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I have had aftereffects for YEARS. I consider myself pretty bad ass at Premeire but AE always scared me. I FINALLY followed your step by step and it WORKED. I thank you so much. now I might actually use it for other things. Thanks for teaching me what others have failed to do.
26 persons turned their screen so they could give another thumbs up.Although, this is a ridiculous amount of work for a scene, imagine having to work with 4K 120 image per seconds footage, it kills.Thanks for all the awesome videos, it is really short, clear, and well explained.You guys give me the envy to do more professional videos.
@Francisco Carino. I cant reply to your comment directly so I guess you wont read this... We do explain how to go about this in the video. You can create a second mask so you can add the saber on to either side of your leg, or you can put another layer of footage on top of it and just mask the shape of your leg out.
I'm getting this problem where whenever the lightsaber goes near the edge of the screen the mask just disappears. I set it to cover a certain area, but for whatever bizarre reason the mask just isn't there. Any tips?
This video is fantastic, I wish it was longer and MUCH slower you guys fire out what to do like a machine gun but I'm very thankful thank you :) At 2:12 both me and my buddy are stuck, when the saber goes behind the head your instructions are not working is there any way you could graciously help us out with this? Thank you so much in advance
i have a problem, i can't add the color, when i change the color balance nothing happens, it doesn't change, its like a white lightsaber, what can i do?
ik this is late but u can duplicate the lightsaber layer, use the tint effect to make it red, then put it behind the white layer and scale it up a bit. that might work
Great video! but I had a bit of a problem at the part where you mask the white solid. Can you tell me what button I press to make it show up? I have masked frame by frame and the eye is turned on for both the solid and the video, but the white isn't showing up :(
I figured it out. It's because on the mask layer I had guide layer enabled. Just right click on the mask layer and disable it. Hopefully that solves your problem.
The initial pen shape stays over the video from 0:00 until coming to the point where it is supposed to follow the mask path. How do I fix this? I guess for now I can just use Split Layer.
Whenever I add another mask... It leaves those masks in the background of the video... How do I make it to where those aren't there? They end up being little white lines in the background...
Great video. Any idea how to create a prop saber (before effects) that you can use and is durable in a fight? To then add effects to later. Some kind of white plastic rod inserted into a hilt? i.e. the sparring saber
It doesn't really matter what kind of prop you use because the only reason you use a Lightsaber for this type of effect is because you need to know where to mask the blade
I followed your steps but when I get to the point where the composition goes to my original footage, for some reason the composition isn't lined up with my original footage. When I go to the composition, everything is still lined up however.
Yes that was exactly it! Thanks guys! I'm using your lightsaber effects for a trailer im releasing today and a video on december 24th. Couldn't have done it without you!
hey i have a question. what happens if all of the light saber blade goes behind, for example, a wall or at the back of the wielder, how do i make it disappear?
You can simply drag the points outside of the video, onto the gray background space. That's what I did. Then, when you need it again, simply drag it back onto your vid
You can simply drag the points outside of the video, onto the gray background space. That's what I did. Then, when you need it again, simply drag it back onto your vid
Please help right now. How do I make the selection of the pen tool white? How do I add a fill color? The settings for the pen tool has just disappeared for me now!
A tip: instead of create a new mask when the lightsaber goes behind something, you create one mask with "subtract" option. In this option you can keep the uniformity of the saber.
Here’s some things to do to make it easier. 1st, when making the glow, you can use the glow effect under Stylise. 2nd, just Pre-Compose the white solid and black solid together.
everything went well for me, but when I color correct my light saber, It changes the whole picture instead of just the saber. What do you suggest I do?
+Kyle Wittkowski You are probably adding colour balance to the wrong layer... make sure you have the correct layer selected before applying colour balance
Actually if you can't color it with CB. You only need to duplicate your saber, add tint effect, change the white to any color you want, then change the blend mode into color.
***** If there is a body part that it goes behind like at 2:20, and it pokes out the other side you have 2 options. You can either create two masks (one for the bit where it comes out the handle and the other for it coming out from behind you) or you can create one long mask and then put another layer on top of the original footage and make a mask around the body part covering the sabre. That's what I would do. Hope that helps, it's hard to explain
+Flawless Films Hello, i tried doing a thing like that, but when i put my lightsaber layer over my new composition, it gets off, and the lightsaber layer goes faster at points. Then i check if my fps is off but they are exactly the same. I then check if my lightsaber layer is off, like i made a mistake, but its all perfect. I dont know what to do
+Sylo This isn't a problem we have ever come across. The only thing i can think that would cause that is Frames per second. If you follow all the steps properly I don't see what else could cause that sorry
Standard film framerate is 24 fps, not 25. At least in America, it is. Not sure about Britain. You're from Britain, right? I mean, here our television is set at 23.97 fps for whatever reason, so yours might be different. I'm honestly curious, though.
The tracking tool doesn't pick it up very well because of the fast movement. You could probably use a 3rd party tracking programme. But we don't use one :)
How do you grab a single handle and shift that instead of moving the whole mask? I know it is as simple as an extra keystroke but I don't know which one...
Got it all to work until I create the new comp from my original footage. I create it, drag the other comp on top of it and it just comes in as a black screen, it doesnt transfer the lightsaber animation.
step 1 : duplicate footage step 2 : place light saber layer in between them stem 3: use pen tool to mask top layer from where the light saber will go behind frame by frame hope i helped ;D if the third step seems tedious, learn about roto brush tool
HELP!?! So there's a section in my video where the lighsaber is deactivated, which I have to opacity on all of the blade layers to zero. It then glides a cross the scene invisibly to the point where it comes back in. Once I precomp the blade layers, the mask is slightly visible when it shouldn't be. Thoughts?
It took me a little while to figure it out, go to your pen tool (G) and just click on the area u want to mask, then create more points. It will automatically create a new mask layer under the masks tab with a new color
I followed this exactly I swear and it has basically done the opposite, I have a totally white screen except where the lightsaber mask is it's the footage instead. Ive tried putting the footage on top of the white layer and then the layer just disappears and i'm just left with footage and no lightsaber mask, HELP! anyone please!
I managed to get the mask and duplicate it, make another composition. im pretty sure that i am selecting the right layer but i cant apply any color to the light saber, please help me guys!
Hey! I have been trying to make a lightsaber dual video and I did everything in the video, but after I finish the outline the lightsaber the white solid moves to the left on every frame anyone know how to help?
It's possible that you did a mask later in the vid and your current point(s) are trying to map itself onto that mask. You can use this to your advantage by skipping frames, cuz when you do, the points try to guess the next outline of the skipped frame, thus, an auto outline.
Question. When editing a short film with lightsabers, is it best to edit the whole film in FCP 7 and then add the lightsaber glow effect in AE? Or add glow effects to each video and then finish editing film in FCP7?
Why do we paste everything back on top of the original footage? What happens if you just use the original footage and the pen tool, without the black layer...would that not work? What's the reason for needing the black layer?
I'm not quite sure what your problem is so I'll give multiple solutions to different problem. ---The Mask is being applied to the white solid layers you make. It is NOT APPLIED to the footage layer that you are using as a guide to know where to place the masks. ---the masks need to be set to "add" so it reveals whatever is within it. ---If you are having trouble positioning and moving the mask around because everything is white, try making the white solid layer invisible while your working on it hope that one of those can help (even if it is 2 months late)
Wouldn't it have made more sense to put tracking markers on the end of the saber, then used a tracker to move the solid for you, and just correct the areas where they go behind the guy? Would save alot of time and probably look just as good...
+ComputersAreRealCool This is what I was thinking haha, tracking features (especially in the latest version of After Effects) are very useful and do a lot of the leg work for you. The way shown in this video can be very tedious, plus if you make one mistake you can end up having to redo the whole thing frame by frame again. But I guess this tutorial is for people new to After Effects.
Everything work perfect, but when I place the lightsabre composition on top of the new composition everything is black... I cant see the white lightsabre at all. Also, if I try to export the lightsabre sequence it comes out black. I can see the lightsabre in the preview, but as soon as I press "render" all I get is black.
Flawless Films Hello again. Seems "guide layers" was turned on on the white layers. Hence it wasnt included in other compositions or rendering. But thanks for the tutorial. Cheers guys. I subscribed .) Keep up the good work.
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I feel sorry for that editors editing the longest fight in star wars history( anakin Vs Obi wan)
Same lol, I just did this and it took forever with a 10 sec clip
DM Jedi the actual makers of Star Wars didn’t add the VFX this way. They have their own plug in and program to do it way quicker
@@kavuking9850 So true...
Great tutorial, managed to make one on the first attempt. Only 6 seconds long but still pretty cool.
Thanks
A quick tutorial on how to do Star Wars Lightsaber Effects in Adobe After Effects! Hope you enjoy :)
fack u poop hed
+Mustafa Ali
Thank you, its working! :)
How to colour the mask become white
Flawless Films Thank You
I have had aftereffects for YEARS. I consider myself pretty bad ass at Premeire but AE always scared me. I FINALLY followed your step by step and it WORKED. I thank you so much. now I might actually use it for other things. Thanks for teaching me what others have failed to do.
26 persons turned their screen so they could give another thumbs up.Although, this is a ridiculous amount of work for a scene, imagine having to work with 4K 120 image per seconds footage, it kills.Thanks for all the awesome videos, it is really short, clear, and well explained.You guys give me the envy to do more professional videos.
@Francisco Carino. I cant reply to your comment directly so I guess you wont read this... We do explain how to go about this in the video. You can create a second mask so you can add the saber on to either side of your leg, or you can put another layer of footage on top of it and just mask the shape of your leg out.
***** you have to make sure you are key framing it
***** yes of course. Would love to see what you have done :)
+Flawless Films I feel you man, sometimes you just can't reply to some comments :/
+Flawless Films
please response
i dont have color balance or color corrections in effects
how do i get it
please respond and help
thomas the tank engine It should be there from the start. You don't download it.
THANK YOU!!
now, that my friends believe that I have a lightsaber, my life is perfect.
Flawless films, can you please do a tutorial on cutting off body parts like an arm or a torso from a lightsaber? PLEASE DO QUICKLY! Love you guys
You guys are now my heroes. Thanks a ton!!
You're welcome :) Glad we could help
I'm getting this problem where whenever the lightsaber goes near the edge of the screen the mask just disappears. I set it to cover a certain area, but for whatever bizarre reason the mask just isn't there. Any tips?
By far the best tutorial on th internet. ever. thank you guys so much! This helps A LOT! It's easy to follow and entertaining to watch! THANKS!
Marbletrain60 Thanks. Glad we could help :)
Really nice and simple! Thanks Guys!!
This video is fantastic, I wish it was longer and MUCH slower you guys fire out what to do like a machine gun but I'm very thankful thank you :) At 2:12 both me and my buddy are stuck, when the saber goes behind the head your instructions are not working is there any way you could graciously help us out with this? Thank you so much in advance
i have a problem, i can't add the color, when i change the color balance nothing happens, it doesn't change, its like a white lightsaber, what can i do?
ik this is late but u can duplicate the lightsaber layer, use the tint effect to make it red, then put it behind the white layer and scale it up a bit. that might work
@@TheFabioOrchedella Thanks.
Great video! but I had a bit of a problem at the part where you mask the white solid. Can you tell me what button I press to make it show up? I have masked frame by frame and the eye is turned on for both the solid and the video, but the white isn't showing up :(
is there anyway you can do a quick tutorial of how to make a lightsaber burn mark?
i dont see the visibility options. Please help me
Thanks you really helped but What about sounds? I want to add sounds aswell
Go to freesounds.org and search lightsaber
I did everything right and it works. But there is just one problem. Whenever I click play, it doesn't play. What did I do wrong?
You have to wait for it to render
Can someone help? When I drag the original composition onto the new one, the mask for the lightsaber disappears.
GG Parker That sounds odd. Not sure what you mean? Do you not see the White saber on the black?
Correct. It just becomes a black screen with no white sabers.
I have the same problem... when i made a new composition and copied the old in the one the light saber dissapeares...
I figured it out. It's because on the mask layer I had guide layer enabled.
Just right click on the mask layer and disable it. Hopefully that solves your
problem.
Thanks it work 👌
The initial pen shape stays over the video from 0:00 until coming to the point where it is supposed to follow the mask path. How do I fix this? I guess for now I can just use Split Layer.
How did you get the white frame to be visible after framing the masks of the lightsaber?
Is it possible to change the colour of the lightsaber without making another composition?
Thanks, this helped so much and was actually quite simple and this is only my second time using after effects! I learned a lot :)
+Nick Katz Glad we could help :)
How do you create the second mask? I'm not having any success in getting the second mask to work.
Whenever I add another mask... It leaves those masks in the background of the video... How do I make it to where those aren't there? They end up being little white lines in the background...
Wow really easy i recommend this method
Do I have to create a new solid if it cuts to a different scene or can I still just drag the same solid to the lightsabers new location?
How did he make the 2nd mask (say when the saber is split behind something) disappear when not in use? I need help please!! Any is appreciated.
Great video. Any idea how to create a prop saber (before effects) that you can use and is durable in a fight? To then add effects to later. Some kind of white plastic rod inserted into a hilt? i.e. the sparring saber
It doesn't really matter what kind of prop you use because the only reason you use a Lightsaber for this type of effect is because you need to know where to mask the blade
+faz1991 Not sure. We just use toy ones
Could you make a video on lightsaber sound design? I've looked everywhere for a good tutorial on lightsaber sounds but there's nothing.
+RooftopTumbler You are better off finding an existing lightsaber sound pack. They are all over the internet
I followed your steps but when I get to the point where the composition goes to my original footage, for some reason the composition isn't lined up with my original footage. When I go to the composition, everything is still lined up however.
PhilRodFilms possibly something to do with your frame rate. Have a look at composition settings and make sure the frame rates match
Yes that was exactly it! Thanks guys! I'm using your lightsaber effects for a trailer im releasing today and a video on december 24th. Couldn't have done it without you!
PhilRodFilms glad we could help! :)
and where do we get the audio from?
+IZCjoker theres many sites and stuff that have lightsaber sound effects. try even you tubing it
theforce.net has a pack of lightsaber sfx (according to film learnin)
hey i have a question. what happens if all of the light saber blade goes behind, for example, a wall or at the back of the wielder, how do i make it disappear?
You can simply drag the points outside of the video, onto the gray background space. That's what I did. Then, when you need it again, simply drag it back onto your vid
You can simply drag the points outside of the video, onto the gray background space. That's what I did. Then, when you need it again, simply drag it back onto your vid
hi i am stuck on the first part to add a new solid. My layers wont go to new.
Please help right now. How do I make the selection of the pen tool white? How do I add a fill color? The settings for the pen tool has just disappeared for me now!
A tip: instead of create a new mask when the lightsaber goes behind something, you create one mask with "subtract" option. In this option you can keep the uniformity of the saber.
Many thanks. The Emperor will be pleased at this new found knowledge
i finished all the step, but when i play it, my screen turn a bit green, please help
Great tutorial, worked out perfectly for me. Thanks!
Here’s some things to do to make it easier. 1st, when making the glow, you can use the glow effect under Stylise. 2nd, just Pre-Compose the white solid and black solid together.
Can you teach me how to create a Realistic Centaur like the ones from Chronicles of Narnia?
everything went well for me, but when I color correct my light saber, It changes the whole picture instead of just the saber. What do you suggest I do?
+Kyle Wittkowski You are probably adding colour balance to the wrong layer... make sure you have the correct layer selected before applying colour balance
wouldn't it be easier to use the roto brush tool?
how do i make the classic lightsaber flickering? would it be to just edit the feathering for a few frames at a time?
Whenever I got to color correct my lightsaber it won't do anything. It will correct the footage later but not the saber. Any idea why this might be?
Noah Mandel Sounds like you just have the wrong later selected
I did this as well and went through all the layers trying the colour but either nothing would change or the whole screen would change to that colour
This is really awesome!
Actually if you can't color it with CB. You only need to duplicate your saber, add tint effect, change the white to any color you want, then change the blend mode into color.
Thanks for this tutorial, can you do one more in depth on when the lightsaber passes behind a person or object because that is my biggest problem
***** If there is a body part that it goes behind like at 2:20, and it pokes out the other side you have 2 options. You can either create two masks (one for the bit where it comes out the handle and the other for it coming out from behind you) or you can create one long mask and then put another layer on top of the original footage and make a mask around the body part covering the sabre. That's what I would do. Hope that helps, it's hard to explain
I could not find the mask at 1:08 it only said task.
Cool tutorial !
btw, Do you have HD version?? :)
If you change the quality in the settings part there is a 1080 option :)
Flawless Films thanks !! :D
+Flawless Films Hello, i tried doing a thing like that, but when i put my lightsaber layer over my new composition, it gets off, and the lightsaber layer goes faster at points. Then i check if my fps is off but they are exactly the same. I then check if my lightsaber layer is off, like i made a mistake, but its all perfect. I dont know what to do
+Sylo This isn't a problem we have ever come across. The only thing i can think that would cause that is Frames per second. If you follow all the steps properly I don't see what else could cause that sorry
its ok :(
did you record the video or did continue high burst shots
How you do it to go so fast?
When you make the lightsaber glow?
You could activate and use Motion Blur to give it a nice blurry effect, no?
You could try. Motion blur doesn't always work well with this sort of thing
Flawless Films Yes, and I was thinking also that the "Add" Blending Mode will give it a more dramatic effect.
OH MY GOD, THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!
This is awesome, thanks man!
This is really cool but I have a question. Am I obligated to film it in 60 fps?
Harun Küf No definitely not. It just so happened that the footage we were given to edit was filmed in 60.
Standard film framerate is 24 fps, not 25.
At least in America, it is. Not sure about Britain. You're from Britain, right? I mean, here our television is set at 23.97 fps for whatever reason, so yours might be different.
I'm honestly curious, though.
You are correct. Kind of. Standard frame rate for film is 24fps. Standard for digital film is 25fps. :)
+Flawless Films Standard frame for film is 23.97fps for digital or 24fps. 25fps is for PAL broadcast.
Wouldn´t this be much easier with the tracking tool? (or a 3rd party tracking programm)
The tracking tool doesn't pick it up very well because of the fast movement. You could probably use a 3rd party tracking programme. But we don't use one :)
how to keep the lines to two lost during the saber closed slightly by weight
Where did you get your sound effects form? :)
Can you do this with CC Keylight?
Hey guys thank you for this, this was great. Very thankful.
+Gregory Lawson Glad we could help :)
THIS IS PERFECT! I tested this out for a video im making soon! It worked so well!! THANK YOU XD
how do you make it so the light saber has light coming off it that reacts to things around it like the body.
Id suggest just adding a separate glow to the object that you want the light to go on
How do you grab a single handle and shift that instead of moving the whole mask? I know it is as simple as an extra keystroke but I don't know which one...
+Tim Cederberg same problem here!
+dylface94 I figured it out! Just hold shift when selecting one.
everything went fine until i got the feathering and after i was done that it didn't glow. Do i need to have two masks in each layer?
OR you could put dots on your lightsaber and motion track it.
I added the black solid over the white solid I didn't see the light saber. PLS HELP
How do I make the light that comes when the lightsabers hit eachother?
You would have to add some sort of lens flare :)
Ok, thanks
Got it all to work until I create the new comp from my original footage. I create it, drag the other comp on top of it and it just comes in as a black screen, it doesnt transfer the lightsaber animation.
when i duplicated my footage and put black over it, it didnt show the white line. someone help pls
how do you do multiple light sabers in the same shot?
+TheBaffled WaffleBoy Make a mask for every color? Im not a professional btw...
+MyNameIsGuzse new LAYER for every colour. which would also include new masks for each saber. that way you can change the colour of each saber
Did you make a version that uses a mask for the saber when it goes behind the subject? Thank you.
step 1 : duplicate footage
step 2 : place light saber layer in between them
stem 3: use pen tool to mask top layer from where the light saber will go behind frame by frame
hope i helped ;D
if the third step seems tedious, learn about roto brush tool
you have some nice videos
I am using the Ryan Weiber version, which uses a white shape mask for the saber. I've done a ton of work. Hope it's not in vain.
no no not unless you dont have the original footage
Roto brush tool sounds interesting. I am finding that the mask does not provide a nice looking "bleeding" effect of the light over the top layer.
Also, I have my actor pull out his lightsaber and the mask is still in the shot before he pulls it out. Any help on that?
+Craig John Set a keyframe with no mask path on the frame before the first mask should appear
HELP!?! So there's a section in my video where the lighsaber is deactivated, which I have to opacity on all of the blade layers to zero. It then glides a cross the scene invisibly to the point where it comes back in. Once I precomp the blade layers, the mask is slightly visible when it shouldn't be. Thoughts?
How do you create the second mask? I'm having trouble with that, it won't work for me.
It took me a little while to figure it out, go to your pen tool (G) and just click on the area u want to mask, then create more points. It will automatically create a new mask layer under the masks tab with a new color
Thanks for that! New to after effects, this is my first crack at it, usually I just live in Photoshop! Must of had a bonehead newbie moment!
+Allen Gray haha yeah, this is one of my first, after going through the work of a lightsaber, you will learn a lot of stuff
I did everything but the white from the mask is partially showing up! I've redone it several times and I don't know what I'm doing wrong
Have the same problem
Same
Can’t you just use the VC Color Vibrance from Video Copilot?
I followed this exactly I swear and it has basically done the opposite, I have a totally white screen except where the lightsaber mask is it's the footage instead. Ive tried putting the footage on top of the white layer and then the layer just disappears and i'm just left with footage and no lightsaber mask, HELP! anyone please!
I managed to get the mask and duplicate it, make another composition. im pretty sure that i am selecting the right layer but i cant apply any color to the light saber, please help me guys!
Hey! I have been trying to make a lightsaber dual video and I did everything in the video, but after I finish the outline the lightsaber the white solid moves to the left on every frame anyone know how to help?
It's possible that you did a mask later in the vid and your current point(s) are trying to map itself onto that mask. You can use this to your advantage by skipping frames, cuz when you do, the points try to guess the next outline of the skipped frame, thus, an auto outline.
Question. When editing a short film with lightsabers, is it best to edit the whole film in FCP 7 and then add the lightsaber glow effect in AE? Or add glow effects to each video and then finish editing film in FCP7?
I’d say add the effects minus color grating to the final project file since it’s less work to add to a finished thing.
when i add the black mask it does not become white it is only black PLEASE REPLY QUCKLY
click on the white box
1:17 what did you click?
yea, same question :(
When I add another mask it doesn’t go away on the next frame
How do you add the glow I'm dying because of it, like how do you fill in the mask with the white
+TheBestHater Just follow the steps we show here and you shouldnt have a problem
did you use single app or all apps+adobe stock
Why do we paste everything back on top of the original footage? What happens if you just use the original footage and the pen tool, without the black layer...would that not work? What's the reason for needing the black layer?
it wont let m add the colour
How long did the whole process take?
When I try to move the mask, it moves the entire thing as opposed to each corner to stretch ... how do I fix this?!
+Theo Warrender just click inside the mask then try dragging a corner. You have the entire mask selected
Cheers :)
When I do the pen step, only what I outline is seen, everything else is black.
Help please.
I'm not quite sure what your problem is so I'll give multiple solutions to different problem.
---The Mask is being applied to the white solid layers you make. It is NOT APPLIED to the footage layer that you are using as a guide to know where to place the masks.
---the masks need to be set to "add" so it reveals whatever is within it.
---If you are having trouble positioning and moving the mask around because everything is white, try making the white solid layer invisible while your working on it
hope that one of those can help (even if it is 2 months late)
you have to have the White Solid selected
Can u do another tutorial like this but in 2015 AE version? Plz reply
+ripped dog There still all of the same settings.
+ripped dog lol yeah dude its the same
Ok thanks
Wouldn't it have made more sense to put tracking markers on the end of the saber, then used a tracker to move the solid for you, and just correct the areas where they go behind the guy? Would save alot of time and probably look just as good...
+ComputersAreRealCool
This is what I was thinking haha, tracking features (especially in the latest version of After Effects) are very useful and do a lot of the leg work for you. The way shown in this video can be very tedious, plus if you make one mistake you can end up having to redo the whole thing frame by frame again.
But I guess this tutorial is for people new to After Effects.
CinelFilm What there's an easier way? It took me an hour or two to do a 17 second video
I keep press page up and page down to go back in the video
How do you duplicate the white layer
I can't manage to change the colour please help
Everything work perfect, but when I place the lightsabre composition on top of the new composition everything is black... I cant see the white lightsabre at all.
Also, if I try to export the lightsabre sequence it comes out black. I can see the lightsabre in the preview, but as soon as I press "render" all I get is black.
Adrian Hindseth Great tutorial, by the way. This just really irks me.
Adrian Hindseth Put the lightsaber layer blending mode to 'screen' and the black should disappear :)
Flawless Films It does. But so does the white solid... Its probably a very minor issue. But i'll have my AE friend have a look at it.
Flawless Films Hello again. Seems "guide layers" was turned on on the white layers. Hence it wasnt included in other compositions or rendering. But thanks for the tutorial. Cheers guys. I subscribed .) Keep up the good work.