Introducing Knoll 3D Flare (Beta), a new free set of tools that allows you to easily create Knoll Lens Flares in After Effects 3D space. This add-on for
Knoll Light Factory Pro 2.5 in After Effects includes fantastic features like Edge flare-ups, color linking, Z-depth intensity, and full 3D obscuration.

Features

• 3D Camera Aware: Link a lens flares to a 3D Light’s XYZ position.
• Z-Depth: Distance of flare from camera effects flare’s intensity.
• Color Linking: Light color effects flare color.
• Intensity Linking: Light intensity effects flare’s intensity.
• Multiple Lights: Apply to every light in your comp.
• World Scale: Control the amount of flare scaling relative to a light’s distance from the camera
• Edge Flareup: As flares near the edge of the comp they automatically brighten and flareup replicating natural lens phenomena.
• Full 3D Obscuration: All 3D layers in your composition can be used to obscure the flare. As the 3D light travels behind a layer, the flare dims and goes out.
• Full RGB Obscuration: As the flare passes behind one or many semi-transparent layers, it mixes the layer colors into the flare.

System Requirements: Adobe After Effects (CS3, CS4) + Knoll Light Factory Pro 2.5

Quick Links

• Watch a tutorial on Knoll 3D Flare. (pops)
• Download Knoll 3D Flare.
• Download a trial version of Knoll Light Factory Pro
• Buy Knoll Light Factory Pro 2.5 (New $399, $99 Upgrade)

Reasons to Buy Knoll Light Factory

• Used in movies such as Avatar, Transformers 1 & 2, The Day After Tomorrow, the Star Trek series, and Dreamgirls.
• Designed by Academy Award-winner John Knoll, visual FX supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic.
• GPU acceleration delivers blistering render speeds.

A public beta of BCC 6 FxPlug for Apple Pro Video Applications is now available!

BCC 6 FxPlug brings over 200 filters to Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Final Cut Express. In addition to new features included with the recently-released BCC 6 AE for Adobe – such as Extruded Text, Splines, and Shapes – BCC 6 FxPlug takes advantage of Apple FxPlug’s real-time architecture for simultaneous live previews of dozens of preset transitions, glows, and color and film look effects in a newly-designed effects browser window. Code-named “Popcorn”, this new technology delivers the best of Boris on Apple’s FxPlug platform.

Have feedback regarding the Public Beta? Please e-mail publicbeta@borisfx.com

Note: Customers who purchase BCC 5 FxPlug or BCC 5 AVX now will receive a free upgrade to Version 6 when it is available.