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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Is it possible to set more than one motion tracking point in After Affects CS6 at the same time
Is it possible to set more than one motion tracking point in After Affects CS6 at the same time in the same scene?
For example one track point closer to our viewpoint, and another one that follows ...
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Glitch effect won't work
I'm learning After Effects from scratch so sorry if this is obvious but whenever I try to make one part of an image 'glitch' I create a section of the image and place it in the middle but when I press ...
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How to make black text accept light in After Effects
I'm trying to add a light to a scene that has black text on a white background. My goal is to keep the light in position and slide in the text. As the text slides, part of the text will be less black ...
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Adding 3d animations in a video
For a project we need 3d animations to start unfolding whilst a person is walking. The video camera will be moving. Using After effects, achieve such a thing?
Also what is this called? So I can also ...
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Where are the opacity map presets for CC Particle World in CS5 and CS6?
In versions of After Effects prior to CS5, there are opacity map presets such as Fade In, Fade Out, Constant, etc.
I can see Opacity Map under Particle in the CS6 CC Particle World, but how do I get ...
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Converting MTS for best use in After Effects?
I have a client who gave me nothing but MTS files to use in After Effects. Basically it's HD slow motion photography, shot sideways, against a greenscreen, and all he wants to do is put one 1920 x ...
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Null object to toggle volume in After Effects?
Null objects don't have volume controls, but I'd like to control many audio layers in my timeline at once.
Anyone know of a way to adjust volume or toggle mute on a bunch of layers without having to ...
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How can I rename a footage .ai file for AE without breaking the references?
I've got a composition in After Effects CS 6 on Windows that contains several .ai files. One of them has over 30 layers, which I imported and animated in AE. Unfortunately, I gave the .ai file the not ...
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Why does After Effects shear my last frame in a loop?
Following the short tutorial here to make a loop in After Effects using time remapping and the loopOut() expression I encountered some odd behaviour.
In the tutorial it is mentioned that when this ...
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After Effects: Set Alpha/Matte to hdr layer without clamping the values to 0-1 range
I have a .hdr sequence as well as a .tga sequence. the .tga sequence contains the alpha channel to be used for the .hdr sequence.
The problem is that if I apply the alpha channel to my hdr sequence ...
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How to resolve error 0xc000007b opening Adobe After Effects? [migrated]
I have installed Adobe CS6 on Windows 8 and get the error "0xc000007b" every time I open open Adobe After Effects. All other Adobe software, including Photoshop and Premiere Pro work perfectly. I have ...
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Stretch or Change Timing in After Effects
I am new to After Effects. I downloaded the free file for the Month of May from VideoHive and have been playing with it. Some of the text is displayed just a bit too short for my linking. I do not ...
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AE - Randomly place ~100 layers and then move to the middle
I currently have around 100 text layers placed in the middle of my composition in After Effects. What I would like to do is randomly place this layers around the middle and then create an animation ...
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Automate turning on and off Twixtor effect in After Effects
While using Twixtor in After Effects, you can automate the speed of the clip by manipulating the "Speed %" under "Output Control". Now, since there's no good way to do time-remapping natively in After ...
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How to render an After Effects composition without DRM protection
How can you render a .wmv video file in After Effects without DRM protection, there doesn't seem to be an option when rendering.
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This composition im rendering is basically a small animation ...
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After Effects experience with virtual choir 3D environment
Is there anyone in the forum with After Effects experience related to the production of a virtual choir, such as that of Eric Whitacre (e.g., see video below)?
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Blur whole text and then “unblur” part of it
I have a text in after effects that I wish to first blur the whole thing and then animate it so that a part of the text is clear.
If I have the text Maecenas sed diam eget risus varius blandit sit ...
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Why does After Effects not enable me to work with 60FPS?
For a short student film, I'd like to be able to work with shots that are 60FPS. For some reason I dont see this option:
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How to mask out brush in After effects
I've run into a little snag.
I can't seem to mask out some of the brush that I've used on a an empty layer.
I create the mask but it simply doesn't mask out anything, it does however mask out pixels ...
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How to assign roto to another layer in After Effects
I'm rather new to AE but I have to do some complicated things for school since we came up with such a hard concept.
I have rotoscoped a part of the main footage, now how can I apply this roto mask ...
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How to maximize volume and sound quality of a YouTube video
We're trying to produce highest-possible quality (short, promotional, sound intensive) videos for YouTube, and want to achieve fullest possible sound.
There's a huge range of sound volume/quality ...
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How to gradually colourize an object in after effects
I'm rather new to AE but I believe I have the rotoscoping under control.
How can I gradually (each frame more) colourize an object in a video. So that at first the whole video is black and white and ...
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Video editing objects from black and white to colour
For school we came up with a cool concept, the video starts in black and white and when a person in the video touches an object it turns to colour.
Could you guys help us out here? Do you have any ...
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Accessing the Layer Panel in After Effects
I want to edit the anchor point path of a layer, and to do that I know I need to open the layer in it's own layer panel. However I can't figure out how to open the layer in the layer panel.
I'm ...
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Does alpha matte version of a clip allows to change the pattern
I'm a beginner in this field and I have to buy this clip from shutter-stock.
This clip comes with some pre-rendered patterns and has an alpha-matte version.
My question is : I want to use different ...
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Footage feels “faster” when exporting from After Effects
I'm editing a project with premiere, and using After Effects to edit some of the footage (color corrections, some masking etc').
All raw footage was captured with a Canon 550D, 1280*720 at 50fps.
My ...
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How can I achieve the following visual equalizer effect?
Alright, This is a big question and I understand that something like this might require a lot of explaining, but I really need to figure out how its done, I will link to the video which shows exact ...
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No experience with AE, I want to create a Kinetic Typographic video. Am I being too ambitious?
Ok so I have this presentation thing for next week, and I have to make a explainer video. I'm super torn between whiteboard animation (I can do this) and kinetic typographic video. I really want to ...
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Adobe After Effects MP4 Export Issue
I'm trying to export a composition from Adobe After Effects. My Comp is 1280x720, and ideally I'd export with an mp4 container, and h264 video codec. Problem is, After Effects is giving me a PAR ...
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After Effects Alternative for Windows
I use Sony Vegas for video production but would like to be able to create more visual effects.
Are there any cheaper alternatives for Adobe's After Effects? Or is there an extension for Vegas?
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What techniques are used to create this 1-minute motion graphic?
Here's a 1 minute After Effects (?) production about The Noun Project (an iconic website):
https://vimeo.com/48846655
I really like the style of it and would like to learn how to create something ...
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Looking for a tile slideshow transition effet
i am looking for a way to produce this transition effect for a slideshow :
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Tips for recording pen and paper
I've got a set-up where I'm using an iPad to record myself writing something on a white sheet of paper (with less-than-perfect lighting, of course). I'm recording a video in 1080p, and would like to ...
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After Effects quality drops
I am trying to make a animation. There is a 3D animation which is sharp, I need to put some layers over it with descriptions about some parts that are shown.
The original video is extremly sharp, but ...
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After Effects: Importing Illustrator sequence?
I have 200 layers in Illustrator CS6. I have another set of the same layers but where basic attributes (position, scale) have changed.
Is there a way to import these two "states" into After Effects ...
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Save frame with current camera angle
I'm an absolute noob to After Effects. I'm not using it for video. I just want to use the 3D ray tracing to get a single image. I've created the 3D image, set the lighting I want and have a camera ...
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What is the most effective way of slowing down footage?
I want to experiment with slowed down footage and I see several ways in doing that with my current set-up.
I have the following hardware/software at my disposal:
After Effects CS5.5,
Twixtor Pro,
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Recommendable production codecs for Adobe video products
I'm currently searching for new codecs that are better suited for production than the ones we are currently using. So far we used QuickTime Animation and PhotoJPEG. The latter always proved as ...
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Simulating a camera flash
Can anyone give me some tips on simulating a camera flash in After Effects. I am trying to make it keyframing the scale and opacity of a white shape layer but I can't get it to look right.
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Duplicate layers X times and move 1 frame each time
I do a lightpainting video on After Effects (CS6 here) and I have some questions about it. To have some continuous lines from a moving light, I have to duplicate my layer each times I want (35 times ...
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3d max change the opacity of an object's edges rendered in After Effects.
I want to change the opacity of the edge of an object so that when I render it and import to After Effects, it would match with the background video and feather at the edge of objects.
Cant place ...
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How to parent a mask to another element in AfterFX?
I have this video whereby text is revealed one letter after another. A text cursor is moving along with each letter to simulate the fact of writing the text on a word processor.
I have separate ...
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Audio Not Playing on Imported Video Files
I a currently editing a video and imported a .avi movie into my After Effects project. I went to check the RAM preview, but there was no sound. I checked the audio preview and there still was no ...
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Sound is playing slowly in After Effects RAM Playing
When I play my composition in RAM Playing, the sound of my composition is being slowed down a lot, so it is completely changed, but in my render the sound plays at the correct speed...
My After ...
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After effects: Moving text along 3D path
After Effects beginner here.
The effect I'm after is where text is appearing from behind an object. So far, I'm using the position and rotation parameters.
But the text is rigid. I found something ...
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Timelapse Countdown Timer in After Effects
I'm sure someone out there must have done this before, but how do I create a countdown timer with hours, minutes and seconds that starts from a specific time and counts down at 71.928x speed?
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How to clean GoPro footage?
Does anyone have good technique to do lens correction, rolling shutter removal and stabilisation on GoPro footage.
If you start by rolling shutter correction, the filter seek for straight edges and ...
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How to change active camera in after effects ( or render a different camera )
I added a camera to my comp, however, when I render it uses the active camera, and not camera1. How do I Either make camera1 my active camera, or make it so that I can render out camera1
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How to make an iPad like commercial video?
We're looking to make an iPad like commercial video for one of our apps.
My Question is, what technologies are involved in making this kind of a video? Is it flash/after effects? or something else ...
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How do you install Adobe Production Premium CS5 on a different hard drive in windows?
Is there a way of installing Adobe Production Premium CS5 on a hard drive other than C:\? I tried changing the install path in the installer but after installing parts of the program don't work and it ...
