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20 Useful Tricks in After Effects

Postby momoffduty » Fri Nov 07, 2014 12:25 pm

Worth the watch! :-D
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWpi8rFSYVw[/youtube]
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Re: 20 Useful Tricks in After Effects

Postby Steve Grisetti » Fri Nov 07, 2014 4:24 pm

Thanks, Cheryl! Great video!
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Re: 20 Useful Tricks in After Effects

Postby sidd finch » Fri Nov 07, 2014 6:39 pm

This is cool Thanks Mom. Now if we could see one of your Trip-Hop Templates... hummmm

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Re: 20 Useful Tricks in After Effects

Postby momoffduty » Fri Nov 07, 2014 7:06 pm

Trip-Hop? Did someone mention Trip-Hop? :-D The cycle mask color is very helpful when you have a lot of masks. He had a lot of good tips.
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Re: 20 Useful Tricks in After Effects

Postby Peru » Sat Nov 08, 2014 9:13 am

Thanks for that video. I've got it bookmarked.

I've been learning AE CS5.5 with Classroom In a Book and hopefully will be able to make some use of it. I tried dissecting some AE templates that I've gotten, thinking that I could learn AE as I did Premiere Elements (before I had P Pro) by just hovering, right clicking, and trying things. AE is a bit more complicated than most programs, so I had no success trying to learn it that way. :ha:
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Re: 20 Useful Tricks in After Effects

Postby momoffduty » Sat Nov 08, 2014 10:19 am

Bob, templates are confusing! I tried the same tactic to learn. There are many ways to accomplish the same thing in AE and some templates have expressions, etc.
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Re: 20 Useful Tricks in After Effects

Postby Peru » Sat Nov 08, 2014 1:43 pm

momoffduty wrote: some templates have expressions, etc.


I haven't got to expressions yet. :ha:
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Re: 20 Useful Tricks in After Effects

Postby karri » Sat Nov 08, 2014 2:40 pm

Thanks for posting this video Cheryl! Now that I have a faster computer, I am going to learn AE ... :gl: ha!

Also, not sure if this has been posted before, but for Peru and anyone else starting out, I just watched these beginner AE tutorials and found them helpful. They go fast (about 20 mins each) http://www.kriscoartproductions.com/#!the-basics/c224b

You can just click the blue Next Step button at the bottom of the pages to go to the next step if you want.
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Re: 20 Useful Tricks in After Effects

Postby momoffduty » Sat Nov 08, 2014 2:53 pm

Nice find Karri! I haven't seen those tuts before or that website.

Peru, no worries just start with a specific tut that has a specific expression. There are lots of expressions out there for free. You just plug in your numbers to tweak the settings.
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Re: 20 Useful Tricks in After Effects

Postby Peru » Sat Nov 08, 2014 5:12 pm

I haven't seen those either, Karri. Thanks. :TU:
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