Extrude Shapes and Text – Adobe After Effects tutorial

Extrude shape layers. Extrude shape layers. All in After Effects, and better than ever before. Learn how to use the new Cinema 4D powers unlocked in Adobe Ae CC 2017.

In this tutorial, we will extrude some text, and then some shape layers, and then use those new powers to make a real thing! Spoilers… it’s an iphone #spoilers. This is a new feature in Adobe CC 2017. If you don’t have that version or newer you are out of luck. It’s new. It’s great. You should get into it!

If you have any questions just let me know in the comments.

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Glass Pane Slide Show – Adobe After Effects tutorial (Sponsored By Videoblocks)

Make a slideshow for images or video with sliding glass panes moving over and revealing footage and text. This tutorial was sponsored by Videoblocks. Visit http://videoblocks.com/ECAbrams_0716 to redeem your 7-day free trial to VideoBlocks!

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Flickering Transitions – Adobe Premiere Tutorial

Flickering transitions are so hot right now, but all I have in premiere are these dumb fades! Well fear not, there’s hope with the ability to keyframe things and add effects in Premiere. I’ll show you how to make quick and easy flickering transitions in Premiere in no time… or like 10 minutes.

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Flickering Transitions – Adobe After Effects Tutorial

Want to make things flicker in after effects… well there are many way to make that happen. Keyframes, effects, and expressions. This is less of a tutorial and more of a lesson on all the ways you can do the same damn thing in this program. Really there’s no wrong way… unless you’re talking about doing something completely wrong. Actually there is for sure wrong ways to do things.

Anyway, here is the expression we use in here, it’s a doosey…

amp = 50; //MUST BE 50! Governs the height of the wave
freq = 10; //waves per second… kind of.
t=time-marker.nearestKey(time).time; // time based on the marker

x=amp*Math.cos(freq*t*t)+50; // makes the wave

if (time>thisLayer.marker.key(1).time) {100} else {
if (x>50) 100 else 0} // turn the effect on at the marker, and limit the expression

I hope that helps. But if it’s not clear, ask me questions in the comments zone and I’ll try to answer them.

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Face Tracking – New in After Effects CC 2015

This year (2015) Adobe has put a little more face tracking spice in you After Effects gumbo. But does it pass mustard? Find out in this tutorial and review of this new feature. It all started out quite well and really rambled as I had things to say about it as we went. The bottom line is: I”m not thrilled, but maybe it’ll surprise me, and you, as we all get to know it a bit better?

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Self Resizing Lower 3rds – Adobe After Effects tutorial

Create lower 3rds that change their size depending on how long the text is. Perfect for anyone looking to make better templates with more dynamic elements. This relies heavily on expressions and using monospaced fonts. And it works in any version of adobe after effects. But it is especially good for Adobe CC now that you can edit text fields from templates in Premiere Pro.

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