after-effects refers to the program Adobe After Effects which is part of the Adobe Creative Suite. It is a digital motion graphics and compositing software published by Adobe Systems, used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production.
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How to create a ragdoll effect on a human?
I make an action(combat) short-length film and I use After Effects and 3DS MAX to edit it.
I want to make a battle scene where the one guy hits another guy and the second one is thrown away like a ...
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Why is after effects turning my Prores audio into white noise
I have some footage that I converted from red to prores444. I am able to view the converted mov in quicktime and the audio sounds fine. However, I when import it to Efter Effects, the audio previews ...
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Good place to learn about every option/button in Adobe After Effects?
In particular, right now anyway, I want to know what the following under Animation menu do:
Track Camera
Track in mocha AE
Warp Stabilizer
Track Motion
Looking for a text-based explanation.
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How to create super smooth slow motion clips in After Effects that will be edited in Premiere Pro
I would like to make one of those 600fps slow motion clips that can are on YouTube. such as this
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Repeating Flashing Text in After Effects
I'm using After Effects CS6, and I'm deliberately trying to recreate the look of a cheap camcorder. I want that stereotypical red "REC" text and big red dot in a corner of the screen, and I want it to ...
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How can I make the particular trail longer in After Effects CS4?
How can I make the particular trail longer?
Why when I animate the particular do I only have a trail when I parent it to an Object or Emitter?
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After effects rendering
I have a small problem with rendering.When i render with default setting my video size is more than 1 GB and i was using only 10 pics, some solids and 1 null object.Can you please tell me what setting ...
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Banding in Premiere preview [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Gradient banding
I have a video imported in Adobe Premier from After effect (16 bits).
Before rendered in the timeline the image looks nice but when rendered I have a ...
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Motion and shape tracking in After Effects CS5.5
My footage consists of someone with black sunglasses moving his head tilting slowly back and forth. The glass of the sunglasses is visible in the footage. In the beginning the head is tilted back, the ...
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Correcting exposure flickering in time-lapse footage (in After Effects)
I have made some time-lapse footage of a flower blooming. It was taken inside, at night, with constant lighting. The pictures are great, but as footage, the exposure between frames is slightly ...
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After Effects - How do I create animated coding
Are there any tutorials on how to create animated 'coding', where it looks like code is being typed in? I want to do something similar to this: ...
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Which Text falling and flipping animation preset or plugin is used in after effects
If you open this video on vimeo.
Then fast forward to 00:56 on the timeline you can see a text animation where the blocks of text appear like there are being flipped and falling. I want to know what ...
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Tracking box to full viewport
Basically, I've recorded a video of gameplay on my DS console using a camcorder, and I want to:
Remove the shaky movement caused by me not having a tripod
Stretch the screen to cover the entire ...
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Can't add Motion Blur to layer imported from Photoshop
I can't enable Motion Blur on this layer:
Any ideas what could be wrong?
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Choosing the right program for video editing
I've used Premiere and After Effects in the past, but I'm still somewhat unclear as to the different roles and responsibilities of each program in the process. When I need to mix audio, I do ...
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Gradient banding
I have a video with a gradient background, with silhouette vector animations on top. The gradient therefore stays exactly the same throughout the video.
However, rendering the video as mp4, I'm ...
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animating a line that is a 3d layer in after-effects
Got a question that's really been bothering me for the past few days. I've searched everywhere and can't find the answer!
What I'd like to do
I'm trying to draw a 2D smiley face with the pen tool on ...
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Adobe After Effects vs. Final Cut Express for chroma keying
Which is better for chroma keying, Adobe After Effects or Final Cut Express and why?
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Choosing a frame-rate for an animation project
How do you choose a framerate for an animation project? In this case I know the exact context where the video will be displayed (company's head office, on a 51" HD TV) and it needs to look really ...
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When making an animation how can I get a zooming effect?
I want to add a transition to one of my animations that gives the impression of the camera rushing/zooming towards the animation. Is there a better means of doing this in After Effects than scaling ...
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Is there a way to link the animation of two layers?
I am building a kinetic type-style video and am struggling to get some of the animations to sync correctly.
In this particular example I am trying to have a text box (imported .ai file) rotate with ...
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AE - Imported mp4 seems to be missing audio
I'm new to After Effects, but my experience with video editing so far has been that audio and video are treated separately. When I add an mp4 to my composition, I get the video element, but I can't ...
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AE Error : Imager Buffers exceed internal limits. Decrease the memory requirements for the rendering of this frame. (12804)
I'm kinda new to AE and having a weird issue while trying to render a 1920x1080 Composition.
After rendering about 10seconds, i get the following error:
I've checked all of my objects and i have ...
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How does Apple Motion compare to Adobe After Effects?
I am looking at Apple Motion and Adobe After Effects. How to they compare to one another? What are the pros and cons of each?
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Is it possible to recreate VirtualDub Deshaker functionality in Adobe Premiere/After Effects?
I'd like to automatically stabilize some poorly-shot shaky footage in Adobe Premiere or After Effects.
VirtualDub Deshaker analyzes frame motion, computes smoothing, adjusts frame position, scale and ...
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How to preserve new audio when importing Premiere projects into After Effects?
I am working on a project in Adobe Premiere consisting of many small clips. For some of the clips I replaced the audio by unlinking the original videoclip from the original audioclip, cutting the ...
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How do I play swf files?
I just exported a swf file from after effects cs5 comp_1.swf. It created automatically two other files: comp1r.htm and AC_RunActiveContent.js.
Whenever I click over the comp_1.swf icon the flash ...
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Creating a “finger using device” effect like in iPhone app ads
I have been searching for quite a while on a tutorial of how to create the rotating phone ad with the finger coming in to interact with the app once in a while.
There is an example of this effect in ...
