Working with groups of lights

In the last chapter we looked at how…to use After Effects lights to control optical flares.…In this tutorial, we're going to take a little step forward, actually a…giant step forward, and talk about how to deal with tons of lights.…I have over a 160 lights in this scene and I've made a grid with them.…And you can see that I have the…basically default settings of Optical Flares up here.…And I want to point out that I've named…my lights intelligently.…So I have A let's say, this is, or this is B…for example, this is B, and then A2 and then B whatever.…

But there's a prefix here, A or B, and they alternate.…So this one is an A, and then this one's a B,…and an A, and a B, and so on and so forth.…And that is for a special reason that we'll talk about in just a moment.…Now let's go up to the flare, and we'll change, the optical flare's…already applied for you here, from the, the source type from 2D to Track lights.…And we just get solid blow out, just insanity.…So I'm going to take scale down to maybe 20 well we'll leave it there.…