Category Archives: After Effects
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Animating a Signature in AE
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 2857
2 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to animate a signature appearing on screen, and a few tricks to make it look more realistic.
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AE Workflow Tip #3: Open in Editor
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 338
No commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz discusses the Open Editor command and how it can help you streamline your workflow. Also covered is preparation for getting this command to work for you with all image, video and audio formats.
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The Very, Very Basics of Fractal Noise
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 1136
1 commentIn 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 AE Tutorials.
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AE Gotchas 1: Wrong Frame Rate
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 1590
1 commentIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz discusses one of the most common AE mistakes – Importing image sequences at the wrong frame rate – along with the effects and solutions.
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particleIllusion 3 and AE 7
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 679
No commentsAfter Effects 7 & ParticleIllusion 3: In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to get position data from After Effects 7 into particleIllusion. Also, using the same method, you can get data from After Effects 7 into older versions of AE.
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Creating a Custom Wave Form – Part 2
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 1847
4 commentsIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to improve the look of the Customized waveform and talks about how to get real control of your audio keyframes with Trapcode Sound Keys.
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Creating a Custom Wave Form – Part 1
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 887
No commentsIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create a customized, sound-reactive waveform using a stroke, a distortion effect and an expression.
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AE Workflow Tip #2: Rendering
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 1203
No commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shares some rendering workflow tips to help you avoid a crash and render a little faster, and discusses an important plug-in for speeding up your renders and previews.
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Understanding Straight vs. Premultiplied
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 2410
2 commentsIn this Video Tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz helps you understand the practical differences between Straight and Premultiplied video, when working with After Effects alone as well as between AE and other programs.
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AE Workflow Tip #1: Duplication
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 1014
No commentsIn this Video Tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz helps you improve your workflow through the use of duplication in After Effects. Topics covered include, duplicating layers, render settings, overwriting renders, and creating videotape containing both RGB and Alpha transparency information for archiving.
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Creating a Flock of Birds – Part 2
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 3333
2 commentsIn part 2 of this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create and animate a flock of birds from the original bird.
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Creating a Flock of Birds – Part 1
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 3856
3 commentsIn part 1 of this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to build and animate a bird in AE 3D. In part 2, it will join a flock of birds.
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Horror Text – Part 2
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 823
1 commentIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to make Horror Movie style text appear on a wall.
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Horror Text – Part 1
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 851
No commentsIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to make Horror Movie style text appear on a wall.
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Multi-Machine Rendering
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 1732
4 commentsIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to Render a project on several computers at once, without the use of the After Effects render Engine.
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Creating Super Tight Junk Mattes
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 2108
1 commentIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shares a method of quickly and automatically creating extremely precise junk mattes/gargabe masks for use in the keying process.
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Keeping Your Speed Constant
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 666
1 commentIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz discusses creating smooth spatial animation with no variation in speed using Roving Keyframes.
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Fixing Scaling Issues–Part 2
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 456
2 commentsIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to ease the values of Exponential Scale to create a smooth end to your layers scale animation.
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Fixing Scaling Issues–Part 1
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 616
No commentsIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz introduces you to Exponential scale, a keyframe assistant used to counter the issues that occur when scaling from very high values.
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Creating a Cartoon from Video
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 2968
3 commentsIn this 3-part tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz explains the process of converting video to cartoon by using only After Effects and Adobe Illustrator CS2. While the tutorial spans 50 minutes and covers a wide range of topics (some in depth and some in general), after you have gone through the process once, you will find that [...]
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Creating an Outline around an Actor
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 1261
No commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create the popular effect in which a colored stroke is placed around a keyed or rotoscoped subject.
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Creating and Enhancing Text Wipe On Effects
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 6241
8 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a simple method of creating text wipe-on effects, and ways to enhance them with an updated look.
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Working with Broadcast Safe Colors
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 896
1 commentIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a simple method of ensuring Broadcast-Safe Colors in your final output.
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Displacement Mapping Part 3: Text and Time
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 3752
1 commentIn part 3 of this 3-part series on Displacement Mapping, Aharon Rabinowitz covers displacement of Text, which follows slightly different rules than normal footage. Youll also be introduced to the concept of displacing time, which follows some of the same principles covered in the first 2 tutorials.
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Displacement Mapping Part 2: Avoid the Pitfalls
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 28, 2008
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Views: 1022
No commentsIn part 2 of this 3-part series on Displacement Mapping, Aharon Rabinowitz covers the problems that arise while working with displacement mapping in After Effects. These solutions and workarounds will help you avoid the pitfalls often faced by animators using these effects.