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After Effects

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"How to Create a frosty shape in After Effects" cover image
Nov 17, 2007

In After Effects, there are several effects that will help you to edit simple shapes into more complex images. Here is a procedure to create a spline that looks like a frosty or "icey" shape using a ...

"How to Create your own hot keys in After Effects 6.5" cover image
Nov 17, 2007

This tutorial goes over how to edit the text document that controls the hot key (shortcut key) commands. It doesn't go into the advanced commands or even begin to describe the various commands that yo ...

"How to Copy masks & paste them as keyframes in After Effects" cover image
Nov 15, 2007

This tutorial shows you the proper way to copy a mask in After Effects to the position property of another layer (and use it as a keyframe). Video not playing properly? Click here to see the original ...

"How to Create "that little gleam" in After Effects" cover image
Nov 15, 2007

After Effects 6.5 shipped with many Cycore Effects one being the Light Sweep effect for fast and effective light gleams. In this video tutorial, DMN's Stephen Schleicher walks you through the process ...

"How to Generate particles from motion in After Effects" cover image
Nov 9, 2007

In this Particle Playground tutorial, Jerzy Drozda Jr (aka Maltaannon) demonstrates how to generate particles from live action footage without using any keyframes or expressions. The idea of this is t ...

"How to Create 3D extruded text in After Effects" cover image
Nov 9, 2007

Aharon Rabinowitz shows you several popular techniques and tools for creating 3D extruded text in After Effects. Some of the solutions he discusses are the shatter effect, plug-ins like Zaxwerks and a ...

"How to Create a vanishing point effect in After Effects CS3" cover image
Nov 9, 2007

Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use Photoshop CS3's Vanishing Point tool to convert a flat 2D image into a 3D object in After Effects CS3. This may sound pretty basic, but After Effects doesn't alw ...

"How to Create a custom shape extruder in After Effects" cover image
Nov 9, 2007

In this video tutorial, Jerzy Drozda Jr (aka Maltaannon) demonstrates how you can extrude any vector based layer to give it a real 3D look inside After Effects. Above all other features... it consists ...

"How to Video time stretch in After Effects CS3" cover image
Nov 9, 2007

In this tutorial Chad demonstrates how video sequences can be shortened or lengthened using Time Stretching in Adobe After Effects CS3. Video not playing properly? Click here to see the original video ...

"How to Make extruded shapes emit from Particular" cover image
Nov 9, 2007

Here is a simple way to make an extruded shape emit from Trapcode Particular. Particular is a particle plug-in for After Effects and this two video tutorial will show you how to create and then use 3D ...