Extrude & Layer Text with RayTrace 3d – Adobe After Effects tutorial

Extrude layered text with the RayTrace 3d settings in Adobe After Effects. You don’t need fancy pants plugins like “element”. If you like that kind of thing go nuts, but you have Open GL rendering already, it’s right here! And this tutorial will show you it’s most basic application and some tips on making it look rad. You like that right? rad things that are 3d? Everyone love 3d. It’s like… way more D? That sounds strange now that I say it out loud.

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Make Sequential Animations using the Repeater – Adobe After Effects tutorial

Create sequential animation with the repeater all on one layer. Just one layer for hundreds of animated pieces? Oh yeah! And it can be controlled with like 6 keyrames? Also yes. You’ll love how this frees up your timeline, simplifies transitions, and adds complexity to otherwise boring elements without bogging you down in precomps, large stacks, or 3rd party plugins.

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Adobe Premiere Pro to After Effects Workflow – Tutorial

How to work from Premiere, to After Effects, or t’other way round. Someone asked me once about how do you work from Premiere to After Effects and my first answer was “how DON’T you” because I sensed some incredulity in their tweet and felt snark was their due. But it brought up a good point that there were many many ways to work between the two programs. Here are some basic ways that you can do that. What you do with that info to form your own workflow is your own business. But the big thing is that you don’t need to lock in to only one way of doing things. There will be many solutions for many problems and there is no one correct answer.

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Split and Slide (like you see in the hippidy hop videos!) – Adobe After Effects tutorial

Split video with lines, then make that video do wacky and interesting stuff. Sure makes that boring old line seem more interesting now! I’ve seen this in a video on the music television and someone asked me about it. I forgot who that was, sorry. Either way in this tutorial you’re going to split, slide, rotate, and all kinds of cool junk that you might enjoy. You can expand on this technique to do much much more but even at the bare minimum it looks pretty cool.
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