water glint ?

[Mylenium]

Two instances of Glow - one Vertical and one Horizontal only. Not a glint in the strict sense, but kinda okay.

Mylenium

[Spacelord]

Thanks,
Another question,
How do you get the glow to follow the highlights as the wave moves ?

[berniebernie]

if you don't have footage from which you can extrapolate the glints, I think you might able to achieve something with AE's particle tool, use a directional blur, a normal blur and use a blend mode.

It's just an idea, but it might work.

[deeiks]

if you don't have footage from which you can extrapolate the glints, I think you might able to achieve something with AE's particle tool, use a directional blur, a normal blur and use a blend mode.

It's just an idea, but it might work.

yet again just an idea, but you could duplicate the water layer, add some effects to it (threshold for example) to create a matte of the brighter parts. then use it as a alpha matte for "glints", created with a solid and some blur effects for example.

haven't done it myself so i can't give any persice advice but you should play around and test it yourelf.

[suztv]

Trapcode filter please! I have had immense luck using Starglow - it works really well too, although you will have to do some prep to your video so that the glints only happen to the highlights on the water and not everywhere.

Look at Andrew Kramer's tutorial on separating channels and isolating highlites here: http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=53

Although the tutorial is about blemish removal you can use that type of methodology to get "just" the highlites on the water.

Then apply starglow - voila! Water glints and sparkles like it was shot using a camera filter. Of course you will have to tweak the settings a bit to get the look you want.

[Spacelord]

Thanks guys I'll give those ideas ago.

Suztv thanks for the input but the idea was to do it without plugins :)
But Starglow does look cool, good link too.

[DecWest]

Trapcode filter please! I have had immense luck using Starglow - it works really well too, although you will have to do some prep to your video so that the glints only happen to the highlights on the water and not everywhere.

Look at Andrew Kramer's tutorial on separating channels and isolating highlites here: http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=53

Although the tutorial is about blemish removal you can use that type of methodology to get "just" the highlites on the water.

Then apply starglow - voila! Water glints and sparkles like it was shot using a camera filter. Of course you will have to tweak the settings a bit to get the look you want.

Agreed!

Starglow (and all the Trapcode plug ins) are worth their weight in digital gold!

[suztv]

There is a way to do that without starglow but you would have to have three layers on top of your original footage. First follow the tut from VideoCopilot regarding the highlite separation or do one just with levels (experiment a little, you learn a lot that way) - the duplicate that layer - create one with a glow, another with directional blur in one direction and the third with directional blur in the cross direction (perpendicular). A little more involved and not quite as elegant - but you get the glints... If you need to colorize them use cctoner or Hue/Saturation on an adjustment layer.

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