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Sine Wave Hair (and more!) – Adobe After Effects tutorial

ecabrams 26.05.2018 downloads, Tutorials 0

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Make the edges of your shapes into lovely regular sine waves with control and ease. Use classic techniques with new 2018 features in this after effects tutorial. Feel the wind in your hair. Or at least feel the sine waves in your shapes.

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Fly Through Logo Reveal – Adobe After Effects tutorial

ecabrams 27.08.2016 Tutorials 4

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Want to reveal a logo by flying through it? Then this is the Adobe After Effects Tutorial for you. Zoom through a logo shaped hole in a background as you animate on the logomark, wordmark, whatever mark of your choosing. Zoom! Excellent for transitions, outros, intros, and much more.

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

This project file for this will work in Adobe CS5.5 and WILL NOT work in older versions.

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

ecabrams 11.07.2016 downloads, Tutorials 19

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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!

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

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This project file for this will work in Adobe CS5.5 and WILL NOT work in older versions.

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Self Resizing Lower 3rds – Adobe After Effects tutorial

ecabrams 20.10.2014 Tutorials 3

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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.

Put Stuff Behind Things – Adobe After Effects tutorial

ecabrams 06.09.2014 Tutorials 1

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Put thing in a scene, like IN the scene. As in behind things that you already filmed. It’s quite simple and the computer does most of the work so we’ll make it go. The process is just 3 little steps. Track. Place. Cover. Once you get this you can put anything into any shot really.

Flying Blobs to Liquid Letters – Adobe After Effects tutorial

ecabrams 18.08.2014 Tutorials 3

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Reveal letters with liquid blobs and a BONUS trick to use onion skinning in after effects. It’s dirt simple and sadly there is no trick to to making this clean look, but this will save you time. The usual method for this thing is to go into photoshop and draw there, but this is all in After Effects. Jazz up your workflow with this rad tip and get making these awesome animations.

White Extruded Text (like that Mockingjay Teaser Text)- Adobe After Effects tutorial

ecabrams 12.07.2014 Tutorials 6

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You ever see that teaser for the Hunger Games Mocking Jay, the one with the white text slowly extruding. It looks great, and this is how to make that in Adobe After Effects.

Flying Liquid Teardrop Blobs – Adobe After Effects tutorial

ecabrams 07.06.2014 Tutorials 9

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Make liquid blobs fly around the frame. I’m sure you’ve seen this before and if you’ve tried particle systems, and just plain drawing it, then you need this lovely solution that uses other paths as guides but still tricks the computer into doing most of the work for you. It’s great.

Fancy Banners (maybe for wedding videos?)- Adobe After Effects tutorial

ecabrams 01.06.2014 Tutorials 0

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Fancy banners for fancy events. Weddings, Bar-mitzvahs, Quinceaneras, really anything you might hire someone to videograph instead of “film”. Or if you are a wedding videographer maybe you can throw these into the mix, I don’t know. Do what you feel.

Connect Dots – Adobe After Effects tutorial

ecabrams 11.05.2014 Tutorials 18

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Want to connect some dots? Well I’ll clear up how to do that and connect the dots on how to connect some dots? Wow that’s terrible. I could really use some help writing these descriptions.