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After Effects

Join our community of FX specialists to give and get help on one of the world's leading motion graphics software for creating cinematic visual effects—Adobe After Effects.
"How to Use Motion Tracker in After Effects 6" cover image
Nov 7, 2007

Discover how After Effects redesigned Motion Tracker (After Effects Professional only) gives you more power to synchronize motion between two elements in a composited scene. Learn how Motion Tracker w ...

"How to Create an animated ring of text around an object in AE" cover image
Nov 7, 2007

Instructor Brian Maffitt gives a fast-paced recipe for creating a Saturn-like ring of text around an orange. Brian gives the Stroke, Path Text, and Basic 3D filters a good workout, stresses the import ...

"How to Relight an actor in particleIllusion" cover image
Sep 7, 2007

Have you ever created an effect in which your actor is throwing a fireball? Pretty cool effect, right? But something's wrong. It doesn't quite look real. In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader El ...

"How to Create an outline around an actor in After Effects" cover image
Aug 13, 2007

In this tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create the popular effect in which a colored stroke is placed around a keyed or rotoscoped subject. This example outlines an ac ...

"How to Create & enhance text wipe-on effects in After Effects" cover image
Aug 13, 2007

In this tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a simple method of creating text wipe-on effects, and ways to enhance them with an updated look. ...

"How to Ensure broadcast-safe colors in After Effects" cover image
Aug 13, 2007

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a simple method of ensuring Broadcast-Safe Colors in your final output. ...

"How to Use "Per-Character Text Blur" in After Effects" cover image
Aug 13, 2007

In this podcast, Creative Cow leader Andrew Kramer shows you how to use the "Per-Character Text Blur" effect, a new feature in After Effects 7. ...

"How to Create the Film Flash transition in After Effects" cover image
Aug 13, 2007

In this tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create the coveted Film Flash transition in After Effects, without the use of any 3rd-party plug-ins. ...

"How to Scale a motion path in After Effects" cover image
Aug 13, 2007

In this tutorial Aharon Rabinowitz shows you the secret to scaling a motion path in After Effects. If you've ever created motion in after effects that you needed to confine to a smaller area, but also ...

"How to Import a motion path into After Effects" cover image
Aug 13, 2007

In this brief tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a simple way to create masks and motion paths in After Effects using Illustrator and Photoshop path shapes. ...