hey what's up ladies and gentlemen I'm Ignace Aleya a first of all I want to give
you my best wishes for 2019 2018 was a great year I know for a fact that 2019
is gonna be way way better as long as we're together there's nothing that can
stop us so I hope that you guys are ready for it in today's video I will be
showing you how to fake Northern Light in Adobe After Effects just like this
alright I hope you enjoyed that little preview this is what we are going to be
creating today in Adobe After Effects if you want the same footage like I was
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all right so here we are in Adobe After Effects this is the footage that I will
be using in order to create the effect if you want to use these same footage as
me I will put a link in the description below so you can go ahead and download
that follow along with this tutorial it has a little bit of movement which we
will be trekking down as well and in the preview you will hear and as you hear it
in a preview the nice background atmospheric sound and the sound effects
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so what I will do is drag my footage into a new composition like this now we
have this in our new composition what we'll do is create another composition
by going over here and create a new composition make sure it's a full HD
resolution and we are going to rename this fractal noise in this composition
I'm going to right click and create a new solid layer and this is going to be
our fractal for one give it some kind of color it doesn't really matter and click
OK now I'm go to effect noise and grain and apply a fractal noise effect to this
layer the first thing that I want to do is go into the complexity and change
this to 1 then go into the fractal type change this to max and go to the noise
type and change this to a spline now we have something like this which looks
great we can just click a invert button right here and that's going to create
something like this then we can increase the contrast to really isolate these
kind of ripples or these kind of lines we can also play with the brightness to
really narrow it down just make sure that the brightest part is actually
white and not kind of grayish like here so make sure that we do have real white
and then you can increase the contrast a little bit more if you want to
you can open up the transform setting and play with the uniform scaling so
make sure that the scale width and height are separate and then you can
play around like this and just play around with it
add a little bit more contrast and something like this should work fine and
we can open up the evolution options and also play with the random seeds so we
can click on this and just with the arrow up until you find something that
you like so it's completely up to you of course you can bring down the height
even more to get something like this now we can create a new solid layer and this
is going to be fractal oh - and then here we apply the same effect effects
noise and grain and apply a fractal noise this noise is going to be on top
of our other fractal so we're going to change this to some kind of multiply
effect and that way you get some kind of noise types in your fractal we can also
open the transform and increase the scale and this is just going to give
some kind of imperfections in your lines something like this once you've done
that we can click on our first fractal and give it some kind of animation to do
this we're going to hold alt on the keyboard and click on a stopwatch for
the evolution right time times 5 so this is going to give a very slow animation
to our fractal something like this we can do the same for the other fractal
but and here we can maybe increase it a little bit more so I'll click on the
stopwatch for the evolution and right time times 15 click OK
so now we have something that looks like this a very subtle animation now we want
to pre compose these two layers together so we're gonna click on both of these
holding the ctrl button on your keyboard and going to layer pre compose this and
rename this to fractal noise type once you've done that we can toggle the
switches until you see this option to create a 3d layer out of it then we can
press the W key on our keyboard that enables the rotation tool and then we
can rotate it to look somewhat kind of like this because this is going to be in
disguise that's what we're we'll be looking for increase the scale
just like you want it to and there we have it
next we want to click here go to layer and precompose it once again and move
all the attributes into the new composition this is going to be our
fractal 3d click OK now if you go back to your original composition and you
import the fractal noise effect you'll see that you don't have a black
background entirely so what you want to do is go back to the fractal noise and
go new and create a new solid layer make sure it's black and rename it BG for
background put it on the bottom and check it again now it should work fine
so next what you want to do is click on the fractal 3d and go with your pen tool
around the areas that you don't want to see something like this kind of key out
the part that you want to see here I'm going to key out that part and just do
whatever you think looks good play around with it also play around with the
settings in the fractal noise as well so every kind of well everyone that is
following this tutorial is definitely going to get different results so I'm
just playing around is the best option that you have so if you go back here
this is what we see so in the fractal noise layer we want to click on the
fractal 3d and now we're going for effect generate we're going to apply the
4 color gradient and if we bring in these dots here so if you click on it
you will see these dots all over your screen
we want to kind of drag these in to really enhance those colors and now we
want to change those colors to something more realistic so right here if we're
going to change the blending mode to color you will see that it now takes the
color right here you can also play around with multiply or different kind
of blending modes and of course I don't know how Northern Light actually looks
like in real life I'm only having the reference of photography and videos and
it's still on my bucket list actually to see Northern Lights it seems it really
amazing but I haven't had a chance to see it myself so um I think you have to
go more into the green and sign colors something like this and I'm play around
with these colors until you're satisfied of course you can play around with your
own creativity and really kind of chain of course I've also seen people pulling
off like red kind of purplish colors which is also pretty cool so really play
around with this until you have something like that and actually right
now you do see some kind of errors because we are using our masks and
that's actually because we have to reap recompose this so what I'll do is click
on my effect go to edit and cut this effect away select my background layer
my fractal 3d and go for layer pre-compose and then there we go
based your effect here again and now you won't have that problem so now what rest
is to do is really get that effect going so what I'll do is click on my layer
right here and go for edit and duplicate and then we want to go for effect blur
and sharpen and apply a CC phase blur which is well radial blur sorry
CC radial blur there we go now we're gonna change this to a fading zoom and
increase the amount like this and now we want to bring down the center here and
we want to bring it out and down on Y until we actually see it completely
straight up so there we go something like this should work fine and actually
you can play around you can make it less intense really play around with all
these settings and then of course the amount is like 25 or there we go this is
something that we want to something like an amount of one and then we want to
duplicate it once more click on layer duplicate it now change it to like to
duplicate it change it to like three duplicate it and four and now of course
toggle the switches and play with the blending mode change it to a screen for
all of them
and now we're getting something of course you can duplicate it once more
and maybe increase it even more something like that looks really really
cool I'm also going to change my resolution to full here because we do
see some kind of artifacts and now for the last layer so our first layer where
we didn't apply any kind of effect we want to go for effect blur and sharpen
and use a directional blur in this case and just increase the length to kind of
blur it out a little bit we can also duplicate this one even and maybe
increase it even more really play around with everything we can see this kind of
sharp edge which we don't like so to kind of solve that we can click on our
original layer and I think the problem lies in the radial blur so what you can
do is also apply a simple blur and directional blur on these just very
slightly something like maybe a 10 or a 5 and copy this and apply to all of the
others and now it's gonna soften this out right here so that's really what
we're looking into and also change this to is screen there we go and also you
can select all of these and just change the blending mode like this to see
different options and add is also pretty cool classic chord dodge is not doing
anything okay so screen it is and going back to my original footage and now
change this blending mode also to a screen or ad and now you're gonna see
your Northern Light right here of course my scene looks a little bit too clear
what you can do if you really want to dive into this is check out my other
video on how to change the day to a night scene so a lot of techniques that
will be covered in there I'll try to also put that a video in the link in the
description below so we click on our video and I'm just gonna quickly head
over to curves and just darken it like this kind of introduce some blue I'm
just gonna do it very roughly in the other video you will see a lot more and
fun things covered and also increase some contrast
and then go for color correction tint do kind of desaturate it a little bit
because the night is kind of desaturate it now we have something like this what
I'll do is right-click transform and flip horizontal so we don't have that
tree covered of course you can go ahead and key out the three and and then
you'll have to check out my keying tutorial on how to do sky replacement
that's gonna help you eight Tom but this looks good so now we just need to do the
animation so of course we see the camera moving and the sky isn't moving with it
so what we'll do is click on orange our original footage and go for track motion
or actually what am i and go for the tracker so if you don't see that go to
window and enable the tracker right here and click on track camera for your
original footage so once that's doing its thing just leave it analyzing in the
background we're gonna click on our fractal noise and we're gonna apply our
perfect glow preset which is a free preset that you can get on our website
so perfect glow and if we apply that we can see and that's doing a magical thing
so it looks really really cool we can actually just not show it and you can
see that the glow really does a lot okay so the tracker is done once you see that
it's done we can click in the background and far background select a few of these
dots right click and create a null and camera so now what I want to do is click
on the no press p on the keyboard click on the position for the tracked know and
copy the position data click on the fractal noise toggle the switches make
sure that it's a 3d layer and then go to position again press B on the keyboard
click on this and paste it to get it in the exact same position if you want you
can reposition and readjust everything just check that it doesn't get out of
frame and actually it's doing a decent job except here so we're gonna move this
over you can scale it move it and every one is again gonna get a different
result but this is gonna get you the closest so there we have it and if we're
gonna change this to an additive we do get some different kind of results I
suppose also I did use my 16 bits per channel
which is gonna enhance the colors of the glue a little bit and of course you can
click on your fractal noise and go for a color correction curves and increase
kind of the contrast here maybe the colors even and just play around with
these it's completely up to you so here we can really get that kind of typical
Northern Light play around with it it's really fun
you can even apply a color correction tint effect to get it black and white
and then we can apply an effect videocopilot
vc color vibrance which is a free plugin from Video Copilot and get your colors
like this so if you want to get funky increase the vibrance maybe put it
before to glow together with the tint
it's getting some different kind of results maybe you want to apply a quick
adjustment layer on top with a curved and increasing the red cores a little
bit to fit it together a little bit more
and yeah just be creative and if you want to show off your end results you
can do that with me on instagram at Enya's Alea alright so that's it for
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