http://library.creativecow.net/tutorials/adobeaftereffects Creative COW Library of tutorials for Adobe After Effects. en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT PHP Script webmaster@creativecow.net webmaster@creativecow.net http://library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/AE_CC_C4D-Text-1/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/mcauliffe_kevin/AE_CC_C4D-Text-1.php In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe gets you up and running quickly inside of Cinema 4D lite by showing you how easy it is to not only extrude text, but texture it and give it a quick animation, and get it back into After Effects before your client even knows you left! Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:04:47 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/mize_rob/AE-Fireworks/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/mize_rob/AE-Fireworks.php Rob Mize shares his techniques for using After Effects to create a variety of fireworks displays. All you need is CC Particle World, a few expressions and a reason to celebrate and you can light up your world with dazzling pyrotechnic effects. Fri, 17 May 2013 19:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE_RE-Match/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE_RE-Match.php In this tutorial, Andrew Devis demonstrates a relatively new plug-in by RE:Vision Effects called RE:Match and how it can very quickly and accurately deal with the very common problem of non-matching cameras in After Effects. A typical approach to dealing with say a white balance issue would be to ap Sun, 14 Apr 2013 06:34:13 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics_Extra-Text-2/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Basics_Extra-Text-2.php In the second part of this two part AE Basics Extra tutorial, Andrew Devis continues to build the butterfly in After Effects and then shows how to keep it 3D as it is formed. Items covered in this tutorial include custom views, 3D and collapse transforms to keep items working in 3D once pre-composed Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:40:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics_Extra-Text-1/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Basics_Extra-Text-1.php In the first part of this two part AE Basics Extra tutorial, Andrew Devis starts to show how to create a butterfly wing with text. The purpose of these tutorials is to give additional hints and tips for text animation in After Effects. Items covered in this tutorial include, using the pen tool, path Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE_Text-Animation/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE_Text-Animation.php In this AE Basics Extra tutorial, Andrew Devis shows some more text animation techniques by animating 'Caterpillar' text in After Effects. Andrew shows how to shape your text so that it curves from large to small to create a 'tail' for the text and then he shows how to set up and animate the path th Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:42:36 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE_IK-Character-Animation_2/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE_IK-Character-Animation_2.php In this second tutorial on animating an IK character Andrew Devis shows us how to create and refine a walk cycle with our IK controlled character such that it walks in time with the music we had set up in the previous tutorial. Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE_IK-Character-Animation_1/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE_IK-Character-Animation_1.php This tutorial is both a follow-on tutorial to Andrew's previous tutorials on IK controllers in After Effects and a helpful stand-alone tutorial showing how to define a beat range to use as a guide to animation in After Effects. To start with Andrew shows how to use a simple expression to deal with a Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE_Inverse-Kinematic_2_300th/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE_Inverse-Kinematic_2_300th.php Standard character animation in After Effects uses a process called 'Forward Kinematics' in that we animate down a linked chain - for example, upper arm linked to forearm linked to hand. To get animation we need to move the items down the chain one at a time. Inverse Kinematics creates a link back u Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:10:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE_Inverse-Kinematic_1/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE_Inverse-Kinematic_1.php Standard character animation in After Effects uses a process called 'Forward Kinematics' in that we animate down a linked chain - for example, upper arm linked to forearm linked to hand. To get animation we need to move the items down the chain one at a time. Inverse Kinematics creates a link back u Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/lidrbauch_steve/AE_Reflective-Text/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/lidrbauch_steve/AE_Reflective-Text.php In this tutorial, Steve will show you how to give your text or logos the appearance of having reflections that interact movement! And you can do all of this in After Effects without using any plug-ins! Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-64-Expression-1/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-64-Expression-1.php AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 64: Expression Controllers are a way to simplify the animation controls for a given composition. Although some people are initially worried by the idea of using Expressions, using and controlling Expression Controllers is Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics_Extra-Repeater-2/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Basics_Extra-Repeater-2.php AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. In this second 'Extra' tutorial in the AE Basics series, Andrew Devis shows how to create shapes from text, how to rotate that shape into a circle, how to move the circle into a line and finally how to create other very interest Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:11:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-63-Persistent-Disc-Cache/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-63-Persistent-Disc-Cache.php AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 63: In this tutorial, Andrew Devis explains a significant 'under the hood' improvement in CS6 which reduces the need for 'Pre-rendering' and makes the operation of After Effects much faster. These improvements are called Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-62-Export-8/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-62-Export-8.php AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 62: In this tutorial, Andrew Devis explains what Pre-rendering is and why it would be useful in your projects as well as what to look for when pre-rendering to ensure you don't have problems later in your production. Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-61-Export-7/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-61-Export-7.php AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 61: In this tutorial looking at getting your production out of After Effects, Andrew Devis shows how to create and use watch folders. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-60-Export-6/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-60-Export-6.php AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 60: In this tutorial looking at getting your production out of After Effects, Andrew Devis shows how to create preset groups and how to modify and save a custom preset. Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE_Dictionary-Presets3/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE_Dictionary-Presets3.php In the last part of this three part advanced text animation tutorial, Andrew Devis concludes by showing how to select the already selected text and animate each word separately such that they can be moved into any order and position to create a coherent sentence from the original body of paragraph t Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:24:26 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE_Dictionary-Presets2/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE_Dictionary-Presets2.php In the second part of this three part advanced text animation tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how once the 'Dictionary' preset has been applied we can then create a separate 'exclusion' group to fade the remaining unselected paragraph text such that the focus remains on the selected text only - all on Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:05:07 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE_Dictionary-Presets1/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE_Dictionary-Presets1.php In the first part of this three part advanced text animation tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to apply and use the 'Dictionary' preset to a paragraph of text and then customise the word selection to match the words we want to use. Andrew shows how to select the words, modify the original text, chang Wed, 12 Dec 2012 01:37:03 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Audio-Basics_Bit-Depth/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/Audio-Basics_Bit-Depth.php In this second tutorial in his occasional series on audio basics, Andrew Devis explains what bit depth is and how the right choice of bit depth can effect the accuracy of your recording. Although Andrew uses Adobe Audition CS6 the information given in this tutorial is valid for any digital audio rec Wed, 12 Dec 2012 01:00:08 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Audio-Basics_Sample-Rate/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/Audio-Basics_Sample-Rate.php In this occasional series on audio basics by Andrew Devis, Andrew explains what audio samples are and how they can effect the accuracy of you recording. Although Andrew uses Adobe Audition CS6, the information given in this tutorial is valid for any digital audio recording software packed. Andrew al Wed, 12 Dec 2012 01:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-59-Export-5/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-59-Export-5.php AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 59: In this tutorial looking at getting your production out of After Effects, Andrew Devis starts to show how to use the newly redesigned for CS6 Media Encoder for final output options. Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Card-Wipe-Effect-4/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Card-Wipe-Effect-4.php In this last of four tutorials on the 'Card Wipe' effect, Andrew Devis explains the 'jitter' options in the effect and goes through some simple scenarios for animating this powerful effect as well as showing how he created the intro to the tutorial. Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:45:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Card-Wipe-Effect-3/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Card-Wipe-Effect-3.php In this third of four tutorials on the 'Card Wipe' effect, Andrew Devis goes through the various camera, lighting and materials parameters for this effect looking at using the in-built camera, a comp camera and the corner pin option. Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:30:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Card-Wipe-Effect-2/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Card-Wipe-Effect-2.php In this second of four tutorials on the 'Card Wipe' effect, Andrew Devis goes through many of the parameters for the effect showing how to customise the effect for your own use. Andrew also touches on using gradients in your comp to drive the effect. Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:15:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Card-Wipe-Effect-1/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Card-Wipe-Effect-1.php In this first of four tutorials on the 'Card Wipe' effect, Andrew Devis shows how to set up a composition with multiple images to use in the effect. Andrew touches on how to replace one item with another item while inheriting the changes of the original item. Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-58-Export-4/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-58-Export-4.php AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 58: In this tutorial looking at getting your production out of After Effects, Andrew Devis goes through the output module settings dialogue box and explains what options to use and how to export multiple formats. Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-57-Export-3/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-57-Export-3.php AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 57: In this tutorial looking at getting your production out of After Effects, Andrew Devis goes through the render settings dialogue box and explains why you would choose to export through After Effects and how to save a Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-56-Export-2/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-56-Export-2.php AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 56: In this tutorial looking at getting your production out of After Effects, Andrew Devis shows how to set up your composition for export and how to determine where it will output and how to use default file names. Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/mize_rob/AE-Virtual-Scrapbook/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/mize_rob/AE-Virtual-Scrapbook.php Rob Mize presents the After Effects Virtual Scrapbook... a novel technique for introducing pictures, graphics and video into your productions. This tutorial uses various shapes, integrated with other elements, to create animated objects. You will learn to use parenting to control multiple objects in Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:40:51 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-55-Export-1/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-55-Export-1.php AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 55: In this first tutorial looking at getting your production out of After Effects, Andrew Devis shows how to use Dynamic Link to get your After Effects composition into Premiere Pro. Andrew shows the various methods to d Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/AE-CS6-Difference-Mattes/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/mcauliffe_kevin/AE-CS6-Difference-Mattes.php In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you a great, and highly underused tool inside of Adobe's After Effects, and that is the Difference Matte. If you need to remove an element from one shot, and use it on another, this technique is one that you're going to go back to over and over again. Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/mize_rob/AE_Flame-Effects/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/mize_rob/AE_Flame-Effects.php Rob Mize demonstrates how to turn your actors (and other images) into a raging blaze of living flame. Combining CC Particle World with a number of other effects and some animated masks, you'll be able to fire up your productions without any 3rd party plug-ins... "Flame on!" Tue, 09 Oct 2012 03:42:39 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/AE_Using-Paths/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/mcauliffe_kevin/AE_Using-Paths.php In this tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you four different ways to use paths/masks in After Effects. Not only does he cover the basics of Path Text, but he also shows you how to animated an element on a path, as well as how to create organic paths with Motion Sketch, and he rounds things out by sh Thu, 27 Sep 2012 05:43:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/AE_Camera-Tracking-2/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/mcauliffe_kevin/AE_Camera-Tracking-2.php In this tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you, much like in the first tutorial, the ins and outs of the 3D Camera Tracker effect, but in this tutorial, he's using footage shot with an iPhone, as well as the underutilized Rotobrush tool, as well as a cool technique to make the graffiti blend into the Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:34:54 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/AE_Camera-Tracking/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/mcauliffe_kevin/AE_Camera-Tracking.php In this tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you - much like a lot of tutorials have - how great the After Effects 3D Camera Tracker is, but he takes his tutorial two steps further by adding a keyable object into the scene that interacts with text, as well as giving the elements in the scene a bit of f Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:32:22 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/You-Ask-I-Answer_AE-Templates/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/mcauliffe_kevin/You-Ask-I-Answer_AE-Templates.php In this tutorial, a viewer asks how she can take a stock AE template that has room for 10-16 pictures, and duplicate precomps inside of her project, to essentially make a comp that could be loopable forever. The organizational concepts that are taught in this tutorial can be taken and applied to any Sun, 23 Sep 2012 05:57:30 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/harrington_richard/CS6_Text-Tracking/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/CS6_Text-Tracking.php Adobe After Effects CS6 can apply its new 3D Camera Tracker to extruded 3D Text of course. Rich Harrington will also show you how to use these tools, while also highlighting new 3D features including the new Ray-traced 3D engine and advanced lighting options. Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:56:43 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/harrington_richard/CS6_Performance-Cache/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/CS6_Performance-Cache.php Adobe After Effects CS6 maximizes your system's performance. Rich Harrington teaches you how to take full advantage of this new capability for faster previews, less re-rendering and, yes, great performance. Fri, 07 Sep 2012 01:30:46 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/harrington_richard/CS6_Import-to-Prelude/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/CS6_Import-to-Prelude.php Adobe Prelude CS6 offers a variety of new media management features. Rich Harrington will show you the best ways to import footage, set it to automatically copy to a new dimension, and powerful new transcoding options. Fri, 07 Sep 2012 01:08:21 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/harrington_richard/CS6_Camera-Tracker/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/CS6_Camera-Tracker.php Adobe After Effects CS6 has a camera tracker that can add a new dimension to your compositing. Rich Harrington shows you the best approaches to AE's new 3D Camera Tracker for a variety of techniques including object placement and completely relighting a scene. Fri, 07 Sep 2012 01:02:38 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/harrington_richard/CS6_After-Effects_Convert-Shapes/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/CS6_After-Effects_Convert-Shapes.php Adobe After Effects CS6 offers new workflows for vector graphics. Explore these new features with Rich Harrington, including converting vector files to shape layers so that they are automatically included in AE project files, as well as new 3D extrusion tools. Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:50:10 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-54-Motion-Tracking-2/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-54-Motion-Tracking-2.php AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 54: In this second part tutorial, Andrew Devis continues to demonstrate how to use the point tracker in Adobe After Effects. Andrew completes a slightly difficult track and shows how to adjust the track point and how to u Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:36:51 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-53-Motion-Tracking-1/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-53-Motion-Tracking-1.php AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 53: In this tutorial, Andrew Devis starts to demonstrate how to use the point tracker in Adobe After Effects. Andrew shows how to set up the tracker and talks through some of the considerations that need to be taken into Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:00:41 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/AECS6-NLE-Roundtripping/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/mcauliffe_kevin/AECS6-NLE-Roundtripping.php In this tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe shows editors how to properly take a project from their NLE to Adobe's After Effects. Whether you are using Media Composer, Vegas, FCP7/X or any other NLE on the market, Kevin takes you through everything you need to know to make sure your renders look perfect, so Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:22:42 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-52-Paint-6/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-52-Paint-6.php AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 52: In this tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to use and animate the clone stamp tool in Adobe After Effects to remove spots or blemishes from your video. Although a simple technique, this approach can produce good results Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:15:19 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/You-Ask-I-Answer_Rendering/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/mcauliffe_kevin/You-Ask-I-Answer_Rendering.php In this tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe answers a viewer's e-mail, and talks about how to properly compress your After Effects renders so they will playback properly in any application that you might need them. Thu, 28 Jun 2012 06:11:33 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/biscardi_walter/Pro_MAX-ONE-review/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/biscardi_walter/Pro_MAX-ONE-review.php ProMAX has put together a beast of a creative workstation designed to serve a host of needs in production, particularly Post, and Walter Biscardi put the beast to a grueling test. Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:02:16 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/mize_rob/AE_Customize-Text/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/mize_rob/AE_Customize-Text.php Rob Mize demonstrates a number of techniques to create your own unique text with After Effects. Learn how particles, masks and combinations of effects can be used to create and animate an unlimited library of text customizations... all without 3rd party plugs-ins. Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:00:59 GMT