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Adobe After Effects basics
AE Basics 3: Creating Compositions in Adobe After Effects
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AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 3: In this third tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to create compositions in After Effects. Compositions are the 'boxes' in which you work with your assets. Andrew shows how to create compositions from presets as well as how to instantly create a composition that exactly matches the footage you are using.
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AE Basics 4: Importing Photoshop Documents (PSDs)
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AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 4: In this fourth tutorial, Andrew Devis goes over the options After Effects gives you for importing Photoshop documents. When you try and import a Photoshop document, After Effects gives you a dialogue box with several options. Andrew looks at those options so that you get exactly what you want from your Photoshop document when you bring it into After Effects.
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AE Basics 5: Naming & Organising
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AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 5: In this fifth tutorial, Andrew Devis explains how to name items in your project panel, timeline and effects control panel and then goes on to show how to organise your assets in your project panel so that the items are easy to find and your project will be simple to understand.
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AE Basics 6: Previewing Your Work
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AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 6: In this sixth tutorial, Andrew Devis goes through the options for previewing your compositions in After Effects. Andrew shows how to listen to audio layers as well as how to set up the RAM previewing options while giving some keyboard short-cuts for navigating your timeline. He also shows how to set a layer marker while listening back to some audio to give you a visual point to synchronise your other layers.
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AE Basics 30: The Write-on Effect
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AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 30: In this tutorial, Andrew Devis demonstrates the "Write-on" Effect in After Effects showing how it works and how paths created in After Effects and other programs can be used to create higher quality animations with the "Write-on" effects than might be produced by simply animating the various properties of the effect. Although not strictly one of the shape layer series, this tutorial does follow on from the previous tutorial looking at creating true spirals in After Effects.
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Adobe After Effects basics
AE Basics 31: The Brainstorm Function & Shape Layers
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AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 31: In this tutorial, Andrew Devis demonstrates the "Brainstorm" function with shape layers. The "Brainstorm" function is a tool to give creative ideas based on your own selection of properties to be randomized for creative effect. As long as you select more than one property you can get a stream of creative ideas through Brainstorm that will fuel your imagination and help in the creative process.
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Adobe After Effects basics
AE Basics 32: Creating Motion Backgrounds with Shapes Layers
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AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 32: In this tutorial Andrew Devis takes some of what has been learnt over the previous AE Basics tutorials on shape layers and puts them together to create a motion background for text. In this tutorial Andrew covers shape creation, shape duplication, working with multiple shape layers at a time, pre-composing multiple shape layers etc. Andrew also introduces "Adjustment Layers" to create a blurred vignette and to use as a color adjustment layer while showing how to move between comps to get the best possible look.
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