After effects blur and glow effect?

[scroomm]

Hello, I'm relatively new to after effects and I was browsing through some amvs when a specific effect caught my eye.
The link to the amv is below so can anyone tell me how to get the blur with the light flicker, or that dreamy look that changes in opacity throughout that video?
Thanks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8yFS8yRBes&t=28s

[tko03isaneditor]

Hey Scroomm! This effect looks like they just keyframed the opacity up and down slightly every 4 frames (eg 100% to 95%) However it could also be a vignette. To get the vignette go to your effects and presets tab (If its not there go to window, then click on effects and presets) drag or select "CC Vignette" , Change the completion from 100 to 95 every 4 or so frames, then copy and paste! Play around with the settings you might find something even better if you do!


If you still can't get the keyframes i've gone ahead and done them for you to copy into your ae, just select the command and paste it into ae

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Adobe After Effects 8.0 Keyframe Data

Units Per Second 24
Source Width 1280
Source Height 720
Source Pixel Aspect Ratio 1
Comp Pixel Aspect Ratio 1

Effects CC Vignette #2 Amount #2
Frame
530 100
532 172
534 100
536 172
538 100
540 172
542 100

Effects CC Vignette #2 Angle of View #3
Frame
45


End of Keyframe Data




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***COPY ABOVE THIS LINE***



-Tko03isaneditor

[tko03isaneditor]

ps if you'd like it brighter just turn the amount down on every keyframe that turns the amount up