You created the advertising copy in After Effects, but the crabs’ expressions are in quotation bubbles, which are easier to include as images. You’ll attach the PSD files to solid layers in After Effects to lock them to specific planes. After Effects creates a Track Solid 1 layer, and a colorful solid square appears in […]
Category: Applying Content-Aware Fill
Creating realistic shadows – Working with the 3D Camera Tracker
You’ve set up your elements, but unlike true 3D objects, they aren’t casting any shadows. You’ll create a shadow catcher and a light to add depth to your video. NoteBe sure to select the 3D Camera Tracker effect in the Shoreline.mov layer, not the 3D Tracker Camera layer. After Effects adds a light source to […]
Creating the composition – Advanced Editing Techniques
You’ll start by importing footage and creating the composition. After Effects creates a new composition named snowday with the same pixel size, aspect ratio, frame rate, and duration of the source clip. This clip was shot with a smartphone camera. A dog runs toward the camera, but the camera moves, too, resulting in an unsteady […]
Applying Warp Stabilizer VFX – Advanced Editing Techniques
Warp Stabilizer VFX starts analyzing footage as soon as you apply it. Stabilization is a background process, so you can work on other compositions while it finishes. How long it takes depends on your system. After Effects displays a blue banner while it analyzes the footage and an orange banner while it applies stabilization. 3. […]
Fine-tuning the results – Advanced Editing Techniques
The default analysis works well most of the time, but sometimes you may need to massage the end results even further. You’ll change the method that Warp Stabilizer VFX uses for an even smoother result. NoteScaling a video layer up degrades the image. Scale only as much as you need to in order to hide […]
Setting up the project – Advanced Editing Techniques
If you’ve just completed the first project, and After Effects is open, skip to step 3. Otherwise, restore the default application settings for After Effects. See “Restoring default preferences” on page 3. You’ll start by importing assets and creating the composition. After Effects opens to display a new, untitled project. After Effects creates a new […]
Creating the sun – Advanced Editing Techniques
You will now create a bright halo of light that will go behind the particles. Lighting the darkness Since the sun is bright, it should illuminate the surrounding darkness. The Gradient Ramp effect creates a color gradient, blending it with the original image. You can create linear ramps or radial ramps, and vary the position […]
Adding a lens flare – Advanced Editing Techniques
To tie all the elements together, you’ll add a lens flare to simulate an explosion. Finally, you need to make the layers under the Nova layer visible in the composition. About high dynamic range (HDR) footage After Effects supports high dynamic range (HDR) color. The dynamic range (ratio between dark and bright regions) in the […]
Setting up the project – Advanced Editing Techniques-2
The speed adjustments are rather abrupt—not the smooth, slow-motion curve you would expect to see in a professional effect. This is because the keyframes are linear instead of curved. You’ll fix that next. TipClose columns in the Timeline panel to see more icons in the Graph Editor. You can also apply an Easy Ease adjustment […]
Rendering a broadcast-quality movie – Rendering and Outputting
First, you’ll select settings to render your movie in a quality suitable for broadcast. TipYou can also drag a composition into the Render Queue panel, and click Queue in AME to add it to the Adobe Media Encoder queue. After Effects opens Adobe Media Encoder and adds your composition with default render settings. Your default […]