How To Use Film Burn Transitions
This tutorial shows how to use film burn transitions in Spotlight FX for Premiere Pro and After Effects. You'll learn how to import real scanned film textures, stack multiple burns for complex transitions, and customize brightness, contrast, saturation, and flip settings. Film burns can be imported with or without clip selection, and they auto-place based on your playhead position or selected footage. You can combine multiple film burns on top of each other to create unique, layered transitions. All 20 film burn styles are found inside the Flash plugin and work the same way in both Premiere Pro and After Effects, so your workflow stays consistent.
Templates Used
These are the exact items we used in this tutorial so you can easily import them to your timeline.
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Light Leak - Film Burn Edge
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Film Burn - Symmetrical Leak
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Light Leak - Film Burn Strip
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Film Burn - Light Leak Edge
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Film Leader - Light Leak
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Film Light Leak - Text Strip
Plugins Used
These are the plugins we used in this tutorial.
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