From the course: After Effects Compositing: 3 Advanced Matching and Looks

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Work in HDR, even when beginning in LDR

Work in HDR, even when beginning in LDR - After Effects Tutorial

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Work in HDR, even when beginning in LDR

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One of my favorite things about HDR is how easy it makes it to create really compelling and very hot looking light elements without much effort. Here we have a scene that is created in HDR over an LDR plate. If I roll down on my exposure control, you see the nice decay to the beam element. And you don't see that in the background scene, it just turns gray because it was shot on a DSLR. Looking into the pre comp, that beam element just consists of a bunch of solids and shape layers. What they have in common is that they use either opacity that's below 100 or a blur effect, or several of them, to create a lot of thresholds. Those thresholded layers are then boosted an exposure. So without the exposure, it just looks like the ordinary element. But in HDR, it turns into this amazing looking thing. If I go to 8 or 16 bit, there's still something happening, but there is also a lot lost. Now, you're probably use to seeing this if you just simply use an exposure effect to try to create this…

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