Advanced Muzzle Flashes!

[@TheGregoryGUY]

I've been searching around for some different muzzle flash tutorials to look for one with the right look. but i must say this is by far the greatest one.

[@Vixarya]

No shells ryan?

[@roxcerise]

thanks Ryan! I've watched every episode and am amazed by all the tips/knowledge!

[@jaydencrowe8111]

4:27 for those of you who work on low budget (like me).

[@JNMTSfilms]

I love the "NEEDED". I love you guys

[@moon_spawn]

Nice. I never thought i'd need to use an optical flare, but now I see that it could turn out much better with it!

[@NatesFilmTutorials]

Where do you get after effects and premiere pro? Do you buy it, or do you have a monthly or annual subscription to adobe?

[@Leifstuan]

Getting home from school and seeing a new Film Riot is the best birthday present ever!

[@livewithus]

Wow! Those are really amazing 'tricks'. Thanks FilmRiot!

[@TigerEyeFocus]

Always teaching and always hilarious! Thank you Ryan !

[@tiger5gaming]

me: *getting home from school(really tired) -Noo, no new videos in my subscription box :( ...Wait, FILMRIOT. HELL YEA

[@aritrachoudhury8533]

i am curious about how they make the scenes where the video pauses and becomes like a 3d photo and the camera goes around... everything looks so clear that time... i would love to watch a tutorial on it.

[@prince9024]

me 2..

[@OBSDCC7]

The cheap way to do that is basically the mannequin challenge. If you film it really fast and then slow down the footage, it'll look pretty decent

[@mik3z418]

They have this expensive camera rig setup with loads of cameras in a semicircle which all record at the same time- I think it’s called a timerig or something

[@henkdeveroveraar]

i`ve made some films at the age of 12 but i let it go after that. but you`ve got the old fires burning again. your videos are extremely helpfull. so thank you for that.

[@zachjones9180]

Thanks Ryan I had to do muzle flashes for my short film today this helped me

[@AutoRestoMod]

Ry another source of weapons is to use blank adapted guns. While marginally less safe due to the fact that they are real guns, these guns sound more realistic (because they are real weapons adapted for blank fire or blank firing weapons that use a 9mm blank charge to operate the blow back). Most of the movies like Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers and The Pacific, used blank firing weapons.

[@VFXMadness]

I love the inspiration and passion that film riots put into the hearts of film makers of all ages

[@ChronoBear92]

Woot Full Sail. This was a really helpful refresher course. Thx.

[@300warrior300]

thank you filmriot crew, for brightening my depressing monday

[@AutoRestoMod]

Ry another source of weapons is to use blank adapted guns. While marginally less safe due to the fact that they are real guns, these guns sound more realistic; because they are real weapons adapted for blank fire or blank firing weapons that use a 9mm blank charge to operate the blow back. Most of the movies like Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers and The Pacific, used blank firing weapons.

[@GuardingProject]

never miss out on a show :) you are my film school :)

[@yeln4tsmusic]

My Video Production teacher uses your videos dude! It's awesome!

[@hobocamptheater]

style over realism... AWESOME!!!

[@RodNaugler]

I like how casually you dropped in that you needed to motion track the shot. You make it sound so easy compared to how difficult it is in most workflows. --- Sent From filmriot's AppRats (Facebook App)!

[@Totes1829]

I would love to do what you guys do everyday keep it up!! You guys are very inspiring

[@macscott1992]

This is funny I've been looking at Full Sail for the film part for when I'm older and now it's on filmriot!

[@simonjohansson7643]

Thanks for a great lesson. Do you know if you can create those effects with Final Cut. I would really want to know.

[@HazardStudios101]

Just got Adobe After Effects CS6 and Action Essentials 2! I'm trying this. Thanks Ryan.

[@ashuntboy]

In one of my film I just made, I needed a machine gun fired from far away at night so I took an iPhone 4 and an orange gel, and I downloaded an adjustable strobe light app, held the gel in front of the flash, it worked great!

[@TERRAMOUNT]

the trick with the light is great!

[@ShortBrownMC]

LMFAO!!! Man I love this show!!! The beginning was so hilarious!

[@Unfoldedwarrior]

yeah i figured if you gonna follow his advice.. you shouldnt be a noob.. he just shares technique and is so cool that he cares enough to describe all the steps, even though he is indeed blitzing past everything. so i got videopilot training..

[@bobby1977-e7p]

Holy crap! thanks dude this is really going to help us with our upcoming film :)

[@DonovanKidd-moviesandmore]

Very helpful (espically since I don't even have after effects)! Thank you, and Losses was amazing.

[@FarleyFlicks]

Not sure if Ryan will see this or not, but when you track the scene for the smoke from the gunshot, you're tracking the smoke to the gun or what? If I'm walking and shooting a gun like a mofo, does the smoke follow the gun or does it stay where I fired the gunshot?

[@DanielS2001]

I'm a graduate of Full Sail University. So, hearing about Full Sail as a sponsor is a good thing to me. :)

[@CinematicComics]

very cool info/creative stuff-thanks for sharing ryan-love your channel bro!

[@difficult_echidna]

Full Sail University, right??? Yeah XD I'm looking forward to going to there, not sure if it's gonna be for film making, writing, or game designing! All three I'm working on and stuff, and can't wait to do any of the three!

[@NeemaFahimy]

My bro got a Full Sail University thing in the mail, looks awesome :P

[@LOVERcallofduty]

ahhhh! some of this stuff i would never think of in my life!

[@nondemenai7260]

I liked that he took the time to shoot this and I can't do any better. so many critics with no skills, damn

[@kontube00]

u guys r great. LOSSES is the bomb. love it

[@CamiloVids]

YES! do more stuff that dosnt require after effects! Im 17 years old and i cant afford most of the advanced editing tools.

[@joshsilverlock]

do you have to do that whole process for every shot fired... ??

[@stephaniedentremont]

this is perfect. exactly what i was looking for. you kids are the best!

[@JasonBowdach]

Working in a linear workspace doesnt seem to hurt RED footage too much, but it really brings out the noise in DSLR footage and flatens it even further

[@doubletaproductions]

You can luma key it in after effects or you can left click the layer and choose blending mode screen.

[@IamWanderwoman]

Wow, pretty amazing for a beginner like me but also very fast in the editing software part. Are there any videos aimed at learning the software? Which one are you using?

[@MrJobodhobo]

PsychoHacker Lady I would recommend "video copilot" for some after effects tutorials, there is also a good channel called "theproductionreel" who do some vfx.

[@Arcanineisthebest]

Pro tip: Remember the mask that goes beneath everything and was blurred? Afterf applying just a little bit blur add a turbulence field and animate it 3 frames. That's the way they do it in video games, and it works especially good on machine guns.

[@RumleKjaer]

Love the start!

[@FamilyFirstJ]

another great show

[@EhItsDave]

Amazing muzzle flashes, helped a lot! :D

[@sminxsmjs]

Hey Ryan, great video! Concerning any muzzle ideas that you proposed. I was thinking if I use my wireless flash for my camera. triggering that (possibly even gelling it to an appropriate color) could make a really neat effect. If that fails, you could always use it as a substitute for lightning storm =)

[@EpicBros43]

nice ! Will It Blend?

[@fxkid1036]

Ryan your tuts are AMAZING!!!! I was wondering if you used 3D programs such as Autodesk Maya, and if so, Maybe you could make a few tutorials on it here and there?

[@Assassins123Creed]

THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU JUST MADE MY MOVIE!!!

[@DanielS2001]

@DKC1011 Well, it's really hard to answer that particular question, because it depends on the person. Keep in mind that Quentin Tarantino didn't go to film school, his film education being watching movies at the video store he used to work at and taking the Dov S-S Simens' 2-Day Film School seminar. Kevin Smith went to film school, but never completed it. Many of the more recognizable names, such as Spielberg, Lucas and so on, did go to film school.

[@21Assasin]

The lens flares actually look sick I only noticed it after you said something but they look BA

[@blastlaughs]

Great video but where did you get youre muzzle flash from

[@nictheartist]

Superb ideas!

[@MegaCharlieUnicorn]

love how people comment before they even get 10 seconds in :) great tutorial ryan i think im gonna compare the two with action essential muzzle flashes just to see how unrealistic those things really are :P

[@douglasproductions9501]

I really want to go to full sail but I live so so so far away. Do you have any schools in the North East U.S. or even Canada that you can personally recommend? Can you do an episode about formal education. Pros/Cons exc.

[@jaysondwyer2026]

+Doug St John New york university and School of visual arts are pretty good film schools in New York. I'm only 15 though so don't take my word for anything lol.

[@douglasproductions9501]

lol thank you Jayson Dwyer

[@thevidmaster6]

+Doug St John St. Laurence in new york

[@douglasproductions9501]

Ethan Madison Thank you :)

[@JoshWoodYouTube]

+Doug St John in Ontario Canada: Toronto Film School, Ryerson, Sheridan, York, Humber.. Those are the top schools in ontario for film all near the southern border of Canada

[@AaronGRandall]

Awesome tutorial!! Keep it up!!!

[@michalaisaiahgrinnell4360]

Something I use that is free and is very popular is called bender although it is slightly more manual its very nice look up blender foundation you can see some of the things they did pro with.

[@oliverhakim414]

Ryan, have you ever thought about upgrading to front firing blank guns?

[@Asseptence]

@Maydomedia If you've watched their other videos, they're using Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5.

[@langdonthomasalger]

Hey Ryan, besides your new gun sound pack, what sounds were you using for this?

[@masonbrownie]

This video was created YEARS before the LORD of WAR GUN SFX pack was made - In his Post-Production audio of LOSSES he talks about ALL the sounds used - He used some of the ones he made and some from various packs (such as the VFX Lobby's Action Audio Pro sound pack)

[@Samson2030]

Filmriot, I am making a short film for school, and in one of the scenes a guy gets kicked out of the window in a slightly comical way, how do you suggest we do this without actually breaking a window? Of course you would receive a quick shout out in the film, when the film is finished.

[@emileriksson1279]

Hello Ryan Did you use action essentials pack 2 in losses?

[@SegunOlusanya]

Wow; that light flash idea was cool...it's what I figured would be a good alternative if you can't show a muzzle flare

[@blastlaughs]

nice video but what other special effects software is there besides after effects and hitfilm i really want to do some stuff like on the show but i cant do you know of any

[@ginopasquil]

love this!! thanks filmriot crew!!!

[@sonalsagaraya]

:D you guys are awesome......and i am a makeup artist and i watch ur show :P

[@StormBoxStudios]

@TheUrbanDisturbance it's a collection of muzzle flash stock footage which vfxlobby sell. Google Muzzle Flash Elite from vfxlobby, it's what filmriot used in this tutorial

[@Peluceus]

OR u can just take a muzzle flare, feather, blur, add, blur surroundings, and brigten frame, and distort slightly the 3 frames after. the blur and distort add that "launch" or "sound barrier" effect. like a small scale nuke. What you SHOULD get is a ripple of blur around the shot. oh and feather and brighten 5 feet within the shot. or even simpler, just take the flash, add, done.

[@NatoCaloGaming]

Wow, this video was made on my birthday :D

[@Kainthemain]

Ryan you sure showed us, shame in everybody who thinks ryan predicatible!!!

[@Discredia]

This was done on my birthday :3

[@hugotomassantaclaus]

Hey Ryan, i'm curious about something, and i'm begining with after effects, but how did you move the flare like in a 3 Dimensional way, with those red, blue and yellow arrows? Thank you!

[@alexpollock6932]

The beginning is hilarious.

[@AndrewHeard]

Great stuff, can't wait to use it. :)

[@cocopops149]

@jmyler They always used after effects... FCP is a program for editing but After Effects is a special effects program.

[@TheFortNightsTV]

@kyle2studios to save you time it's preference based but practice states no bigger than 1/3 more than the size of the actual gun

[@shadeydave]

Disposable camera photo-strobe. Super easy to time, and really cheap. Yellow the flash colour in post or use a Jel.

[@MountainManGaming]

Ryan you were in my dream last night! for some odd reason :S We were at a party and you let me use your Canon to shoot some footage of people, so weird! xD

[@untouchablefilm]

Those are awesome!!

[@suburbanbound]

full sail keeps sending me emails!!! lol. awesome video. :P

[@AxionRL]

Where did you get the muzzle flash and if you made it yourself, can you show how you did it?

[@EdcoStudios]

Your the funniest dude ever Ryan! XD

[@irishdevil]

A question about the After Effects version: For the sake of ease of workflow, is it possible to create a muzzle flare asset that is precomped and merely work on resizing, positioning, etc?

[@KyleHuang]

Really super important question. how do you determine how big the flare is? can anyone please help?

[@shootingstar1029]

I knew to favorite this video without even watching the video first :P

[@DanielS2001]

@DKC1011 However, unlike Tarantino, film school offers opportunities. Primarily, is the networking with your classmates. And with what you learn at film school, you have first hand experience. Going to film school, even at Full Sail, helps you not just figure out how the equipment works, but it makes you learn how to read a film and understand shots. So, I can't say I would or wouldn't recommend going to Full Sail or any film school.

[@iso900a]

hahaha I love your sense of humor :D

[@Paralyzer1000]

@Al3xOConnor They are, kinda. They are sometimes on the yootoo channel, when revision 3 is playing

[@_life_is_a_mitch_]

if u wanted to get simple u could also do the same thing with the light... but frome a different angle... then in post you could mask out the lamp and add a flare!

[@jwjh]

What lens flare plug-in are you using?

[@ChrisCasaceli64]

where do you get your muzzle flashes from!? did you make them?

[@defritzel]

lots of real life geniuses

[@Shinbusan]

one little small tiny question - why flash and brightness is so important if during real shooting you do not see any of this? Only smoke... I understand it is nice trick, but it is unrealistic. I understand most of the audience expect it... but you know, in the past they expect pseudo kung fu sound effects during fist fight... What do you think? And by the way, I absolutly love Film Riot and learnt a lot from you.

[@deryncarr]

I never knew Freddie Mercury was so good at muzzle flashes!