Funny enough I believe the original mFlare was the first plugin I ever bought, 6 years ago, after I saw this promo video. I was sucked in by the pretty lights, haha.
Flares can easily be overdramatic and overused but with prudent use can enhance a drab shot. It all depends on the subject matter of course. The level of control in crafting the flare in mFlare was always impressive to say the least. If you could dream it you could make it. There were some drawbacks though to the original. Not efficient. Switching out to a different flare was not as easy as it could be.
In FCP X there was no tracking option except manual. While you still have a separate window for a lot of the changes many of the controls have been added to the inspector. Including a new color picker tool. Also a big improvement is that any changes in the external window are immediately reflected in the FCP X Viewer. No more back and forth. Switching out flares is super simple. The flare is replaced while maintaining all your settings and tracking info.
You can of course save your own customized presets. Using the smoothness and threshold sliders to fine tune it will give very nice smooth transitions to the flares. Easily my favorite thing is the new tracker. In conjunction with brightness tracking it is very powerful and can give very realistic results. I really wish I had this system for everything else I do in post. So say you are tracking something but it is about to leave the frame, you can then choose another point, and another, etc.
You just go to a point in the clip where the tracker is about to exit and reposition then tracker box over something new. The tracked position data is independent of the effects general position data giving you a ton of flexibility. It was even able to deal with an arm passing completely over my tracking point and it maintained the track no problem. Mocha for the win. To test all this I took my son out and shot a simple little video of him wandering around a local park. I chose mostly natural looking flares for this video not an alien invasion, haha but it gives you an idea of what you can do.
There are side by side examples of the flare shots at the end. I had to re-track at the new scale level on one of the clips to get a good track. Not a big deal but something to look at. Which I use from time to time. I have the same issue with Color Finale at times. The windows that pop up are specific to the clip you are working on. If you move to another clip without closing and reopening the Edit or Presets windows they will still be affecting the previous clip which could lead to unintentional changes.
Just be aware. In the days following the major OS releases our Final Cut Pro X Group gets filled with posts from panicked people who jumped in and found the update broke everything.
This year though there are some major changes to the underlying OS, most especially in the disk formatting area and 32 bit software support. Also the iPhones are shooting in video and photo formats that are not currently supported in macOS though I imagine a Pro Formats update could fix that for Sierra. Same should be said for any other programs and plugins that are essential to your workflows. Things could work fine, but there are a million little things that can go wrong with software, hardware, plugins, etc.
If you make money with your software then do yourself a favor and wait. The faster they find them the faster they can be fixed. Thus, the best option to overcome these shortcomings is to use alternative software.
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