Night lights that need a streak
Live plate. Auto Detect on the lamp. Anamorphic preset, then Size and Streak.
DaVinci Resolve Studio OFX
Pick a look. Drag it.
Anamorphic streak, ghosts, bloom. Auto-detect the practical, or place it by hand.
Clean glass. Then the sauce.
Drag the split. Left is the plate. Right is Flare Sauce on a selling setting, Anamorphic look.
Clean
Flare Sauce on
Eight starting looks.
Presets are a start, never locked. Tweak streak, ghosts, chroma, bloom and dirt after you pick one.
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.
Where it earns the slot.
Night practicals first. Then CG that still looks optically clean.
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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Commercial use is included. One payment. Owner updates stay free. No subscription.
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.