How we create REALISTIC Lightsabers with VFX

Make film-ready lightsaber effects from home! We're looking at the top underused techniques that will get you the best results and help your work stand out, and the most common mistakes that we all make!

00:00 Intro
00:17 Motion Tracking
01:00 Glow Effects
02:29 Lighting Conditions
03:10 Interactive Lighting

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[UstedTubo]

Sorry, this is my first time seeing this channel. Is this dude for real or is he playing a character?

[TTKS]

You’re so talented! Love your videos ☺️💕

[HitfilmUniversity]

Yup. Lightsaber tips.

Hey, Zach, maybe I want a juddering track because I'm trying to recreate the look of the ORIGINAL films (before all the lightsaber shots were redone for all the Special Editions, which are, most likely, the only versions you've seen.)! 👍😁😉😉😆

Actually, I've never done a complete lightsaber shot. Think I did a couple of seconds of one to train someone else, but that was the old school method of hand roto on a plane... A method for which Axel did a tutorial long ago...

[AstroDoge]

his voice is so calm compared to his face

[mikeheimer]

This was so brief, it doesn’t really explain to a newbie how to do what your talking about. Do you have more in depth tutorials on the subject?

[philipph]

I would love to see a sharper tip in the lightsaber preset. Is it possible to learn this power?

[ManicMK]

Ah motion tracking has saved me soooo much time

[Mintelm]

Can you please make a video on how to use the motion tracking with hitfilm express

[florete]

Is there also some kind of effect so you can overlay an Eskrima stick (pretty much a rattan stick) with those effects, so you can film some real fencing sequences and then overlay the entire thing accordingly to make it look like a lightsaber duel, or do you have to carry some some kind of shadowboxing kind of motions against each other, without no real impact to the weapons, whatsoever? I am asking for a friend...

[Samdeeshh]

Hey! Fxhome at motions tracking the motion blur in my video kills all tracking 😞 it just can get the tracking please recommend some tips to avoid motion blur in video

[The-TLDS-Guy]

You sound like the type of guy that plays d&d.

I sledgehammer the goblin in the face! Roll for attack damage!! 3? Damn! As you raise up your sledgehammer it is too heavy for you and it falls on your head and cracks your skull. Well shucks!

[GSN-TG]

Does anyone here know about shutter speed of camera, how does it matter?

[fLol]

How do you do a battle with motion tracking

[pyroedged]

Would be good if he actualy showed us how to do stuff and nothing was really clear. I prefer using AE with the saber plugin.

[KEEPRELAXING-ekqh]

you don't need to track u can simply luma key it

[christianjuru]

Where did you get that lightsaber from?

[domokenji]

ZACH.. how much to hire YOU to do my SW fan film.. 8 min.. .

[Amir]

سلام من تازه hit film Express را نصب کردم
آموزش فارسی ندارید؟

[angrygaming]

How to change the light mode into dark mode like u ps tell me

[MrUnicorn]

Can't do anything like this any more, as the last update you offered me keeps crashing my PC every time I try to open it. Would've thought that a long-standing customer (of well over a decade) wouldn't have to deal with such sh*tty things ... and don't ask me to submit a crash report, as I've sent four of those things over the last two months with absolutely no response from your company. May be time to vote with my feet, I think.