
- MAKE WORD BUILD DOWN AFTER EFFECTS PRO
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Work with Motion Graphics templates in After Effects.Examples and resources for text animation.Formatting paragraphs and the Paragraph panel.Formatting characters and the Character panel.Detect edit points using Scene Edit Detection.Importing and interpreting footage items.Importing and interpreting video and audio.
MAKE WORD BUILD DOWN AFTER EFFECTS PRO
Importing from After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. View detailed performance information with the Composition Profiler. Precomposing, nesting, and pre-rendering. Startup and Repair in Preferences (Beta). Selecting a region changes the language and/or content on. The angles between keyframes determine playback speed: Drag keyframes vertically up or down to change playback speed. Make sure the words Time Remap are selected in the Timeline and enable the option Edit Value Graph under the Graph Type and Options button on the bottom left of the Graph Editor. To adjust speed changes over time between retiming keyframes with the Graph Editor:. Slide added Time Remapping keyframes left or right in the timeline to increase or decrease playback speed of the footage. Time Remapping keyfames record a specific point in time. Add keyframes where the retiming is to take place by clicking once on the diamond button between the two arrows and to the left of the words Time Remap in the Timeline. Rght-click the layer and choose Time > Enable Time Remapping. To retime any video layer using Time Remapping:. Type the new desired duration into the New Duration setting and click OK. Right-click the video layer and go to Time > Time Stretch. To retime a video layer to a specific duration:. Enable Conform to new frame rate and enter a new frame rate. Right-click the video in the Project panel and choose Interpret Footage > Main. To change the frame rate for how After Effects interprets footage:. When you slow down video, the higher the frame rate, the more you can slow down the action and keep the action smooth. What you learned: Retime video to create visual impact Set the Replace Method menu to Source to mix the original footage pixels back into the keyed footage and remove noise. Set the View menu back to Final Result. Adjust Screen Matte parameters, such as Clip Black, Clip White, Clip Rollback, Screen Shrink/Grow, Screen Despot Black. (Generally, it’s a good idea to keep this value at 110 or less.) This setting increases or decreases the amount of variance in the green used to pull the key. Increase the Screen Gain value if the background has too many gray pixels. Adjust the Screen Balance setting to heighten the effect of the key (these changes are subtle). White pixels are opaque, black pixels are transparent, and anything gray is semi-transparent. To see the quality of the key, change the View drop-down menu from Final Result to Screen Matte. Pick an area where the green is well lit and nicely saturated. Select the eyedropper in the Screen Color section and click the greenscreen background in the Composition panel to choose the color you want to remove. Leave the View drop-down menu set to Final Result. Notice that the effect appears in the Effect Controls panel. Select the video layer in the composition and select Effect > Keying > Keylight (1.2) from the main menu. To pull the initial greenscreen key using the Keylight effect:. The process of removing that specific color or luminance value from an image is known as keying or “pulling a key.”
Keying uses a specific color or luminance value to determine transparency. What you learned: Create transparency in greenscreen video using the Keylight effect Press the spacebar on your keyboard to view the results.
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Open the options for the Fast Blur Effect in the Timeline, scroll to the bottom and click the plus (+) button to the right of the Compositing Options to apply the mask to the Fast Box Blur instead of the entire image. In the main menu, select Effect > Blur > Fast Box Blur and set the blur value. Click the inner right-facing arrow to track all frames to the right of the CTI in the Timeline. In the Tracker Panel, click the Method drop-down and choose Postion, Scale & Rotation. Notice the Tracker Panel opens in the lower right corner of the interface. Right-click the words Mask 1 in the Timeline and choose Track Mask. Click back on the first mask point when you finish to close the mask. Select the Pen tool and draw a mask around the area to blur in the Composition panel. Select the video layer in the Timeline. You can apply an effect to the mask to blur a section:
What you learned: Add a blur over a moving section of video footageĪny mask can follow movement with the Track Mask function.