Secret VFX Trick to Elevate Your Edits (After Effects Tutorial)
A highly slept on, but super effective method of adding effects into your videos with minimal effort (sounds too good to be true, right?)
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0:00 Intro (what are we making?)
0:47 Example #1: Head Tracking
1:02 Pre-compose properly!
1:22 Using the main effect
3:47 Cleaning up the points
4:35 Adjusting the settings
5:28 Reversing the stabilization (Method 1)
6:50 Reversing the stabilization (Method 2)
8:15 Example #2: Face Tracking (Detailed Analysis)
9:25 Using garbage mattes!
11:03 Completing the track
12:03 Adding elements above my face
12:35 Example #3: Scene Compositing
14:33 Exporting a single frame from After Effects
15:05 Scene painting in Photoshop (generative fill)
15:49 Contextual taskbar is missing?
16:14 Exporting the frame from Photoshop
16:37 Reverse stabilizing the signs
17:10 Masking/Placing the signs
18:38 The other sign
19:05 Adding elements onto the signs
19:41 Compositing tricks for more realism
20:40 Animating the sign text
21:46 Text Exploder plugin
22:00 Using text animation presets instead
22:58 Placing the text (CC Power Pin)
24:04 Using a grid to check proportions
25:00 Compositing the text onto the sign
26:20 Common Problems
27:00 The reason you NEED to pre-compose first!
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