After Effects, Rain, & Flash Blend Modes

Check out the little app I made below which consists of an FLV of simulated rain created in After Effects. The FLV was embedded and you can use the different blend modes to achieve different results. This basically allows you to remove the black background of the rain without using embedded alpha channels. This is one of tutorials that will be included in the “Flash Professional 8 Video Integration” title that I just finished recording for Lynda.com. It should be out very soon!

Click on the image below to launch the app:

Comments

  1. December 2nd, 2005 | 9:41 pm

    cool

  2. Phil
    December 3rd, 2005 | 10:01 am

    I love it…….

  3. abraham
    December 4th, 2005 | 8:42 pm

    Very cool. Hey, I know this is a little off-topic, but I wanted to ask; which program has a steeper learning curve, Flash or After Effects?

  4. December 4th, 2005 | 10:10 pm

    cool

  5. December 5th, 2005 | 4:51 pm

    sweetness lee you are so leet at flash :)

  6. December 5th, 2005 | 8:54 pm

    so this is less CPU intensive and size intensive than using alpha right?

  7. December 5th, 2005 | 9:06 pm

    Yes absolutely. If you can avoid using embedded channels it’s much better performance.

  8. January 10th, 2006 | 8:08 pm

    quite nice effect!

  9. January 24th, 2006 | 5:29 pm

    Hi master lee i’m looking for this fantastic tutorial about after effects and flash

  10. February 20th, 2007 | 4:58 am

    excellent piece of work.
    if you look carefully in flash the rain effect is a video embeed symbol. This can be used with your own animation.
    Too bad it stresses CPU.

  11. Chris
    April 9th, 2007 | 1:41 pm

    Can I ask how you made the rain in AE?

    Chris

  12. Josh Siefer
    May 28th, 2007 | 8:02 am

    Hey, could you please tell me what you are using for your flv pugin to play the video with?

  13. Richard
    March 17th, 2008 | 1:11 pm

    i like that a lot!!! Any chance of telling us how you made the rain in After Effects?

  14. mark
    June 17th, 2008 | 11:08 pm

    very…good!

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