
The flare is replaced while maintaining all your settings and tracking info. You click on the “Presets” onscreen control button and click on a different one. Also a big improvement is that any changes in the external window are immediately reflected in the FCP X Viewer. While you still have a separate window for a lot of the changes many of the controls have been added to the inspector. I’m happy to say that along with a UI refresh that is familiar but better, all of those shortcomings have been addressed. Which isn’t great to be honest (please Apple do something about that). Tracking in Motion was limited to the strength of Motion 5′s point tracker.

In FCP X there was no tracking option except manual. Switching out to a different flare was not as easy as it could be. This led to a edit>check>edit>check workflow. To edit the flare you had to open a separate interface outside your composition that didn’t update in the composition till you finished editing, so you couldn’t see the changes in relation to the image. There were some drawbacks though to the original. The level of control in crafting the flare in mFlare was always impressive to say the least. It all depends on the subject matter of course. Flares can easily be overdramatic and overused but with prudent use can enhance a drab shot. I’ve used it on a number of projects since though, including compositing into some still photos for some magic wand effects. I was sucked in by the pretty lights, haha.
#Mflare 2 free generator#
MotionVFX recently released their long awaited updated to their excellent flare generator suite mFlare, aptly called mFlare 2.įunny enough I believe the original mFlare was the first plugin I ever bought, 6 years ago, after I saw this promo video.
