Light wrap is an essential tool when using a green screen and a subject. With that in mind, we found some great tutorials to help you add light wrap to your footage.
Apr 11, 2015 Chetal Gazdar shows how you can get a great light rays (god ray) effect in After Effects using only Ae native tools. The tutorial overs creating the light rays, however, the foundations are core. Chetal notes that the basic concepts behind this tutorial are really all about the importance of Pre-Composing in After Effects, as well as working. After effects tutorial Motion Science shows an effortless and effective way to create a light wrap in Ae. A Light wrap effect is one of the cornerstones of compositing, and while most compositors have a native or simple solution for such a task, After Effects leaves users high and dry.
Whether you’re filming a corporate video, special effect, or a documentary interview, green screens are a common tool on shoots these days. When working with green screens, one step that many forget in post-production is the need to add light wrap. This light that forms around the subject is a key component for making the scene look more believable.
Straight Light Wrap
We found a few light wrap tutorials that should help you when you find yourself in the middle of processing your key. First up is After Effects Tutorials w/ Mikey. Here Mikey Borup gives us the low down on how to easily and effectively generate light wrap for a subject and a digital background.
Light Wrap and Edge Blur in Adobe After Effects and Blackmagic Fusion
After Effects Light Wrap
Kert Gartner with VFX Haiku takes us through another light wrap tutorial. In this video, Kert adds the use of edge blur along with additional processing in Fusion.
Want to learn more about light wrapping and chroma keying? Check out a few of the following resources:
- What is Light Wrapping? Tips & Tutorials– PremiumBeat
- Basic Color Keying– Video CoPilot
- Keying Fundamentals in After Effects– PremiumBeat
Have any other tips for quickly applying light wrap to your key? Got any examples you’d like to share? Let us know in the comments below.
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Types of Lights in After Effects
In Lights in After Effects software, we have different types of light effect in After Effects:
- Spot Light
- Parallel Light
- Point Light
- Ambient Light
1.Spot Light
A spotlight works just as a spotlight works in real life. The light in only one direction with the specified range, spread, width, and more. This is a single point you can point around and point at things. Typically, they are smaller, more spherical focused lights that you can control how wide or narrow it is and how sharp the fall is. Spotlights are used to highlight a particular part of a frame and the rest is accompanied by a sharp drop in the black shadow.
2. Point Light
Point lights produce light from the position they hold – as if you took a light bulb and suspended it with a wire and used it in a light frame. This is a point light that you can move around but without additional features of the spotlight. To control the point light field, you control its brightness, so it brightens the point light of the scene you show, but it will start blowing anything directly around the point of light.
3. Parallel Light
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A parallel light is a hybrid between spotlights and ambient lights. Parallel lights are evenly distributed light throughout the composition like ambient light, but in just one direction like a spot light.
4. Ambient Light
Ambient lights form a universal light source throughout the composition, providing flat illumination regardless of the position of the layer. It produces light for the entire scene but without its maneuver or ability to directly control cones or fellows. Ambient light is closely related to the sun, it will light your entire scene but you do not have much control over it. If you want a lighting effect over the entire frame, ambient light will be used often.
- Make Composition
Ctrl + N For new Composition or click on Small icon of composition
- Solid Layer
To create solid layer Ctrl+shift+N or right click on free space area of the timeline
- 3d layer
Select 3d icon to convert layer to 3d layer
- Rotate Layer
Select the layer and rotate their “Orientation” first number that indicates x-asis =90 and rest zero.
- Text layer
Create text layer, for that press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T .and write text. in this case, we write “light”
- Light Layer
Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L for light or right-click on free space area in the timeline and select New>Light layer
- Light Setting
Light setting you have option to select which type light you want
- Views
Select view from the composition panel.
- Move light
Move light from composition for that Press Alt+Drag
- Cast Shadow
Select layers Go to> Material Option>Cast Shadow and press “On”
- Arrange Layer
Arrange bg layer like below image
- Keyframe Animation
Click Stopwatch of Position and give below parameter to Position and keyframe
Position=926,790,-1200 Frame=0:00:00:00
Position=1454,790,-936 Frame=0:00:01:00
Position=494,790,-924 Frame=0:00:02:00
Position=494,130,-1380 Frame=0:00:02:29
Position=926,790,-1200 Frame=0:00:03:29
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