Hows it going everyone this is VerticDesigns here and for this tutorial I'm going to show
you how to install optical flares for After Effects CS6.
This is going to be the 64 bit version. Now before we start this video there's a disclaimer
that I need to say and that is that I don't own this plugin.
it is separate, it is made by another company and they made this plugin which is a paid
product but for me this file was passed on. I encourage you all to actually download the
plugin rather than getting it for free. I'm making this video just because the next tutorial
that I'll be doing is to show you how to use optical flares but obviously in order to do
that you're going to need to install the plugin. If you scroll down and look in the description
they'll be two download links. The very first one will be the the one that takes you to
the paid product page where you buy it. Reasons why you would want to buy it is because you
get the full thing, you get other effects and pretty much all the features and of course
the second link it will be to this page right here which will let you download the standalone
optical flares. All you got to do is click on download through your browser, unless you
have the mega sync which is a program you install on your computer and it does it from
there. But download through your browser will do the job and will install it. Ok so now that
the file is on your computer what you want to do is you want to extract file here.
This will just pretty much make the folder, it will un-zip it and that's the file that that you'll
need, the folder. After you've un-zipped the file what you want to do is you want to
locate where you've installed after effects, for me it is on the (C:) drive, so I'm going to
click on there. Look for program files. Once you're in here you want to go to adobe
and then this is the part where it's a little bit confusing because there's two different
folders. One is called Adobe After Effects CS6, which you may think it's in there but
it's actually in After Effects. That is the folder that I've think have called it.
You want to open it up and in here go to After Effects CS6, support files and then once you
got to here you want to go to plug-ins this is what it stands for, it's like really short
for some reason. Just open it up, all you got to do is copy this file right here this folder
and just drag it in but I'm not going to do that with my because I've already got it there
and I don't want to mess everything up. Make sure that when you're doing this that your
After Effects is closed. Don't do it while it's open because that's when problems can
happen if you do that and you can get errors. That is pretty much it now that you've
done that you just close this down. You put these files somewhere on your computer where
you want them, you could leave them on desktop or whatever and now you pretty much open After Effects.
So for me to show you that it does work I'm going to create a new composition
and then I'm going go to effects and because the plugin in now installed you should see
that it is there.
but I'm going to need to have some sort of background, let's just get
in a solid. That colour, that will do. Then once you go to effects go down to the bottom
and there you have it optical flares. You can pretty much open it up and you have
optical flares installed.
Anyway this has been a video on how to install optical flares. If you would like to see part 2
which is how to actually use it then click a annotation on the screen or a link in the
description. If you thought this video was helpful then give it a thumbs up :) it shows
other people that it's a helpful video. Now I know some of you maybe a little bit annoyed
that I didn't actually copy the files over but it still works, trust me by default
After Effects has no optical flares and you will notice the difference. That is how I did it.
If you're having issues then leave a comment and I'll try my best to help you out.
Anyway until the next tutorial I will see you all next time, bye.