In Final Cut Pro X, after dragging the mFlare 2 plugin to the clip on the timeline, I was greeted with On Screen Controls (OSC) that contained buttons for editing the effect, for tracking and resetting. In this case, I deliberately used a lens that was not “flare sensitive” enough, as I planned to add a nice flare in post using mFlare 2. I shot at an angle that I knew would normally cause the sun to generate flares. I tried it with a shot of a large square in my native city, Antwerp. I was especially interested in the Organic category, as that one holds the flare effects that come closest to the real thing. It has an impressive number of presets, neatly organised in Anamorphic, Cinematic, Organic, Offscreen and SciFi sections. MFlare 2 lives in the Effects category of Final Cut Pro X’s Inspector. Its plugins and effects are of a very fine quality and most plugins have mocha tracking technology on board. MFlare 2 is a plugin developed by MotionVFX, a European developer who is becoming an important competitor of FxFactory. It’s also pretty close to a real lens flare if you create an “Organic” one.
MotionVFX created mFlare 2, a plugin that uses the Mocha tracker to bind your lens flare to the subject that you want it to move together with. In addition, most lens flare offerings don’t even come close to the real thing. That’s tedious and often not very accurate. But titles don’t move with the subject causing the flare unless you move them with it, using keyframes. To create flares in Final Cut Pro X, you can buy a collection of “titles” and by positioning these get more or less what looks like a lens flare.
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