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Famous lens flare tool from Academy Award winner John Knoll

Created by John Knoll, Photoshop co-creator and Star Wars effects guru, Knoll Light Factory is one of the industry's most popular motion graphics tools. It is most famous for its high-fidelity simulations of light effects called flares, which simulate reflections from a very bright light source as seen through a camera's lens. Knoll Light Factory is Hollywood's go-to tool for adding interest to text or logos or extra pop to FX explosions. Now includes CS5/64 bit compatibility, new custom flares, Knoll 3D Flare and a new Lens Designer for Adobe CS5 users.

What's New

  • Now Available Adobe CS5/64 bit compatibility
  • Adobe CS5 users benefit from a brand new Lens Designer interface
  • Now includes Knoll 3D Flare for After Effects and new custom flares for all host applications
  • 25 new preset effects include Flash Bulb, Digital Camera Sun, and more
  • GPU support enables blistering speeds of up to 10x (depending on card model)
  • Now runs inside more host editing applications, including Final Cut Pro, Motion, Avid AVX, After Effects, and Premiere Pro. Includes CS3 support.

Reasons To Buy

  • 64 bit compatibility provides significant performance gains
  • More design flexibility with the brand new CS5 Lens Designer and new custom flares for all hosts
  • Use Knoll 3D Flare to easily create Knoll Lens Flares in After Effects 3D space
  • Try the same presets used in movies such as Planet of the Apes, The Day After Tomorrow, the Star Trek series, and Dreamgirls
  • Designed by Academy Award-winner John Knoll, visual FX supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic
  • GPU acceleration delivers blistering render speeds

Custom Lens Editor

Build your own flares or edit a preset with the custom lens editor. Choose from elements such as StarFilter, Ellipse, or PhotonSpikeBall, and control each element's position, color, scale, thickness, angle, and width. You also get pinpoint control over brightness, scale and color of the lens as a whole.

70 powerful presets

Use the same presets that the pros turn to every day for sports events and major motion pictures. Presets include Desert Sun, Arc Welder, Generic Panavision, Spikey Glow, Pv1 (for exploding stars), RedLaser, RockConcert, Omnimax (a flare seen on IMAX projection), or Distant Quantum (the original photon torpedo).

Auto-obscuration tools

Flares can be obscured by objects (cars, enemy spacecraft) that come between them and the viewer. The auto-track feature tracks specific points in an existing alpha channel, making flare location a snap. The integrated Knoll Unmult tool generates alphas, making it easier to include lights and flares in complex composites.

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