Heat Haze Effect

[Pro Juice]

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

Heat Haze

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

[reelrain]

Are you talking about something you'd see in a desert, natural environment, like Gerry? Not sure I've seen this before.

[Pro Juice]

Yeah. Like in the film Bad Boys where they walk up the street and the road shimmers and the background looks wavery but not blurry!!