Night plate with an anamorphic streak already on the practical
Hero still 01-hero.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9 · or 01-hero.mp4 (4-7s mute loop)

Flare already on. Night practical, headlight, or a hard backlight. Leave the lower left dark so the headline still reads. No clean plate.

DaVinci Resolve Studio OFX

Pick a look. Drag it.

Anamorphic streak, ghosts, bloom. Auto-detect the practical, or place it by hand.

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Clean glass. Then the sauce.

Drag the split. Left is the plate. Right is Flare Sauce on a selling setting, Anamorphic look.

Same frame with Flare Sauce applied
Flare on 03-flare.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9 · pixel-locked to 02

Same frame, Flare Sauce on. Streak and ghosts should read at web size. Keep the subject visible.

Clean plate, same framing as the flare side
Before 02-clean.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9 · identical camera to 03

Same still as 03-flare.jpg with no OFX. A real practical in frame. Export both from one playhead.

Clean Flare Sauce on

Eight starting looks.

Presets are a start, never locked. Tweak streak, ghosts, chroma, bloom and dirt after you pick one.

Anamorphic preset: strong horizontal streak
Preset still look-anamorphic.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9 · same plate as the other looks

One locked camera. Swap the Preset menu, export. Same for look-cinematic, vintage, coated, dirty, dream, hard, rainbow.

It finds the practical.

Auto Detect locks onto the hottest source and Hold stops it hopping between lights. Preview Detect tints qualifying pixels red in the viewer, never on the render. Turn Auto off and drag the target.

Hold

Low follows whichever light is brightest. High sticks unless something much hotter appears.

Preview Detect

Threshold is visible. Red means it will count as a source.

Mix and blend

Screen is the photographic default. Add is hotter. Mix pulls it off the plate.

Host
Resolve Studio OFX
Place
Color node, last
License
Commercial, one payment
Updates
Included for owners
DaVinci Resolve Inspector with Flare Sauce controls visible
In Resolve 08-inspector.jpg 1600 × 1200 · 4:3

Inspector with Flare Sauce selected. Crop tight on Preset, Intensity, Streak, Ghosts, Auto Detect. Dark Resolve theme.

Where it earns the slot.

Night practicals first. Then CG that still looks optically clean.

Night live plate with anamorphic streak from Flare Sauce
Night practical 11-night.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9 · full bleed

Street lamp, headlight, or a window. Anamorphic look. The streak should cut the frame.

Night lights that need a streak

Live plate. Auto Detect on the lamp. Anamorphic preset, then Size and Streak.

CG render with Flare Sauce on a backlight
CG backlight 12-cg.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9 · full bleed

A render with a hard source. Coated or Cinematic. Ghosts should sit on the far side of the optic, not as a sticker.

CG that still looks like a lens

Last node after the grade. Screen blend so highlights do not clip twice.

Questions

A DaVinci Resolve Studio OFX for lens flare that behaves like a filter. Presets, then Intensity, Size, Streak, Ghosts, Chroma, Bloom, Dirt. Auto Detect finds the practical. Turn it off and drag the flare on the viewer.
Yes. OFX plugins run in DaVinci Resolve Studio, not the free Resolve.
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OFX plugin for DaVinci Resolve Studio. Notes ship with the download. Typical install is the OFX plugins folder, then a Resolve restart. Exact supported Resolve versions will be listed on the download.

Sauce the plate.

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