New AE Tutorials

[Mylenium]

Good stuff as usual. Very nice.

Mylenium

[everlite]

Hey Andy you're on fire my friend! i loved the last light streams tutorial, really nice to see the updated version. Any hint's on what the others five will be?

[sacslacker]

Wow, these rock. I just bought Riot Gear too. I wish I'd have seen your site sooner. =)

[erilaz]

I've been hanging out for a fresh batch from you Andrew! Thanks for churning out the awesomeness.

[TastyKellogg]

Hey Andy
I want to ask you. How do you come up with ideas for all those effects? Tell me how please!!!

[erilaz]

Hey Andy
I want to ask you. How do you come up with ideas for all those effects? Tell me how please!!!

I would hazard a guess and say experience, observation and a hell of a lot of experimentation. :)

[Creed]

Nice tutorials! What do you use to record them, if you don't mind me asking?

[berniebernie]

The DV de-interlace technique is quite nifty, thanks !

[AndrewKramer]

Often times I like to Experiement with known techniques and try to find other secrets that may not be so common.

I use camtasia studio to recode the videos.

Also, as promised, there are 2 more tutorials brand new today.

Andrew Kramer

[sandMan031]

woaw...very cool stuff Andrew...really inspiring . keep up ;)..and thanks a million for the tuts.

[ScottKane]

Loving you

[erilaz]

Thanks Andrew... that 32Bpc tip was pure gold.

[AndrewKramer]

Thanks!

Yeah, I was just playing around one day and tried to figure a "cheat" to get some of that 32bit magic. I'm glad many people found that useful; wasn't sure how many people have even fiddled with that features yet.

Andrew

[chandro]

Hi Andrewkramer,
Thanks for the great tutorials, after watching your tutorials 2 months ago
im hook with AE. hope you can share to us your favorite plugins
though i know everything can handle by AE but faster workflow is a must in our industry.
and besides were also into learning other programs.
adding more tutorials on workflow is great!!

Thanks again!!

[everlite]

Thanks for the great tutorials, after watching your tutorials 2 months ago
im hook with AE.



Yeh i agree with that, i rarely use AE prior to seeing Andy's tutorials, they inspired me to dig much deeper and now i'm using AE a lot more, even for work, which is always good :)

Any more tutorials in the pipe?

One tutorial i'd like to see, not sure how its done is the checker board effect, i've seen a few ads recently where the camera's looking down on a crowd of people and their all holding boards that shows a message, they flip the boards over to reveal a logo or something. They often seem to do this with stadium crowd shots, a recent one was done for coke i think where an image of the drinks gets poured from one side to the other side of the stadium as they all flip over these boards. i think this might be 3d though.

Cheers - Dave.

[ripaaa]

I would say that your tutorials is one og the best. It is easy to understand tutorials, even new AE user will understand. They are not like Ayato tuts, because ayato tuts is more complicated and for advanced users. :) Waiting for new tutorials from you. :bounce:

[joshem]

Very nice videos tuts , really inspirant me

Thanks

[AndrewKramer]

Somebody stop me!

I've added 2 more again and have some amazing ones in the works. Groundbreaking concepts too, I promise.

Thanks for the ideas and suggestions, I've added these to the queue.

Cheers,
Andrew Kramer

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html

[everlite]

Geeze man, you're on fire dude! Cheers :)

[suztv]

I love it! Totally cool! I cannot say enough how much your tutorials have helped me and others. I always recommend your site to newbies whenever they ask . Thanks for all of the great tutorials and ideas!

[erilaz]

I don't know what's causing this mass update-spree, but I hope it keeps going!

And it's true... you can't shoot a fake gun without making gun noises. Andrew Kramer's next tute: "Comping out facial expressions from involuntary human sound effects".:D

[Zendorf]

Thanks Andrew for your efforts :thumbsup: I used your AE reflection technique on a job I was working on today...very useful. Keep up the great work....you have an excellent tutorial narration style!

[scrimski]

Great stuff, but please get rid of that zoom&pan when editing values. Or put it down a little.

[AndrewKramer]

Sorry I have to ask. Zoom&Pan. What do you mean exactly? I could not figure out what you mean for the life of me. Although I've been up all night editing so forgive me if its something obvious.

I think I'll sleep in my chair tonight...

Andrew

[scrimski]

No problem. I meant the...well.. the zooming and panning like here (http://www.videocopilot.net/videotutorials/textblur/) around 00:48. No offense but I like it better without.
Sleep well.

edit:fixed Link

[erilaz]

No problem. I meant the...well.. the zooming and panning like here (http://) around 00:48. No offense but I like it better without.
Sleep well.

There's no link there scrimski. :)

[nerrazzi]

Andrew, where do you get your music from?:thumbsup:

[jussing]

Andrew, your After Effects tuts are just the most intuitive yet fast-paced After Effects tutorials ever made. You even explain the really, really stupid things in After Effects in a way so they don't sound so bad. (like the workaround for timewarping to less than 100% without clipping at the original length)

Keep it up, please. :thumbsup:

Cheers,
- Jonas

[younglion]

great tutorials man, and i also love the suttle humor you put in, cant wait to see some more.:thumbsup:

[everlite]

Hey Andy,

You mentioned earlier that you use camtasia, what kind of export settings do you use? I often try to do vids with camtasia but it comes out less than great, but you manage to get great quality, large size and a decent file size!

Looking forward to future tutorials :)

Cheers - Dave.

[Darth Mole]

Just discovered these - excellent stuff! Really inspired me. May well buy Riot Gear too...

[sandMan031]

damn good tutorials.. just saw the new one ,3d stoke like effect, 2day and it was awsome...I visit videocopilot like 3,4 times a day....keep them coming Andrew. most inspiring tutorials available on the net for sure;)

[ARTillery]

as many of the guys have said, your tuts really opened up the world of AE to me, and I really like to thank you for these tuts, not only very very usefull, but free as well :)

[joshem]

Andrew great tutorial with 3d stroke without plugin ,, the expresions is easy to understaind,
you take in mind with your tutorials help a lot people ....

Thanks Andrew .......

[erilaz]

You're on fire Andrew! :D

(Oh, and happy Anniversary!)

[eodmpink]

That fake HDR one is great.

Makes me wonder if a HDR light probe sequence would work using that method.

[meyers3d]

Great tutorials man! I wish I would have stumbled on to these earlier, the light streaks one would have been very useful to me in the past. At least now I will be able to implement these great effects into my future works. Thank you.

[Maneech]

Awesome tutorials , Andrew.This is one guy whose really knows how to teach.i'm soon gonna buy one of the dvd's.btw,is there anyway by which i cud save the tuts on my pc?

[manlio]

Great and inspiring tutorials. Thanks for sharing!

[erilaz]

If you haven't been keeping up to date (and at the rate he's going you should be checking every week, if not daily!):
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html

Also, check out the blog while you're there!

Great stuff as usual Andrew, especially the camera mapping.

[everlite]

Man! sheesh, to think all that time i was waiting for a few more tutorials. And the Earth zoom effect!! that's quite strange i was just working on something that involved this kind of effect.

Cheers guys - Dave :)

[jussing]

The tuts are awesome, but the humor, Andrew.... sheesh. :rolleyes:

[erilaz]

The tuts are awesome, but the humor, Andrew.... sheesh. :rolleyes:

The humour is awesome! It's half the fun.:D

"That's Andrew Kramer from VideoCopilot.net, and we know how to roll baby! Yessssss..." (http://www.videocopilot.net/blogstuff/sam1.mov)

[Fede]

Awesome tuts and products guys, to quality stuff. :thumbsup:

I love the humor, Andrew is histerical man!

[jussing]

The humour is awesome! It's half the fun.:DHehe, I think it's kind of embarassing, but hey, they're still the most awesome AE tutorials anywhere, so I guess I can't bitch about it. ;)

[erilaz]

The man is still updating. :D
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html

He also has a blog now:
http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/

[webhead]

Andrew Kramer,
I hate to sound like a fanboy but, I really have to thank you for all the free tutorials you put up, as well as, the DVDs you put out. I'd say, 75% of what I know about After Effects - I learned from your tutorials. I never would have figured out all of what AE is capable of without the invaluable resources of people like yourself. Sometimes though, with the more complex tutorials, I do wish they were downloadable so I could study them easier, but, I really can't complain - I can only ask that you just keep making them.

[AndrewKramer]

Your very welcome. I appreciate all the support from the community; it really makes it easier to keep updating so frequently.

In addition to the tutorial up today, I have another one planned for later this week...

Take care,
AK

[webhead]

Great. I'll check out the new tutorials first chance I get.

[theycallmemrtibbs]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us. It really is appreciated.

[buller]

hi
Andrew
thnx for timeremap tutor ,it works on many clips
but for some unknown reasons,there's a clip that plays the whole clip first b4 doing the remap ( i keyframed it like the other successful clips )
Any ideas on how to fix it?
thnx

[jussing]

@Andrew: Thanks for the great sky replacement tut! But is there any reason why the Colorama thingy is better for tweaking the matte than an ordinary levels?

@Buller: Try posting screenshot of your keys.

- Jonas

[AndrewKramer]

Not sure about the Time Remap, perhaps a misplaced keyframe...

As for the Colorama, in this case, the levels adjustment would do the same thing, however I really wanted to introduce everyone to professional Matte creation Tips. For example, With Levels you can only select the Brights and if you are tricky, you can invert it to select the shadows, but with colorama you can select just the middle grays and black out the darks and whites by simply adding a white point at about 6 o'clock and blacks at 3 and 9. Then use this as a matte for the midtones for color correction...

Also the ability to pinch a matte with the colorama is more powerful than just levels alone because you are limited to only 3 points compared to unlimited with colorama. This way you can crush and stretch a specific regions accross the spectrum of grays.

You can even use the Saturation Channel in the Colorama input to make a matte selection to only one color, or use the other modes for specific selections.

But as for the very specific example, levels would be a fine choice and even a better choice if working with 32bpc...

Best,
Andrew Kramer
http://www.videocopilot.net

[jussing]

Oh yea, that makes sense, thank you!

Why wouldn't you use the Colorama with 32 bpc? Because the filter doesn't work with 32 bpc at all, or because the 360 degree dial doesn't give the human eye accuracy enough to even bother?

Thanks,
- Jonas

[AndrewKramer]

Well it's not that you wouldn't but you could control the SuperBrights a bit better with Leveles. And yeah, I think the colorama is only 8 or 16.

[battlesmith809]

very very great tutorials...i have watched some of them and they're already my favorite techniques...haha..but i can't watch some of them, like the grafitti and the "3d glow with no plugin"...is there a certain plugin or codec i have to install?

[Revolution09]

very very great tutorials...i have watched some of them and they're already my favorite techniques...haha..but i can't watch some of them, like the grafitti and the "3d glow with no plugin"...is there a certain plugin or codec i have to install?

I'm having the same problem.. it seems that the site where some of the tutorials are hosted is down. http://www.videocopilot7.net/ is giving me a 509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded error.

From what I have seen of the tutorials though, awesome job.. please keep it up! :thumbsup:

[AndrewKramer]

I was moving some things around, F5 to refresh the pages and they should all be working.

Thanks,
AK

[everlite]

Hey Andrew, nup still says your bandwidth has died. Speak to your host, maybe they can expand it a little. Hope it's back soon m'man :)

[AndrewKramer]

You might need to clear your cache if the F5 doesn't work. If you are a PC you can try CTRL+F5. I use Firefox.

[everlite]

Hi Andrew, i've just tried it on 2 PCs and a laptop, and still the same, bandwidth exceeded page, anyone else getting same or different?

- Dave.

[AndrewKramer]

Well, you shouldn't see an error the page should just be blank. You are launching from the tutorial section correct? Then when the page opens up you should be able to hit F5 to refresh. Basically we have several servers that distribute the content so that all of the videos will be fast to download. I've moved some of the tutorials to a new location.

Is there a specific tutorial that doesn't work for you?

Thanks for your help,
Andrew

[everlite]

Hi Andrew. personally i'm just confirming that the link posted above throws up a Bandwidth exceeded page. Maybe wait and see if anyone else gets the same issue.

Catch ya later - Dave :)

[AndrewKramer]

Oh, i'm with you. The videocopilot7.net shows the error. That is correct, but the tutorials on the actual site www.videocopilot.net (http://www.videocopilot.net) work fro you?

videocopilot7 is where we put older tutorials, but it seems that 5000Gbs wasn't enough for the whole month, so I've distributed them to other locations.

Thanks Again,
AK

[Revolution09]

they seem to be working for me now :) thanks

[everlite]

Can't let this one slip, should be a sticky :)

[jussing]

Love the new demon-face tut.

Sucks that the mesh grid can't follow a motion tracked adjustment layer, but that's just why the track-and-inverse tip is so useful.

:thumbsup:

- Jonas

[everlite]

Hey Andrew,

The new tracking/matte painting tutorial was really great, i'm sure that trick has many uses. strange whenever i have an AE problem you seem to magically know :)

Be cool :)

Dave.

[AndrewKramer]

Thanks again, I also just posted a little suplemental material to the set extensions tutorial on the blog. Nothing ground breaking but...

http://www.videocopilot.net/blog

[everlite]

Thanks Andrew, yeh i've seen the blog, great stuff, i encourage everyone else to head over (quite literally :)

Just a quick question, can the same techniques be used for a camera move that involves a dolly forward or zoom? i know the first will involve parallax so this will probably need to be a projected matte. Any thoughts?

Cheers - Dave.

[Patryk44]

That was exactly what I needed. Thanks Andrew!!

[vicky_1]

Hi there Andrew.

Been following your tutorials but didn't know u posted here.

Great stuff man! Your commitment is worth pointing out here. Thanks for holding our hand through the darkness (umm..one crying icon here pls!)

My vote for you man!

[huyenvu_id]

hi, your tutorials are quiet owesome.
my favourite webpage to access weekly.
Greatly appreciate.

[zdpm]

all thanks for Mr. Andrew ;(

now ur site is my best after effects tutorial site..


zdpm

[profusion]

This site is amazing, it is still getting updated with new stuff...
And the humor... half the fun

[domzzz]

A fantastic site-great tutorials-thanks

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