#Mflare mac install

Before launching Motion, however, you need to install the mFlare plugin – and you do that right from the mFlare application via the Motion 5/FCP X Plug-in menu. You’re going to use Motion because that’s what Final Cut Pro X uses for all of its effects – and by effects I mean all the content effects browsers, which includes effects, titles, transitions, and generators. Once saved, you can create your effect in Motion. When you are happy with your flare, you can either save it locally by clicking the Save icon at the bottom left, or what I prefer is to choose Save As Preset from the File menu – this way, my custom flare will appear in the list of presets. There are a large number of parameters you can tweak for each component, including options for dynamic animation. In this case, I’ve added a Glow, Ring, and Hoop Spot. You can also set the color to Global so that changing the color of one component changes all of the others.

#Mflare mac full

Each component you add appears as a thumbnail along the bottom bar along with the full composite, and you can customize each independently. But you can also create your own flares from scratch by clicking the OBJECTS bar and picking from the 13 different components (did you know that flares have so many parts?).

Once you’ve selected a preset, you can customize in just about any way you’d like with the Settings on the right side of the interface.įor me, the variety of presets and the fact that you can customize them gives me all the choice I’ll likely need. Simply browse them and select the one you’d like. You use the application to do two things: either select from one of the preset flares and modify it if you wish, or build your own flare completely from scratch.Ĭlicking the PRESETS bar brings up a library of preset flares. To get started, you launch the mFlare application. Here’s a shot in FCP X to which I’d like to add a custom lens flare. Rather than a straight review, in this article I’ll walk you through a few scenarios for how you might use mFlare in your FCP X projects. It’s one more reason that every Final Cut Pro X editor is going to want to have Motion 5 as part of their editing and motion graphics arsenal. MFlare is a fascinating and deep new product from, the site best known for their extensive colleciton of templates for Motion and After Effects.