Here is a great video showing the intensity of a Wicked Lasers Pulsar 125 mW laser. There is only a little bit of smoke used but the beam just jumps out. The only editing that was done to this video was the cropping and fading - colors are as my camera picked them up.

I wanted to write a basic tutorial on how to create some simple but impressive laser effects for beginners (like me!) All this setup takes is a computer, an old Laser Disc player and some wire cutters.

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