Probably shouldn’t have uploaded this as I’m going to be making the tutorial tomorrow but I couldn’t help it it’s so pretty!

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

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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

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Ok It’s been a while since my last video tutorial so here’s one to prepare you for my up comming Blood splatter text tutorial! It will be gory

After Effects doesn’t have an official way to import Photoshop brushes but this method works for me and I’ll be using it in upcoming tutorials ^_^

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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:

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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!

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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.

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H.264 is a compression method, this means when you export a video using the H.264 compression it wont come out as “Yourmovie.H.264″ it isn’t a file type. It’s like, the way you make the bread for your sandwich. The sandwich can be cheese or peanut butter, .Mov or .MPEG. But the sandwich is made with H.264 bread to give it that high quality crisp feel and low bit rates for faster downloads and smaller files sizes…

…Still with me? I’m hungry now >_>
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Heeeey guys and girls!

I have been working on a project with my band and we recently put out some video blogs and I created the text intro for them and guess what!? I used the same techniques to create it as I did in the tutorials I made! So you can see them in action. I have added a few little effects to jazz it up and make it more unique but it’s pretty much the same thing as the tutorials.

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Over the past few weeks I’ve shown you how to add a cool gradient to your text, and animate the opacity, scale, rotation, and skew to make it look really funky and cool! Check out this compilation of the weeks work to see what I’m talking about!
Don’t forget to post your comments on the blog or even better if you have a go your self post up the text you make as a video response on YouTube!
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