Flash Hit

Everything below can be changed without touching the animation. Hand the list to an agent, or edit the values at the bottom of the component file.

• Peak

  peak · number

  Where the flash peaks and the cut hides, as a fraction of the 2 second clip. The two white frames land here and the scene switches between them. 0.5 puts them on frame 30; line it up with the cut in your edit.

  now: 0.5

• Origin

  origin · "center" | "left" | "right"

  Where the light comes from. Center reads as a camera flash going off in the shot. Left or right reads as light swinging in from off frame, and turns the colour fringe vertical so both colours stay on screen.

  now: center

• Color

  color · "white" | "accent"

  White is the classic flash. Accent tints the light with the brand's accent colour for a branded hit. The fringe stays red and blue either way, because it is the lens and not the brand.

  now: white

• Intensity

  intensity · number

  Peak strength. 1 blows the centre fully white on the two peak frames; 0.9 keeps a trace of the picture under it; below 0.5 it is a flicker rather than a cut.

  now: 0.9

• Kick

  kick · number

  Zoom kick on the incoming shot, as a fraction of its size, settling in about half a second. 0.03 to 0.06 is the range the platforms use; 0 turns it off. It moves the staged shot only, so over your own footage give your incoming clip the same scale.

  now: 0.045

• Stage

  stage · boolean

  Draw the stand-in shots, a sneaker on a lit plinth cutting to the same sneaker worn on a night street, so the flash can be judged doing its job. A demo backing, not part of the effect: switch it off to lay the flash over your own cut.

  now: true

• Ground

  ground · boolean

  Paint the plain brand ground behind the flash. Off by default: with the stand-in off as well, the flash renders on a clean alpha channel and drops straight over your own footage.

  now: false

• Brand

  brand · string

  Brand token id, one of the keys of BRANDS.

  now: signal