Flashes

Flash, strobe, and pulse effects with adjustable duration, intensity, and easing. Includes custom-color flashes and saveable user presets.

Built-in flashes

• White Flash — full-frame white solid with Add blend mode and quick falloff. The classic impact flash.
• Black Flash — full-frame black solid for cuts to black or impact darkening.
• Strobe — N rapid flashes spread across the duration. Pick white or black.
• Pulse Flash — repeated soft pulses with configurable decay.
• Color Flash — flash in any color via color picker.
• Screen Flash — full-screen exposure burst using AE's Exposure effect.
• Film Burn — warm orange flicker with a film-burn texture feel.
• Invert Flash — momentary color inversion.
• Desaturate Flash — pulls saturation to zero briefly.
• Light Leak — colored corner gradient overlay.
• Camera Flash — emulates a paparazzi flash with falloff and slight tint.
• Blur Flash — a quick blur burst combined with brightness pop.

Common parameters

Most flashes open a param modal with:

• Duration — flash length in frames.
• Intensity — max opacity / strength.
• Easing — keyframe ease shape applied to the falloff.
• Color (where applicable) — color picker for custom-color flashes.

Preview panel

Hover any flash button to preview the effect in the always-visible preview panel on the right. Mouse-leave resets to placeholder.

User Flashes

Save your own custom flash by building it on a solid layer, then capturing it as a preset. Saved flashes preserve the solid color and every effect on the source layer, so you can rebuild complex looks reliably.

Saved flashes live in {USER_DATA}/MotionLab/saved-flashes.json.