How to use Production Crate Light Wrap Plugin for After Effects

Crate’s Light Wrap generates light-wraps at blazing fast speeds. While most light-wrap After Effects tutorial videos require a dozen individual steps to complete, Crate’s Light Wrap generates these optical effects instantly.

Begin by installing the plugin to your Windows or Mac plugin directory:
Windows:      Extract plugin to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore
Mac:                Extract plugin to Applications/Adobe After Effects/Plug-in

Open Adobe After Effects, and in your composition, identify your background (the source of light) and the foreground (what the light-wrap will interact with).

Production Crate Light Wrap Plugin for After Effects then requires you to pre-compose these two layers, so that they can be correctly aligned. Once that’s done, apply Crate’s Light Wrap to your foreground layer.

• Background Layer – Use this to select the source of your light wrap.
• Background blur – Blur the background before the light-wrap is generated to help smooth out colors.
• AE CS6 and newer
• MacOS 11.3 or newer
• Windows 7 or newer
• GPU required (integrated GPU such as Intel Iris supported)
• Apple Silicon native. Older mac’s (~2013) with Nvidia cards may not work