Create a Heat Haze Effect
 

In this new tutorial, I show you how to make a heat haze effect.

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To make the heat haze effect was basically a 3 step process. Firstly I created a layer of fractal noise that evolved over time using an expression. I then used this layer as a displacement map for my main piece of footage. This essentially created the wavering, blurry look of a heat haze.

The second step was creating the watery reflections you often see in the forground. For this i used a range of masks, scaling and blend modes, along with a bezier warp.

The final step was colour correcting to make the warm reds and oranges associated with shooting in hot conditions.

Hope you find it useful.

Nick

Thanks very much. It's very impressive.

I like the energy ball better, though. (and the mo' comes a close second to that!)

Andrew