Star Trekerize Your Cat Using Lens Flare and Color Balance

This is Keekee, she’s a cat.  Keekee loves Star Trek, especially the new J.J. Abrams ones and she wanted to be in the new film, unfortunately she didn’t make the part, so lets make our own film.

Star Trek: Keekee vs. The Giant Purple Elephant

1. Okay so here we have Premiere Pro and our footage of Keekee and the elephant loaded in. Search for the lens flare effect in the bottom left and drag it onto your clip.

2.So now you should see a static lens flare as seen below on your video.

3. This is no good however, because if you ever watched the new Star Trek films, J.J. Abrams’ lens flares move… a lot.  So we’re going to go over to the effect settings, click on lens flare, and click on the stopwatch next to flare center.

4. This will allow you to animate the lens flare simply by clicking and dragging the flare on your video. As you see in the following pictures i moved the lens flare with Keekee’s movement across the screen by scrubbing to different parts of the video.

5. Okay Keekee’s almost a Star Trek star! However her big scene can use a little bit more bluish purplish hue, so we’ll search for the color balance effect, drag it on our clip, and adjust the settings to add a little blue and some red.

6.)Awesome! Keekee’s so happy she’s in Star Trek! You can watch the final video below. Live long and prosper! -John