How do I do that..??

[Shadow_Leaper]

i see a bunch of different effects..and everytime i even attempt..it doesnt work..lol..iwanna do a "lens flare" i guess...except the one in premiere 6.0 doesnt move.. i guess what im saying is i wann make a lens flare move like in...Kaston Griffins "This isnt what we meant" vid...or the Omni Strata Studios vid of Chobits to DJ Sammy's "Heaven"...i dunt even know if its a lens flare..thats as close as iv gotton to them..how on earth do they do it..??

my resources:
Premiere 6.0
After Effects 6.0
Photoshop 7.0

[AMVfreak]

You do know that effects and transitions do not appear on the preview/monitor window unless you render scrub, create a preview, or export in Premiere 6.0/6.5 right?

[Shadow_Leaper]

yea i know that much about premiere...but the lensflare option is only for a lil dot...it doesnt give me a choice as to if it moves...

[badmartialarts]

Hrm, Premiere 6.0 doesn't let you change the position over time? I guess you could cut every two frames or so and re-apply the effect with a slightly different position each time...pretty much the same as keyframing in Premiere Pro but just a bit more hassle.

[Shadow_Leaper]

you cant be serious..-.-;;; lol..every two frames and move it..?

could there be something in the Quicktime effects that could help..? i think when i first installed premiere there was something in the quicktime things that had something to do with lensflares..but i dont know anymore b/c everytime i try and get the quicktime effects back it says "the downloaded effects package has been currupted do you wish to try again?" ive done it 7 times one day and it never got a uncorrupted package!...

[bum]

[quote="Shadow_Leaper"]you cant be serious..-.-;;; lol..every two frames and move it..?
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That would take a few minutes at most. Most people spend more time planing the next few seconds of an amv.

[TaranT]

Ulead's PhotoImpact will create animations of lens flares (and other lighting effects) as a series of bitmaps that you can import into Premiere. Doesn't After Effects do this, too? It may be more sophisticated than you need, if all you want is a star-like flash off of a point. In which case all you need is a fuzzy white cross (+) that you can make with most any picture editor.

If all you want to do is move/translate/rotate the flare, maybe this will work: create the lens flare on a solid green screen, or against a transparent background if you can do PNG files. Then import it as a still into your project, key out the background if necessary, overlay it on your scene, and apply motion keyframes to move it around. Use fast fades to bring it in and out.