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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Put Stuff Behind Things – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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.

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Flying Blobs to Liquid Letters – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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.

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

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.

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Flying Liquid Teardrop Blobs – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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.

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

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.

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Connect Dots – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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.

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Signs Over People – Adobe After Effects Tutorial

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!

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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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Long Shadows (with the repeater) – Adobe After Effects tutorial

Long shadows are so hot right now. Here is a quick and easy way to make some using the repeater and some shape layers, ANY shape layer. It’s not the same as using a drop shadow that’s for sure. This is for making LOOOOOOoooooOOong Shadows and is an ironically short tutorial.

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