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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!

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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.

Signs Over People – Adobe After Effects Tutorial

ecabrams 26.04.2014 Tutorials 0

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You want to put a sign over someone that’s tracked to their head, but they keep moving around and you don’t have a 3d object tracker? Don’t worry about it! With this method you don’t need one and you can still get all that awesome real rotation you want with no extra cost!

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

ecabrams 23.03.2014 Tutorials 1

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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.