This is the first part of the tutorial for the Growing vine animation I’ve made! OK It’s a little in depth with Photoshop and not much After Effects but it’s it makes it a lot easier on you in After Effects if you can get the starting file in place. There are also a few cool little tricks I’ve learnt while doing this. When you create a folder in Photoshop and import the .PSD (PhotoShop Document) into After Effects it makes the folders compositions! How about that for connivence?
Working on Part 2 now, should be out later this week if not tomorrow!
In this tutorial I show you how to make a cool Matrix style colour tint effect which will make all your movies moody, dynamic and cool guaranteed! (Well kinda) It’s a really simple and very effective technique of adding a professional look to our videos to get awesome results with minimal effort. It doesn’t take any fancy 3rd party magic effect presets it’s just using what After Effects comes with (like all my tutorials).
I hope you enjoy this tutorial and use it to add some coolness to your videos! :3
I’ve been working a Sin City style video effects which makes one colour stand out and the rest of teh video black and white. This tutorial shows the technique I found most effective. There’s some simple masking involved and the use of some cool video effects. It’s not hard to follow and it’s very effective, give it a go with one of your videos and see what you can make!
BTW I do all my own stunts as well as effects /flex
So i recently bought teh Snow Leopard upgrade to Mac OSX and Have been playing with some of the new features. I discovered the ability to make screen recordings in the new Quick Time X and quickly decided to make a video about how to do it! It’s about time that there was a free ability to record the screen right out of the box on a computer and Quick Time has the answer! it creates really good quality captures and very simply to use, idea for simple screen captures and instructional videos. Also records sound
Hey, this is just a quick tutorial on how to extend the time line of a composition in Adobe After Effects. Had a few people asking this so I figure there are probably more out there searching for it. So here you go!
I just realised there’s no smiley faces in this video D:
This is a quick tutorial on using Audio with in After Effects. it seems prety simple but After Effects likes to make things a little difficult. Here’s what you do!
White Balancing is a very simple process that you should do every time you film any video, you should do it every time you change location, turn a light on, or move the camera to face a different direction. It is one of the most important fundamental rituals that you should perform when getting ready to film and yet not every one even knows about it!
If you are having trouble with your videos looking red, green, blue or some other colour taking precedence and adding some kind of hue to the video then white balance is for you! it’s not always going to make everything perfect if you have really bad lighting but it will make a lot of your videos seem a lot more professional.
Incorrect White Balance
Correct White Balance
Taken from http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/white-balance.htm
In this video I show you how to export or render video in Adobe After Effects CS3, CS4. Its not as easy as it might seem and is unintuitive compared to some video software. Usually you tend to go for File > export but with After Effects you Render the video rather than import it. This is because of the animation and 3D effects that are used in After Effects.
