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September 28, 2022
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Native light wrap in After Effects layer.

  • September 28, 2022
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I really wish to have a fast and native light wrap plugin in After Effects. This tool is essential in compositing.

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    Szalam
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    SzalamCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 30, 2025

    What issues are you having with Supercomp? I use it a lot, so I have my grumps here and there, but I still love it.

    That said, I have been advocating with Red Giant folks to bring back some form of a simple light wrap effect for folks who don't want the full Supercomp experience. 

     

    But, keep in mind that, any effect-based light wrap is going to fall into a trap if the layer sizes and positions don't match up. It's explained by a very handsome chap in this video. I hope you'll find it useful (as it demonstrates the issue) despite the very click-baity title.

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    ErrorAnimator
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    September 30, 2025
    i don't like having to do my comp inside a plugin for all sort of reasons

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    ErrorAnimator
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    September 18, 2025

    supercomp is terrible to work with. 

    a simple lightwrap with blending modes like the old composite wizard, should be pretty basic and no reason for not having a native tool for that

    Szalam
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    SzalamCommunity Expert
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    September 28, 2022
    If you're missing Red Giant's Light Wrap tool, it's been updated and built into Supercomp (along with a lot of other useful compositing tools). It can wrap light from one layer onto all the layers at once without precomposing!
    That said, I think having an easy effect to wrap light from one layer onto another would still be quite useful. So, please, ping Maxon folks (as I have) to bring it (or an equivalent) back!
    And, obviously, we can hope for a native solution by voting on this (which I have also done).
    Thaumar
    Thaumar
    Inspiring
    September 28, 2022
    Light Wrap from Red Giant Key Correct is very nice but Maxon has discontinued it so it's not going to be updated for MFR or Apple M1 Silicon.
    Unfortunately the alternative Light Wrap Fantastic form Digital Anarchy doesn't work as well as the Key Correct one.
    Maybe Adobe can ask Maxon if they can have the Key Correct suite and incorporate it?
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      pat pro
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      September 28, 2022
      ...a light wrap is so easy and fast to make that it is max. a nice to have.

      A modern and competitive GPU based 3D engine and 3D workflow.
      A more opened and intuitive color management were you can work with ACES (it's a CG standard since 4 years in the industry) without problems.
      A 3D Tracker with more manual and i/o export options.
      A intelligent particle system with physics (like trapcode particular)
      A multicore engine where you can use 32 instate of 1 core of your system.

      That are those big things that can't be worked around so easy! And have to be fixed imminently. If not, after effects will be very soon only a tool for beginner and hobbyists. Motion Graphic Artists needs that things as well in 2019!
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      FeedbackCommunityMember
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      September 28, 2022
      Red Giant has a plugin that does exactly this, but I want a native one in Adobe. Not every studio has all the cool plugins.
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