Knoll Light Factory Pro 2.5.2

A custom lens editor video plug-in, auto tracking, alpha channel support, and pinpoint control over dozens of settings
Knoll Light Factory Pro is a tool for creating lens flares, sunsets, photon torpedoes, stars and other effects

Knoll Light Factory Pro is one of the industry's most popular motion graphics tools. Knoll Light Factory Pro is most famous for its high-fidelity simulations of light effects called flares, which simulate reflections from a very bright light source as seen through a camera's lens.

Knoll Light Factory Pro is Hollywood's go-to tool for adding extra pop to FX explosions or interest to logos or text.

Custom Lens Editor

Build your own flares or edit a preset with the custom lens editor. Choose from elements such as StarFilter, Ellipse, or PhotonSpikeBall, and control each element's position, color, scale, thickness, angle, and width. You also get pinpoint control over brightness, scale and color of the lens as a whole.

70 powerful presets

Use the same presets that the pros turn to every day for sports events and major motion pictures. Presets include Desert Sun, Arc Welder, Generic Panavision, Spikey Glow, Pv1 (for exploding stars), RedLaser, RockConcert, Omnimax (a flare seen on IMAX projection), or Distant Quantum (the original photon torpedo).

Auto-obscuration tools

Flares can be obscured by objects (cars, enemy spacecraft) that come between them and the viewer. The auto-track feature tracks specific points in an existing alpha channel, making flare location a snap. The integrated Knoll Unmult tool generates alphas, making it easier to include lights and flares in complex composites.

Host applications:
· Adobe After Effects CS3, 7, 6.5
· Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, 2.0
· Apple Final Cut Pro 6, 5.1.4
· Apple Motion 3.02
· Avid Xpress Pro/Media Composer 5.6+,2.6+


Main features of Knoll Light Factory Pro:

Customizable Presets:

Choose from 70 presets or customize them to suit your needs.

Lens Editor:

Use the custom lens editor to create and save your own unique effects for future use.

Custom Light Effects:

19 lens elements in the main plug-in create custom light effects. Each element is also included as a separate plug-in for creating complex motion graphics.

Automatic Tracking:

The auto track feature tracks multiple points and adds multiple identical lighting points to a scene.

GPU Support:

Offers up to 10x render speed improvements, compared to a single CPU

Auto Obscuration:

Automatically hides or reveals a light effect as the light source moves behind another object, automatically adjusting the light's brightness as it is obscured.

Light Factory EZ Plug-in:

Included with the package, Light Factory EZ gives you access to all 70 flares with a single click.

Alpha Generation:

Generate integrated alpha channels automatically with Knoll Unmult.


Requirements of Knoll Light Factory Pro:

1 GB of RAM

30 MB of Hard Drive space


Limitations of Knoll Light Factory Pro:

Watermark on output. The watermark is either a logo, or a red x.

What's New in This Release:

25 new preset effects include Flash Bulb, Digital Camera Sun, and more

GPU support enables blistering speeds of up to 10x (depending on card model)

Now runs inside more host editing applications, including Final Cut Pro, Motion, Avid AVX, After Effects, and Premiere Pro. Includes CS3 support.