After Effects example tutorial of moving title light effect

We often see this effect in TV titles. Some pictures fly towards us from a distance on the screen, accompanied by various dazzling special effects. These pictures can be static pictures or some video clips. Some of the highlights of TV programs are often displayed in the title. The shots that appear in this way are very practical and have good effects. Many friends may want to know how to create this effect. In fact, it is very simple. As long as you master the use of cameras and lights in After Effects, and add the light effects of Shine, you can achieve this effect.

Before you start creating this effect, please prepare seven video files. If not, you can find seven pictures instead. Also make sure you have installed the light effect production plug-in Shine. I believe many friends have already installed it in their plug-ins.

1. Start your After Effects 6.5, open the "File/New/New Project" menu option, and create a new project file. Then open the "Composition/New Composition" menu option, create a new Composition synthesis file, name it "Video", the size is 720×576, the duration is 6 seconds, and the Frame rate is 25Frames per second.

2. In the project material window, double-click the left mouse button, select the seven video files we prepared in the pop-up window, import them into the project material library, and then drag and drop these files. to the time layout window. Then arrange the video files in the composition preview window, as shown in Figure 2.

3. Open the "Composition/New Composition" menu option, create a new Composition file, name it "Camera Animation", the size is 720×576, the time length is 6 seconds, and the Frame rate is 25Frames per second . As shown in Figure 3.

4. Drag and drop the "Video" composite file in the project material window into the time layout window, select the "Video" layer and press the "Ctrl+D" keys to copy a new video layer. Click the 3D mode switch of the two soil layers to turn on the 3D mode of the layer. Set the X coordinate of the Position parameter of the upper layer to -601, and set the X coordinate of the lower layer to 280, as shown in Figure 4.

Open the "Layer/New/Camera" menu option to add a camera to the animation. Set the parameter Name to camera, Preset to Custom, Zoom to 320.1, Film Size to 102, set Angle of View to 100, check the Enable Depth of Field option, set Focal Length to 42.79, set Focus Distance to 320.1, and check Lock to Zoom option, set Aperture to 7.132, F-stop to 6, Blur Level to 100%, Units to Pixels, Measure Film Size to Horizontally, as shown in Figure 5. After the settings are completed, click the "OK" button to add the camera.

5. Open the "Layer/New/Light" menu option and create a new light layer. Name it "Light", set the Light Type to Point, set the Intensity to 100%, and set the Color to white, as shown in Figure 6, then click the "OK" button to add the light .

6. In the time layout window, move the time ruler to the 0 second position and set the starting position of the camera. Expand the Transform parameter setting option of the camera layer, set the Point of Interest to (487.0, 190.0, -61.0), set the Position to (360.0, 615.0, -290.0), and then click the keyframe button logo in front of the two parameters respectively. Insert keyframes as shown in Figure 7.

The effect at this time is shown in Figure 8.

7. Move the time ruler to the 5:24 second position, then set the Point of Interest to (471,-544,37) and the Position to (360.0,-150,-80.0), as shown in the figure 9 shown.

In this way, we generated a camera animation. It can be seen that we only changed the Y coordinate value of the camera, as if the camera lens was moving in the Y direction, so the "video" file was generated from The effect of us gradually getting closer in the far direction is shown in Figure 10.

8. Expand the parameter setting options of the "Light" layer in the time layout window, right-click above the parameter setting bar, select Columns/Parent to display the Parent option, and then click "None" in the Parent column ” option selects “Camera”, and the light layer will be subordinate to the movement of the camera layer. Set the Position light position to (0.0, -155.0, 372.5), as shown in Figure 11.

9. The effect at this time is shown in Figure 12. The highlighted part in the picture is the part illuminated by the light. You can also change the parameters of the light to change the range of the light. In the future, the effect of the light will change as it changes.

10. Open the "Composition/New Composition" menu option, and create a new Composition file, named "Composite Effect", with a size of 720×576, a duration of 6 seconds, and a Frame rate of 25Frames per second, as shown in Figure 13.

Open the "File/Import/File" menu option to import a dynamic video background file. Drag and drop the "Camera Animation" composition file and video background file in the project material window into the time layout window, and place the video background file below the "Camera Animation" layer. Select the "Camera Animation" layer, then open the "Effect/Trapcode/Shine" menu option to add the Shine light effect to the layer. Move the time ruler to the 0 second position, expand the Effects/Shine parameter setting option of the "Camera" layer, click the keyframe marks in front of Ray Length, Phase and Boost Light respectively to insert keyframes. Set the Source Point position coordinates to (55, 551), so that the light direction is from the bottom of the screen upward at the beginning; set Threshold to 23; set Ray Length (light length) to 5.0; set Phase is 0x+17.0dgr, set Amount to 74, Detail to 146.4, and Boost Light to 1.4; select Electric mode for Colorize; select Transfer Mode (overlay mode) to Add so that the light effect is more obvious, as shown in Figure 14.

The effect at this time is shown in Figure 15.

11. Move the time ruler to 5:27 seconds, set the Source Point to (170, 240), set the Ray Length (light length) to 10.1; set the Phase to 0x+180.0dgr, and set the Boost Light is 12.8. The effect at this time is shown in Figure 16.

12. Press the "Ctrl+M" key combination to open the Render rendering output window, then set the output file path, file name and file format in Out to, and click the Render button to output this effect.

In this example, the main knowledge we need to master is the use of cameras, lights and Shine plug-ins. Friends can get a preliminary understanding of the use of cameras from this example. In the following content, we We will continue to give a more in-depth introduction to the camera.