Video Copilot presents the all new 3D lens flare studio: Optical Flares!

Key Features include:

• 3D Position & Light Tracking
• Real Texture Mapping
• Includes 60 Presets (Pro Preset Pack Available)
• Realistic On-Lens Simulations
• Automatic Luminance Tracking
• Dynamic Triggering (Animation without Keyframes!)
• Creative Tutorials
• and much more!

Check out the product right now:
Optical Flares Product Page

Be sure to watch the feature videos for an exciting, in-depth look at using Optical Flares. With such a powerful plug-in, we separated the videos into individual sections so you can check out the features you want to see!

Optical Flares will be available Monday, Jan 25 in our online store.
Optical Flares is available for download only.

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Select your package:

OPTICAL FLARES PLUG-IN: only $124.95
Includes the Optical Flares Plug-in, 60 Presets and 5 Video Tutorials.

OPTICAL FLARES BUNDLE: only $139.95 (save $10)
Includes all the above, plus the Pro Preset Pack with 50 high-end flare presets.

The Pro Presets are available separately for $25.

After Effects CS5 will to be a 64 bit application only. At the moment QuickTime is only a 32 bit application and users of other 64 bit applications like (3D max 64 bit, Nuke 64 bit, etc.) do not have the ability to import or export any QuickTime files. So seeing how QuickTime is one of most popular formats that has been supported by After Effects since the beginning, what will happen with AE CS5?

I received direct word from the Adobe After Effects product manager himself: Michael Coleman
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He said this:

"QuickTime is very important and we will continue to have QuickTime support in the next After Effects. It involved extra effort on our part to work around the QuickTime issues, but it's looking good now."

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It seems you can count on QuickTime support in After Effects CS5. And in a few years, a robot in every home.

As some of you may know, the new version of After Effects CS5 will be native 64 bit, which offers major speed and memory enhancements (among other things) but 3rd party plug-in developers like Video Copilot, will need to update their code before they will work in 64 bit. But worry not...

When After Effects CS5 ships, (some speculate later this year) Video Copilot is committed to offering free product upgrades to customers on all of our plug-ins. All... TWO of them :) Twitch & Optical Flares.

I think the move to 64 bit is essential for the future and we want to support it as best we can. Of course we are dedicated to make our products compatible with 32 and 64 bit systems as far back as After Effects 7.

Also, our stock footage and audio products will continue to be compatible with no upgrading required and we will even be updating our free plug-ins like VC Reflect and the new Sure Target 2 when the time comes.

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As we get closer to the release of Optical Flares, our new lens flare creation studio, I wanted to show you some cool examples of Optical Flares in action. This reel includes actual productions by some of our beta testers and some tests I did internally. I think this reel has a nice variety of how lens flares can be used but I'm sure you could think of many more!

Motion graphics or visual effects... be ready for Optical Flares: January 25, 2010.

New MacOS Catalina Support
Install latest version of Mac plug-in!

UPDATE 2: We uploaded the newest version in the project to 2.0.10 Be sure to have the latest version. Thanks!

In this tutorial we will take a look at the new version of Sure Target 2 featuring advanced control over the After Effects camera. Sure Target 2 is a Free plug-in that automatically executes expressions for easy setup and use.This version features inertia, auto-focus, camera Roll and more. Must see!

Read about new Features

Watch Tutorial

Here is one of the examples we will create in the tutorial with Sure Target 2.