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After Effects

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"How to Create volumetric lights in After Effects" cover image
Aug 13, 2007

In this short After Effects tutorial, Jerzy Drozda Jr (aka Maltaannon) demonstrates creating some cool volumetric lights without any plug-ins. So try it and enhance the "look" and "feel" of your proje ...

"How to Create junk mattes/garbage masks in After Effects" cover image
Aug 12, 2007

In this After Effects tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shares a method of quickly and automatically creating extremely precise junk mattes/gargabe masks for use in the keying process. ...

"How to Render an After Effects project on multiple machines" cover image
Aug 12, 2007

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to Render a project on several computers at once (render farm), without the use of the After Effects render Engine. This may ...

"How to Fix videos imported with the wrong frame rate into AE" cover image
Aug 12, 2007

Aharon Rabinowitz discusses one of the most common After Effects mistakes: importing image sequences at the wrong frame rate. Of course, he tells you the effects and solutions to fix the problem. ...

"How to Create ray traced light reflections in After Effects" cover image
Aug 12, 2007

Andrew Kramer demonstrates how to create ray traced light reflections inside After Effects. After Effects does not handle ray traced reflections natively so follow along with tutorial and learn some c ...

"How to Use fractal noise in After Effects" cover image
Aug 12, 2007

In this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz introduces you to the Fractal Noise Effect, and shows you how to create the animated backgrounds seen in the opening of the Creative Cow After Effects tutorials. Fr ...

"How to Force motion blur on objects in After Effects" cover image
Aug 12, 2007

In this After Effects tutorial Creative Cow leader Aharon rabinowitz shows you how to add a motion blur to effects that don't support this feature. Motion blur is key for any fast moving objects or ef ...

"How to Find missing footage in After Effects" cover image
Aug 12, 2007

Even the best After Effects user sometimes may loose footage. If you're a newbie or a veteran, this video may be helpful to you. Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to locate missing footage and other e ...

"How to Loop fractal noise in After Effects" cover image
Aug 12, 2007

In this tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz show you how to create seamlessly looping fractal background animations by using After Effect's Fractal Noise effect. ...

"How to Improve workflow in After Effects with drag & drop" cover image
Aug 12, 2007

In this tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how dragging and dropping can speed up importing footage, rendering video, and exporting files in After Effects. ...