http://www.animation-software-tutorials.com After Effects Tutorials Mon, 07 May 2007 00:38:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a video tutorial for Adobe After Effects I found on StumbleUpon that teaches you how to create a video like that used in the iPod Nano commercial. http://ayrshire.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/nano/index.htm http://www.animation-software-tutorials.com/archives/ipod-nano-commercial-in-adobe-after-effects Hi All, If anyone is familiar with After Effects and believes they can write quality tutorials for other visitors, please contact me at "admin (at) animation-software-tutorials.com" Thanks, Admin http://www.animation-software-tutorials.com/archives/blogers-needed A Displacement Map effect changes the position (displaces) of pixels either horizontally or vertically or both, based upon the grey-scale or luma values in a separate reference layer. Original (left), Displacement Map (background) applied (right) Using a displacement map - Create a new Composition and place a still image or your movie footage ... http://www.animation-software-tutorials.com/archives/displacement-map-effect-tutorial-after-effects-7 Usually when you're keying blue or green screen you really only want one particular subject or object on screen and the rest of the background is redundant. So you usually create a rough matte or mask around that subject restricting the area to only where the action that you want ... http://www.animation-software-tutorials.com/archives/quick-easy-garbage-matte-tutorial-with-auto-trace The Difference Matte effect creates a transparency a mask or a matte by comparing the pixels in a source layer with the pixel in a defined difference layer, and then keying out (eliminating) pixels in the source layer that match both the position and color in the difference layer. It ... http://www.animation-software-tutorials.com/archives/difference-matte-effect-tutorial So using Animate a stroke path tutorial as our starting point. We will now look at adding echo effects. - Create New Composition and create a new solid. - Add a bezier path to the solid (this is the path that your stroke will follow) and add Stroke Effect to the solid. - ... http://www.animation-software-tutorials.com/archives/using-echo-on-animated-stroke-path-tutorial After you get the hang of this technique, it can be used for all types of write-on and playful effects. - Create a new composition to your desired dimensions and duration (Composition/New Composition) - Create a new solid the same as comp size, color is not important (Layer/New/Solid) - Select the pen tool ... http://www.animation-software-tutorials.com/archives/animate-a-stroke-path-tutorial Great walkthrough of the new interface of AE7 by John Dickinson: After Effects 7 has introduced us to a brand new unified interface. In this video tutorial, CreativeCOW leader, John Dickinson demonstrates how to navigate that interface. Click here to launch the video http://www.animation-software-tutorials.com/archives/after-effects-70-interface-walkthrough-video Use Tilda - this symbol "~" right next to the number 1 keystroke to the left. When you have your mouse cursor over a panel in After Effects and hit "~" it will maximaize that panel to fullscreen, perfect to get the space you need to make any adjustments. Then ... http://www.animation-software-tutorials.com/archives/after-effects-7-tilda-tip When you open After Effects 7.0 right up, there's no need to search for what's new because it will be very apparent. The interface has changed dramatically so we'll start there. New Interface Overall a more cohesive interface. Window panels are scalable relative to other panels. Much more similar to professional editing software ... http://www.animation-software-tutorials.com/archives/new-in-after-effects-70