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  AE Quick Tips #1: Grow Bounds
Category: Adobe After Effects

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a an often-missed tool that can help you out in a pinch, by expanding the boundaries of your footage.

Written by Aahron Rabinowitz

Views: 3

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Mystic Text
Category: Adobe After Effects

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Grant Swanson will take you through an effective way of tracking 'Mystic Text' onto a wall or screen. This technique can be used in horror films, commercials, or promos. He will cover the basics of the After Effects paint tools, some basic '2.5D' motion tracking, and some simple yet effective compositing techniques.

Written by Grant Swanson

Views: 320

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AE Quick Tips #2: Preserve Transparency
Category: Adobe After Effects

n this video tutorial, CreativeCow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you an often-missed feature in AE that can help you when trying to create transparency in an image by using the layers below as the source of that transparency.

Written by Aahron Rabinowitz

Views: 0

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Expressions Without the Math
Category: Adobe After Effects

Recently Doug Bassett was working on a promo and tried to follow Fred Lewis' connection scripts but couldn't follow the math. In this article, Doug demonstrates a new approach which uses expressions but without the math...and he finished the promo in a minimal amount of time.



Written by Doug Bassett

Views: 208

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Swinging A Realistic Chain
Category: Adobe After Effects

Creative COW member Trent Armstrong shows you expression features that apply all the way from After Effects 5 to today. He combines his experience as an average expressions user with tips and shortcuts for many core features that every AE user will be able to start using today.

Written by Trent Armstrong

Views: 201

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Making Light Disappear & Reappear Behind Objects Using Expressions
Category: Adobe After Effects

Learn how to save time and money using Expressions to create an otherwise difficult effect: animating the visibility of a lens flare as it passes behind objects -- including ones that aren't completely opaque.

Written by Trent Armstrong

Views: 0

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Animating Text Reflections with Expressions
Category: Adobe After Effects

In this tutorial from Creative COW Contributing Editor Trent Armstrong, you'll see how to use Expressions to animate reflected light across text. You can get great results using only ingredients included free with AE, including track mattes and the AE Camera.

Written by Trent Armstrong

Views: 227

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Creating Powerful Motion with Simple Expressions in AE
Category: Adobe After Effects

In this tutorial, Talid Al Khatib demonstrates that simple expressions can create powerful motions. In this case, we create a ''rose'' which could be used as a background or design element. Talid also points out that we often think that expressions only relate to the layer properties (scale, opacity, positon, anchor point and rotation) but actually, they can work great with effects too, in our tutorial, we applied expressions on two effects (grid and Hue/saturation).

Written by Talid Al Khatib

Views: 237

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Creating an Animated Volume Meter
Category: Adobe After Effects

One of the most fun and useful things in Adobe After Effects, is linking the motion of your project components with music. In this tutorial from Talid Al Khatib, we'll create a ''volume meter'' that responds to your music.

Written by Talid Al Khatib

Views: 212

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