Creating A Cool Credit Crawl With Digital Anarchy's Toonit! And After Effects' Levels Effect
About a week ago, I heard another one of my favorite lines from a producer. "Can you create a cool look for our show's credits?" Since I'm always up for a good challenge, I came up with a very interesting look for the end credits for a piece I was working on, and I thought that for this article, I would show a quick and easy way to create a great credit look for any show you are working on. For this tutorial, I am going to use Digital Anarchy's Toonit! and Adobe After Effects' Levels effect.
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Keying options for Motion 3
Using Primatte Keyer Pro To Bypass After EffectsRecently I had a project that had a ton of green screen shots in it. I edited in Final Cut Pro and really wanted to see if doing all the work in Final Cut Studio was doable for me because I am so used to exporting to After Effects to do all my keying. This time I would bring the footage into Motion. ...Read More »
Cleaning Up Those After Effects Projects
As I'm sure everyone knows by now, I am big on cleanliness and organization. For me, that is one of the keys to being efficient with not only your work, but the work of the editors you work with. I thought that for this article, I would look at two ways to tidy up your After Effects projects.
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Creating Animated Backgrounds
Save yourself some money and create your ownI always say that these days, we live in an instant gratification society, and what I mean by this is that we want everything and we want it now. Beginners and advanced After Effects users alike are quick to buy animated backgrounds to use in their compositions, because it is quick and easy to do. The big problem with it is that it costs money that alot of us don't have. ...Read More »
Total Training for Adobe After Effects CS3: Keying part 3 and 4
in Part 4, Ko covers where to save your presetsIn part 3 of keying, host Ko Maruyama discusses screen mattes as well as inside and outside masks. He also covers foreground colour correction and edge colour correction. He shows how to enable the colour corrector and shows how to change the saturation, contrast, and brightness if you need to. He also details the tools in the Colour Suppression tool, and how to suppress a certain color based on the color values. ...Read More »
Total Training for Adobe After Effects CS3: Keying
Working with the different color channels also touched onIn this clip, host Ko Maruyama covers keying and starts out with an intro to simple keys. He discusses how to prepare shots, such as with live footage and extracting foreground information and leaving the transparent background information as is so you can composite the background information later in After Effects. He also shows how to bring up the different color channels as well as the alpha channel. ...Read More »
Total Training for Adobe After Effects CS3: Color Range in 3D text
The camera orbit tool and camera control properties also touched onIn this clip, host Ko Maruyama covers the color range in 3D text. He works in the camera orbit tool as well as the camera control properties in the timeline. He then shows how to increase the range of color that After Effects can see. He also shows how to change the color channels and explains what each change will do to the project. ...Read More »
Total Training for Adobe After Effects CS3: Keyframes
Working with Character offset and Character value offsetsIn this clip, host Ko Maruyama works with Character offset and Character value offsets. He deetails what will happen when you select character offset or character value. He shows how changing the character values will change the character. He also shows how to offset the values as well by changing the character offset. ...Read More »
Total Training for Adobe After Effects CS3: Motion Tracker part 4
Working in the Motion Stabilizer Options window In this clip, host Ko Maruyama discusses stabilizing data, and uses the tracker controls to stabilize motion. He moves track points on the subject, in this case a moving helicopter to track the data. He also works in the Motion Stabilizer Options window to change the Confidence levels. He also uses the attach point to move the object in order to have a reference. ...Read More »
Total Training for Adobe After Effects CS3: Motion Tracker part 3
Host Ko Maruyama works with Pre-Comps and Time Re-mappingIn this clip, Ko continues with the Motion Tracker in After Effects. He works with Pre-Comps in this video and shows how to drag them into the composition. He lenghtens the Pre-Comps using Time Remapping and shows how it is done, dragging the end of the layer out and the keyframe to match. He also shows how to edit the target. ...Read More »
