I shot at an angle that I knew would normally cause the sun to generate flares. 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.
MFLARE TRACKER PRO
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. I used a preset that came close to what I needed, tracked the sun and then watched the effect. Not too much to my surprise - given my previous experiences with MotionVFX’s plugins - it looked exactly as what I expected from having created similar shots at roughly the same angle using a zoom lens with no lens hood attached to it. The mFlare 2 effects have two sets of configuration settings. The first are the basic ones that appear in the Final Cut Pro X Inspector, the in-depth ones let you change the components of the flare itself and can be accessed only from the OSC Edit button. Components include the Iris, Glint, Loop, Orb, etc. Each component can be made to glow differently, be more or less transparent, etc, etc.
The Inspector settings also contain some basic appearance parameters, such as the colours used, grain, etc. The greenish horizontal streak - a component of the effect that had four of them - that only appeared after I panned away slightly from my light source was a bit too opaque to my liking, so I delved into the OSC Edit effect settings.
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