Cooling plates of crust drift slowly across molten lava, their seams glowing as hot spots swell and fade beneath them.
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A full volcanic scene looking across a lava lake: dark cooling crust plates drift and grind apart along incandescent seams, upwellings split plates open, gas bubbles burst into glowing spatter and red-lit fumes rise toward the crater wall.
Part of Backgrounds / VFX. New to this kind of graphic? Read VFX overlays: smoke, fire and lightning you can recolour.
A full volcanic scene looking across a lava lake: dark cooling crust plates drift and grind apart along incandescent seams, upwellings split plates open, gas bubbles burst into glowing spatter and red-lit fumes rise toward the crater wall. 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.
Lava Lake Crust runs 12 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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