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How to Use Auto Reframe in Premiere Pro
In this tutorial we'll be learning how to use Auto Reframe in Premiere Pro. This is especially useful for designers and content creators who are looking to export their videos for multiple different aspect ratios. You'll need to export a new video for each platform, such as LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, etc.
How to Create Slow Motion in DaVinci Resolve With Optical Flow
In this tutorial we'll be looking at how to create slow motion in DaVinci Resolve with Optical Flow. We'll be using techniques that will allow is to create slow motion effects even if your captured footage is at a lower frame rate. What You'll Need To follow this tutorial, you'll need your own version of DaVinci Resolve. For this tutorial we'll be working with DaVinci Resolve Studio 17 and the tools we'll be using are only available in the paid studio version.
How to Create CRT and VHS Looks in After Effects
In this tutorial, we'll learn how to create a CRT and VHS look in Adobe After Effects from scratch using things like shape layers. So the first thing we want to do in the whole process is to create the actual CRT screen effect. CRT stands for Cathode Ray Tube and basically if you look close enough to a CRT screen, you'll see that it's made up of tiny little pixels in the digital version. But in the CRT version it's made up of these tiny little things called phosphor dots.
How to Freeze a Frame in After Effects
In this tutorial we'll learn how to freeze a frame in After Effects. We'll be using a stock video footage of a motocross racer flying mid air to explain how to achieve this freeze frame effect. However feel free to try out these techniques on your own footage or stock videos if you like! So the first thing we're going to do is determine the exact time location of when you would like to create the freeze frame effect.
How to Create a Call-to-Action End Screen Animation in After Effects
For this tutorial we'll learn how to create a call-to-action end screen animation in After Effects. This will be used at the end of our collage animation project example, which comprises of many different scenes and animations moving across the screen. However you can use these tips and techniques at the end of your own projects as well! A call to action is a prompt that happens usually at the end of a video that encourages the viewer to take some form of action.
How to Create Volumetric Lighting in After Effects
In this tutorial, we'll be looking at how to create volumetric lighting in After Effects by looking at how we can practically recreate it or accentuate it here in After Effects. We'll be following on form our previous lesson on how to add volumetric lighting and move on to how to use some effects and presets to enhance the look of our shot. To do this we'll be using a stock video of what appears to be an old church with some eye tracking movement.
How to Composite Multiple Videos Using Clean Plates in After Effects
In this tutorial, we'll be looking at how to composite multiple videos using clean plates in After Effects in order to get the best out of our lighting tools that we have on hand, when creating content on a budget. In a previous tutorial we talked about how we can create clean plates. These include: The actor footage Clean plate 1 Clean plate 2 Now let's bring them all together. Compositing in After Effects Now I've got three pieces of our footage for this demonstration.
How to Light Video Scenes on a Budget
In this tutorial, we'll be looking at some tips and tricks we can employ on set, in order to get the best out of our lighting tools that we have on hand, when creating content on a budget. First up, let's talk about clean plates and taking the extra time and effort on set to capture a clean plate of your shot, in order to use this to your advantage in post.
How to Animate in After Effects Original
In this hands-on course, you'll learn how to animate in After Effects by completing three practical animation projects, with full step-by-step instructions.
After Effects for Beginners
Learn how to use Adobe After Effects with this free course that's perfect for beginners. What You'll Learn How to understand the After Effects interface and tools How to modify and customize After Effects templates How to create your own After Effects resources from scratch How to use masks How to precompose About Your Instructor David Bode I'm an expert on video and audio production in the upstate NY area.
Create Cinematic Lighting in After Effects Original
Jump into After Effects and learn how to create beautiful cinematic effects on any footage. Learn about depth, texture, and motivation, and discover how to create new lighting or enhance the existing lighting. Watch the Full Course on Cinematic Lighting in After Effects Which aspect of cinematic lighting do you want to learn? Jump straight to the section that interests you the most: What You'll Learn How to create depth and texture with lighting Motivated vs.
Essential After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts: Quick Guide
The Basics: The first keyboard shortcuts I ever learned, were the keys to display certain properties. S shows Scale, P shows Position, A shows Anchor Point, R for Rotation, and T for Opacity (T is for Transparency I guess, but it displays Opacity). Consequently, if you press one of these, and then hold down shift and continue to press more keyboard shortcuts, it will display them as well, without getting rid of the previous. This goes for any parameter-displaying keyboard shortcuts we talk about.
44 Killer Free Textures Sites
Here you all go, I know how much you love free... and how much it loves you... Well, maybe not so much the latter, but you are going to be AMPED about this post! I got 44 sites with a ton of textures for you to use in your work. And it is all FREE! 3DXO So let's start this off right, 3DX0 not only has a ton of textures for you to check out, but they also have a range of tutorials based in 3D for you to put those textures to good use.
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