Here it is: the latest tutorial. It’s funny, I posted a preview earlier this week of an 80’s project I was working on, and ended up going in a completely different direction when it was time to record. Maybe the other one will resurface later.
Anyway, In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a whip pan (a.k.a swish pan) effect using Adobe After Effect’s built in tools.
In this video tutorial, I show you how to use the track a child expression to create an interesting title sequence in Adobe After Effects.
Watch a preview.
Watch the tutorial.
I recently had the opportunity to create some tutorials for Imagineer Systems highlighting some of the key features of their new product, Mocha for After Effects Version 2… and I have to admit, we’ve had a lot of fun making them.
If you’re not familiar with their products, check them out. They really make some great stuff. Now that I’ve become accustomed to doing tracking and rotoscoping in Mocha, I doubt I’ll ever go back to doing it in After Effects except for the simplest of jobs.
In the first tutorial, we demonstrated some of the key tracking features of Mocha for After Effects including planar tracking, the adjust track module, and exporting tracking data to After Effects. I also tend to think that it’s a cool tutorial simply because it involves my wife, a high-power handgun, and flames.
…speaking of which, our friends at Artbeats were kind enough to allow us to use their flame footage in the tutorial and include it for free with the project files. So even if you don’t have Mocha yet, it’ll be worth your time to download the project files along with the tutorial so you can play with the source footage on your own.
In this tu
torial, I show you how to track the position of a parented layer using expressions in Adobe After Effects. Special thanks to Michael Natkin and Dan Ebberts for sharing their knowledge.
To track the position of a child layer, use this expression on the layer you want to effect.
L = thisComp.layer(”child_layer”);
P = L.toWorld(L.anchorPoint);
where P[0] gives x, P[1] gives y, and P[2] gives z.
In this AE podcast tutorial, I show you how to remove chromatic aberration from your footage using Adobe After Effects. And as geeky as it sounds, I’m guessing you’ll find this tutorial more useful than you think. Enjoy.
