A distant storm line sits low on the horizon above dark land, its cloud bank lit from within by sheet flashes and the odd small bolt.
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Lightning crackles through a towering volcanic ash column at night: branching bolts flash inside and around the billowing plume and stab down to the slopes, while small discharges spark over the glowing vent. The night scene is drawn.
Part of Backgrounds / VFX. New to this kind of graphic? Read VFX overlays: smoke, fire and lightning you can recolour.
Lightning crackles through a towering volcanic ash column at night: branching bolts flash inside and around the billowing plume and stab down to the slopes, while small discharges spark over the glowing vent. The night scene is drawn. It belongs to the Backgrounds / VFX category on velements, where you edit it in the browser and download it as a finished video file.
Every control in the editor, grouped the same way there. Style: background, primary, secondary and accent. Layout: aspect ratio and scale. Motion: duration, density, variation, speed and intensity. Each change appears in the live preview straight away, and editing is free.
Dirty Thunderstorm Plume runs 8 seconds by default, and you can set any length up to 60 seconds before you export. It loops seamlessly, so you can repeat it on your timeline for as long as the shot needs.
Yes. Set the background to Transparent, then export a PNG sequence for Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro or Figma: import the first frame as an image sequence and it drops onto a track above your footage with a straight alpha channel. Export WebM with a VP9 alpha channel for the web and for CapCut. MP4 has no alpha channel, so it keeps a solid color or image behind the animation.
Yes. Each download comes with a perpetual commercial license in your name for client work, ads and products, and you may sell the edited clip on stock footage sites. Reselling the preset itself as an editable template is not allowed.
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