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 Warp Stabilizer VFX
Tidying the composition – Working with the 3D Camera Tracker
You’ve done some complex work to create a scene that merges the added components with an existing tableau. You’ll preview it to see it in action. It’s looking pretty good, but the word ARE may show up unexpectedly toward the end, and the crab quotes all appear at once. You’ll adjust layers to ensure they […]
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 […]
Moving and resizing the track points – Advanced Editing Techniques
In setting up motion tracking, it’s often necessary to refine a track point by adjusting its feature region, search region, and attach point. You can resize or move these items independently or in groups by dragging with the Selection tool. The pointer icon changes to reflect one of many different activities. Track point components (left) […]
Analyzing and applying tracking – Advanced Editing Techniques
Now that the search and feature regions are defined, you can apply the tracker. The tracking analysis may take quite a while. The larger the search and feature regions, the longer After Effects takes to analyze tracking. The motion-tracking data is added to the Timeline panel, where you can see that the track data is […]
Removing unwanted objects – Advanced Editing Techniques
It can be frustrating and tedious to remove unwanted objects from video, especially if the object moves between frames. The Content-Aware Fill feature in After Effects makes it possible to remove distractions such as microphones or other filming equipment, incongruous landscape elements, or even people. The feature removes the area you select, and then it […]
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 […]
Getting started – Rendering and Outputting
Lesson overview In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following: The total amount of time required to complete this lesson depends in part on the speed of your processor and the amount of RAM available for rendering. The amount of hands-on time required is less than an hour. If you haven’t already done […]