever..Greeting from Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Happy New Year to all at Video Copilot. And thank you Andrew for the ever consistent hard work and effort. It disappoints me that people have such a demanding attitude as to the release dates of products such as this. I myself have been impatiently waiting, but that’s still no reason to actually complain to you about it, I know you’re doing your best. I acknowledge your work and your effort and I am humbled that a man such as yourself is taking the time to give us the know-how and tools to produce quality at a professional standard. Thank you.

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Sweet! This is going to be great!