Candle Flame in AE

[momoffduty]

Does anyone have settings for the Advanced Lightning Effect for a candle flame in AE? Thanks.

[Chuck Engels]

Check this out Cheryl, might help
http://www.videocopilot.net/forum/viewt ... f=4&t=7078

And this is pretty good, it's for CS3 but might still work for you
http://layersmagazine.com/let-there-be-light.html

[momoffduty]

Thanks Chuck, will check those out.

[momoffduty]

Chuck, I went with your first suggestion and it took 5 minutes.

Copied the flame to a new layer in PS.
Imported new layer into AE
Two puppet pins, one at the base and the other on top.
Added a wiggle expression to the top pin.
Added a wiggle to the layer's opacity which the layer is so small that this didn't matter.
Blend mode to Add.
Scaled up a bit the flame layer since the graphic was small on the screen in the main comp.

[Chuck Engels]

If you get a chance please post the end result, I would love to see it

[momoffduty]

If you get a chance please post the end result, I would love to see it

Maybe just a few seconds of the precomp otherwise will have to wait until next month.

Adding a hue cycle expression may add to the flame too. A color ranging from red to orange red and in between.