Adobe After Effects Masterclass

1. Class Introduction: Hey, guys. Welcome to this Adobe After Effect master class. My name is Gabriel Shoe, AKA, K Show. And I'm super excited that you've chosen me as your instructor to guide you in this Adobe After effect journey. In this training, I'm going to be showing you how to get started in after effect. Understanding the interface, working with tools and how to use the timeline in after effect, how to set keyframes and animate objects inside of after effect, how to create lower thirds, how to add effect to your videos, how to create an intro video, how to remove and edit green screens, how to use templates, and how to render and export your videos. This training is for all levels, whether you're a beginner, intermediate or an advanced user. Without wasting much time, let's get straight into it and I'll see you inside the class. Bizar. 2. Exercise Files: Hey, guys, welcome to this video. In this video, I'm going to be talking about the exercise files. The exercise files are resources that will allow you to follow along with me during the course. You should find the Exercise files below this video. Simply click on it to download it to your device. Don't forget it's a zip file, meaning that once you're done downloading it, you have to extract it with your PC. To do that, you just simply double click on it and that's it. And you can open the folder and begin to use those files to follow along with me during the course. I'll see you guys in the next video. 3. Getting Started In After Effects: What's up, everybody. Welcome to this after effect training. And in this video, we're going to be talking about how to get started in after effect. Alright, so let's get straight into it right now and do just that. Piece out. So right now we are inside of After effect and you can see once you launch after effect, it just shows you your recent project. And then at the left here, you can see, we have new project or open an existing project, okay? So basically, you can just open a recent project or open a project that is not listed here from your computer, or you can simply create a new project. So if you click on this create a new project, it basically doesn't do anything. It just takes away the welcome screen and brings you to After Effect itself. Alright, because the new project is not basically the main thing to get started. So a new project is compulsory for all of your after effects. So but what is more important is creating a new composition. Alright, so to get started in after effect, you basically need to do one of two things. It's either you create a new composition or you create a new composition from an existing footage. Alright, footage simply means video or an image, right, whatever it is that after effect can, you know, allow you to import. Okay? So those are the two ways of getting started. It's either you do this or you do this, okay? So the most important thing is that you must have a composition inside after effect to get started. All right? It's like you're trying to type something in Microsoft Word and you don't have a document. There's no way you're going to be able to type anything or create anything in Microsoft Word. Alright? So the same thing in after effect, to get started in after effect, you need to have a composition. And you can do that by creating it afresh, or you can create it from an existing video. Okay? So those are the two ways of getting started in after effect. So right now, let's concentrate on one of those ways, which is creating a new fresh composition, right? And I can click here. But for those that are not using a newer version of After effect, you might not be seeing this two right here. So let me just easily go to where everyone can find it, which is going to the menu. And under the menu, you're going to see composition. And then under composition, you're going to see new composition. Okay. And the shortcut for that is Command N on my Mac. And then for those using Windows, the shortcut will be Control N. So if I click on that, it's going to show me the composition settings, asking me some questions to fill out these details before creating the composition. Alright? So before I, you know, move ahead with that, number one, I'm using the Adobe After Effect 2020 version. So if you're using 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, and so on and so forth, you know, you can still follow along with this training. Alright? We just have slight differences here and there, but anytime I stumble on anything that's different between the newer version and the older version, I will always point it out, okay? So you have no worries. And then, before we move on also, let's talk about what after effect is basically used for because a lot of people, most of the time, you know, confuse after effect and Premiere Pro, you know, together. So what is after effect used for? After effect is used for motion graphics and visual effect. After effect is used for motion graphics and visual effect. So you want to ask what is motion graphics, okay? The definition of motion graphics is in its name, right? It is graphics in motion, okay? So when you're watching a trailer, for example, and then you see something like a text comes out, and then, you know, an image flies in, and then this comes in ph, and everything keeps going, all around the screen, that is motion graphics. Okay, so I don't know how best to explain to you better than that. Okay? I'm sure you've seen an advert, an intro video, a montage or something. You know, and you see a lot of graphics element, you know, going left and right, up and down, swinging here and there. You know, that is what motion graphics is all about, okay? It is graphics in motion, okay? And that is what you use after effect to create. The second thing you can use after effect to create is visual effect, okay? Visual effect or like some people like calling it Vet. Okay? So what is Vec or what is visual effect? The simple definition I'm going to give this is that visual effect is film tricks, okay? Everybody understand what film tricks are. Okay? So you're watching a movie like Avengers or superhero movie, you know, or any of these action movies. And then you see a car, you know, being exploded or you see, you know, a house being destroyed, or you see somebody get shot, or you see fire here and there. And, you know, you see all of these elements in your mind, you know they are not real, but when you're watching the movie, it looks so real as if, you know, it happened in reality. That is what visual effect is all about. You're playing on people's visuals, okay? You're playing on people's eyes. You're trying to make people, you know, believe something, even though that thing is not real. And that's what we see in most of these movies that has to do with destruction, you know, action, thriller, and all of those, okay? So that is another thing that you use after effect to do to create visual effect. Okay? So don't forget After effect is used for motion graphics and visual effect. Okay? So if you're looking to do video editing, meaning you want to just cut your video, join it with another video, add it to this video. You know, just do some simple stuff editing your video. Then after effect is not the software to use for that, okay? That is where Premiere Pro comes in, okay? That is where Premiere Pro comes in. So you don't want to use, you know, after effect for video editing, and you don't want to use Premiere Pro for motion graphics and visual effect. Okay? So use the right software for the right thing because a lot of people, you know, kind of put Premiere Pro in the place of after effect and after effect in the place of Premiere Pro and get it all mixed up. And that's why I'm taking my time to explain to you the difference between the two softwares, okay? So you know what you do in after effect, and then you know what you do in Premiere Pro. Alright? So in the Premiere Pro training, you know, you'll be learning how to do video editing using the software. All right. But for now, in this after effect training, we're going to be focusing on motion graphics and visual effect. Okay. So back to our composition, right? Right here, you can see saying our composition name. It's asking us to give our composition a name. Default name there is comp one, and I'm going to change that to Adobe master class for the sake of this training, okay? So in your future project, you can name this anything you want to name it, right? So the next thing we have here is preset, okay? Preset. So what are presets in the composition settings? Alright? Before I talk about that, let me just let you know that preset simply means predefined settings. Alright? So preset is a short word for predefined settings. So anytime you see the word preset in any software, it basically means that they have predefined the settings for you. And then if you use any of those preset, the settings that have been applied to that preset will automatically be applied to what you're doing. And then it means you don't have to do anything manually. All right? So that's the advantage of a preset. And when it comes to videos, it is important that you use preset. Okay? It is important that you use preset, especially as a beginner, right. Why? Because when you talk about videos, there's a way video look like. So if I ask you now, how do videos look like most often? Are they portrait or landscape? Yeah, I'm sure your answer was landscape, okay? Because we all know that, oh, videos are meant to look landscape and not portrait. So I can't be watching a video on my TV set and then it's portrait because my TV has been, you know, designed in such a way to accommodate landscape videos. All right? The same thing with my laptop, the same thing with mobile devices and stuff, okay? So videos generally looks landscape. Alright, it's just in rare cases, especially when it comes to social media videos and stuff that you might want to do a portrait video or maybe a square video, right? So, but most often, you're going to be creating a landscape video because you want your video, you know, to play smoothly across all devices, okay, and across all platforms. So all platforms accept landscape videos, right? But not all platforms and devices Devices accept portrait or square videos. All right. Even though they accept it, they might, for example, if you play portrait video on a landscape device, it might have some black, you know, on the left side and the right side of your screen. And you don't want that when people are playing your video. Okay? So that's why it is important that we use preset in this case, especially as a beginner in after effect. So if I choose any preset here, it automatically filling everything from this weight, height, the pixel aspe ratio and the frame rate because I'm using a preset. For example, if I click here and I change this to something else, maybe this, you can see that the settings that we have here have now changed. So if I click on this drop down preset, what are all of these? What are they about? Okay? What do they mean? Okay. Now, the first thing you see is the name of the preset, right? The first thing you see is the name of the preset. And then the second thing you see. So let's just pick some as examples. For example, this is this HDV, HDTV is the name of the preset. DVC Pro is the name of the preset. HDTV is the name of the preset in these cases, right? And then the next thing after that is the size of your video, is the size of your video. Alright? So this size is 720. This is 1080. This is 720-10-1080. All right. So the next thing you see is the size of the video. Then after that, we can still see we have another value there. So what does that mean? That is your frames per second. That is your frames per second. So this preset has a frames per second of 29.97 frames per second. This has 25 frames per second. This has approximately 24 frames per second, all right, and so on and so forth. So these three things explains to you what you'll be choosing here. So if I'm choosing this, for example, it means I'm choosing a preset, which name is DVC P, and then the size is 1080, and then the frame rate is 25 frames per second. All right, so the name is the name, right? So I'm not going to focus on the name. But when you talk about sizes, how do you know video sizes? How do you know the right size to choose? How do you know what size is best for your project and stuff? Alright? So before talking about that, I would ask or I would say that you guys should totally ignore everything from this NTSC DV to this PL DV one DV white screen square pixels, right? Everything here, all of the preset here are for old videos. Okay? So what do I mean by that? I mean that these are SD standard definition, right? So nowadays, nobody creates a standard definition video because, you know, nowadays, we even have eight K videos that, you know, are super sharp and clay. So if you're creating a video, you know, in this present age and you're using standard definition, then it means that you're probably creating your video for, you know, something that is not meant to last, okay? So you want to make sure that you just ignore all of this. There they are small sizes. If I choose this, for example, you can see this is 576. This is a very small size. I don't want to use something like that for my video, 486. It's too small, right? So maybe 20 years ago, this could have been a good idea. Alright. But for now, you know, videos are not as small as this again, right? Even now that we have eight k video. So just ignore everything from here to here. You can see there's a demarcation line here to let you know that all of this here are grouped together. Alright, so you want to start from somewhere here downward, right? You can see all of the settings we have here are HD, all right, high definition, which is a better, you know, video quality, which has a better video quality than the SD, which is just a standard definition. So HD is the way to go, and you can go all the way to ultra HD, Sinon and film. Alright. So back to my analysis on sizes, 720, 1080, four K, eight K, two K. What do they all mean? They are the size of the video. And that tells you the amount of pixel on the width of that video, the amount of pixel on the width of that video. So if I choose this 720, for example, oh, sorry, the amount of pixel on the height of the video, I'm sorry, the height of the video and not the width. So you can see if I choose 720 here, you can see that my height is basically what 720. If I choose 1080 here, you can see my height is what 1080. So this is how you measure the size of your video. Now, to make you understand better sizes of video, in case you are new to, you know, video and their sizes, how they are being measured and all, if, for example, you do a video that is 720, right? Last 720 video, if you play that video on a mobile device, right, your iPhone, your tablet, your, you know, Android phone, whatever mobile device you're using, it's going to look super clear. Alright? It's going to look at S, Oh, this video is really clear, super sharp. Why? Because based on the screen of that device, okay, 720 is kind of like a very, very good quality on that mobile device, okay? But if you take that same video, that 720 video, if you take that video and you play it on a laptop that has a very big screen, okay? And you look at that video very well, looking at it, comparing with the one on your mobile phone and the one on your laptop, you begin to see that really on your laptop, the video is not really that clear and sharp as it is when you were watching it on your mobile phone. Okay? Why? It's because you are not trying to play that 720 video size on a bigger screen. Okay? So the same way, if I create a video that is tent, that video, you know, would look super sharp, super clear on my laptop screen, and even on my TV screen. Okay? So if you play that tenaty video on your laptop screen, your TV screen is going to look really, really, really clear, alright? You would even think it's maybe like a very super sharp quality, not knowing that it's tenity. But if I take that same tentative video and I take it to a cinema screen, what happens? I begin to know that, Oh, this video is not really as clear as I thought it was when I was watching it on my laptop. What made it different? What, you know, changed the video. It was a screen size, okay? So when we took it to the cinema screen, the cinema screen is like maybe times ten of my laptop or my TV screen. And then we begin to see, Oh, this video is not really that clear. We thought it was, you know, really clear when we were watching it on our, you know, laptop. Alright. But on that same cinema screen, if I play a four K video, alright, it's going to really look super clear. Alright? It's going to really look super clear and sharp. So four K simply means 4,000. 1080 simply means 1080, you understand. And then so on and so forth. So that lets you understand why, you know, you want to choose what size of video for your project. Okay. So if that's why I see, most people that are doing movies nowadays, the minimum they want to shoot at is four k because they know that this movie is going to be showing, you know, in the cinemas, it's gonna be showing on big screens, and they want the quality to remain as clear as possible. Without any compromise or without any damage on the video. So they shoot in four K. We even have some that shoot in five K. We have some that are shooting in eight K, you know, just to make sure that whatever screen size the video is being played on, the quality remains super sharp and clay. Alright? So, but, for example, I just want to do a video for social media, maybe for YouTube or Instagram, and stuff, you know, I could just use my tenet video because I know that tent really play on TVs, on laptops, or mobile device and stuff. So you have to know when to choose, you know, 108720, two K, four K, you know, depending on what you're working on. Alright, I personally most of my videos are for social media, right? And what do I do? I just simply use, you know, tent because I can't spend the whole day uploading one, you know, video on Instagram. If I had chosen maybe four K or I shot my video in four K, and then I'm trying to upload a four K video on Instagram. And then with the network situation in my area, I know, it's taking the entire 24 hours in a day to upload just one single video on Instagram. Alright, because you must take note that the higher your video size, the higher the file size you're going to get when you're exporting or rendering your video. Okay? So it is very important that you understand all of these things put together, okay? So don't say, Oh, I can make my video four k and everything. Well, there's no problem. Just know that your file size will also be huge when exporting or rendering your video. So you must understand all of these things. And that's why I'm taking my time to explain each and every one of them so that you know the right one to choose you know, depending on the kind of project you are working on, okay? But don't bother yourself again if you have an existing video. Like I told you when we started that there's another way of creating a composition. And that way is if you have an existing video, you can just create a composition from that existing video and after effect would use all the settings from that existing video to fill up all the settings that we have right here, okay? It's as simple as that. But if you are, you know, trying to choose a setting here, it means you're trying to create a particular form or size of video that you want your video to be in at the end of, you know, your editing, okay? So let's move on. So for the sake of this class, my favorite preset that I use most often is this HD TV 1080 HDTV 108025. So why do I use this? Like I told you, most of my videos are for social media. I just want to do something I want to upload on YouTube or Instagram on Facebook and stuff. So I use HDTV tenet because that gives me very clear video that will be, super sharp and clear on all of these platforms, right? And if you want to understand better the different video sizes, head over to YouTube now, you know, play any video on YouTube and then just go to the certain spot of your YouTube. Okay. And then when you try to, you know, play a video there, you will notice that you see different qualities that you can choose from from that settings icon, you see video quality, and then you can choose you see the range of the smallest video size you'll find there is 144. And then after that, we have 240. After 240, we have 360. After 360, we have 480. After 480, we have 720, okay? After 720, we now have 1080 and after 1080, we have two K. After two K, we have four K. After four K, we have five k, six K, and now we have eight K. Okay? So currently now, eight K is the biggest video size that we have. So that is all about the different video sizes and all. And I'm going to come here. I'm going to choose HD TV 1080, 25. I'll click on that and you can see that it changes my wit and height to the settings of this preset. And my frame rate is 25 because I chose 25. So what is frame rate? What is frame rate? Now, to make you understand what frame rates are in video, you have to understand that videos are made up of steel images, okay? Or let me say videos are made up of pictures, different pictures. Okay? So if you are an artist, for example, or you've seen an artist who draw maybe on a piece of who draw on a jotter, alright? A jotter that has maybe like 50 leaves or so. And then draws a character, maybe draws you on the jotter. And then, you know, on the first page, you look like this with your hand in front. Then on the second page, it draws you again, but this time it plays you like this. And then on the third page like this, fourth page like this, and it does that for like 50 pages. Alright. When you grab that joa and you flip the, you know, Jota very fast, what do you notice? Okay, yes, you notice that it looks as if you're walking or depending on how fast you are flipping the Jota, it looks as if you're running, okay? And that is the genesis of videos. That is the genesis of video. That was how video was able to evolve. Okay? So when you grab your camera and you press that record button, what your camera is actually doing is that it is recording multiple steel images so fast that when you play it back, it looks like a video, right? And those multiple images are called frames in video. They are called frames, right? So if I come to these settings and I'm using 25 frames per second, what it means is that in 1 second of my video, 25 images are going to come together to form 1 second of my video. So if I have 10 seconds of video, it means in that ten second of video, I'm going to have 250 images forming that ten second of video. Alright, so you can see the reason why when you're playing the video with your video player or you're watching it with any, you know, software that plays back video, you don't see those images coming together. Why? Because that's software, whether VLC, your Window media player, your QuickTime player has 1 second to show you 25 images. So what will happen? You'll find out that the player has to play those 25 images so fast that you don't even your eyes is not able to see too fast to grab it and say, Oh, I can see the images coming together, and all you just see is a video play. Alright? Because if I tell you to count one to 25 under 1 second, you're going to tell me, oh, I can't. It's impossible. Yes, right? Because if I say one to 25, just 125. So we won't even, you know, hear you say two or 24 because to meet up the 1 second, you have to just want to do 25, right? The same thing happens with your video player when they're playing the video, they have to play the 25 images so fast that you don't even see them coming together, right? And all you see is just a video, right? So that is what frames are in video. So if I'm choosing 25 frames per second, it means that my video is going to have 25 images in 1 second of my video. So it is recommended that the minimum frame you should go is 23 frames per second. All right? Because if you start going below that, imagine if your video is two frames per second. You practically see the images coming together to form your video. Because if I tell you to count one and two under 1 second, you can easily do that. You can just do one, two, one, two, one, two. So what does that mean it means, if I play my video with two frames per second, I'm going to be seeing something like Car car car, car moving like that. And then, you know, that would not be a good video. Alright? So the minimum you should go to is 23 frames per second or maybe 24 frames per second. Alright you can go as high as you want. Just know that as you go higher with your frame rate, your file size is going to be huge when you also export or render. Alright, so the frames per second I like using personally for my project is 25 because it helps me with the best frame rate and also helps me with the frames the right file size when I'm done exporting my video. Okay? So with all of this explanation, I'm sure you can come to this preset and confidently choose any of these and then understand what you are actually choosing, and then you can choose the right thing for your project. So me choosing HDTV 108025 now doesn't mean that you also have to choose that giving you the reason why I choose this. So if your reason matches my reason, you can actually choose this one also. Alright, so you can see once you've chosen a preset, it's just going to fill up everything here. And then the next thing I have here is resolution. Alright resolution. And I'm just going to leave that in full. I'm going to explain resolution later on. Alright? And then my start time code. My start time code should be in 000 so that my video can start from the very beginning, and then your duration totally depends on you. Alright. But this first zero here is your hours, okay? And then this next one here is your minute. And then this next one here is your second. And then this one right here is your frames per second. All right. So this guy, because I've chosen 25 will count 0-24, and then when he wants to turn 25, he adds up 1 second to this guy. Alright. And then this one will count 0-60. So 60 seconds we know makes up 1 minute. All right. And then this will also count to 60 and 60 minute to make up 1 hour. All right. So for the sake of this, let's assume we want to do a video for Instagram. We're just going to make this 1 minute. Alright? You can see, so 1 minute, so don't mistake this as your minute and this as a second. This is your frame rate. This is your second. This is your minute, and this is your hour. Okay? And then the last thing I have here is the background color. Okay, the background color. If I click on that, you can see it's currently black, and I'm going to leave it in black because the default color for video it's black. So I don't like changing it to any other color, but you can can just click here, choose any color you want, and that will be fine. So right now, I'm just going to click Okay, and that will do it for me. Thank you so much for watching this getting started in after effect video, and I'll see you in the next video. Ooh. 4. How to import file in After Effects: What's up, guys, welcome to the second video of the After effect training. In this video, we're going to be talking about how to import images, videos, audio into after effect, and how you can also create a composition from an existing video. So let's get straight into it right now. Alright, guys, so we are right here in after effect and to import an existing footage of video, audio picture, whatever it is that you can import into after effect. All you simply need to do is to go to your menu, and then right there, you're going to see file, you choose file, and then another file, you're going to see Import, and then under Import, you're going to see file. And the shortcut for that is Command I or Control I on Windows. Now, the reason why I like aftereffect is Adobe product generally, is they always give you the shortcut of things in your menu. So anytime you're picking anything from your menu, don't always forget to check out the shortcuts and remember that. So I go to File Import File, click on that, and it's going to load up my file explorer asking me the different files that I would like to, you know, import. So quickly, let me just, you know, open up my after effect exercise file, okay? You can see the folder right there. Alright. Open that and you see all the different videos that we have right here. Now, in after effect, you can Import, you know, a folder like this. So if I select this folder and I click Open, it's going to import the entire folder with the folder itself. All right. On Windows, I think you're going to see an extra button here called Import folder, right? But on Mac, you just have open right here, okay? So, but if I double click to open up the folder, I can select one of the video or the image in the folder and click Open or Import. All right, I think it's import on Windows. Okay? I'm not really sure now, but whatever name is there, you understand what I mean. Okay? So we have the video right there. I can also hold down Control and select multiple items, okay? And also import that, okay? Or I can do Command A or Control A to select all, okay, which is what I'm going to do exactly. And then I'll click Open. Or import on Windows. And that will bring in all my files, okay? You can see that right there. So you can see all my files have now been imported into the Project panel, okay, into the project panel. And if I scroll down up, you can see what I have right here. Okay, so I have all my file imported. So this is where I like working. In after effect, bringing all my files. I know everything is here. So I cannot begin to take them one by one to do whatever I want to do in after effect, okay? So that is that. Before we move on, let's talk about saving our work, right? So, in case our, you know, software or machine or whatever happens hangs and is not loading, we can have our work saved. So how do I save my work? I go to file, and then on that file, I'll see save us. And then on that save us, I'll see save us. Alright, I like using Save As because it will always ask me where do I want to save my work and what name do I want to save it with? Okay? Sometimes when you choose Save, it just saves and then you don't know, doesn't ask you where you want to save or anything, and then you begin to wonder where it has saved it too. So I always save us. For the first time, I'm saving you save us, and that will bring up this asking me what name do I want to give my project? All right? I can name it Adobe Master Class or AMC. And then where do I want to save it? Okay, Dkstop document pictures, download, movies, music. Wherever I want to save it, I can save it there and then click on Save. Okay? So if I choose Dkstop and I click on Save, that'll save it on my Dk Stop. So I have my project saved now. So intermittently, I want to be pressing Command S or Controls on my keyboard to update or save all of my changes. Okay? So don't forget that. So even if you've saved it the first time, you still need to continue pressing Controls or Command S at intervals to save your update. Okay? So that is how to save your work in after effect. So the next thing I want to talk about now is, how do I now create a new composition from any of this existing video that I've imported? How do I create a new composition from any of this existing video that I've imported? Now, after importing, you notice that everything remains selected. Everything remains selected. So if I try to create a new composition from any of this video now, it's going to create it from the entire, you know, imported items. And I don't want that to happen. So I want to find a way to deselect everything, right? And how do I do that? I'll just come to any of these areas here. Okay, so I'm just trying to look for anywhere that is empty and just click the pump, and then you notice that it has deselected everything. So nothing is basically selected in my project panel now, okay? And what can I do? I can now select the particular video, okay, that I would like to create my composition from and then right click on that video. And when I write click on that video, I'm going to see an option called New Comp from selection. New comp from selection, okay? And when I click on that, after effect to automatically create a new composition from this existing video using the settings of the existing video to create my composition. So if I click on New comp from selection, you can see what I have. And it also immediately puts my video in the timeline for me, okay? So you can see what we have now. Now, before I created that composition for my video, I only had one video called Ks one, right? But now I can see that this Ks one is now in two places. So let me undo what I just did now. You can see what we had before, Ku one. But when I write click and create a new come from selection, you can see that we have a new you know, show one showing here, and this is the composition that has been created from this video. Alright? So how do I know that? I could easily tell that by the icon I'm currently seeing right here, okay? By the icon the icon I'm currently seeing right here. So if you look at this icon very well, it's actually similar to this Adobe master class that we created initially, right, in the previous video, okay? You can see it has this blue, green and red, you know, icon around here. So what does that tell you? That tells you that if anytime you see this icon beside any layer in your project panel, that is a composition. That is a composition, okay? So right now, in this after effect project, we currently have two compositions, one that was created from scratch, which is this Adobe master class, and this second one, which was created from this existing video. Okay. So it's as simple as that. So if I quickly come to my menu, click on this composition and click on composition settings, okay? That will show me the settings that was used to create this Cs one composition. Alright? So you can see it's similar to what we heard initially because the settings that was used to record this video was the exact same settings I used for the Adobe master class, you know, composition. Alright, you can see that it's showing me HDTV 108025 here. Okay, you can see the frame rate is 25. All right. But what makes it different is this duration. All right. You can see that the duration of this is 5 seconds, 19 frames. All right, 5 seconds, 19 frames. Why? Because all of these settings here was extracted from the video. All of these settings here was extracted from the video. So if you have a smaller video, imported into after effect, and you try to create a new composition from that, you will notice that, you know, the width and height you're going to have here is going to be smaller than tenety know, and then your duration is also going to be different. So when creating a new, you know, composition from an existing video, okay, after effect will automatically extract all of the settings here from the video. So if you look at your camera, assuming you're the one who shot this video that you're trying to work on in after effect. You would have also decided the settings. All right. You'd have decided the settings on your camera. So cameras also have, you know, whether I want to shoot in tenety, 720, four K, you know, cameras also have the settings for frame rate, right? And then depending on when you click on the stop recording on your camera, will determine the length of the video. Alright. So that's why it's easy for after effect to create a new composition from an existing video. So let me just cancel this and you can see we have two compositions right now in this project. All right. And in after effect, you can have as many compositions as you want to. Okay? You can have as many composition as you want to. Right now, we currently have two. I can have three, four, five, ten, 20, hundred, 1 million, okay? As much compositions that I want. And whatever I do in a composition does not affect other compositions. So, for example, if you look down here in my timeline, you can see I have adb master class and K one. Okay, Adobe master class and what? Show one. So under Adobe Master class, you can see it's empty because it was a composition I created from the scratch, having nothing. And then under this Ka one, you can see I have the video right here that was created that was used to create that composition. So whatever I do in Kasha one does not affect Adobe master class. So I can export what I have in Adobe Master class as a video on its own, and I can also export what I have in Kisha one as a video on its own. So it's more like pages or artboards in Illustrator, if you know what that means, okay? So it's like you're having multiple pages in after effect, but it's not called pages. It is just basically called composition. Okay? So that is that for creating a new composition from an existing video in after effect. And I'm going to see you in the next video. 5. The Interface of After Effects: What's up, guys. Welcome to another video of this after effect training. In this video, we're going to be talking about the general interface of after effect and some key things that we need to note when working with after effect. So let's get straight into it right now, and I'll show you all of that. Okay, so I'm inside of After effect right now, and I just want to tell you, you know, some important things that you need to note when working with after effect, okay? So one important thing that you should note is that whenever you import, so all of these videos and audio and pictures we brought into after effects, they are not actually, you know, really imported into after effect, right? I don't know if you understand that. But what is basically going on is that After Effect is creating a link to these files on your hard drive or your laptop or your flash drive or your external drive or wherever you have imported these videos from. So what does that mean? That tells you that you should not delete these files on your system. So after effect doesn't work like Photoshop or Illustrator, you know, whereby when you import images, you can go ahead and delete the source files from your system. And then when you open it in Photoshop, it still opens the way it's supposed to. So now quickly, let me go to my exercise files and delete something here. All right. So let me delete something here as an example. So if I delete this CD cover or this newspaper, for example, press delete, and that's gone off my system, when I come back to after effect, okay, you can see that immediately after effect is telling me warning a file could not be found, right? And it's showing me the paths, the link to that file or my system. All right you can see under the exercise folder, saying, I can't find this newspaper PNG again. Where is it? So if I click Okay, alright, you notice that that file will no longer be available to use in after effect. And if I've used this file in my project, in my video and everything, it's going to be displaying this when it gets to that part of the video. And you don't want that to happen, okay? So, you know, a lot of people when they finish working on that video, they just go ahead and delete the source file, then they come to after effect and then you wonder what has happened to their project. Okay. So don't ever, ever do that. And it's not just deleting your file. It also affects it when you rename your file or when you, you know, move it to another folder, right? So deleting is like no remedy. But when you rename and move to another folder, you still have some, you know, kind of remedy to replace it or to bring it back into after effect. So let me just undo what I deleted now, okay? And I'll bring that from my trash back to my file. And then to, you know, resolve this issue, if you still have the file, all you need to do is to write on that file and then choose replace footage, okay? Replace footage, and then you click on file, right, and that will bring you back to our exercise file. And then I can tell after effect, Oh, this is the file now and then click Open, and that will just, you know, replace it everywhere in my timeline, in my project, wherever I find that video, and everything will come back to what it was before. All right. So it's very important that you understand that your files could go offline when you delete the source files, or you rename them or you transfer them to another folder. So you want to make sure that your videos are in the right folders with the right name before you even import them into after effect. Okay? So that is that for z. So the next thing I want to talk about now is my layer panel and footage panel, Layer panel and footage panel. Now, if you double click on any item here, it's going to automatically open in your footage panel. Alright? So if I double click on this looping, particular camera, for example, you can see what happens. I automatically brings up my footage panel, okay? And I can see the video right there. So what is the footage panel used for? It's basically to preview your video, right? So you can see there's a mini playhead here. I can just move that around to preview my video. And I can also trim my videos right here. I can also trim my videos right here. So if there's a part of my video that I don't want, I can trim it in the footage panel before using it in the timeline. So if I put my playhead somewhere around here, say, if I don't want from here to this part of my video, okay, I could just click on this open bracket icon or set in points like it's called after effect. Click on that, and that will trim off all this part of my video. I can take this towards maybe the end and I say, Oh, I want my video to stop right here. I don't want everything from here to this point. And what can I do? In that case, I can just click on this, you know, close square bracket here, I'll click on setout point, and I'll click on that, and that will trim off the ending part of my video. And what I have of this video now is just from here to this point. So meaning I have shortened, you know, the time of the video by trimming it. And then I can go ahead, drag that and drop it into my timeline and use it for whatever I want to use it to do. Or use it for. Okay? So that is what your footage panel is used for. So let me just undo this and take that away. Now, why am I taking my time to talk about the footage panel? I'm doing this because most of the time you know, most of you guys are just going to end up there mistakenly, right? Not intentionally. So how do you end up there mistakenly? You end up there mistakenly by double clicking anything here and you just open it in the footage panel. And then the worst that can happen is that most most times you guys will double click what you currently have here also here, and then you'll be in the footage panel, and you'll be thinking you are still in your composition panel. And when this happens, you might be trying to add an effect or doing some things to your video. You'll find out that, Oh, it's not working. I still have the same video here. You know, and you're expecting that when I add this effect, I'm supposed to see it apply to my video. I'm not saying it apply to my video. That is because you are in your footage panel. So by default, you should always be in your composition panel. You should always be in your composition panel. That is where you see your life, you know, edit, your life effect, whatever you're doing in after effect. So you should always be in your composition panel. You can see the name is right here, composition. You should not be in footage or flow charts or whatever it is. You should always be in composition panel. So if you're in footage panel, you should be there consciously, alright, knowing that maybe you want to preview your video or trim your video, okay? So by default, you should always you can write this capital letter somewhere, your note or your note pad, whatever it is. Make sure you are always in the composition panel. Another mistake or another thing people do is that if I come to my timeline here and I double click on this cshowO that I have right here, okay? That's going to take me to my layer panel. Alright? So we have two panels now, footage and layer. All right. You can see they look similar, okay? So your layer panel is also used to trim your video, right? But when you trim your video here, you are trimming the video already in the timeline. Okay? You're trimming the video already in the timeline. All right. If I come here now and I trim this, come here now and I click here and I trim this, you'll notice that my video is getting shorter in the timeline. Can you see that? Okay? So the difference between the footage and layer is that the footage trims the video in your project panel, right before everyone gets to the timeline. While the layer panel, when you trim here, trims the video directly in your timeline. So you can put a video in the layer panel if it's not already in the timeline, okay? So that is the difference between the two of them. But once again, the reason why I'm explaining this is because most of you most of you will end up here mistakenly, right? Alright? Not that you actually want to trim a video because most of you you just like double clicking on everything, okay? So you want to make sure that if you're in your layer panel and you're trying to do stuff it's not working, just look up here and make sure that you are in your composition panel, okay? You are in your composition panel, not footage or layer panel. All right? I've seen a lot of people struggle with this overnight just because they were in their footage and layer panel, and they were adding some effect, doing some other stuff. It was being applied here, okay? But because they were in their footage or layer panel, they couldn't see it, you know, on their video, and they thought it wasn't working. Okay. So make sure that you are always in your composition panel at all times, right? So that is your footage and layer panel, but the most important one is the composition panel. Now, a trick or something that you always used to know if you're not your composition panel is that when you get to footage, you start seeing this, you know, sea green color of your timeline here. The same thing in layer. You can see we have it here, but your composition doesn't have that. Alright. So once you see something green here, just know that you are in the wrong place. Just quickly come back to your composition panel. All right. So that is that for your footage and layer panel and also your composition panel. So quickly, let me just talk about the interface and some other things you need to note. At the top here is our menu, right, like you already know. And then right here is our to bar where we can pick different tools to use in after effect. And then right here is our Almighty project panel that we've been talking about all this while. Okay? This is where all your videos, audio, whatever it is that you import into after effect, this is where you first learn before you now decide what you want to do with them. Okay? And then right here is our timeline. And in your timeline, all your compositions are also available for you to switch, you know, on and off between them. So I can go to my Adobe Master class composition or go to my Kasha one composition, okay? And right here is my composition panel, okay? So don't forget that you should also always be in composition panel. And then on the right here, Okay, we have different okay, we have different panels, okay, that are available for us here. Now, if there isn't an older version of After effect, yours might slightly look different, you know, to mine. But all are the same. You'll be seeing your preview opened up already. You'll be seeing your info opened up already. You might not have audio here and all this other stuff right here. So but like I used to say, if you're looking for any panel, so if you see any panel in mine, for example, you're wondering, Oh, this audio, I don't have it. Where is it? How can I also bring it up in my own older version of After Effects. Just simply go to your menu, click on Window, and under this window, you will see all of the panels available. So you can see audio right here is checked, and that's because I have it opened up here. For example, I don't have brushes here. What happens if I want to see brushes? I just click on it, and I'll bring up the brush panel and I can do whatever I want to do with my brush panel right here. So it doesn't matter what version you're using, you're still going to find all of these panels under window. Just look at the name, then come over here, correspond the name here, and then click on it to activate that particular panel, right? So that is that. So but quickly, if you want to preview your video, you just simply go to your preview panel okay, press the play button right here, and that will allow you to preview your video, and you can see your video play in your timeline. So why am I saying black all the way here is because at this point in my video, I have trimmed it and my video is now shorter, okay? So if I pause that and I undo my trimming, if I press play now, I won't see any black or call or show in my video because I can see the entire video from the beginning to the end. It's no longer trimmed, okay? So that is how you preview your video in after effect, right? So what else do we have here? And then right here, we have your zoom level. Okay? So this is also important. Right here, we have your zoom level. Right now, mine is showing 66.7%. Yours might be showing another value. All right, it just totally depends on your screen size. So if I click this drop down and I choose maybe 3.1, you can see how small my video now looks like. Alright? It's not actually small. It's actually zoomed out, okay? So I've zoomed out of my video, and then I can click maybe 200 or 400%, and that will zoom into my video. So this is your Zoom level. If I want it to fit back to my screen, I'm just going to click here and choose fit and that will fit back to my screen. Okay? So in case you use your, you know, scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out, you can always come back here and choose fit to fit back to your screen. And then right here, this shows you your current, you know, time where you have your playhead. So this blue guy here or maybe yellow, if you're using an older version of After effect, okay? Is called your playhead. It's called your playhead. If I click and drag around it, you can see that my video is also playing depending on where my play head is. And as I also move it around, you can see the time here is also changing. So right now, it's telling me that my play head is currently at 1 second, 12 frames, okay? 1 second, 12 frames. And if I look at my timeline here, you can see this is 0 seconds. This is 1 second. This is two, three, four, five, and then it's not up to 6 seconds, but you can see that 19 frames left, right here. Okay? So that is to show you your current time of your playhead. And then right here, we have full. Now, when you press the play button, in your preview panel. If you notice that your video is dragging a lot, okay? That is because you have maybe a small ram size on your system, or your processor is not really that fast, or your system resources is not just capable of handling, you know, the workload of after effect when you are previewing your video, you could simply stop it and then drop it from full to something like half right or cutter or if I change it to this or third or if I change it to cutter what you will notice is that it's going to reduce the quality of my video. All right, when I do that, you can see right now that my quality has dropped. But when I press play, it's going to play super fast because right now it has dropped the quality so that it will match my system resources, and then my video can play very, very fast, okay? But don't worry, when you are ready to export your video or to render your video, your video is going to be exported in full resolution. All right. So even if you leave this at cutter while you are exporting, it's going to automatically export in full. So this is just for you as the editor or the motion grapher in After effect to quickly preview your video faster and easy based on your system resources, okay? So that is that for this video right here, I'm super excited that you were able to follow along, and I'll see you guys in the next video. Piece out. 6. Using the Tools in After Effects: What's up, guys. Welcome to another video in this after effect training. In this video, we're going to be talking about the tools and how to use them. Okay? So let's get straight into after effects, and I'll do just that. Okay, so we're right here in after effect, and we can see that we have the tools at the top right here, okay? So our first two here is our selection tool. It's our selection tool, okay? And that is used for selection. That's where we've been using all the while to click drag things around, move things around. I'm just pressing Undo. So, mind you, shorts cut for Undo, Control Z or Command Z, and then redo is Control Shift Z or Command Shift Z. Alright. So don't forget that, okay? Those are your um, those are your shortcuts. And then for your timeline, you can zoom in and out of your timeline. So right now, I'm just seeing one, two, three, four, 5 seconds. What if I want to see, like, I'm on 1 second, 14 frames now. What if I want to see that 14 frames or what if I want to see 13 frames? What do I do? I can tap plus on my keyboard. Okay. And you can see that it's zooming in already. And once it zooms in, you will see a scroll bar at the bottom here. You can scroll left and right to see what you have. So you can see this is still 1 second. And I can see 1 second, five frames, 1 second, ten frames, 15 frames, 20 frames, and then and then 2 seconds, right? And so on and so forth, like that. So I can keep tapping this. And if I get to the end, I can, you know, physically see frame by frame, ten, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, scroll all the way. And when I get to 24, instead of saying 25, it just turns to 2 seconds. And then 2 seconds, one frame, 2 seconds, two frames, and so on and so forth. So that's with my plus button. And if I type my minus button, I'll be able to zoom back out. So plus zooming minus zooms out. Okay? So those are important shortcuts that you're going to be needing in after effect. Okay. So let's continue with our tools that we have at the top right here. So I have my selection tool here. All right. It's a default tool. So anytime you're done using any other tool here, I usually recommend that you go back to your selection tool. All right. You go back to your selection tool. Alright. So the next thing I have here is my hand tool. But for me to use this hand tool, let me first use the Zoom to. All right. So if I grab my Zoom to, it allows me to zoom into my video. It allows me to zoom into my video. So maybe I want to zoom to my nose. I can just click on my nose and I can see it's zooming closer. I can click again and again and again. Alright, and that zooms into my nose. Now, if I hold down out on my keyboard or options on MAC, Okay. If I click, I'll be you can see tons to minus and I can zoom back out, okay? And when I'm zoomed in, I can use my hand to move left right up down to other parts of my video. If I still want to remain zoomed in, but I want to see some other parts in my video. Okay? You can see all of that right there. Okay? So that is how to use your Zoom tool and hand tool. I can easily come back to my Zoom level also here and change it to fit to kind of fit back to my screen. So let me change this back to full since my computer can handle it at full resolution so that you can see what I'm working on clearly. All right. Our next tool here is the rotation tool. All right. So when I click this, it allows me to click and rotate my video. So by clicking and dragging, I can rotate my video in after effect using this rotation tool. So I'll press Command Z to undo that. Okay. And then the next thing I have here is my pan behind or ankle 0.2, okay? Ankle point. So I like calling the ankle 0.2. And it's basically used to move this guy around, okay? It's basically used to move this guy around. Now, let me show you guys something, okay? So I have my phone right here, okay? If I put my hand somewhere in the middle of my phone now and I try to rotate it, what do I notice? If I try to rotate it, you can see it's rotating along the center where I have my hand, okay? But if I move my hand from this point to this point, okay? What do you notice happen? You notice that when I try to rotate my phone, it's now rotating along that ankle point or where I have my hand in this case. All right. So this point and this point that I move my hand is what is called the ankle point, and I can use the ankle point to to change the ankle point of my video. So with the ankle point, if I go back to my selection too and I try to move this guy in the middle here, he's going to be moving the entire video, and I don't want to do that, so I'll undo this and then go back to my ankle point. Okay? This time, if I click on this, you can see that it's moving that center ankle point alone. If I put my ankle point maybe somewhere here now, and I go back to my rotation, too, Okay. And I try to rotate my video, can you see that my video is now rotating along that point? Okay? So the ankle point is kind of like where you used to determine the center point or the concentration point in your video. Maybe when you're trying to rotate or zoom in to your video or do something that has to do with, you know, concentrating on a point in the video. So that's what the ankle point is used for. So let me undo that to bring my ankle point back to the center because I want it to be at the center. Okay? Now, the next thing we're going to talk about here it's the rectangle two. It's the rectangle two. All right. So with my rectangle two, okay, I can use it to do two things. Okay? I can use my rectangle two to either create a rectangular shape or I can use my rectangle two to create a rectangular max. All right, Max as MASK. Okay? So I can use my rectangle two to create a rectangular shape or a rectangular max. So how does that work? Okay? If I want to draw a rectangular shape, meaning I just want a regular rectangle. I want to draw a rectangle shape. Maybe I want to add a rectangle at the bottom here. All I need to do is to make sure that my video is not selected in my timeline. Alright, I want to make sure that my video is not selected in my timeline. So how do I do that? I just click anywhere that is empty. And when I do that, you can see that my video is no longer selected. And with that, with my rectangle, too, I can click and drag and draw a regular rectangle, okay? And when I'm done, I can go back to my selection too and use that to move my rectangle around and put it anywhere. So you can see, I've drawn a rectangle very easy. Maybe I want to use this to pass type text on it to pass some information in my video on stuff. That's how you draw a regular rectangle. Okay? So if I look up here, you can see that I can actually change the color and the stroke. So the field is the color itself. So if I click on that, I can choose maybe, you know, sea green color. Like this. And then if I click somewhere here, I want you to see the outline. You can see it has a white stroke outline around it. So if I select the rectangle again, I can change it from white to maybe red or something, okay, just for you to see very well. And if I click out now, you can see we have a red stroke around my rectangle. Okay. So I can also increase that. I can click here and change maybe, you know, ten and press Enter. I can see it's now bigger than it was before. Okay? So that is your fill and stroke for your rectangle. So let me just change it to the default. Let me change it to one and then change it to like, All right, and leave that at a default. Alright, so boy, if I don't want an outline color, I can just change this to zero, and that will give me no outline color on my shape at all. Okay? So that is that. So that's how to draw a regular shape. You can draw a shape anyway you want it with your rectangle, too. Alright, so let me delete this rectangle that I drew here now. And how do I delete that? If you look at the timeline, remember what we had here was just as one. But now after joining a rectangle, we can now see shape layer one, meaning we now have two layers in my composition, right? So if I don't want this rectangle again, I can select this shape layer one and press delete. Right there, and I will delete that from my composition. And you can see that the rectangle also disappears at that point, okay? So how do I draw a rectangular mark, Mark as in nose maak or facemx, okay? MSK. How do I draw a rectangular max? To do that with my rectangle tool selected, this time, I will make sure that my video is selected, okay? I will make sure that my video is selected, okay? So with my video selected, if I come here again and I try to draw that rectangle that I drew the other time, you can see the results we are getting. So the result we are getting now is different from the result we got initially. This is what is called a max. What is a max? A max is restraining or restricting your video to the shape that you have drawn. So what does that mean? It means that the only part of my video that I will see is just this part that I have drawn my rectangle. So if I undo this and I draw it this way, you can see that I can restrict my video and say, Oh, I only want this part of my video to show. And when I press the play button, you can see that all the remaining parts of my video are not available because I draw my max around this area. Okay? I can undo that. And you can see that will show me my entire video again. I can even do just my face. Now take note when drawing a max, when you click and you are about to start, everything will disappear, which is normal. And then when you click and drag, you will begin to see what you are drawing on. Okay? So you must have an idea of, you know, the area you want to put your max before you start clicking and dragging. So that when you click and drag, you know where you are clicking and dragging and where you're going to stop at, okay? So if I stop here now, you can see when I press Play, I have only this part of my video showing, okay, which is just my face. Okay? That is how to use MAX in you know, after effect. That's different between rectangular shapes and marks, right? So we have shapes and we have mass. To draw shapes, your video would not be selected. And to draw marks, your video would be selected. Okay? So take note of that. You can write that boldly in your notepad or your notebook or whatever you are jotting with. Okay? So that is that. Now, if I look closely here, you will notice that I have a drop down arrow just at the bottom right of my rectangle two. And when I click and hold on that, you can see that it reveals to me all the other types of shapes that I have here. So, for example, if I want a circle, I can use the ellipse to, right. And the same rule that applies to your rectangle also applies to the ellipse too. So if I select my video, okay, and I click and drag, I'll be drawing a circle, right? And if you want a perfect circle, you can actually hold down Shift, and I'll give you a perfect circle, okay? And you can see we have a circle. We can change the feel and stroke once again and, you know, all of that stuff. If I undo this and this time I select my video, I will actually be drawing a max instead of drawing a shape. And you can see what I have right here. So I can draw something like this. And when I press play, you can see the video is restricted to that point alone. But this time it's a circle and not a rectangle. Okay? So the same thing applies to everything. Now, let me show you one cool thing, since you are in a circle right now, whenever you draw a max, you will see that this max one will show at the bottom here. Let me undo it. You can see that there's nothing like Max one now. But when I click and draw, you can see that immediately Max one is showing, right? Now, what this Max one shows, if I click on the drop down arrow beside the Max one, it's going to show me some settings for my max and I can see Max feather. One of those settings is Max feather, alright? And the max feather is currently zero. Okay. If I click and drag on any of those values to the right, I'll begin to increase my max feather. And as I increase my max feather, can I see what's happening to my video, you can see that it is turning this from a straight hard line to a soft line, to a soft line. And when I play my video back now you can see that instead of having that hard or hh circle, and I have a soft circle, making it look like, Oh, maybe this is a keyhole or something, you know, just giving it a nice effect. So when you add feather to your mark, it softens the edges of that shape and makes it look better. All right. So that is max and how to use max feather. So without the max feather, this is what I'll get. Okay? You can see how hard this is. So people will know that oh this is a circle. But with the max feather, okay? Let me redo that. Okay, so let me just come back here and just recreate it. With the Max feather, you can see it gives a soft, you know, nice look on our circle. And it applies to any other shape also. Okay? So that is how to work with Max in after effect with your rectangle and your ellipse, too. So we have star two here. I could do a star mark or a star shape. You can see I'm drawing the Max now because I have my video selected. If I undo that and I diselect my video, I'll be drawing a shape, okay? So it's as simple as that. Before we leave shapes and max alone, we are still going to talk about this particular pen tool here. All right. So the pin tool is the same as the regular shapes and everything we have here. The difference is that the pen tool would allow me, okay, to draw my own the pent will allow me to draw my own shape. So if my video is not selected, I'll be drawing a shape, obviously. I can click here, click here, click here, click here, and then join this and you can see that I have drawn a shape with my pen too. Alright? I can undo this and draw another type of shape. Okay, I can click here, click here, click here, click here and draw this. You can see. So when you click and drag when using the pen tool, you'll be able to draw a curve, right, and that's what we have there. So let me undo this again. And then this time, select my video. And then if I click here this time, click here, click here, click here and join this, I'll be drawing a max, Alright. And then if I open my marks and go to the feather and I feather it, you can see how it makes that soften out, okay? So that is how to use your shapes and marks using the shape tool and the pen tool, okay? It is as simple as that. Alright, guys, so we're going to be ending this video right here, and I'll see you in the next video. Piece out. We 7. Working with the Timeline in After Effects: What's up, guys. Welcome to another video in this after effect training. In this video, we're going to be talking about the timeline and how to arrange layers in the timeline. So let's get straight into it right now. Whoa. So we're back here in after effect. So let's talk about the timeline and how to arrange, you know, videos in the timeline. So let me go back to my selection too. And right now, I currently have just one video in my timeline. And when I press Play, you can see the video plays. Alright, so Alright, there's no sound here because I didn't see anything. So if there was sound, you would have heard me say something, right? Right there. So you can see the video keeps playing. And I only have just one video right here. Okay? So let's a Zoom. I want to add more videos into my timeline. How do I go about that? Okay? You can see let's go to Kisho two, and let's see what we have right there. So if I drag this and I drop this under Kisho one. So basically, to add a video from your project panel to your timeline or to your composition, all you need to do is drag it from here and drop it. So this is different from you right clicking and saying new come from selection. If you write click and say new come from selection, what you're telling After Effect is I want a composition from this video. Okay. And I want it separate. So I want to start something different from what I'm currently doing now. That's what you're telling after effect. So as a minute I clicked on new composition, you would have seen that we have a new composition here. And if I look at my timeline, I only have Kisho two here. Alright. But when I undo that, you can see that when I dragged from here and dropped here, I now have two videos in this same Kishu one composition, right? So composition is like a container for different layers, and that will determine what we see at this point. Okay, so you can see that when I drop my video here, right, and I press Play. Play, but you can call me Kisho. And what's up, everybody. My name is kaboch. You can see that I can't see Qisho too. I dropped this video right here. I can't see it, okay? But I'm I'm still seeing this Schedule one. But when I was listening to the audio, I noticed that I was hearing the audio because that other one, I was talking in that video, and that's why we were hearing that video. While this one, I wasn't talking there. If not, you would have been hearing two audio. Okay, while that happened. So what is going on? What exactly is going on is that this Cu two is under Kash one, and KashwO is covering Kesw two. So if I want to see Ku two, the only option I have is to drag this Cachu two and move it up. You can see this blue line showing here. That blue line is telling me where it's going to drop my video. So if I release it here, it's still going to be under Kisha one. But when I release it here, it's going to drop it above Kho one. So when I drop my video right there, you can see that I'm no longer seeing Kho one. I'm beginning to see just Ku two. And when I press play again, Show A, but you can call me Kisho. And what's up, everybody? My name is Gabriel Show. You can see now that I can see Kishu two and I can hear the audio in Kisho two, okay? And that is as simple as that. So what it simply means that when you have something above, okay, that thing stays above. And when you have something beneath, what is underneath would not show because what is above it is covering what we have right there. Okay? So it's as simple as that. Let me drag Kishu one back up. Now the options I have are simple. If I want to see both video, then what I will need to do is to actually extend my timeline so that I can have enough space to accommodate this schedule two. Because if I grab this Schedule two now and I click and drag it this way, okay, all the way to the end of this one, okay, you will notice that even when I press play, I won't even hear the audio of Cachu two again because I've dragged it all the way to the end, but my the reason why I was dragging it to the end was that I wanted to be able to let this one play first. And then after this one finished playing, that one will play. But remember, this timeline, the timing of the timeline was created based on the what's it called? Based on the timing of this Ks one. That's why we remember we created it from this su one video. So what it means is that if I want to accommodate these two video, I have to find a way to increase my timeline. And to do that is very simple. All I'll need to do is to go to my composition, click on composition settings. Right now, the duration is 5 seconds. So what I'm going to do is to probably maybe make this 15 seconds, okay? So I will be adding ten extra seconds to my video. And then when I click Okay, alright, I've extended the time of my timeline. How do I know that? There was no, you know, scroll bar at the bottom here before. But when I increased it, I can announce that there's a scrollbar available here. Let me undo that. You can see before now, there's no scroll bar here. But when we went top composition settings, and then I changed this to 15 seconds. Okay? When I press Okay, now, watch out for this bottom part, you will see that scrollbar up here. Okay. So when I click Okay now, you can see that immediately there's a scrollbar that is now showing at the bottom here. So if I click and drag like this, remember this video I placed at the end. Now, it has a space to fit in. Alright, you can see right there. There's now space for it to fit in. So what will happen now is that this my playhead will move from this video, and when it gets here, it automatically go to the next video. So let's play it out and see what it looks like. What's up, everybody? My name is Gabriel Shoe, but you can call me Kisho. And welcome to another photoshop, Tutorial All right, so you can see what we have right there. Now, if I don't want to be scrolling left and right and I want to see everything, remember that plus and minus I told you, I could tap minus to zoom out, and that will show me the entire thing in my timeline. But when you press Plus, it will zoom in, and then you always need to use your scrollbar to move left and right. So I'll tap minus to scroll out and you can see what we have right here. So you can see that this is the first video. Imrely gets here, the second video starts playing. You can see that. If I delete this second video now, by the time it gets here, nothing will play here. You can see it's totally black because there's no video here. So whatever I am seeing here totally depends on what my playhead, where my playhead is in my timeline. So if I undo that and bring my video back, you can see that after this video plays, you just go straight into the next video. And then when it gets here, there's a bit of black here because there's nothing at this point. Okay? So this is how to arrange videos in your timeline. Let me undo, undo, undo, undo back to what I had before, just the Kach one video. Another thing I could have done is after dropping this Kasha two underneath Kasha one, I could actually reduce the size of Kasha one. Okay? And how do I go about that? You can see this point here that here, I can reduce the size by clicking and dragging on that. So if I come here, click and start dragging, right? As I drag, I want to make sure that I hold down shift so that will maintain proportionality, when I release my mouse, you automatically see, Oh, you see, there's a mistake. I had K two selected while I was doing that. So I was expecting that this my video here was supposed to be getting smaller. But meanwhile, it was the one underneath it that was getting smaller. And that's why I was not seeing what was happening. So you have to really, really be careful and know the layer you have selected before you start doing stuff right here. So let me undo that. And then this time, select K show one, then come here again and start adjusting. Now, if I not press shift, I might distort my video. So you want to make sure that you hold down shift while you're doing this so that as I reduce my video, it maintains proportionality. And then when it gets to this point, I can stop here and I can even place this maybe right here. Alright? And you can see now that in this scenario, even though I did not, you know, extend the time of my composition, I can still see two videos because this one is now smaller than this one here. So if I press play here, what's up, everybody? My name is. You can see I'm seeing both videos and I'm hearing the audio. Also, it's pre rendering. So you can see this green guy here is until you finish gets into everywhere before you can. The video can play very well smoothly. So you can see what we have right there. So you can see now that my system is kind of struggling with playing this back because apart from this, I'm running some other software behind the scene. So my system is already like, hey, hey, hey, I'm really finding how to play this back. So I can just drop this from full to cutter and press play. And this time, it will not be dragging like it was I won't be dragging like it was dragging before. Show. And what's up, everybody? Whats up, everybody. Hi. You can call me Kisho. And what's up, everybody. My name is Gabriel Shaare. So you can see it's playing smoothly now because I've dropped it from full to clutter. Alright. So also be mindful of that when working in after effect. So I hope you're understanding this arranging of layers. I could grab something else again from here. Maybe this logo. If I drop it above Ku one, you can see that I've added another one. And because this logo is transparent, it's a PNG logo, alright? You can see that it's not covering my video, and I can just drag it and position it anyway I want to position. I can even reduce the size, okay, and say maybe position it somewhere. I don't know, maybe here and say, Oh, let my logo just hang around there while my video is playing. What's up, everybody? My name is Gabriel Shoal. Or I could just position it somewhere here, and that will be there. But you can call me Kisho. And what's up, everybody. My name is bro. So you can see how I'm arranging my layers and stuff. If I put this logo under, it won't show because this video now will be blocking the, you know, image from showing. So the way you arrange your video here, or your stuff here determines what you see in your composition. That is very, very important for you to note. One more thing I want to explain here is that if I put my mouse towards the beginning, or the end of my video, you will see that my mouse is turning to this arrow pointing left and right. And that simply means that I can actually trim my video in my timeline. So apart from you trimming your layer and footage panel, you could also trim directly in your timeline by using this method. So if I put my playhead somewhere at the end of this logo layer and I click and trim when I'm seeing that arrow pointing left and right, and I trim it to maybe 3 seconds. What happens? After 3 seconds, the logo will disappear. You can see that, huh? It disappears because I have trimmed it so all this point right here, nothing is going to show. So I go back to the beginning, I press play. What's up After 3 seconds. Gibros. It's gonna disappear. Shoal. But you can call me K Show. And what's up, everybody? My name is Gabro Shoal. So you can see that right there, okay? So that's how you trim your video. I can even trim the logo from the beginning part also, right? So when you want to trim, make sure you see that arrow pointing left and right before you start clicking and dragging. Because if you don't see that, if it's like this, you'll actually be moving it instead of trimming. Alright? So this time you want to trim. So if I trim like this to maybe 2 seconds, alright, what does that mean? It means my video will only show for 1 second, and that's between 2 seconds and 3 seconds. So if I press play now. What's up, everybody? My name is Gabriel Shoal. You can see my logo appear and disappears, okay? You can call me Kisho. And what's up, everybody? My name is Gabriel Shoal. But you can. So you can see what we have right there. So you want to make sure that, you know, you trim your layers the way you want it. So if you don't want somebody to show from the beginning to the end, you can always trim it to the portion, you want to trim it too. And that would, you know, Make sure that that layer shows at that particular time alone. Alright. So thank you so much for watching this video. I'm sure you now know how to arrange your videos in your timeline. Don't forget that if you want to add a video into an existing composition, then all you need to do is to just drag it from your project and drop it into your timeline into that composition. But if you want to create something different, something fresh, then you can right click on that video and create a new composition. So don't mix it all up together. Thank you for watching this video, and I'll see you in the next video. 8. More Tools in After Effects: What's up, everybody. Welcome to this video. In this video, we're going to be talking about some other tools in After effect. So let's get straight into it right now. Okay, so we're right here in After effect, and let's talk about some other tools. So we stopped at the pin tool in the last video when we're talking about the tools. And right now we're going into the text tool, right. So let's talk about how to type in after effect. So I'll click on this T right here, and immediately that will chain my mouse to this cussle and I can click anywhere on my screen to type. So if I click here, you can see that red line there means that after effect is ready for me to type. So I can type in K show, right? And you can see what we have there, and I can go back to I used to say this even in other softwares. Anytime you're done typing, the first thing you should always do before you start moving around, changing the color, changing the font or whatever it is, make sure you go back to the selection too. So I'll come to the selection to click there, and now my text is now movable and selectable. Alright. So don't forget that. So let me just place my text somewhere here. An example, we have show right there. So how do I change my font? How do I increase the size? How do I choose the style, color, and all of those things? Now, once you start typing, the character panel should automatically pop up. But if it doesn't, you can go to Window and click on character, and you should see the character panel pop up. So right here, it's similar to Photoshop. If you've done the Photoshop training, you can see we have the font type here, we have the font style. We have color, we have the font size. So let me increase the font size first. Let's do like 100. Alright. You can see it's bigger now, okay? And then I can change my font by coming to that and choosing whatever font I have right here. For example, if I choose this just this year, you can see that it has changed my font. So let me just change it back to full so you can see very well. Okay. I can choose another type of font, ph, choose another type of font. So it totally depends on you and the project you're working on that will determine what kind of font you want to use. All right. And you could also go online to Google and download as many fonts as you want. Okay, and install them. So installing a font is very easy. You can check out installing a font in the Photoshop training and you find out how to install font. Okay? So it's pretty simple. Grab the font, install it and it becomes available in aftereffect Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, or whatever software that uses font. So when you install a font to your system, it's made available across all software that uses font. Alright, so we can see all of this right here. Let me just choose this back to black demo. I can see what I have right now. Okay? I can increase my text size or more. Okay? You could also click inside here and type in whatever value you want to type in or use this drop down, okay? Or just put your mouse on top of the value, click and drag left or right to increase or decrease your font size, right. So that is basically how you adjust your font in after effect. I can also click here to change my color. Now, mind you when changing your color, make sure you click on this one above and not this one underneath it. The one above, that's your foreground color. So if I click that, okay, that would allow me to change my color. I can change it to red, for example, and you can see that the color of my font has now changed to red. Okay? So I think those are the important things that we have right here in After effect regarding our font. So let me undo that back to white. I can see that's how to type in after effect. Okay. And you can see that when I put my text anywhere around here, it goes behind. Why? Because if you look at my layer or my timeline, you can see that the text is just only above the show two, which is this video. If I want my text to be above everything, I can drag that and take it all the way up and then it stays in front of anything that it is being placed on. And you can see, I'm not seeing my logo here. Why? Because my playhead is not currently anywhere close to that layer. So if I put my playhead somewhere here by just clicking here, then you can see that the logo is now showing and everything is now in showing. And when I put it here the text also stays above the logo because it's above every other thing now. So it depends on how you want your stuff to look like determines how you arrange your stuff in your timeline. Okay? So that is how to work with text in after effect. All right, so let's talk about let's talk about the brush to, okay? Alright, we have the brush tool, the clone stamp two, and the eraser two. The brush tool, the clone stamp tool, and the eraser two. Okay? Now, these three tools allows me to do, you know, special things on my video in after effect, right, but I can't use them on my composition panel. I can't use them on my composition panel. All right. So if I come to my brush tool, for example, and I click on my brush tool and I try to just click on my screen or do something here, it gives me a warning that I can't use my brush tool on my composition panel. I can only use my brush tool on my layer panel. Okay? I can only use my brush tool on my layer panel. So I'll just click Okay and say, thank you. And then what do I do? I need to switch to my layer panel. So the first question I want to ask myself is, which of these layers do I want to paint on with my brush. So if I say, Oh, I want to paint on this s two, which is this big video here with my brush, I want to paint on it, then I'll come to Kach two, double click on it, and that would open up Kach two in my layer panel. If I go back to my composition, as I double clicked on Logo, you can see that is the logo that shows here. If I double click on the text, the text will just not go to the layer panel to just make it editable for me. And if I double click on Q one, you can see that Kach one will open in the layer panel. So depending on what you want to use the brush to paint on will determine the layer you double click here to bring in into the layer panel. So I'll go back to my composition, Double click on K two, which is this video here. That's the one I want to paint on. I'll double click on that. That will open in the layer panel. And now I can grab my brush to and immediately I grab my brush too, you can see that I have my paint, you know, my paint panel automatically opened up, right? My paint panel or comatically open up. If it doesn't, if you can't find your paint panel yet, just go to window and you find paint there and open it up. Okay? So with my paint panel opened up, I can use that to determine the size of my brush. Now, if I just click and drag, you can see how small my brush is or tiny it is, right? And the color is red. So the reason why it's tiny and the color is red is because that's the satins I have here. The size of my brochure is just 13, okay? And then the color of my brochure is red. Okay? Size is 13. You can see 13 right here, and the color is red, okay? Now, sorry, let me go back to the paint. Now, if I undo this and I come here to change the size, once I click on this, it immediately takes me to the brush panel. All right? If it doesn't take you to the brush panel, you can go to Window again. You see brushes, bring it up. It brings me to the brush panel. And under the brush panel, I can see that same 13 here, which is the diameter. So I can click inside here and just change it to, like, maybe 100 to see really become big. You can see how big my brush is now. I can even do like, you know, 300 and take it all the way up. You can see how big my brush now looks like. Okay. And then for the color, I'll go back to my paint, click on my paint, and then I can change it from red to maybe yellow or something. Click Okay. And now, when I paint, you can see I have this yellow, big, soft round brush. You can see that my brush is soft. Okay? How is it soft? If I click here, it takes me back to the brush. Under this place, you can see that the hardness is currently zero. If I take the hard ness all the way to 100 and I try to paint again, you can see now that my brush is now hard, alright, meaning that it is not soft. So I personally like the soft brush, so I'll just change that back to zero so that I have a soft brush. And if I click just once, okay, you can see the effect I have. All right. What I can even do is an idea is coming to my head now, I can just fill up this with this color. So if you look at my paint, if I go back to paint, I have a color picker there or an eyedropper, too. If I click on that eyedropper, I can use it to pick a color in my video. You can see, as I move around, the color is showing me right in this box, okay? So I can come pick this color here. And that selects that color for me, and I can use my soft brush to kind of just paint around that. Maybe I'm trying to cover something, you know, I don't want people to see, and I don't want it to be obvious. Oop, sorry, let me undo that. Undo. I'm trying to reduce my brush size, so I'll go back to brushes, reduce the size, and click and drag to the left. And I'll just try to cover up everything I have here. And because my brush is a soft brush, you know, it's going to be difficult for people to actually know that I covered something up there because I'm using the exact color that was there initially. Okay? So you can see what I'm using my brush to do now, okay? And it's giving me this results that I have right here. Let me just clean this up. All right. So it's not looking that perfect or, you know, if I was doing this, I would have zoomed in better and worked more on it. So you can see how it just, you know, covers that up and people won't even know that, you know, I had something there before, right? So that's how to use the brush too and just use it. You can just paint around. You can click ones or paint around stuff, do whatever you want to do, and, you know, get your results with your brush too. So that's how to use the brush. But meanwhile, don't forget I'm still in my layer panel. So when you're done using the brush, you have to remember to go back to your composition because that is where you're doing your main stuff. So if I click on composition, you can see that what I did in the layer panel automatically reflects in my composition, right, right there. And I can see all my text and my logo again. You can see that in the layer panel, all of that was not shown here because you're just trying to concentrate on this video here and using your brush. But by the time I go back to the composition panel, you can see that what I did there still applies right here and I can see the remaining layer there. Okay? So it's as simple as that. And when I press play, that is right there. Okay. So that is that. Okay? So let's double click again and go back to the layer panel. And let's talk about the clone stamp two, the clone stamp two, the clone stamp two. So like the name says, clone stamp two, what does that mean? It allows you to clone a particular part. Of your video and stamp it somewhere else. I can clone a particular part of my video and just stamp it somewhere else. So how does that work? I can grab it and don't forget your clone stamp to, you can also only use that in your layer panel. It's not going to work in your composition panel. I'm not going to be able to use it here, so I can only use it in my layer panel. How do I go to my layer panel? I just double click on the video. I want to use it on right here and it takes me to my layer panel. Okay, I can increase the size of my brush. Okay? Now to clone, I would hold down all all options on my keyboard. So out on Windows, option on your MAC. All right. If I hold down out here, you can see that it turns to this target sign, right? And I can use this target sign to click any part of my video that I want. Okay? For example, I can increase my bro size to make it big a lot. Okay, maybe more let's do like 300 again. And you can see it's kind of covering this A E. I can hold down. Click once on the AE. So to clone any part, you hold down or options O or option, click once on the AE or wherever you want to clone, and then go to where you like to stamp it, maybe here or wherever it is and click and drag. Oops, sorry, click and drag and you can see that it is stamping that area into this place. Alright you can see that it's also stamping everything around that part. Okay. He's also stamping everything around that part. So if I wanted just the AE, I would just be careful to make sure that I don't, you know, drag it beyond that. You can see how it's stamping that part for me. So that is what the clone stamp tool is used for. Let me do another example. Okay? Another example is I can clone my face, all down, click here, then come here and just paint my face again right there. So I have, you know, two versions of that. So I can even come here, okay, clone again. And then paint my face there again. So to clone, you just hold down up, click where you want to clone, then go to where you like to stamp it and just click and drag in that area. So when I press Play now, you can see right there. Cloned right there. So you can see my system is really struggling to play this now. I will need to drop it to cutter if I want to see very well. But you get the gist, right? You can see what I have right here with my clone stamp tool. Okay? So basically, the clone stamp tool is not used the way I'm using it now. What you'll be using it to do most of the time in your video is that you might have some part of your video that maybe you want to cover up or you want to do something to it and you don't want people to see that part or you want to erase some part. That is where your clone stem two will actually be making sense, okay? Say, for example, I can clone this black area and add more of that black area. So let me just reduce my brush size because it's too big for that. So I just want to be like maybe the size of this. So let me reduce it to like maybe 80. I want it to be the size of this black stuff here. Okay, good. Click and hold, and then I can just come here and add more of it. Okay? You can see what's going on. And then clone again, add more of it. And then you can see the way I'm already trying to, like, build something around there. Clone again, drag again, right? And do it in such a way that maybe I don't be able to see what I have there. And before I know it, that part is covered up and everything, okay? So I could just clone again, cover this part up, you know, like that, like that, like that. And then I have something like this there. So people really know that, you know, there was white here before, and now I've just cloned this and turned it to black and stuff. Alright. So that is that we using the clone stamp, too, okay? And after effects. Let me just undo, undo that. Okay? And then the eraser two, very simple. You also use the eraser tool in your layer panel. So this brush, clone stamp and eraser two, they are all used in the layer panel, right? So what is the eraser tool used for? You can see the brush is very small. So let me just go to the diameter here and increase it to about maybe 200. Okay? Now, Eraser to is very simple. It allows you to erase part of your video off. So if I click here and I do like this, I'm erasing my video, right? So I'm actually not painting in black. I'm erasing my video. So for you to be for me to show you that I'm actually erasing my video off, if I come to my layer panel, now, mind you, as we were creating all of those things, you see so many things appearing under here. Don't bother yourself about it. Just come to this drop down arrow here and minimize it, okay? So what I want to do now is I want to drop a video under this video. And that would allow us to see that what was actually done here is to erase this part and not make it black. All right? So let me look for a video here. If I drop this video and I drop this here, boom, can you see what I have right now? Okay, you can see that the video, let me expand the video. You can see that this part is actually now transparent, okay? Because if you look at this video I have here, it's just a video that looks like this. So if I drop it under this, you can see that that part I was erasing with my eraser tool was actually I was making it transparent, okay? So if I double click this again, I come back here and erase this part too. Of my video. All right. And I go back to my composition, you can see that this part has also been erased off, right? So it is now transparent. So the eraser tool allows you to erase part of your video off, and then that part will now become transparent, and then you can use it to do whatever it is you want to do with it. Alright, guys. So that is where we are going to be stopping right here in this video, right? And I'll see you guys in the next video piece out. 9. The Transform options in After Effects: What's up, guys. Welcome to another video in this after effect training. In this video, we're going to be talking about the transform options in after effect. So let's get straight into it right now. Okay, guys, so we're back right here in after effect. And what I want us to do now is because we've done a lot to this current composition here. You can see we've added some layers, texts, logos and everything. Let us create a new composition from this same Kho one video. Don't forget this is the composition. This is the video. So we want to come to the video again, right click and say new comp from selection. And what will happen is that you can see that it creates another composition called Kho two using that same Ka one video. So after effect, automatically just add two, three, four, five, depending on the number of compositions that you have created using the same video, okay? So that's what we have right there. And the reason why we're doing this is because I want us to have a clean video that we're going to use together so that I'll be sure that we are on the same page, okay? So I'll be sure that we are on the same page. So now and don't forget throughout this training, you can always pause this video whenever you want to pause it and then rewatch, rewind forward. Totally depends on you. That's why it's an online class, and that's why, you know, it's personal to you, okay? So you can always pause try out your own pause, try out your own pause, try out your own and, you know, follow along in the class that way, okay? Because it is practical. Everything that you learn here, you have to practicalize it. So always pause practice, continue, pause, practice, and on and on and on that way. Okay. So now that we have a new composition, so now we can see that we have three compositions. We still have our Adobe master class, Kho one, Kho two, everything right here. So you can see that this Adobe master class. We didn't even use it at all, okay? And that's to tell you that you can start, you know, your project in after effect simply by just importing and creating a composition straight up without going to composition, new composition, and doing all of those stuff. Okay. So that is that. So now let's move on. I have Kaw one here. So let's talk about the transform options, transform options. Now, you will notice that all our layers in the timeline usually have this drop down arrow here. So if I go back to cashew one here, you can see that each of them has a drop down arrow. And that means that we have something that is hidden inside this layer. And to reveal that, all I need to do is to click on this drop down arrow, and it's going to show me transform an audio. Okay? And that's because this video has an audio. Okay. So if your video doesn't have audio, all you will see here is just transform. All right. So we are talking about the transform option, so we're going to focus on the transform option. So if I open this transform option right here, because you can see that it also has a dropdown arrow. So if I click on that arrow, it's going to show me the transform options. So under the transform options, we have anchor point, position, scale, rotation, and opacity, okay? Ankle point, position, scale, rotation, and opacity. Now, all of these, what do they mean? Now, for the sake of this training, I'm going to want you to assume that this ankle point doesn't exist here. Okay? Because there's a way after effect just does it that when you try adjusting your ankle point from here, it makes you look as if you're adjusting your position. But meanwhile, you're not adjusting your position. You're actually adjusting this ankle point. If you remember this ankle point when I was talking about this ankle point too. So the best thing to do is if you want to adjust your ankle point or do anything with your ankle point, just come and use the ankle 0.2 and click and drag this around, move it the way you want it. So I will strongly recommend that you don't adjust your ankle point from here. So just ignore this ankle point here. That's basically what I'm trying to say. All right. And we'll be focusing on position, scale, rotation, and opacity. So what is position? Position simply allows me to change the position of my video. All right. And if you look here, we have two values here. We have 96540. All right, 96540. So what is this 960 and what is this 540? Now, this simply means your X and Y. So 960 is your X axis. 540 is your Y axis. All right? So if you go back to the graph again, if I have something like a cross, right here, drawing a graph. In the graph, this is your Y axis, right? And then this is your X axis. Okay? This is your Y axis, and this is your X axis. So if I want my video to move left and right, it means I will have to adjust my video in the X axis. And if I want my video to move up or down, then it means I have to adjust my video in the Y axis is as simple as that. So if I come to my X axis, put my mouse on it, you can see showing white to let me know that my mouse is on it. I can click and drag to the left and you can see the video will move to the left, click and drag to the right, and you see that the video will move to the right. Okay? If I undo that, that's Command Z or Control Z. And I come to my Y axis, click and drag to the left, and you will see that the video will go up, click and drag to the right, and then you see that the video will go down. Okay? So that's the way it works, X and Y. Then the next thing is scale, scale. Scale also has X and Y, but X and Y are currently linked together. They are currently linked together, and you should always leave it linked together. So what does that mean? If I drag either X or Y, both values will be increasing or decreasing simultaneously. So if I put it on X, for example, and I click and drag to the right, that's to increase it above 100%. And as I do that, you can see my video is scaling up, all right? Meaning I'm making my video look bigger. All right. And in that process, it scales up my video. Okay? And when I take it to the left below 100, you see that I'm making my video smaller or scaling it down. Okay? You can see how small my video is. And then you notice that both the X and Y values are adjusting as I do this, okay? And I've explained to you that is because they are both linked together. Now, let me quickly unlink this. But don't unlink your own. Let me just show you what will happen when they are linked. If I unlink this and I drag the X, you can see what my video is turning into now, okay? You can see how distorted it looks like. And then if I drag the Y, you can see what my video is looking like now. All right? My video is looking distorted. Okay? So you want to make sure that they are always linked together, so that when you drag anyone, it scales up and scales down proportionally. Okay? So that's scale. Then the next one I have here is rotation. Okay, rotation. Now, this rotation, to use this, you can see we have two values here also. We have zero X, and we have 0.0 degree, zero X and 0.0 degree. Let me start from this 0.0 degree. This 0.0 degree allows you to change the angle of rotation of your video. So if I click and drag on this 0.0 degree, if I take it to the right, I'll start increasing it. And as I increase it, you can see based on the angle of rotation, my video is also rotating, okay? And we know that a full complete rotation is 360. So if I take this all the way to 360, all right, what happens to that zero X? Okay, can you see that zero X has turned to one X, okay? And that's because I have rotated my video one time. So if I go another 360, it will turn to two X, meaning that rotate my video two times. Then on and on three X, that's three times. So if what I want to do is actually just to rotate my video two times, I can just come click on that zero x and change it to two and press Enter, and that will give me two X, meaning that my video will now rotate twice and come back to this position. Okay? So this is useful if you want to do a full 360 degree rotation. And then this is useful. If you don't want to do a full 360 degree rotation, maybe you just want to rotate your video 45 degrees. Okay? You can rotate it 45 degrees and it stays rotated 45 degrees. All right? So that is your rotation. Let me undo that and go to the last one, which is opacity. Okay, Opacity. So with opacity, by default is always at 100. You can't take it above 100. The only thing we can do now when it's at 100 is to reduce the opacity. So if I put my mouse here and I click and drag to the left, I'll begin to reduce the opacity of my video, and you can see that my visibility of the video is going down. And when it gets to zero, I won't even see my video again at all. Okay? So that's opacity. So if I put my opacity, maybe somewhere around 50, okay, it looks as if the video is faded, you know, out. But what I can do is, if I grab another video, okay, maybe this video, yeah, and I drop it under this video, can you see that the video is now actually transparent, okay? Or let me look for another one again, drag that and drop. So you can see that this video is actually transparent. So you can see this video is small. So let me just make it big. I'll just select it. Go back to my selection too and make it big so to cover the space. So you can see that my Kho one video is now what transparent. If I take it all the way to 100, I won't see that video, as I begin to reduce my opacity, we can see that the video underneath it is now what showing. And if I take it all the way to zero, I won't see Kasha one again. I will only see the video underneath it. So if you want to create a transparent effect in your video, you can reduce your opacity, and it will just become transparent to the video underneath it, and that will give you that effect. Okay? So it's as simple as that. All right. So that is how your opacity works. So let me just undo that undo, undo, undo, undo, undo back to 100%. Okay? So that is your transform option. So but quickly, let me just talk about audio too. If I open up the audio here, basically what we just have on there, this audio is audio level. All right. By default, your audio level is in zero. And when you take it to the left to a negative, you reduce the volume of your audio. And when you take it to the right, which is a positive, you increase the volume of your audio. So since I didn't talk in this video much, okay? I can't use this video as an example. So let me bring in the caso two. Let me just drag that and drop that in my timeline. Okay. And now, when I press play surely. We can see that there's audio, and you can see Kho two also has its own dropdown arrow. So if I click on that dropdown arrow, it's going to show me transform and audio again. Then I'll go to audio. Then the audio level, I can take it to the left. And when I press play now, Okay, press play. You can see that the audio level is now low and when I take it above zero, but you can call me Kisho. And what's up, everybody? My name is Gabriel Show. You can see that the audio level is now very loud. Okay? So that is how you work with your audio level if you have audio in your video in after effect. So that is that for your transform options and all of that in after effect, I would see you guys in the next video. 10. How to use Keyframes in After Effects: What's up, everybody. Welcome to another video in this after effect training. In this video, we're going to be talking about keyframes, right, and how to use them for creating motion graphics. Alright? So if you want to understand motion graphics, understand what keyframes are all about. So let's go straight into it right now. Now show you how to do just that. Okay, so we're back in after effect, okay? And let me just delete this schedu two. I was using it as an example the other time. All right. And if you've messed around with your transform option and everything, you can just click this Reset button, and that will reset all your properties. For example, if I had moved this like this, rotated my video, douse this, do all of that, I can just click on this reset here and just reset everything back to what it was before. So let me just minimize all of this, open this up again and this time, I want to focus only on the transform options. All right? Because we want to talk about keyframes in this video, okay? Keyframes. And once you understand the concept behind keyframes, you understand the concept behind motion graphics. So you want to do motion graphics in after effect, then you have to really understand what key frames are. Okay. So let's go to my example here. This is my rotation here. When I rotate my video like this, for example, right? And I press play. What's my preview? Play. And I try to play my video. You can see that even though I rotated my video, what might be going on in my mind is that, Oh, when I press play, I should see the video rotate, you know, on its own. But that's not what's happening. What's happening now is that I can see that my video just remains that way and it's not moving and it's just playing that way. Alright? This is where your, um, your key frame comes in. All right? This is where setting of keyframes. This is where it comes in, right? And what we are going to be doing now. So let me press Undo to undo that. So what we're going to be doing now with our rotation, when I press play, I want my video to rotate like this, like this, and then come back to where it started from. Okay? So once again, I want my video to rotate like this, like this and then come back to where it started from, which is so when I press play, I shot I'm like, ok. Alright, to begin to animate my video. So let's try that out now using keyframes. So if I come to my skill, you can see that we have a stopwatch here, and you'll notice that this stopwatch is also available for every transform option here. All right. And that tells you that all the transform options have stopwatches, and you can set key frames for all of them. Okay? So the keyframe I want to set now is for my rotation because I want my video remember how to rotate this way, sorry, this way, this way, and then come back like this. So let's get started with that. So before I click on my stopwatch to set a Keyframe, it is very important that my playhead is at the position where I would like that keyframe to appear. So this rotation thing I want to do now. I want it to happen at the very beginning of my video, at the very beginning of my video. And what does that mean? That means that I have to find or I have to take my playhead from wherever it is and put it at the very beginning of my video before I click on this stopwatch to set a keyframe. All right? Because this keyframe looks at where my playhead is and puts the keyframe right there. The my player is here and I want my rotation to happen at the beginning, then I won't be getting the result I want because it's going to set the keyframe here, and that means that that thing will happen somewhere after 3 seconds. And that is not what I want. So I want my rotation to occur at the very beginning of my video, so I'll drag my player to the very beginning. And then once my play head is in the right position, I can come to this stopwatch her for rotation, click on it, and you will see two things has happened. Number one, I can see this diamond looking icon here, this blue diamond looking icon here, where my keyframe is, where my playhead is. All right. And that's why I said that you must put your playhead where you want to set the keyframe. You can see that it's appearing at the exact point where I have my playhead. Then the other thing you will notice is that you can see that this remains blue, meaning that this keyframe or this topwatch is still active. So when you click on this stopwatch you set a key frame, those are the two things you will see. If you're using an older version of After effect, this might be color yellow and not blue. So it's still the same thing, right? So that is that. Now, after setting my first keyframe, Okay, I would not do anything to this first keyframe. So meaning I won't come here and rotate my video for this first keyframe. Alright? Because at the beginning, I want my video to look normal. I don't want it rotated from the beginning, so I want it to look normal. So I'm going to leave my video, you know, or my rotation the way it is now. And then what will I do? I can move my played five frames forward, okay? And when I do that, how do I know that I'm on the fifth frame? Because if I look at my current time indicator here, you can see that it's showing five year. So this tells me that I'm currently on the fifth frame, right, which is way less than 1 second, right? It's way less than 1 second. Later on, I'll explain to you why we are moving it five frames forward. All right. So I'm going to come to my rotation, okay? And then I can now come to the 0.0 degree because I don't want it to do a full 360 degree. I wanted to just rotate 45 degrees, and then rotate the other way 45 degrees, and then come back to the normal way it was before. So I'm not going to use the zero X. I'm going to use this 0.0 degree, click and drag that, to the right and rotate it 45 degrees. So when I get to 45, I'm going to stop all right? And what do you notice? You notice that another keyframe automatically appeared here in middle I started, you know, changing this value. So what does that mean? That means that when setting keyframes, after clicking the stopwatch to set the first keyframe, for the second, third, fourth, fifth, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and forever, you don't need to come and click the stopwatch again. If you click the Stopwatch the second time, instead of adding a second keyframe, is actually going to remove all the keyframe. So if I click here now, you can see that all my keyframes are gone, okay? So you must understand that when you click on the stop patch to set the first keyframe, you don't click on it again to set the second keyframe. All you just need to do is move your played and start changing the values here, and other key frames will be set automatically. So let me undo that. Undo that. Let me do it again. So you can see there's no keyframe here. Immediately I start clicking and dragging this to the right. Boom, can I see a keyframe appears there and I'll just drag it all the way to what 45 degrees, and you can see the keyframe is right there. Okay. Now the next thing I'm going to do, don't forget you can pause this video and, you know, follow step by step as I move in this video so you can understand better and practically. So I'm going to move my played five frames forward again. So five plus five, that should give me ten. So I'll move and go to ten. And then at the tenth frame, I'm going to add the tenth frame, I'm going to add another key frame. All right? Remember, at this time, I want the video to go the opposite way. So I'll come to my rotation, click and drag it to the left and take that -45 degrees. Okay? So don't forget the reason why we're using 45 degree is because that is what we want. Alright? So when you are setting your own keyframe, you don't have to use the exact same settings I'm using. You could use whatever value based on what you are seeing here and based on the fact that you like it that way. All right. So when it comes to keyframe, you are in charge, right? You are in charge, not after effect, not me, but you are in charge. So you determine what you want, how you want the animation of the video to play out, okay? And that is why we are moving step by step this way. So you can see now I've successfully done the second animation. So the first animation was this. The second animation was this, right, which is what we've just done now. So the third animation I want to do now is to bring it back to where it was before. So what do I do? I move another five frames forward, so that will land me on 15 frames. So I'll just drag that to 15 frames, and then I'll come back to my rotation and change this to zero. So zero was the default value there. Now, if I'm struggling with getting that zero, I can just click inside it and type zero there and press Enter, and I'll take it back to zero. And you can see that another key frame has been set right there. So so far so good, you can see that we currently have four key frames in our timeline. This first one was the video like this. This second one is the video like this. This third one is a video like this. And then this final one was the one that brought the video back. So if you add all the four key frames together, you have this, this, this, and this. So one, sorry, so one, two, three, and four. Alright, so that's why we have four key frames right there. So the first one is to stay stay with where you are. Then the second one to the right, the third one to the left, and then the fourth one back to where you were before. All right. So if I play my video back now, that's exactly what I'm going to get. So if I press play, you can see what happens at the beginning of my video. You can see that, huh? Really cool. So we can see that the rotation happened the way we, you know, thought it in our mind. So that's how to set key frames and to begin to animate your video or your layers in after effect. Alright? So let's do one more example. Okay, one more example, I'm going to go to let's do scale now. Let's do skill. So for skill, let's think of what we can do for skill. So let's as some I want my video to from the normal size scale up, right, and then scale down and come back to the normal size, right? So with scale, normal size, scale up, scale down, and come back to the normal size. All right, so let's actualize that now in after effect using the key frames. Now, to set my keyframe for scale, if I set it anywhere within this keyframe and this keyframe, what I'll be telling after effect is that I want both the scale and rotation to happen simultaneously. All right. So meaning as my rotation is happening, my scaling up and scaling down will also be happening. So that is the result I will get if I set my keyframe anywhere between here and here. Okay. So but that's not what I want right now. What I want right now is I want my rotation to happen on its own. And then once my rotation is done, I want my scale to now happen somewhere after that point, okay? And to do that, I will have to take my playhead somewhere away from these current keyframes and I can also put it somewhere around 1 second, right? So meaning after this, when the video gets to 1 second, then my scaling up and scaling down would now occur. Okay? So you can see I'm on 1 second right here. I will go to my scale, click on the stopwatch for scale, okay? So once I click on the stopwatch for scale, we can see that we have a keyframe up here right there. So you can see that when we clicked on the stopwatch, it added a keyframe for us where we had our playhead, okay? So it's always important that you put your playhead at the exact point where you want your animation to take place or where you want your key frame to appear. All right? So after clicking here, I can see my keyframe is now set here. Now, because at the initial stage, I want my video to remain normal before scaling up. I am not going to adjust this scale. I'm not going to adjust this scale. I'm going to leave it the way it is, okay? I'm going to leave it the way it is. Then I can now move five frames forward. So I'll look here and watch out when I get to five frames. And so once I get to 1 second, five frames, all right, I'm going to stop right there. Then I'll go to my scale, and then this time, I can now scale it up. Okay? I can now scale it up. So if I click here and I scale this up, right? So let's do maybe 150. So I can just click inside here and type 150, press Enter, and you can see that my video is now scaled up or zoomed in. Okay? And then I can now go to the next five frames. Okay? So I'll come here move this forward to 1 second, sorry. So that'll be one sec content frames. Okay, now, so after moving our playhead to one sec content frames, I can come to my scale, and I want to scale it down now, okay? So I can change it from, you know, remember the default value there was 100. So 150 made it scale up. So if I change it to 50, that will scale it down. So I'll just click here and type 50. And you can see that it has scaled down my video, making it small. All right? Great. And you can see another que frame has been added right there. Then I can move five frames forward again. So that will land me on 1 second, 15 frames, okay? And what do I want to do now? Can you guess? Fantastic. Yes, I want to scale it back to 100, which is a normal size. So I'll come to scale, click here and type 100, okay? Rs Enter, and that would make my video come back to the normal size it was before. So we have four key frames here again. The first one means the video should stay normal. The second one is make the video big. The third one is make the video small, and the fourth one is bring the video back to the normal size, right? So that is what we have right now. So if I go back now, from this point, let me put my play here and press play. You see what we've just done with our scale. Can you see that now? Really cool. But when I take it all the way to the beginning, the first thing I'm going to see is the rotation. And then after the rotation, I'm going to see the scale occur. So let me press play now. You can see what we have right there, okay? So this is how you begin to animate stuff in after effect, right? It's very, very, very simple. So I'm going to stop this video right here, okay? And I'm going to give you a classwork, okay? I'm going to give you a classwork. And your classwork is to animate this position. So for position, I want you to animate the video to go I want you to animate the video in this way, right? First, the video will stay where it is. Then second, the video will go to the right. Then, third, I want you to make the video go to the left, and then fourth, I want you to make the video come back to where it is before. Now take note. I said, left and right, okay? I didn't say up and down. So I'm just giving you a tip there. So you know which value to adjust in your position. Alright? Okay, so the first one, the video stays where it was. The second one, it goes right. The third one, it goes left, and then the fourth one, it comes back to where it was initially. And then the second classwork is opacity. With opacity, I want you to make the video fade out. Okay? I want you to make the video fade out. So somewhere towards the end of the video, make the video fade out like it's the end of the movie or something, right? So that is your classwork, and I'll see you in the next video. In the next video, we're going to be doing the correction. So that's why I'm pausing right now so that you can try it out. And then in the next video, you can see if you got it right or wrong. See you in the next video. Piece out. 11. Master Keyframes in After Effects: What's up, guys. So let's go into the next video in this after effect training. First, I'm going to be doing the correction to your classwork, and then we'll talk more about key frames. All right, so let's get straight into it right now. Okay, so we're back right here in Adobe After effect. And quickly, let me just do the um, correction of the classwork I gave you in the previous video. All right. So right now, let me just do this. Remember I told you that if you set any new keyframe within an existing keyframe, it means you're telling after effect that you want the new keyframe and the existing one to happen simultaneously. All right? There are situations whereby you would want that to happen. But for this case, we just want it to happen after our other key frame. So this is this, then this will happen after this. And now the position I want to do will also happen after the scale. All right. So I'll just put my playhead at 2 seconds, okay? And then I'll come to my position. Click on the stop watch for position, and that will add a keyframe right there. Okay? And don't forget for the position, the first one, you want to leave it the way it is. Now, for those of you that might have done a mistake of adjusting this first one, let me show you what your error would have been. So let me just move this naturally, I'm not supposed to move it because at this point, I want my video to remain here so that I can actually see the video going out, right. So if I adjust this now and say, Oh, move this to the left, right? Move five frames forward, right, and move this to the right. Some of you, this is what you did, but let me just do this so that you can see what the video will look like. So you know the difference between this and what I'm going to do next. Then you move five frames forward again and then that's 2 seconds frames, and then you bring it back to this. So this was 960, so those type 960, and you bring me back to my video. Now, if I try to play this, you can see that because I moved this first key frame to the left, even though I go back, back, back to my scale up, my scaling down, you can see that the video, even at the very beginning where the rotation is occurring, that the video is already on the right, okay? And this is not the result you want. So you can see that it just keeps the video to the right until the video gets here before it comes back in. Alright? That is not the effect that we have in our head, or is that is not the animation we had in our head. So this is the error you get if you do that, alright? And that's why I said that this first keyframe, you always want to leave it and not touch it because you want the video to remain like that before it starts animating the way you want it. So let me undo that undo, undo, undo, undo, undo. So those of you that made that mistake, I'm sure you've seen where you made that error, and you can correct it. So it can also undo yours until everything is gone. So I will come to my position once again, click on the stopwatch, and this time, I won't do anything to this keyframe. I will just move five frames forward, and then I will now take it to the left. Alright. So depending on what I want to do, let me just take it somewhere here. Then go five frame forward again and then take it to the right. So when you are dragging to the right, when I click and drag here, immediately my mouse hits this point, I don't allow me to drag again. So what you just want to do is to release your mouse, come back there, click and drag again. Come back here, click and drag again until, you know, you get to where you want your video to be. Alright, so you can see that we are dragging our X axis and not Y. If we have dragged our Y axis, our video will be moving up or down, and that's not what we intend to animate. We want to animate it left and right. So I'll keep dragging this until I like what I see. So maybe let me just stop somewhere here, and that looks good. So I'll move five frames forward again. All right. And then I'll bring my position back to where it was before. I know that the value that was here before was 960. So I'll just click inside there and type 960, so I don't struggle to bring it to the center of my screen. All right. So you can see we have four key frames here once again. The first one is the video stays the way it is. The second one is take the video to the right. The third one is take the video to the left. The fourth one is bring the video back to where it was before. All right. So if I play that back, I'll click here to bring my plate somewhere at the beginning of that keyframe. Press play, and then you can see how my video goes left and right and stuff. And then from the beginning, we have our rotation, our scale, and position. Okay. So you can see how it's easy to just begin to animate things in after effects without, you know, stress. So setting key frames is very simple. Why? Because you are the one to determine what you want to do? All right? That's what makes it simple because I'm the one who's going to determine how I want my video to move or the kind of animation I want. That is what makes it simple, okay? So because you are in control, that gives you the edge over after effect to use the keyframe to kind of control the movement of your layer or your video the way you want it exactly. All right, so let's do the last one, which is for opaquity. Okay? I can put that here. All right. Click on my stop port for opacity. Okay. And that will set a key frame for me right there. And then I will move forward five frames, right? So basically, I'm not going to do five frames, but let me just do five frames since we've been doing five frames all this while I'll show you the result we get and why five frames will not really, you know, look good here. So put it at 3 seconds, five frames. And then some of you also, you might have come here and say, Oh, let me first do maybe like 60. Then you move forward again and say, Oh, let me do like 40 or 30 or something. And then move forward and then now do zero, okay? And then you have four key frames. All right, so what I've done here is still exactly if I undo this and then from this first keyframe, I would just come to the second one and just type zero. All right. If I'm counting 100, 70, 50, 30, ten, zero, it's the same thing as 100 to zero. Alright, I could just use two keyframes to finish up that instead of setting several key frames because it's opacity, right, and it's going to be going down like that. So instead of doing 100, 90, 80, 70, I get to zero, I'm just going to basically do 100 and then the next one will be zero. So meaning that it's going to fade out my video at that point. So some of you, you might have done the opposite. Maybe you click the A, and then you went to change this to zero. And then you moved forward five frames, and then you went to change this to 100. You've actually done the opposite. So meaning that you are telling after effect that all the way from this point to this point, that your video should not show, and your video should only show starting from this point. So if I go back here, I can see that we are not seeing anything when I press play, we're not going to see anything until we get here, right? Because that's exactly what you've told after effect to do. You've done the opposite of what you're supposed to do, right? So I'm going to undo that. And then click here again. This should be 100 and then I'll move here five frames forward. And then change this to zero. So what happens is that when I press play, I'll start seeing my video show from here, do all of the stunts and then fade out. Okay? Cool. So you can see what we have. So if this is what you have done, give yourself a big round of a plus you are the boss. Okay? All right. So, if this is not what you've done, you could just correct yourself, and then now you are the boss, okay? So that is that. But like I was saying the other time, the space between this hundred and zero for this opacity is too small, right? It's too small. And that will bring us to timing, and I would also explain the reason why we've been using five frames, five frames all this while. The reason is because if I undo this opacity again, if I click on this 100 and this time, instead of doing just five frames, if I do all the way to maybe the end, what will happen? If I come here and change this to zero. It means after the keyframe, this is the hundred and this is zero. It means it will take this long time for my video to disappear. And what will happen, that will make my fading off very slow and not as fast as it was before. So, the further the key frames are from each other, the slower your animation. And the closer the key frames are to each other, the faster your animation. That is why I said you should use 55 frames. The reason is because I wanted our animation to be fast, okay? I don't want it to be slow because if I had chosen something like maybe one 1 second, right, that would have made our animation, you know, a little bit slow. And that's why I said, Let's do five frames so that we can have our You know, animation occur very, very fast, okay? And now for opacity, I don't want it to be fast. I want it to be slow so that I can let people see that my video is actually fading off gradually. So if I press Play now, see what I have. And see how it took a long time to fade out my video. Okay? So that is that. And if I come to my what's it called, my rotation, let's assume I grab this one, move it far away. Move that far away, grab this, move this far away. Now let me just move them, push it very far from each other. You will see how slow it's going to take my video, you know, to do this position. So if I press play from the beginning, you can see the others are fast, but you can see the position. You can see how slow it is now than it was before. Okay? So the further the key frames from each other, the slower the animation. And the closer the key frames are to each other, the faster the animation. So let me just undo, undo, undo, undo back to what I have. So this is what I want. I want my position, rotation and scale to be fast, but I want my opacity to be slow so that I fades off gradually. Alright? So that is that. So quickly, let's talk more on key frames, and let's talk about the easy and motion blow at this point. Okay. But before I talk about that, in case you want to edit your keyframes. Now this is very important. You can see maybe this position maybe I want to edit any part of this keyframe for position. Don't just put your played anywhere and come to position and start adjusting the values here. If you do so, you'll be indirectly adding another keyframe that you were not aware of instead of editing the keyframe. So if I come here and say, Oh, I want to adjust this so more jar, I want to do this like this and adjust. Can you see that it has automatically added the keyframe there without me knowing. And then when I press play now, I will see my video behaving in a way that is not supposed to behave. And then I'll be wondering, Oh, why is my video stopping like this? Why is it not stopping in the middle again? I thought I placed it to stop in the middle. Oh, what's going on? Oh, la, la, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It is because you were not conscious of the fact when you were adjusting your keyframe that your playhead was in the wrong place. So if you want to edit any keyframe, you can put your play head directly on top of that existing keyframe. And how do you know your play head is directly on top of that keyframe? If I look my position now, you can see that this is not blue. But once I put my plate on an existing keyframe, you can see that this is now blue, letting me know that I'm on top of an existing keyframe. And once I find that I'm on top of the existing keyframe, I can come to my position and adjust my position anywhere I want it. So maybe I want you to go in some more. I won't be creating a new one. I would just be editing the existing one. All right. So that's just another tip that you should have at the back of your mind when it comes to keyframes and editing them. All right. So if I press play now, I won't get any weird thing happening to my video, it to look like the way it's supposed to be. Okay? So that is that with editing your key frames. Alright, it's not that hard. Great. So let's come back here. So I wanted to talk about the easy es for keyframes. Now, for you to, you know, have smooth animations, it is always important that you make your keyframe easy. It's always good you make your keyframes, easy. And how do you change your keyframe to an easy keyframe? It's very simple. All you need to do is to right click on any keyframe, and then in the options here, you will see keyframe assistant. And then under the keyframe assistant, you will see Eazy E. So that will just help you to kind of smoothen your animation. Alright. Though, when you change your keyframes to Eazy E, it's not really visible to the eyes. You don't really see the difference, but the difference is there, trust me, okay? So always turn your keyframes towards easy. So when I change this to EZ now, you can see that my key frame has changed from looking like this diamond icon to this, you know, sound of time icon, right? And that's because I've changed this keyframe to easy is. All right. So I want to change the remaining keyframes to easy is. How do I go about that? I can just select everything like that, okay, minus the one I've made easy is already. All right. So how do I select? I just click on Somewhere empty and drag and I'll see a line beginning to show. All right. And I'll make sure that line covers all my keyframe. All right. Without my keyframe selected, you can move your keyframes, all right. So but that's not what we want to do now. We just want to make it easy E. I can write, click and then go to Keyframe Assistant and choose easy E. And you can see the shortcut is F nine or function nine. So if I click on that, you can see all my keyframes are now easy is except opacity. So for opacity to I select, so o way to actually select this, I can select this one, hold down Shift on my keyboard, and click on the next keyframe, and both of them will remain selected. All right. And this time, I'm going to use the short cut, so I'll come to my keyboard and just press F nine. But the way my own keyboard is requires me to hold down the function key before pressing F nine. So I'll do that and that will just transform my keyframes to EZ. So when I press Play now, the difference is there. You can see that the animation is looking a little bit smoother than it was before, right? So if you're not really seeing the difference that much, don't worry yourself. Just know that the difference is there. Trust me. Okay? So that is how to add EZ as to your key frames in after effect. All right. And then the final thing we are going to talk about in this section before we move on is motion blow, motion blow, motion blow. Now, this is my hand, right, okay? If I begin to move my hand very fast. Can see what's going on, you can see that it's looking blurry. And that's because I'm moving my hand so fast that for you to even see my fingers or count my fingers, it's going to be really, really difficult for you, right? Now, that blurriness you're seeing is what is called motion blow. So what that means is that in real life, when things move really fast, there's always a blurriness, okay? There's always a blurriness attached to it. So right now, in my video, since I have some fast movement like my rotation, my scale, my position, they're really moving fast. It's supposed to have that blurriness also attached to it to make it look more realistic, right? And that is why, you know, after effect has added the motion blow effect to its software to add it to your animation, so that it will give you a realistic fast movement. So take note, if your movement or your animation is not fast, then there's no point adding a motion blow because if I put my hand like this and I move it like this, there is no blurriness occurring here. You can easily count my hand or my fingers, I mean, and then you are not seeing anything blurry. So if you if your animation is now fast, then there's no point adding motion blow because you're not going to see the effect. So you only add motion blow to first movement. And since we have first movement here, we are going to do just that. So how do I add my motion blow to my video? It's very simple. At the top here, you can see the motion blow icon. You can see enable motion blow for all layers. So if I click here, it kind of enable motion blow for all layers, right? But it's not going to affect my video yet. Why? Because I have to still activate motion blow for that particular layer. So if you look right here, you can see the same icon of this motion blow right here, and you can see an empty box under it right here. Now, just in case you're not seeing this boxes here or this, icons here, it means you are in your mood. Okay, you are in your mode section. So to tuggle between your mode section and switches. So right now I'm in switches. That's why I can see the motion blow. Well, if you're in mode, you won't see your motion blow. So how do I go about that? At the bottom here, there's a button that allows you to toggle between switches and modes. So if I click here, you can see right now I'm in my mode section. If I click again, right now, I'm in my switches section. Why is it called switches? It is because of these empty boxes under right here. Alright? So, make sure you're in switches. And then under this motion blow icon for this my layer here. I can see an empty box there. If I click on that empty box, then I would have activated Motion blow, and you can see it immediately in my video. You can see that blurriness now being applied. Without it, you can see what I have. With the motion blow, you can see what you have. So it gives you that first realistic blurriness, it adds it to your video and makes it look good. So the reason why you have to activate it here and activate it here is because if I go to this caso one, for example, I might want to activate motion blow for this layer and not activate for this one, this one, this one. So that's why I can see that everything has its own box right here and I can click the motion blow for the particular layer that I want. I can click it for everyone. Or just click it for one layer alone. If that is the layer I want to add motion blow too. All right. So that's why after adding your motion blow here, you also have to come and click on it to activate it for the particular video right here. All right. So now if I press play, right, so things might get a little slow here, but you can see the motion blow now being applied to my video. So I'm just going to wait for this green guy to go all the way from the beginning to the end. And that's when when I start playing from the beginning again, that I will be able to see my video play normally. So right now, it's doing something called pre rendering. Alright. So because I've added some effects to it, so you can see it's taking time to play. If I wanted this to have happened faster, I would have changed this my full to quarter, right? So you can see the green has covered everywhere now, and you can see my video is playing smoothly now. And you can see the way the motion blow has made it look really nice, okay? Awesome. So thank you so much for watching this video, and I'll see you in the next after effect video. Pooh. 12. More Keyframes Examples in After Effects: Whats up guys. Welcome to another video in this after effect training. In this particular video, I'm going to be showing you more examples of using your keyframes to create motions in after effect. So let's get straight into it right now. Alright, so we're back in after effect. And for this example, let's come and use this. I have this newspaper image right here. You can see this newspaper image here. So let's right click on that and choose new comp from selection. New comp from selection. Alright. And that also tells you that you can actually create new composition from images, too. Alright? So it's not just videos that you can create compositions from. You can also create compositions from images. And when you do that, the time of your image would be the last time you use when creating a composition in After Effects. So right now, it just gave me a 15 second long timeline because that was what I chose last when creating my composition, right? So now that I have this image, if I press play, this is not going to play anything because this is just an image, PNG file. So that's why I can say it's transparent, right, and everything. So don't forget that anytime you see black in after effect, it doesn't mean that there's a black color there. It simply means that this is transparent. All right. If you're not comfortable with the black color, in after effect, you can come and click on this icon, this transparency grid, which is just beside your active camera. You can click on it to change your view from the black screen to the transparent screen so that I can see that, Oh, this is actually transparent. But since I know it's already transparent, I don't need to see my transparency grid. I can just click here and need to fill it with a black color, but I know it's actually transparent. Okay? So what I want to do is I want to create something like we saw in the Spider Man movie, you know, when they went to announce that Spider Man is dead, alright, when they thought he was dead and it wasn't really dead. You know, we had the newspaper kind of rotates across the screen and then just stays on the screen. Spider Man is dead, alright, as the front page of that newspaper. So let's animate something like that. Now, before we do that, let's break down the animation in that, you know, Spider Man movie. Now, in that animation. We saw that when the thing started playing, the newspaper was initially small, okay? It was small, and then we noticed that it started becoming what bigger. And as it's becoming bigger, we also noticed that it was also rotating, right? So the animation was a combination of, you know, rotating and becoming big. All right? That was what created the animation. Now, if you want to replicate the same thing in After effect using this newspaper image, right, what can we do? We can simply come to the newspaper image. Click on this dropdown to open the transform option of this. You can see there's no audio here because this is an image. So that's why we're only seeing transform here. I'll click on that to open up my transform, and we can sell our position scale rotation opacity. Now, based on the explanation of that animation we just did now. We notice that two things are used there. Number one, we have scale. So scale was what we were able to make the news scale was what we were able to use to make the newspaper small and then grow big. And then the rotating there is obviously the rotation transform option. Alright. So a combination of scale and rotation should give us the animation that we want to work on here. So how do I go about that? I can just come right here to my scale. Now, before I click, you can see where my playhead is. I'll bring it and bring it to the beginning because I want all of this to happen at the very beginning. In short, I want my animation to occur within 1 second. So what I'll be doing here is just 1 second of animation, right? So I'll make sure my player is at the right place, which is at the beginning. I'll click on scale because I want to set key frame for scale. All right. And I'll also click on rotation because in this case, I won't put the scale and rotation to happen simultaneously. Okay? I want it to happen simultaneously. All right. So I'll select both of them, and then you might say, Oh, the next thing is to go to 1 second and then adjust this. But there's something we're missing at this first keyframe here. Now you can see that scale, our newspaper is already big, at the very beginning, I don't want my newspaper to be big. I want it to be small. What I'm going to do here is to actually come to my scale on this first keyframe and reduce the size of my newspaper to zero. I'll just come here and type zero and that will reduce it to the smallest. Why? Because when I press Play, I want to see the newspaper become big as it's rotating. So if I undo this and I leave it as big as it was, then I won't be able to achieve that animation. So this first key frame for scale, I'm going to click on it and change it towards zero, right? So we can now go to 1 second, right? And then at 1 second, I can now increase my scale to 100 Okay. And then I can rotate my newspaper. So I want it to rotate twice within 1 second. All right. So I'll just come to the zero X, which is the number of times and type in two right there. So it means that it's going to rotate 360 degree twice. Alright? I can see what I have right there. So when I press play now, you can see what I have. Very, very simple. Now, if I had not set these two keyframes simultaneously, let's assume maybe I did my rotation after scale. So let me select the rotation key frame, and I put that maybe somewhere after my, you know, scale. If I press plate, this is what I'll get. And this is not what I want. So you can see that the combination of the scale and rotation makes it, you know, gives you the effect to rotate simultaneously and get this result. Alright? So there we have it. All right. I like it. So don't forget your easy E. So we select all our Q frames, function F nine to easy E. And then since this is the first movement also, we activate our Motion blow. So I'll click on Motion blow here and right here. So I can press play now. Can see the difference between what was there before and now. Awesome. Whoa. So we're creating some Spider Man right here. Alright, so you can see motion graphics is not hard. You're the one in control. You're the one to decide how your movement is going to go. You're the one to decide, you know, what's going to happen with the animation, and then you just go ahead and create your awesome animation. I can even go ahead and add sound to this to give it more, you know, to make it more interesting. I have this woosh here, right? So we have just two. We have woosh three and just woosh. So the woosh, I can drag that, drop that into my timeline. Alright. And when I press play, you can hear that sound, right? But it's coming in too early. Okay, so what do I do? I just move this a little bit forward and play again. Alright. Great. You can see how that matches the animation now. Alright, you can see the sound stopping when the newspaper also stops. So when it comes to motion graphics, adding sound kinds of bring your animation to life, you know, and gives it reading, and people can relate with it. And you can also make it look as if people were in that same animation environment when the whole thing was happening with sound effect. So you can go online, search on Google. There are various website where you can download free paid sound effect, okay? So just search for sound effect on Google. You're going to see so many website to download from, right, and then you can just download them and add them to your project. Okay. So let's do one more example before we leave keyframes. All right, so let me just go to my project panel. I have this CD cover or COL DVD cover image I did for my church. All right. I can just right click on that say new come from selection. I can see you can do something like this easily in Illustrator. You know, if you've gone through the illustrator training, this is clipping marks. This is some shapes here, and then you type your text, bring in your logo, add some transparency here, and you're done. Okay? So I just created this for the CD cover in my church, alright, for pastor salmon. Now, I want to make this roll and rotate and put in some music and make it look as if, you know, we're listening to the CD or something. Alright? To do that, I'll just go to my transform, open my transform, go to rotation easily, make sure I'm at the very beginning. Click on rotation, and this is 15 seconds. So depending on how fast I want this to be rotating, will determine the number of rotation that I'm going to choose right here. Since this is 15 seconds, let's make this rotate maybe seven times. All right, let's see how fast or slow that is going to be. I can see all the way at the end, I have my second keyframe. I'll select both of them and right click Keyframe Assistant, easy is, and that makes it easy is. All right. So when I press play now, you can see what I have, right? You can see the way it's rolling and rolling and rolling. So to make this more interesting, I can look for background music or something. So let me just bring in this island MBB and stuff, drop that into my project panel. Alright. So that's another way of importing into your after effect project. Then I can drag it from here and drop it on there. And now, when I press the play button, Alright, so you can see how it started, you know, a little bit slow, became fast, and then it ended slow. And that's because we added that easy ease to it to give you that smoothness at the beginning and at the end. Okay? So without the easy ease, you would have just gotten, you know, normal, you know, speed from the beginning to the end. Alright, so that is start with key frames. So I want you to go out there and begin to create amazing stuff. Thank you for watching this video, and I'll see you in the next video. 13. Creating a Lower-third in After Effects: What's up, everybody. Welcome to another video in this after effect training. And in this video, let's talk about creating a simple lower third in after effect. So let's get straight into it right now. Pop. All right, so we are inside of After effect now, and I want to go to Kao two this time, right click and create a new composition from that video. What's up, everybody. My name is Gabriel Show A. So other part where I said, my name is Gabriel Shoe. I want to create a lower third that will just bring up my name right and show right there. You can call me K Show and welcome to. Alright and my portfolio. So that's basically what lower thoughts are. Lower thoughts are those texts that comes at the bottom of the screen, displaying somebody's name and the person's portfolio or maybe doing a newscast, you know, you're trying to just, you know, give people the headline or something. That is what is called a lower thud. So let's create a simple one. Inside of After effect using our knowledge of keyframes. So to do that quickly, I'll go to my rectangle, too, right, and grab my rectangle, and I want to draw a shape this time. So I want to make sure that my video is not selected. So I'll click out and click and drag, and I want to draw something like this. Okay? You can see that right there. Okay? Grab my selection to just move that up a little bit. And I want to make this red. Okay? So I want to do color red, but not a little bit dark red in color. All right. Something like that. Okay. All right. Don't mind. I'm just trying to select something cool. I'll click Okay. I have one rectangle here. All right, and I can draw another rectangle. All right. Still selecting this shape layer one. I can click drag and that will give me Rectangle two. Okay. This rectangle two, I'm going to come back to my selection to change the color of that to a gray color. All right. So to a gray color like that and then click Okay, then we position it. I want it to be somewhere around here. Just like that. Okay? So you can see what I have right here. And now the next thing I want to do is to type in my text. So I'll go to T, click and type Gabriel. Show a lay. Okay. Go back here and then come to my character panel, and, you know, let's use something very simple like Montserrat or century gothic. Let's use century gothic. Let's make that bold. Okay. And let's change the color to white. Alright? Because I'm trying to place it here. So I'll reduce the size also. Alright. And then just drag it and still looking big, reduce it some more. And just place that right here. All right, you can see that looking good. All right. And I want to type in my portfolio here so I can select my text in the timeline Control C or Command C, which is copy, and then Command or Control C, which is paste. So I have two of these texts here. Don't forget that here please ed it directly on the existing one. So if I click and drag and move away, that's when I'll see that there are actually two of them there. So I'll double click to edit my text type CO Ksho concept. All right. And then go back to my selection tool and reduce the size, you know, so that I can fit into this right here. All right. So put that right there. You can see how we've easily created this simple lower though right here. Okay, CK show concepts. Alright. And we have that there. So with the power of keyframes, I can come here and animate this to come from outside and just fly in at that point where I mentioned my name. So let's play this again. Up, everybody. My name is Ke oh. Hey, bro. Let's go back again. What's up, everybody? My name is. My name is Posid all right. So meaning that this is where our key frame will begin from. Alright. So I'll select my text, the two texts and the shape layer. All right. I need to select the three of them together. Now, okay, let me deselect and show you something. Now, if I want to bring up position, instead of always, you know, clicking here, going down down down down and bringing up position, or if I click here, click here, go to transform, then I can see position, I can actually use shortcuts. So if I select a new layer and I press P to bring up position, if I press S, it brings up scale. If I press R, it brings out rotation. If I press T, all right, I guess you said zero or O. All right. It will bring out opacity. T brings out opacity. T is basically transparency. That's why it's T, not O. All right. So that's that. So that's a short cut. If I press T again, that will remove the opacity. So what I want to do now is I want to set keyframe for all of them together. All right. I don't want to do it one by one. So I'm going to select this, hold down shift, select this and select this, right, without selecting the video itself. And then I'll press P, and I'll bring P for all the layers, right? P for all the layers. And so anytime I click on the stop patch for one, it affects the rest. All right. You can see that you set the keyframe for the three of them. So this will make my work faster rather than having to set the first text, the second text, and then the shape, it would be really tedious that way. Select everything, press the position rotation scale or whatever you want for it and set keyframe for all of them together. Okay. Now that I have this keyframe here, at this point, this should be outside, right? It should not be visible to people yet. So before setting the second keyframe, I'll make sure that this first keyframe says that this is outside. So I'll come to the position X, click and take this outside, and you can see all of them are being adjusted together. Alright? So it's outside now. I'll press play. Gabriel, surely. All right. So up to this point is where I want it to be, but I don't want it to take this long for it to show. So I'll come back here and I and say I want this to show between here and somewhere here, so not too fast so that it to be fast. Alright because I want the animation to be fast. So I don't do somewhere here. So that's around 2 seconds. Let's do 2 seconds stem frames. All right. So you can follow along with that. All right. Don't worry. If it's too slow or too fast, we can still adjust it later on. So I'll come to position and then bring them back inside, right? So somewhere, I'll stop somewhere here. So let's see this place. What's up, everybody. My name is Gabri Shoe. But you can. So you can see the way it came in there. What's up, everybody. My name is Gabri Shoal. So it's kind of slow to me. I don't know about you. So I'll just grab all these three key frames here. You can see they're already selected. If they are not selected, you can select the first one, hold down Shift, select, and select, and then you can move them together. So I'll just move them close to each other. Everybody your name is Gabri Show. Alright, so I think I like it now. Show. So it's coming in very fast. So I'll select all my key frames, F nine. Okay. And then motion blow. Pom? Pom. Alright, so you can see the advantage of having everything selected together. It just allows you to add it to one, and it applies to the remaining ones, okay? So that is that. So if I come back now and I press play. What's up, everybody. My name is Gabriel Shoe. Whoa. You can see how that came in really, really, really nice, okay? So I like it. What's up, everybody. My name is Gabriel Show Ai. Alright, you can see that blowinssTs making it to come in. And the easy is also helping it out and everything. Gabri So Ai. Alright. But you? So I like this, okay? And we want to make this also disappear. So we don't want to stay all the way to the end of the video. So we're going to set another keyframe for that. So when I press play. Gabriel Shoale. But you can call me Kisho. I want it to disappear somewhere here after saying everything about my name. My name is Gabriel Sho, but you can call me Kisho. So we'll come here again, three of them still selected. I'll press T for Opacity, right, because I want it to fade off. So I'll click on the Stopwatch right here. Alright. This first one, I'm going to leave it in 100 because I want it to be visible up to this point. Then I move forward. Okay. To maybe 6 seconds, 15 frames or so, so I to fade out slowly, and then I'll come to my opacity and change out to zero. I can see everything changed to zero. I'll do my, you know, easy ease again, alright. And play from the beginning. What's up, everybody. My name is Gabriel Shoale. But you can call me Kho. And welcome to another furnish shop Tutorial. What's up, everybody. My name is Gabriel Alright, Shoal. What you can call. Okay, so my after effect is already trigging because of the background as I'm running. Let me just drop it to, like, cutter and press play. So you should play fast now after prerendering. Alright, so just chill while the grain goes around. So you should play normal now. Real What's up, everybody. My name is abro Shoe. But you can call me Kisho. And welcome to another Photoshop Tutorial. What's up, everybody. My name is Gabri Shoe. But you can call me Kisho. And welcome to another. Alright, so you can see how we're able to create that simple lower third in after effect. So in the advanced session of After effect in this training, alright, which you'll find on the website, I'm going to be, you know, showing you some other fantastic way of creating, you know, lower thirds in after effect. So thank you so much for watching this video. Go ahead and create wonderful Lower thuds, you know, after effect for your videos, and I'll see you in the next video. Piece out. 14. Applying Effects and Presets in After Effects: Whats up guys. Welcome to another after effect training video. And in this session, we're going to be talking about effects and presets. So we're going to be talking about how to add different effects to your video to get different results and to make your video cooler. Alright, guys, so let's get straight into it, and I'll show you how to do unostat. Alright, so we're back right here in After effect. And what I want to do now is I want to go to Kho one again and right click and say new come from selection. So that will give me a new composition with a video inside to work with. Alright. And you can see we have Kashw four. So so far so good, we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven composition so far. In after effect. And like I said, each of them doesn't disturb each other, right? So I can export what I have here as a video, export this as a video, export this as a video, export this as a video. And even this one I'm about to work on as a video on its own, right? So you can have as many composition as you want in after effect. So I want to talk about effect and preset. So I want to come right here and I'll see effect and preset. If you can't find out, you can go to Window and under Window, you see effect and preset. Alright, so the effect there are the different effects I can add. While the preset, like I said at the beginning of the training, the preset simply means predefined settings, right? So you can also use preset, meaning that if you add preset to your video, it's going to add an effect that has already been made for you, right. While if you add a normal effect to it, you have to now, you know, manually create it the way you want it. So let's start with preset. That's the animation preset that we are seeing here. Now, obviously, I won't be able to go through every single effect in this video. So I'm going to touch on some important ones. And what I want you to do after watching this video, is to open every single effect and try it out and see how it works in your after effects, okay? So please don't forget that try out everything. I'm just going to touch on a few here to just show you how to work around effect, how to adjust them and everything. And then you can try out the remaining on your own in your own after effect. Alright, so let's get back right now. So I'll open the animation preset, and you can see we have a couple of folders there, right? And these folders also have a drop down arrow. Okay. For example, if I open up, you know, sound, sorry, shapes, you can see what we have for shape, but right now I don't have any shape yet, so I can't use shapes, okay? We have sound effects, okay? If we drag that, for example, ringing, phone US, drop out, press play, you can see what we have there as it was ringing, somebody is calling. Alright, so that's just a sound effect. So we have just a few of them here. You can try them out. But just mind you that when you drop it on your video, it replaces the existing sound that was there with that sound effect. So just something you should take note of. Alright. So that's for sound, okay? We have so many other ones here. Let me open up this transition. All right, let's do the transition movement. We have this card wipe. If I drag that and drop out of my video and I press play, you can see the way my video transition inside. Alright? And my playhead was somewhere here when I was adding it. So it means that it's going to start the animation from here. So let me undo that and pull my play head at the beginning so that this can happen at the beginning of my video and not in the middle. So when I press play now, you can see the way it comes in. All right, and you can see how that is being added. Now, anytime you add a preset or effect to your video in after effect, the Fed control tab would automatically pop up. Okay? The Fed control tab will automatically pop up. And inside this effect control tab, you can see all of the settings for that preset in this case, right, and you can still adjust it the way you might want it, okay? So for example, you can see what we have here, I can increase the scale, and you can see the way it's making it bigger or smaller. So that's what you do with effect control. It allows you to control the effect in the magnitude that you would like to have that effect. So if you're using a preset, for example, and what it did for you automatically is not, you know, what you want, you can still come to the fat control and adjust the settings the way you would want it to be. All right. So let me undo this. By pressing Control set to remove that effect, you can see whatever that wants flight to inset. So let's see that. You can see what happens. It just flies to that position right there, and you can change the position and everything by coming to the effect control and adjusting different parameters here to decide how you want yours to look like, okay? So it's as simple as that. If you don't want it again, press on do, and that will remove it. So let's leave transitions alone. Until you have other transitions. These are dissolved. These are wipes. Alright the one we just checked out is just movement. So I want to talk about another one, which is for text. Don't forget that we are still under animation preset. So for text, I don't have any text here, so I won't be able to show you an example. So for me to show you example of text, let me quickly grab my T click here and just type any text right here. So let me just type my name. Go back to my selection to and quickly go to the character panel, increase my font. Let me make it big so you can see it very well. Okay, let me just leave the color as white. Alright and leave it that way. Then I can go back to my effect and preset. Don't forget all of these are panels that you can open up in window if you can't find them. So I'll go back to my effect and preset, okay? Now I can open up the text for animation preset. I'm under animation preset. Open it up, and I can see a couple of folders inside. Okay, so let's open this first 23d text and see what it does for us. Let me just drag anyone here and just drop. So to add it, you drag and drop as simple as that. So when I press play now, let's see how it gives me, you can see that nice cool effect. I added to my text right there. Okay. So I don't need to animate this manually in after effect if I'm using preset. All right? If I don't want it again, I will undo that and I would remove the animation. So let's leave this three D text folder. Let's go to animate in. Let's just drag one randomly from here and those drop. So let's see random fade up, okay? So press play. You can see the way it randomly faded up the letters. All right. So don't forget this only works with text, not with video. So you use the right preset for the right layer. All right, so let's leave animate in. Let's go to Animate out. So this would kind of take my text off the screen. So let's play this. You can see the way it takes it out. Alright. And you can see I'm just trying out some and not all. All right. That's why I mentioned at the beginning that you have to try every single thing on your own in your after effect. So I'll go to the next one blog jigging. Let's see what this one would do. You can see the way you know, jigging my text. Alright, so cool. So let's go to another folder. I think probably the last one now because I'm getting tired of the text already. So we have Newton, pinwheel, radio flare. Okay, let's try this radio flair. You can see what it does to my text. Alright? So are really funny. Some are really cool. You can just go through everything and write down your favorite of them all, okay? So that is that. So let me just close this do that. And just leave my animation preset. So when you go to Animation Preset, you see presets. I've told you preset are predefined settings. So when you add these predefined settings to your video or your text or your shape or whatever it is, it will just automatically do something for you without you having to do anything. But if you feel like you still want to adjust some things in it, then you can go to the Fed controls and adjust them right there. So let's leave animation preset. Let's go to you know, other folders that we have here. So everything from underneath this animation preset downward are just regular effects. So that's why it's called effect and preset. So the preset there is this animation preset. While the effects there is everything from this three channel down to utility. Alright? So let me just quickly go to blow and sharpen. Alright, one of my favorite grab Gotha blow from there. Drop that on my video, and you can see I was expecting it to look blurry, but it didn't become blurry, and that's fine, okay? And that's because And after effect, some effect would want you to go to the ft control and adjust the magnitude of the effect or the settings of the effect. So right now you can see that under my fat control, I can see my gaussian blow there, and the blurriness is currently zero, right? And that's why I'm not seeing any blurriness on my video. So if I come to blurriness and I increase it now from zero, take it all the way up, you can see that my video is now looking glory. All right. So I can determine the amount of blurriness I want, whether, you know, just a little or so much, okay? And that is that for that. Now, let me show you guys one cool thing. Let me undo the blurriness added to it. Now, if you come down here, remember this is our text. This is the video. If I open the transform option for the video, instead of me to just see transform and audio like I will normally see. I'm now seeing effect. And why is that? Because I have added an effect to my video. So if I open up this effect drop down here, I'm going to see the effect I have here. So sometimes you might have multiple effects. All of those multiple effects will also show down here. So I can see my Gaussian blow. I can open up the Gaussian blow, right, and you can see the settings we have here right here also. And what makes it different now or why after effect has added it in the timeline is that I can also set key frames for my effect. Wonderful, Abby. All right. Just like we set key frames for position, rotation scale, opacity, we can also set key frames for effect. So for example, this blurriness now, if I want it to just, you know, apply to a certain part of my video, I can actually use a keyframe to determine that. Okay, I can use a keyframe to determine that if I want my blurriness to happen at a particular path. So for example, maybe somewhere around 2 seconds. If I want my video to look blow here, I'll just come to my blurriness, click on the stopwatch there, and you can see a key frame has been added to that point. Then I can go forward. So I want it to be blowed for about a second, and I'll go forward and increase my blurriness. Okay? And you will see that my video will become blur at that point, and you can see a key frame has been set there. Okay? And then I can go a second forward again. And then change my blurriness back to zero and the key frame will be added there. Alright, you can see. So what will happen now if I press plays out here, my video looks normal, here, my video looks blurry. And here, my video comes back to normal. So 2-4 seconds, my video will look blurry and come back to the normal way it was before. So let me play from the beginning, and now you see what we have. All right. So assuming you're trying to do, like, a flashback in your movie, okay? You can easily set keyframe at that point when you're about to do the flashback and then transition to the next video showing the flashback. All right. So we can see all that we have right here. So you can also set key frames for your effect and not just the transform options alone. So that is that. So let me just minimize this, minimize this. Now, anytime you are done with an effect and you don't want the effect again, you can just select the effect in your effect controls, right, and then you press the delete button, and that will delete the effect. So the effect is no longer on my video now. Okay. So let's go to further. So let's go to maybe color correction is one of my favorite also. Now, in video, you want to be doing something called color correction or color grading, right? And the tool that you're going to use under this color correction in after effect for color correction and color grading is this lumor lumary color. So if I drag that and I drop it on my video, not on the text, all right? The video Okay, I can see the lumary color right here in my effect controls, and I can begin to open up each of these folders one by one and adjust the settings until I get my desired color for my video. So if I open up my basic correction, I can see things like temperature. So if I take it to the right, it gives me warm temperature or my video. If I take it to the left, it gives me a cool temperature or my video. All right. We can see how fast or quickly I'm already changing the color look of my video. On that tint, I can give you this, you know, color right here or tint it in a green color. All right. Then my exposure, all right, I can increase my exposure to make it brighter. I can reduce my exposure to make my video darker. Contrast, I can increase my contrast to make the light and dark areas lighter and darker. As I increase that, you see the light areas become lighter and the dark areas become darker. You can see all the light areas are becoming lighter and the dark areas are becoming darker. That's contrast. Highlights to make the light areas lighter, right. And then shadow, okay, to remove the dark areas and make them lighter. But if you take it all the way to the left, you actually make the dark areas darker. And you can see so many settings here in just, you know, color correcting my image and everything. So what I would like to even do here is to first increase my temperature a little bit because I like it looking warm, alright. And then I'll come to my exposure and just give it a little brightness. All right. So maybe 0.4 looks good. And, you know, at this point, you might want to do some make it full so you can see what your video looks like. Then my contrast, I can take that up a little bit to make my dark areas darker and the light areas, you know, lighter. And I can, you know, go to my highlight and just drag that up a little bit, okay? And saturation saturation is for color. So if I want more of my color to pop out more, I can increase my saturation. So I can click and drag that and just take my saturation. If I take it all the way up, you can see how my colors are popping out, so I don't want to do that. I just want to make it, come up a little bit something around you know, one like that. Okay? So my colors are popping out some more now. So you can see the way I'm already color grading and color correcting my, you know, stuff right here. So if I want to see my before and after, I can see this FX icon here inside the box. If I click on that, that will show me what I have without my lumeary color. All right, you can see what I have. My lumenary color, you can see what I have. Okay? So maybe I'll just reduce the temperature a little bit, right, so it's not too much. All right, so before after before, after before, after. So you can see how I've been able to use the lumear color to do just that. If you take your saturation all the way to the end, it's going to give you a black and white. So if you want a black and white, you can just take your saturation to zero, and I will remove every single color. Alright? So it's as simple as that. Okay? So that's your lumenary color. So if I don't want it again, I can delete it, but let me just leave it since it makes my video look better. Then I can you know, there are other ones here. We have tritone. If you want to give your video a three color tone, right, you can see white, gray and black. I can change this gray to other color, and you will see that you can see how it affects my video right there. So that is that for that. Any effect you can add to your video, you can also even come down here, okay, you can see the tritone, open it and I can begin to set key frames for it right here. For example, I can say at the beginning, I want this blue color, okay? So I'll click on the stopwatch. Then I move forward, change it to another color, maybe green, right. Then I move another second forward, change this to blue, okay? All right, I think it was blue before. So let me change that to maybe this color. Then move forward again, change that to red, okay? And by the time I press play now, you see the way the color will begin to change. So you can see things are really dragging now. Or you can see the way the color is changing from one color to another color to another color because now I have set key frame for it and it's giving me this variation of color in my video. Alright? So you can see how that is easy. So after you fail, you can do a whole lot. So you can see things are dragging now because I've added lutary color, Triton, my text, and everything, and I'm on full. So want to make sure that when you're doing your own, you can drop it to cutter so that it will play fast. Okay? So let me just chill. It's going to get to the end very soon because I want you to see it in real time. Okay, go. Nice. Nice. You can see the way the colors were changing. Alright, so you could even use it to do something scary or something very, very cool. So that stats for lumetric color. Let me just begin to delete some of this effect so that my system will not play faster and everything. So I've deleted those effects, I can go to another folder right now. So let's go to generate. On that generator, do we have here? We have CC LightSweep so I can add this CC light sweep to my video right here, and you can see gives me this shining light across my video. I can use this, you know, circular thing here to move it around. Alright? So I can actually set key frame to animate this to go from here to here and just gives my video that shining look, alright, across that. I mean, so so many effect here, let me remove this and add. We have lens flare. I can add a lens flare. Oops, so. Added it to the text. I can add the lens flare to my video. You can see right there. I have lens flare. I can position it anywhere I want. I can even set key frames for this, and it's going to give me all of that. Okay? So that is that. Let me just talk about one more. It is very interesting. We have simulation. Under simulation, we have CC rainfall. Okay, WTC rainfall, I can drag that on my video and make it rain, right, so you can see it's raining already. So let me drop this to third or something so that when I press play, you guys can see it very well. So you can see the rain pouring down on me. So in real life, if you were to use this rain, you would have made sure that, you know, the person, in this case, me, I would be pretending as if it's raining. Then I would have poured water on my whole body from top down, pour water on the floor, and just make it look as if it's raining, even get some thunder sound effect to add to my video so that, you know, you'll be getting that go. While this rain is pouring down. So with this, I will also shoot during the day. I would have shot this in the evening stroke nine so that it looks as if the weather is, you know, dark and everything. And then by the time I add this rain, everything just blend perfectly, right? And people believe it was actually rain. So you don't have to wait for the rainy season to shoot your rainfall scenes in your movies, okay? You can just add them in after effect. So I can increase my number of drops to make it look like a heavy rain, right? And when I press play I can see the rain is pouring, I can grab my wind, change the direction of my rain to make it look as if it's falling from the other side. You know, you could even change the color of your rain to maybe red or something, and you can see, you know, it's dropping red and everything. So that is that with effect and preset. So time will not permit me to go through every single thing, right. If I do that, maybe this video will be like 3 hours long or something. Alright. So but like I said, go home try out every single effect on your own because if you don't try them out, you might be missing out on some effects you saw on someone else's video and you might be thinking, Oh, how did this person get this effect? But it's just a simple effect just add after effect, and then you get that effect. So try out every single effect, right? And I'm going to be stopping right here for this effect and preset video, and I'll see you guys in the next video. Post. 15. How to use Track Matte in After Effects: What's up, guys. Welcome to another after effect training video. In this video, we're going to be talking about track Mnt, right, and how to use it to do amazing stuff. So let's get straight into After effect right now, and I'll show you how to do just that. Whew. Okay, so we are right here in after effect, and we need to go back to our Project panel because we ended up with this effect control here. So if you can't see your project panel like mine, you can see, I can see, you know, the city of that project panel. So I know it's right here. I can just click on it to switch to my Project panel. Or you can go to Window and you see Project right here. Click on it to activate it, and I'll pop up. Alright, you can also use a shot called Command zero or Control zero. Okay, so I just removed it again. So let me just add it again. All right. So for this example, we are going to want to use this, What is that explosion video? Um, where are you? All right, so I have this explosion pack video I downloaded from your website and you can see what we have here. Now, remember I told you that when you double click on your video in your project panel, it's going to open up in your footage panel. So if I double click this here, it's going to open up here and I can preview what this video looks like. All right. So let me press the play button, go to Preview play. All right, so you can see these are free, you know, explosion packs that I can use for my project. All right. And you can see we have different forms of explosion. Okay? We have different forms of explosion. All right. So what I want to do here is that the explosion I need is this one right here that we just, you know, landed up. So this is around 2020 7 seconds, right, to about 30 seconds, right? So that's about 3 seconds of explosion. So I need this particular one. You can see we have so many, I think about 12 right here that we can use. So but I need this particular one here. So this is one advantage of the footage panel, okay? So this time we are in the footage panel consciously, right? We are here consciously because we want to preview our video, and then we also want to trim it. Alright? So I want to trim it to just this particular explosion right here. So how do I go about that? Number one, we double click. You open this. Number two, you take your playhead. So you can see a mini playhead here, a small one here. You take it to where you like to trim. So this is the beginning part of my explosion. You can see that, uh, right there. That's the beginning part. So just before that part is, oops, sorry. So you can see, once again, this is the beginning part. If I go back a frame, you can see that there will be 27 seconds, four frames, right? And if I go forward, you can see. So just before the explosion, 27 seconds four frames is just before the explosion. I'll click on this set end point or this open bracket to cut my video at this point so that all this part of the video will not show. So I'll click and you can see it cuts the video at that point. Then I'll press play and the explosion plays and pus. Okay? So I'm using my space bar, okay, just in case you didn't know. And pause right there. So the explosion ended somewhere around 30 seconds, 18 frames. So what do I do? I don't need the remaining part of this explosion, so I'll come to this set out point or this close a close square bracket icon. Click on that and I will remove this part of the video. And the part of the video I have now is just the explosion part. All right. So that's how you trim Adobe After effect in the footage panel. So now I can go back to the explosion pack in my project panel, right, click on it and say new come from selection. And what will happen is that it's going to create a new composition using that video. And when I press play, I'm only going to see that explosion that I just trimmed without the other ones. All right. So that is why it is good you use the footage panel to trim your video before creating a new composition or dropping the video in your timeline, right? Because what you're going to have in your timeline will be the exact part of the video that you have trimmed in the footage panel. Okay? So let me stop this and put that there. So what are we driving at? Where are we going to? All right? You're going to know very soon. Now the next thing I want to do is I want to bring in this logo image. Alright, remember this is our logo image here. So I'll drag that and I want to drop it above the explosion. Alright? I want to drop it above the explosion, and you can see that it drops above the explosion. If I drop it beneath the explosion, I won't see it at all. So make sure that it is above the explosion. Don't forget that you can always pause this video at every point and, you know, follow along. So don't mind me just talking and talking and talking. Just press that pause button and say, shut up. Let me do my own. Then you do your own. Then can I say, continue. Then I will continue. Okay? All right. So let's move on. So I have this and this here. So if I play this, this is not bad. You know, I just gives you a nice effect. Let me change this to full so I can see it very well. When I play this, you can see the effect I have. Alright, not really that bad, but, you know, we could do something better with this. So where the track math is coming in is that I want to create something, uh, I want to create something in such a way that this explosion, will show only inside this my logo. Alright, will show only inside this my logo and not like the way it's showing now. So this is just, you know, very simple. Anybody can do this. Just drop the two, you know, layers together and get this result. So by my track map, I can make sure that this explosion is only showing inside this my ego logo. And how do I do that? Okay? That's where I need my track mat. So for you to get your track mat, you have to be in mode and not switches. So right now I'm in switches, right, and not mode. So I'll come down here, click here and change this to mode. I can see I'm in mode. And then beside that mode, I can see track mat, Alright, Track mat. Now, what I want to simply do is that you can see that under this track mat, under the explosion, we can see none here. All right. All you simply need to do is to change the track mat of this explosion from none to Alphamat. But before I do that, right, for you to use alphamat, you must make sure that the color of your image is white, right, or something light, okay? White or light. Alright, so white and light are the same thing now, so, Abby. Yeah, so it has to be something light or something white or else it will not work. Alright? So if you want to create such effect like this, if you're the one who created this logo or not, you can take it to Illustrator or Photoshop and just change it to plain white before bringing it into after effect and doing this track mat. Okay? So since the color of our logo is white, we are good to go. I'll come here and choose Alpha mat and the magic happens. Okay? So you can see my entire explosion is gone, but only using so it's now using this ego logo, as a max, okay, for the explosion. So anywhere this logo doesn't get to, you don't see the explosion. So you only see the explosion through the logo, and it's as simple as that. Okay? Very, very simple. So if I played this from the beginning, that's when you see the coolness in it. Press play. Poom, just like that. All right. Really, really cool. So this is how to use the track mat. So basically, what you do is that the video is under the image or text. So talk about some text example now can be above or any shape, anything white, right, can just be above while the video is under. And then you just change the track mat of the one under from none to Alpha mat and to use the image or shape or whatever it is above as the mat for that video. Okay? And you get this cool effect. Let's even add some explosion to this. So I think I have Explosion, sound, sound, sound, sound, explosion. Where are you? I think this is it right here. So we have this sound. Let me give you some more room so you can see sound explosion. Alright? So you see that right there. Sound explosion. Let me trim this back. Okay. I'll drag that, drop that underneath it, and then press play. Awesome. Well blows up here, man. Cool. All right. So that is how to use your track man. So quickly, let's just, you know, remove this logo, right? Or let me just do the same thing, grab my explosion pack, create a new from the video now, not the composition. The video, right click New selection, new come from selection. Just type text and say, let's just type, you know, PAST something. Capital letter. All right. And now I want to look for, you know, text, a font. Now, if you see something like this when working in a five fet, you can see saying refresh disabled, release caps lock to refresh view. So just make sure your caps lock is turned off and you'll be able to see your text and all, okay? So I need a font that is really fat and, you know, wide. So I'll come to my character panel, and that font that can do that for us is impact. All right. Impact. So I'll go to I, I, I, I impact right there, right? So you can see this is very fat and stuff so that we can see our video through our text very well. And I also make the text very big, right. So something like this should work, alright? And you can see the color is what white. So make sure it is white. And if I press play now, you can see my explosion just goes underneath it like that, and everything just goes that way. Okay. So if you look at my explosion at this point, it's not really coming to where the B is. So I can select my explosion and just move it, you know, a little bit so that it can cover my entire text, right? Like that. So, very simple. All I need to do now is go to the explosion, change the track mat from non to Alpha mat, and you can see it showing through my text right now, just like that. Ha ha ha. I think this is like a rambo effect or something in one of the movies, okay? So let's have our sound effect. I'm not gonna forget that. Drag it, drop it, and Alright, so thank you so much for watching this video. That is all for that with trach mat. It works with text, shapes, anything that is white, you can just trach mat it to it, and you get the same effect. Go out there, be creative, try some awesome new stuff, and I'll see you in the next video. Please out. 16. Creating an Intro video in After Effects: What's up, everybody. Welcome to another after effect training. In this video, we're going to be talking about creating an intro video. Are you ready? Are you sure? Let's go. Alright, guys, so we're right here in after effect. And to create this intro video, we're going to create a new composition. So I'll go to composition New composition. And under this, we're going to name this intro video. Okay. And we're going to use our preset HDTV 108025. All right, that works for us. If you're not on HD TV, just come right here, HDTV 108025. Then our start time code zero. Our duration this time is going to be 4 seconds. Okay, 4 seconds. And background color black, and we're going to click Okay. So this creates a new empty composition for us, alright? And the reason why I'm doing this is because I want everything I add into this composition to maintain this size and this timing. All right. So the reason why I made it four second is because the intro video we want to create now is just going to last for 4 seconds, and I don't want it to be more than that. Okay? So those are the factors that come together that would make you determine if you want to create a new composition or you want to create a composition from an existing video, right? So let's get straight into it. The first thing we're going to do here is to type our text. So I'll click on C here, I'll click on my screen right here and I'll type MasterClass. Okay? MasterClass right there. Okay? And I'll go back to my selection too. I can reduce the size of my text. So definitely, I'm not going to be using this impact. Let me use something else. So I'll just come to impact and change that too. Let's use something, you know, funky, like our back to Black demo. Alright, so I'll just select that right here. Okay. And let me make my text 150. Okay. So 150 looks nice. Alright. And I'll just put that right there. Now, the next thing I want to do now is I want to change the color of my text to a gradient color. So if I click here, I will only be able to change my text to just a one color, you know, color, whatever that means, right? Okay? So, but I want to change it to a gradient. And I've told you that gradient allows you to add multiple colors or mix two or more colors together. Okay? So how do I add a gradient to my text? It's very simple. I would come to master class right here, right click on it, and go to layer styles. All right, Layer Styles under layer styles, I'll say gradient overlay. So if you remember effcs in Photoshop, for those of you that have done the Photoshop training, you will see that all that we have here are the same things that we have in efXUnder Photoshop, okay? So I'll click on the gradient overlay right here, and by default, it gives me a black and white gradient. So how do I edit this black and white gradient to my own color? So the color I want to edit it to now is that gold color, and that's the one that will be able to mix orange, yellow and orange together. Okay? So I'll come straight to my settings here. You can see Immily we added that layer style. We can see layer style up here under here. I'll open up the gradient over layer and then under gradient overlay, I would see edit gradient, edit gradient. When I click on Edit gradient, it is going to bring up my gradient editor. Okay. And with my gradient editor opened up, we can see that black and white color that we currently have on our text. So to edit this, I'll click on this white color, okay? And you can see it's currently in white, and I'll go to my orange color, and drag that and come to the orange section. All right, orange section. Then I want to create orange, yellow and orange, but I only have two right here. So how do I add a third one? Okay? To add a third one, all I need to do is to just click an empty area right here and that will add a third or fourth or fifth, so you can add as many as you want. So but don't click on this guy. You click somewhere you know, away from that. Once you see this hand pointing, you can click, and that will add another stop right there. So I can also move it somewhere to the middle and then I'll click on it and change this color to yellow. Alright, you can see that right now. And then the last color I have here is black. So I'll click on it and change it from black to orange. You can see that even though in my orange section, it's not changing it to orange, and that's because the circle is still in the black region. So I'll move it to the orange section and you can see we have this nice gold color right here. Okay? So after changing my color, don't forget you can add as many colors as you want. You can create your own beautiful gradient colors. But for this class, we are doing this gradient color that gives us this gold color. And then we click Okay. And that's it. You can see how I was able to change my text color to a gradient color right in after effect. So now that I'm done with all of these gradients of alley, I can minimize it by clicking this drop down here, and that will minimize everything back for me. Okay? Now, the next thing I want to do is I want to animate my text in such a way that when I press play at the beginning, all my text will be squashed together. And when I press play, it will start expanding. So at the beginning, the text will be squeezed together. And then when press play is going to expand out. Okay? And to create that effect, I would need something called tracking. I would need something called tracking. So where can I get tracking for text in after effect? I can come here. You see this animate right here, okay? I can click on this, you know, icon that looks like a play button. Click on that and that will open up all of this. And in the list here, I can see tracking. All right. So I'll click on tracking, and that would open up so many settings for my tracking animeor one and the likes, okay? But what I'm really concerned about here is the tracking amount, the tracking amount, okay? Right now is in zero. If I take it beyond zero, you can see my text is spreading out. And if I take it below zero, you can see my text is squeezing together. Alright? So what I want to create is something like this, and it will spread out like that, okay? So let me undo that. So to create that, we would need to set keyframes, right, so that it can happen on its own. So we need to set keyframe. I'll click on my stop patch here for tracking amount. You will see that tracking type will also get selected by default. That is fine, and you can see what it creates here. Create a keyframe here and this box keyframe right here. Okay? Now, with that, I can come to my tracking amount at this very beginning. And squeeze my text by clicking and dragging to the negative or to the left. And that will squeeze my text. And I want to do maybe 55, okay? -55. Now, depending on your text size, the fonts you are using and all other stuff, 55 might not work for you, right? So just pay attention to this and squeeze your text to something like this, right? And whatever value it learns on, doesn't really matter. What matters is the effect that we have created with it, okay? And then now I can go. So I want this animation to last from the beginning to the end of my 4 seconds video. So I'll take my period all the way to four second, which is the end and then come to my tracking amount. And drag to the right to expand my text to the positive side. So I'm going to do maybe 25 right here. All right. So if I hit the play button now, you can see what we have right here. You can see how the text is expanding throughout the four second duration. All right, really looking good. So all of these things opened up here. I don't really need them again. So what I'm just going to do is I'm just going to minimize my animator one, minimize my layer style, minimize my text, minimize the master class text itself, and then you can see everything is collapsed back to a single layer. But all of my effects are still right there. So I just did that to create space here so that we can drop in other layers. But before I do that, I want to duplicate my text, okay? I want to duplicate my text. So how do I do that? I just select my text here and then press Control C or Command C and then Control V or Command V to copy and paste. So you can see I have something like master class two, okay? So I know that the text is right here, so I'll just click drag this up. So I can see both text. Okay? Now, I want to edit this text to something else. So I'll double click to edit my text. And then I'll type Adobe, okay, in Capital later. Then go back to my selection tool to put that right there. Okay? So don't forget once you see this error, release your caps log to show you what you want to do. So I want to change the fonts to something else. So I'll come to my character panel, and let's change it to Montserrat Montserrat, where are you? Where are you? Where are you where are you? So select that, okay, and choose the medium option. Alright, that looks good, and then I'll reduce the size right to maybe 100. Okay. And then, oops, 100. And then I'll drag that and position it you know, at the center right there. Okay? So you can see what we have for our text right now. So if I press play, you can see that both of them are squeezed at the beginning, and then they expand together. Okay? They expand together, okay? They expand together. So that looks good. The reason why I duplicated it is because I want to have the same effect in this master class applied to the Adobe that I have at the top right here, okay? So that is the whole essence of duplicating. So when you add an effect to a layer, you can duplicate that text layer, change the text, and all the effect you apply to the initial layer will also affect the duplicated version. Okay? So now, let's do some alignment because most of the time, you guys might not get this. And yes, I remembered something. If your own is not expanding like this, that's because your alignment is set to align left. So let me quickly bring up my paragraph and let me change mine to align left. And when I change it to align left and I play my video, you can see that it's coming from the side instead of from the center, okay? So the reason why mine is coming from the center is because I have changed my paragraph to the center. So in case, I'm sorry, if yours is doing like this and you're wondering what's going on, just come and click on this center in this paragraph here, and that will center your text. And when you check out your tracking, you'll see that it's coming out from the center and not from the side. Okay? And also, let me scatter these guys here, okay, so that I can use my align to make sure that this is aligned to the center of my page. So I'll open up a line. Don't forget all of this panel, if you can't find them here, just go to Window and turn them on. So I'll go to a line I want to click on this second one, which is align horizontally. All right. So I'm doing that for claiming data with master class first. I'll click on this to align horizontally first. So you can see it is centered based on this area, and then I'll click on this one to center it based on this area. So if I click on this, you can see that as automatically placed my text at the center. And I'll do the same thing to Adobe. I'll click on this and click on this and you can see it has also centered that, but I will now move my Adobe up, hold down shift so it will maintain that center and put it right there. So you can see everything is in the center and it looks good, Adobe master class. Alright? So with that said, let's go into the next thing. The next thing we want to do now is to start bringing in some backgrounds. And this time they are background videos and not images. So I'll come to my project panel. Under my project panel, I'll look for the first background, which is looping particle at camera, looping particles at camera. I'll drag that and drop that underneath my text, not above, but under my text, you can see that blue line, letting me know where it's going to drop it. So I'll drop that there and you can see what I have right here, okay? You can see what I have right here, a nice video background. So this is a video background because when I press play, you can see that the background elements are moving, and that lets you know that that's a video and not a picture. Alright, so looking good, so but one thing I want to do is I want to reduce the opacity of this background because if I look at my text now, they are not looking sharp and clear like it was before when it was on a black background. You can see how the gold is really coming out on this black background. But with this guy here, you can see that it's kind of looking, the contrast level is not high again. So what I'm going to do is I'll select this press T to bring up opacity and just change my opacity to 50%. Okay. And you can see that I'm changing it to 50%. I didn't click on the stopwatch. And the reason why I'm not clicking on the stopwatch is because I want to reduce the opacity of the video generally. I don't want to make one part 50 and another part zero or another part 100. That is when I will need my key frame, okay? So if you just want to reduce the property of something, you don't need to set keyframe for it, adjust the value, and that will affect everything generally, okay? So it's not every time you come to opacity or position that you must set keyframe. You could actually just adjust those values without setting keyframe and it will affect the entire video. All right. So I don't need opacity again. I'll press T, and that will minimize my opacity. Okay? So you can see that my text is now showing better than it was when my opacity was high. You can see the difference. Okay? So that is that. Now the next thing I want to do here is I want to bring in another video background. And this time it is called particles, particles, okay? So I'll drag that and drop that not under, but above or everything. So I'll put it above this Adobe. Drop that and you can see that it covers my video. So I can't see anything again because this video you can see what this particle does. They are just tiny white particles that are dropping from the top down. Okay? But it came with a black background that is covering everything I've done now. So if I drag this and I put it under looping particle, I won't see the particles again. All right. If I put it above the looping particle, I won't see the looping particle again. So I want to drop it on top, right, because I know that after effect has something called blend mode. Okay? It has something called blend mode. So if you've gone through the Photoshop training, you understand what blend mode is. We talked about that in the photoshop training. So where can I find the blend mode in after effects? Okay? Remember when I was talking about mode and switches. So if you're in switches, you won't find your blend mode there. You just click here and make sure that you are under mode. And under this mode, you can see this normal, normal, normal normal that we have here. This is where you can change the blend mode for each layer. So the layer we are concerned about now is these particles, okay? And I want to change the blend mode. And how do I go about that? I'll click on this normal here and I'll see all the other options that I have under this here. Okay? So like I used to say, like I said in the photoshop training, everything from this dark in to this darker color, you can see there's a separating line between it grouping it together. Alright, everything from here to here would help you to remove everything that is white or light. Okay. And everything from this art to this lighter color would allow you to remove everything dark or black, okay? And everything from this overlay to this hard mix would allow you to remove everything gray. So we have white, black and gray, okay? So these three are the most important here. All these other ones are just there for you know, fancy sake. But who knows? You might stumble on the reason why you might need any of this in the future. So, but my favorites are this, this and this because this takes care of white. This removes black. This removes gray. So based on this video that we have here, what is the background color? Yes, you're correct. Black, okay? And if you're not correct, just tell yourself you're not correct. Alright. So I can change the blending mode from normal. So by default, blend modes are always in normal. It's only where you need them that change from normal to whatever option would work best for you. So here, I need to get rid of the black, right, or the dark region of my, you know, video, and I'll come here and use any of this. Now, the most popular in this one is multiply. The most popular in this one is screen, and the most popular in this region is overlay, right? So that is something you should also take note of. All right. So I'll just come here and use screen, and you will notice all the black will disappear, but all these tiny white particles remain. So you can just keep your eyes focused on this particular guy here while I click on that screen. And when I do that poop, you can see that it is still right there. So all I have left are just those tiny white particles of my video. The black is gone. So you can see all those particles falling down to just give my, you know, animation or my intro video that nice effect to make it look like it's in the galaxy, okay? So that is that. Alright, so let's move on. The next thing we are going to add now is our lens flare. So I'll come to my after effect and you can see we have Lens flare. And by the way, all of these background videos or images are things that you can download online. So you can go to Google and just search for stock footage or background footage or after effect background and all of those stuff. And you will see different websites where you can download different videos from. Some are free, and some are paid like always, okay? So that was I was able to get all of these backgrounds and I was able to use them in my project. So I'll come to this lens flare, drag that one, and also drop it above. And when I do that, you can see that we have this nice lens flare here. It's also a video. You can see the lens flare moving. But it also came with a black background. All right? But you already know what we are going to do, right? We're going to change it to screen. So I'll come to the blend mode, change it from normal and choose screen right because that's our favorite. And that will remove the entire black, and we have just our lens flare left right here. Okay? Alright, so you can see what we have so far. So if I press the playbt in here, you can see the nice animation we've created thus far. So just wait for this green to complete and then it will play our video smoothly. Alright, you can see that right there adobe master class. Okay, so pause that and it's time to add some sound. It's time to add some sound. So for my sound, I'll go straight down to sound, and another sound, I can see this sound trailer. That's the sound we're going to use. So I'm going to drag that and drop that under. Alright, so sound doesn't come with video. It's just sound. So it's something that you just listen to. So it doesn't matter where you drop it. It's not going to show in the video, right. So but I like dropping my sound at the very bottom in my composition so that when I'm looking for my sound, I know I'll just go straight down to the bottom and I'll find my sound right there. So let's play this back and see what we have so far. Really nice. Okay? So you can see what we have thus far. But if you listen to that, you know, sound trailer, you'll see that at the beginning, we have this bang sound, okay? And it won't be nice if we don't animate something to follow that bang sound, okay? So if I press play again, listen to the bang sound at the very beginning. You can hear that bang at the very beginning of my, you know, sound. So let's, you know, animate something to kind of go with that bang sound so that it gives that effect and everything just kind of blends together. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to adjust the scale of my Adobe master class text to make it small at the very beginning. And when I press play, it just becomes big and then just follows that bang sound at the beginning. Okay? I'm scaring you right now. Alright, guy, so let's continue. So I'll just do that now, okay? So, but I want to listen to, you know, I know the bank sound starts from the very beginning, but I want to know where it ends. So I'll quickly play and pause my, you know, video so I can get that exact point where it's, you know, the sound that bang sound ended. So you can see that bank sound is like, ending somewhere around the fifth frame. If I press play now, you can see that that's exactly where it's ending. Let me press play and pause it again. Alright, so you can see now showing me six frames. So but let's just maintain that, you know, five frames because I think that is where I was really fast at the at the initial one. Okay. So I'll bring up my Adobe, select my Adobe, select my master class and press to bring out scale for both of them. And I'll take this to the very beginning. And at the very beginning here, I'll click on my stopwatch to set a keyframe Oops. I mistakenly selected them. So I'll select them again and select this again. Then I'll click on the stopwatch. Now my plates at the very beginning. Click on the stopwatch for scale. Okay? And then reduce scale to zero at the beginning, then go to that five frames, where the bank, end and then change that back to 100%. And you can see that my text is back, you know, to 100%. So if I play this now, can you see the way it just jumped in right at us, following the sequence of that sound. I love it. Okay. Awesome. So I love what we just created now. So let me do my easy es. That's F nine. Okay? And then add my motion blow because this happened really fast, okay? So I'll grab my motion blow, select it here, and then I need to go back to my switches, right? Remember, we're in mode now. So I'll click here takes me back to switches, click my motion blow for both of them. I can see that motion blow being applied to my text now. Okay? And let's play this back again. Okay, so you can see it's dragging now because I've added some motion blow to it. So motion blow really takes a lot of, you know, draining of resources on your laptop. So I'll just wait for it to go and play smoothly. Awesome. Okay. I also have one more video I want to add to this, which is this spark, okay? This spark right here. I'm going to just click drag that and drop it above. Okay. So it's a very short video. So it just kind of, you know, add more impact that beginning to that beginning sound of that bank at the beginning. You can see what it does. It just gives you that spark right there. So let me press play and see what we have. Awesome, awesome, awesome. And there you go, guys. That is how to create an intro video in after effect. I hope you enjoy yourself. Take care of yourself, and I'll see you in the next video piece out. 17. Editing Green Screens (Chroma Key) in After Effects: What's up, guys. Welcome to another video in this after effect training. And in this video, we're going to be talking about the Almighty green screen. Alright? So call it Croma chy, but I'll prefer to call it green screen. Okay? So let's get straight into it and talk about how to remove green screens and how to make them look neat and replace them with another background. P. Okay, guys, so we are right here in after effect where we left off, and we want to talk about green screen now. So um, what we want to do is, if we look right here, we have this newscaster footage, right? We're going to right click on that and say, new come from selection. And we can see that we have this newscaster on green background, you know, reading the news. And that is what you see in most news studios or, you know, if you're watching a movie like Avengers, if you've seen behind the scenes, you see they're in this big giant studio full of grain, alright? And the goal is to remove that grain and replace it with buildings bridges and so many things and then mix everything together to make everything look real, okay? So the same thing with this example we want to do for this newscaster, we want to make him look like he's in a big studio, a big newsroom, where he is reading this news from, okay? And that is what we're going to use as an example right here to remove the green background. So how do we remove green screens in after effect? Okay? How do we remove green screens and after effect? Before I do that, we're going to drop in the news background, okay? Remember this video right here, the new spaground. This is what we're going to use as this spaground. I'll go back to my composition, drag that from here, and drop it under him. Alright? So we are doing that because when we are done removing this green, we should see this background behind him. Okay? So that is the goal. So how do we remove green screens in after effect. Before I talk about that, let me give you some tips to shooting a good green screen footage. Okay? Number one, make sure that the character is not putting on anything green. So the reason why we use green in the first place is that green is the color that green is a color that you cannot easily find on the normal human skin color, right? So if you use a color like black, your hair, your beard, your eyes, all of them are black already. So if you're removing that black background, you also removing the hair, the beards, the eyes, and everything black, okay? And then if you use a color like white as your background, for example, you'll be removing the eyes, too. You'll be removing, you know, the teeth, everything white in the human body, okay? So that's why green is a color that is most preferable. And the other option that is available is color blue, right? So if you find yourself in a situation whereby you don't want to use green, the other option available to you is green, is blue, I mean, right? So those are the two colors used industry wise. So make sure you also use those colors when shooting your green screen footage. Then number two, make sure that the character is not putting on anything green because as you remove this green, it's going to remove every single thing green in this video. Okay. Then make sure that the character is not casting shadow on the green. That is also very important because if it casts its shadow on this green background, then that part of that shadow is no longer green. It's now black, and it's going to be pretty difficult for you to remove that in after effect. Okay? Another thing you should also take note is that you have uniform lighting on your green background so that the color of your green stays the same. Alright? So, but you can see that in this particular footage, you can see that the green here is way you know, darker than the green here because they have different lighting. All right? So that is something you want to avoid when shooting your own green screen. Be very soon now you're going to see the problem that we're going to encounter just because of that, okay? So those are the tips I have for you when shooting green screen footage, you know, apply them and you always get the best result when it comes to removing green. Backgrounds. Okay? So how do I remove the green background? All I need to do is to add an effect inside of After effect. Alright? So I'll go to my effect and preset panel, okay? And under it, I'll look for a folder called key in. Key in. All right, I'll open up that folder, and then I'll see the different options that we have there. And the one I want to use is key light 1.2, key light 1.2. That is the favorite keer in after effect to remove green screen footage or blue screen footage. So I'll drag that and drop that on my video and you expect that the green will disappear, right? Nah, it's not going to disappear. It's just going to open up my effect control, and I have to decide some settings here before or after I effect to make his decision whether to remove it or not. And that first decision is a screen color. Screen color. So after I've asked him, what's my screen color? By default, it's showing black here. I'll say, nope, it's not black. I'll grab my color picker or eyedropper to click on it, and then use it to come and pick this green right here, so it would use this exact green I have in my video. Because if you say you want to come here and choose green here, it's not going to you might really not get this exact green here. So it's best to use your colo picker. You come right here and you pick this green. Now, I don't want to pick this one because this one is different from this one. You know, I told you that your green should have uniform lighting. So that's a problem. So I want to choose this one because this one is more popular and you can see it everywhere. So I'll just click somewhere here, oom, and it removes the background instantly. And immediately we are already seeing our news background which is underneath the newscaster video. All right. But there's a problem, right? If you look at the shoulder right here around all of this place, you can see we have some things still showing there. Okay? If you look here, you can see that this place is not really transparent like that. And if you look here, obviously, that table, you can see that we can still see some elements of that table right here. And this is not what we want, okay? And that's why I said that once you follow those rules, you won't have issues like this. But thank God, this is after effect. There's nothing you cannot do in after effect. So there's a way we can get rid of this right here, okay? And to do that, I will need to come to my screen mat settings right here so you can see just click on the drop down for the screen mat, and it will show you all of these settings here. But before I begin to adjust my screen mat settings, I will also need to change the view of my video to a screen mat so I can see it clearly. So if you look at my view here, it's currently in final result. I want to click on that final result and change that to screen mat. Okay? Change that to screen mat. And when I do that to just basically change everything to black and white. Which is exactly what we want, okay? Because at this black and white view, we can see things clearer, right? We can see things clearer because at this black and white view, everything that is black are the things that have been removed, and everything white are the things that are left. So no wonder we can still see this table because you can see that this table is not black. It's supposed to be totally. But it's kind of gray. And then if you look here, you can see that this place is not totally black also. It's kind of looking gray and, you know, so many parts here. And those edges around his body, you can see they are not really white and everything. So what we are supposed to have here is that every single thing here is supposed to be black except this character or the newscaster. And the newscaster is supposed to be totally white and not having any form of black around his body. Okay? So that is the goal for this screen mat. So I'll come back to the screen mat settings, and I want to just change two settings here. I want to change two settings here. The first setting I want to change is this clip black, and the second one is this clip white. Okay? I'll adjust the clip black to make everything that is supposed to be black black. And then I will adjust this clip white to make everything that is supposed to be white white, right? So let's go ahead with that. So by default, your clip black is zero, and the only thing you can do is to increase it. And as I increase my clip black, you can watch you begin to watch and monitor all those things that are supposed to be black. You will begin to see them get you know, darker. But the downside to it is that as I increase my clip black, this newscaster will also begin to become darker, right? So that is why as I'm increasing this, I want to be watching here, and I want to stop at the exact point where everything that is supposed to be black is black. I don't want to go beyond that point because if I go beyond, then I'm going to be affecting the newscaster the more. So I'll come here, click and drag to the right. You can see things that are supposed to be dark and now looking dark. You can see the table, it's becoming darker, it's becoming darker, it's becoming darker. Oh yes. But what I get to this point, 60. Alright? At this 60 level, everything is dark, except just this little one right here. Okay? If I keep increasing this and say, Oh, I want to remove it finally, let's take the clip black all the way to the end, and I keep increasing that, increasing that, increasing that, increasing that. You can see the guys also becoming black. And by the time I remove it totally, most of the guy or the newscaster is already black, right, which is a serious problem because by the time I go to Clip White and I try to make him white again, he's just going to give me this result, which is the doom. Okay? Because right now, I expect everything here to be black and everything here to be white. But now I have the exact opposite of what I am looking for, right? So I'm going to undo, undo that, and I'm going to stop at that 60 at my clip Black. Alright, because we have another way to take care of this guy, right? And I'm going to be talking about that later on. So let's go to the clip White, right? I will begin to reduce my clip white. Now, you can see that as I'm reducing my clip white, the newscaster is becoming brighter and whiter. At this 0.84 he is totally white, which is exactly what I want, okay? And you can see that this little guy here even became whitter, right? So there's nothing we can do about this using the clip black and clip white except to use something like our eraser to erase it off or to draw a max around this guy. Okay? So those are the two options that we currently have. Alright, so I'll prefer drawing a max rather than using the eraser to. So at Clip Black 60 and clip white 83, we have the perfect result that we are looking for. But before I switch back to final result, let's take care of this guy right here. So I'm going to draw a max for this. So I'll go to my shape two here. Select a rectangle. And remember I told you that if you want to draw a max, you make sure that your you know, video is selected. So I want to draw a mac somewhere around here, and if I do that, I'm telling after effect that I only want this part of the video to show. I don't want any part of this other video that is not within this region to show. And now help me get rid of this guy here. So with my rectangle tool selected, I will just click. And once you start clicking, it looks as if everything disappeared, but don't get scared. Just click dragging. And as you keep dragging, you will see that it's coming back. So I don't want to drag it all the way to this point again because I don't want this guy to show. So I'll just stop somewhere here, okay? And that ends it. So all these remaining part here won't show in my video. So you can see I have a very perfect result right here. Now, the reason why we're able to draw a max is because the newscaster is in a position, right? So he's not moving around or dancing around. He's just right there reading the news and not really moving his body except his hand. Okay? So that's why we're able to do this. But if this was a footage whereby you had the character moving left and right and move to that area of the table that we cut off. You're going to have a problem because if he moves anywhere outside of this max now, it's going to cut off that part of him. Alright? So if you find yourself in that situation, there is really nothing you can do. You just have to leave that part of your green screen inside your video that way. And that's why I gave you those tips to follow so that you don't make any mistake in your own green screen footage. You get a very good result, and then you don't have to stretch yourself in after effect trying to remove what is there. Okay? So that is that. So now, finally, we can come back to our view. Let me go back to my selection, too, first. Come back to my view and change this from screen mat and change it to final result, which was always there before. And then when I do that, I can now see my newscaster. I can see how clean and cripsy you know, the edges of his body is, and the table is totally gone and everything is looking really, really good. Okay. So that is that I can, you know, come here, minimize this so that I can have enough space here. Don't worry about this line. When you export your video or render your video, it's not going to show there. But while you're working in after effect, it will always show just to let you know that you drew a max right there, okay? So I need to go back to my project panel because I want to go and bring in the table, okay? I want to bring in the table. So I'll go back to my project panel by going to Window Projects and I'll pop up my project panel. Supposed to be on this side, okay? And right there, we can see new stable. So this is another image I downloaded from a stock image site, and then you can get that from there. I can drag this and drop it above, okay? Above. You can see my table. It's above because that's where I want it to be. If you drop it under behind him, the table can be behind him, so you drop the table above. Alright. So the next thing we want to do now is just arrange this, and that's what's called compositing, right, to arrange it the way it's supposed to look like in real life, and then we'll be done with our green screen footage. Okay? So the first thing I want to do is to reduce the size of the table. So with my table layer selected, I'll press S, and I'll bring up skill and I can reduce the size of my table. Okay, very small. All right. And then I'll drag that and bring that down o to somewhere around here. So obviously, we're not going to leave the newscaster like this because this is going to be a giant newscaster with this small table, which is not fair. So I'll select the newscaster, also press, and reduce his size also to match the size of the table. Okay? And then I'll drag that and put that on my table right there. Okay? So you can see what we have right there, okay? My newscaster is being reduced to this state. And the reason I'm reducing him to this site is because this is a very big studio. So if this was real life, it's supposed to be somewhere around this area to match the background. Okay? And that's it, guys, when I press the play button now, we see everything plays accordingly, okay? Hello, and welcome to the political Truth, where we separate fact from fiction in American politics, and I'm your host, Tuvoa McColl. Alright, you can see that right there, okay? So this is as Concept studio. You can come visit our studio anytime you have some recordings to do, okay? Inside of After effect. Alright, so that's the green screen footage. You can see that this news background is kind of shutter than everything, so I can just copy and paste it and then drag the duplicated version towards this and then to fill up that space. So we still have some small one here. I can copy and paste again, and I'll just grab that to fill up that small space. Okay? So throughout my footage, you can see my background is right there showing on the table and everything. Alright? So I'm supposed to end it here. You can see that when it stood up, and went away. We can't see him because we drew a max there. You can remember that max I was telling you. Alright? So you don't want to you want to make sure that people don't see the way he was standing up. So maybe we will end everything here. So I can even delete this extra copy and paste here. I can also trim everything to end right there, okay? And trim my composition to also end right there. All right. That's it, guys. And that's how to remove green screen footage from your video in After Effect. You can go online, search for behind the scenes of different movies like Game of Trones, Avengers, you know, all of these superhero movies. You'll see a lot of green screen, you know, played out there, and you begin to understand this concept behind the green screen and how you can also use it for your future project. Thank you so much for watching this video. In the next video, I'll be talking about how you can export your videos or render your videos in after effect. Piece out. 18. How to use Templates in After Effects: What's up, guys. Welcome to another video in this after effect training. In this video, I'm going to be showing you how to use templates. Alright? Templates would make your life easy. Alright? So let's get straight into After effect, and I'll show you how to do your third. Q. So you could go online and download free and page templates, right? Just go online search. You see several website to download free after effect templates or page after effect templates. Alright, so the one I have here is a paid template. So paid templates are always, you know, more attractive than the free ones, you know. So if I open up this, you can see it has an help file footage, and we have the after effect file right here, okay? So to open this up, I will just double click on that, okay? And it's telling me this project must be converted to this and this and this. So sometimes the person who created the template created it with a different version of After effect. Okay? And that's when you get this notification. So I can just click Okay, and then it's going to load up that template. It's telling me that, Oh, we can't find a particular font and stuff. I'll say, Okay, just open it up. It's showing me the name of the fonts. Alright. If I want, I could go online, search for this font and download and install them and then reopen this, and it won't show me this issue again. So I'll just click Okay, and I will load up the template. So basically, in this video, I just want to show you how to use this template. I just want to show you how to use this template. So you can see this template right here. If I scrub through with my playhead, you can see the nice way it's just been reviewed, okay? So you can see what it does. So what makes template easy to use is that you don't have to do all of this, you know, animation, this motion graphics, and after effect. Somebody has taking time to do all of this. And that's why most templates that are as good as this, you have to pay to be able to download them because you need to reward that person, okay? So we have this template right here, okay? And you can see how smooth it is. So all I need to do with template is I don't need to do all this animation. I just need to go and look for this text and find a way to change this nova reaction, new project to my own text, okay? So you can see the project panel and how everything is being arranged here. So I just need to go. You can see. So some templates, you know, some creators are really good with, you know, naming things and making it easy for you. While some templates are just so annoying and you don't know where to even go to edit. You can see this one says Edit me. So I can easily open this up and I can see scene one. Really, really arrange nicely. Open up scene one, and then I can see scene one and text one. Okay, scene one and text one. So I want to change this text, Nova reaction. Let me double click this text one, and you will see that I need to open up my text one, right? Now this is Zoomed in, so I can come to this 100% and change it to fit so I can see the entire thing. And then from here, you can see that it's going to be easy for me to now edit this. I can just simply double click on this space that says your text and change that to you know, AMC or something. And then this Nova reaction, I also want to double click on it. But before I double click on it, I'll go back to my selection too so I can select it and then double click on it and say Adobe Master okay class. You can see that's too long. So what I want to do is to go back to my selection to then go to my character panel and reduce the size. Okay? So even though this is a template, you can still, you know, arrange it and, you know, make some changes to it because you have an understanding of how to use after effect, okay? And then this last one here, I'll select it, double click on it and say online make it that capital letter online class. Okay? You can see that, so I'm just typing anything here. I don't even know what I'm typing. Okay? And successfully, we've been able to change text one, right? Now, if you want to see what it looks like in the main composition where we were coming from. So we're here before we double clicked on text one and brought us here. So I'll go back to my main comp, and you can see showing me this release caps. I'll just turn off my caps. And if I come back to this beginning here, you can see that it has replaced my text with what I now have here. And we successfully changed that. And that's how you go on and on and on. So let's just quickly do another one. Let's go to scene two. Now, in scene two, you can see we have an area for an image and for text. So for the image, it's called Place Oder One. I'll just double click on that. Okay? Quickly import an image. I'll go to File, Import file, right. And I can just look for an image right here, open up an image, so I can just scrap this image right here, any image. So maybe this image, or let me use this image. Click open, and I'll import the image here into my project. I can click and drag that, drop it into my composition. You can see that we have their own picture there and my own picture. I can select this their own picture, your media and delete it. So I have just my picture alone right here. And I'll come to this 100% and 50 so I can see what I'm working on. If I go back to my main composition, you can see my picture is already showing inside here. So I can go back to my place with that one and just move this a little bit to this side so that I can see his face very well. You can see how easy it is to just, you know, edit this template. I can go back here and change text, open up text too, and type Frank. Okay? Just type Frank there. I'm just going to leave the rest. You know how to do all of that. Go back to my selection to go back to my main cup and you can see that this has changed to Frank, okay? And then by the time I'm done editing scene one scene two all the way to scene 17, I can export by going to file export at to render Q and follow my exporting instruction. So this is how you can easily use templates in Adobe After Effect. Thank you so much for watching this video, and I'll see you guys in the next video piece out. 19. How to Export/Render Videos in After Effects: What's up, everybody, and welcome to this video of this after effect training. And in this video, I'll be talking about how to export your videos in after effect. All right, so let's get straight into it right now. So we're right here where we left off in after effect, and I just want to go to my intro video composition and use this as my exporting because this is just 4 seconds. So I want something that will happen really fast. So how do I export this as a video that I can use on other application or watch on my laptop or do some other stuff with? O? I can easily come to my menu, I'll see file, and under file, I'll see export. And under export, I'll see ad to render Q. So you might want to write this down so you don't forget. Fl export add to render Q, okay? And then you can also go to composition and under composition, you will see add to render Q, okay? So file export, A to render Q. And then, mind you, when you are exporting, or adding to render Q, you don't export everything at once, okay? It is only when you save that you actually save everything together. So if you save your project, all your composition and everything are saved together. But when it comes to exporting, you have to export each composition one after the other, okay? You have to export each composition one after the other. So if I'm on intro video and I go to file, export to render Q, it will only be exporting this particular composition. And you can see that when you select to render Q, it replace your timeline with this render Q tab. You can see my timeline has been replaced with this render Que tab. All right. So what are the settings here and what do I need to choose? So these render settings, you leave it at best settings, all right? Then the output module is lotless, but you click on that Lot less, right? And then it will load up this output module settings. Okay. So basically, you don't want to do anything here. You just want to ensure if you're using a MacBook, you want to make sure that your format is in QuickTime. If you're using Windows, your format should be showing AVI here, right? So it's just a Mac Windows thing, right? Format for MAC, QuickTime format for Windows, AVI, Alright. We have that ones here. But the kind of not relevant to what we want to do now. But you can see that you can actually export MP three. That's an audio wave audio. You can export a picture, JPEG sequence, photoshop sequence, PNG sequence. And what I would do it would just convert your entire video into images. All right? Remember, I told you images come together to form a video. So if you have the 4 seconds, you know, intro video, it would automatically change out to four times 25. I would change out to 100, you know, JPEG images. All right, which forms up this video. So those who need it know why they need it. So but right now, we just want to choose QuickTime or on Windows, you choose AVI. Now, one important thing I want to talk about here is these channels. All right. By default, it's in algebra, and Algeb is fine, okay? But if you feel like there's something you've done in after effect, say, maybe, for example, you did a lower thought in after effect, okay? And you want to take that lower thought to another application like Premiere Pro in your video editing. So you want to use it in your video editing in Premiere Pro. And if you export it normally, you'll notice that when you bring in that video and you import it into Premiere Pro, you'll notice that that video came with a background. So meaning, if I drop the lower third on an existing video in Premiere Pro, it's going to cover that video up. Okay? There's something called LGB plus Alpha under these channels. If I choose Al gB plus Alpha, I'm telling After effect that, Hey, I have some transparency in my video, and I want you to retain those transparency. Okay? I want you to retain them. So meaning that after creating a lower third, and you created it on a transparent background, and you export it using lgBPlus Alpha. It means when you bring in that video into Premiere Pro, it's also going to look transparent, okay? It's not going to have any background. So when you drop it on a video, you don't cover the video, you just see it on top of the video, okay? So that's AlgBPlus Alpha. So it's very similar to Photoshop when you are trying to export JPEG and PNG. All right? If you export a JPEG, it means you don't have any transparency in your image. But when you're exporting a PNG, you're trying to tell Photoshop, Oh, I have transparency in my image, and I want to maintain that transparency, and PNG is a format that can maintain transparency. Okay? So that's the same thing with Al GB and Al gB plus Alpha, okay? So there is no transparency in our intro video. You can see nothing is transparent here. So I'm not going to choose RGB plus Alpha. I'll just leave it at default, which is RGB. Okay? And then when I'm done with all of this, I'm going to click Okay. Alright. And you can see it's now showing Custom QuickTime. On Windows, it should be showing Custom AVI. Now the next thing I want to click on here is the output two, okay? And output two showing me introvideo one dot mV. All right. On Windows or some other version of after effect, you might be saying something like, not yet specified here. All right? Is that you see two things here. Is that you see the name of your composition here or you see not yet specified. So whatever it is, just click on it, and that will allow you to give your video a name. All right. I can say AMC intro video. Okay. Oops, AMC intro video. Then I can save that on my desktop, right? And you can see my format remains QuickTime. Okay? And then I'll click on Save and that will rename it to that and is going to save it to my desktop. So after clicking on Save, it doesn't mean that your video is ready. It doesn't mean that you go to your desktop and go and check your video there. No, you have to now render your video. Okay? You have to render your video. And how do you do that? You can see we have a render button here. Okay? So I'm going to click on that and now we start rendering my video. You can see that line moving across. By the time it's done, you hear a chime sound to let you know that your after effect is done. So you can hear that sound right there. Okay? And I can go to my desktop, select desk stop, and you can see the AMC intro video right here ready for me to play. Now, if I check the file size of this, my four second video, you can see it's about 524 megabytes. And you're like, Whoa, 4 seconds, 524 megabytes. What the heck? Alright? And that's the way after effect just renders, okay? There's no After effect doesn't have, you know, formats that you could render to in small format like MP four, that could be small and everything. Be when after effect was being built, it was built with the mind whatever you're doing in after effect is not the final result. You probably want to take your video from After Effect, take it to Premiere Pro, finish up some things there, or take it to cinema for, do some other stuff there. So after effect, when doing your video, we render it in the best quality that it can, you know, so that when you take that video to another software, okay, the quality that you are getting on your video in that software is still the best quality. All right. So that's how Adom Adobe After Effect is being built, okay? So we have different options if you want a smaller file size of your video with a very good quality. And number one option is, I usually take my video to Premiere Pro and, you know, go and re export it. Okay. And most of the time, I still have some editing to still do on the video in Premiere Pro. So that's why I just like taking it to Premiere Pro. So most of the time, I take it to Premiere Pro, add some more sound effect, you know, do some cutting and joining. Maybe I want to do a voiceover. I'll lay the voice over on it also in Premiere Pro, do all of those things. And when I'm done, I export it. But if Everything is finished in after effect already. All I do is take it to Premiere Pro. I don't do anything to it. I just re export it in Premiere Pro using, you know, some settings there. If you have gone through the Premiere Pro class or the Premiere Pro training, then you should understand the settings I've given you there, and then you can use that settings to export. But if not, you can check out the Premiere Pro training on the website and then just go to the Exports, you know, section and check out how to export in Premiere Pro, and then you can reexport your, you know, after effect video in Premiere Pro. And this 4 seconds video can be something like 2 megabytes, you know, in Premiere Pro, using the settings I gave you there. Okay? So that's how I work. The second option is to use another software called Adobe Media Encoder, Adobe Media Encoder. So if you have the Master collection, for, you know, Adobe suit, you have the Adobe Media Encoder, and you can say file export exports, sorry, add to Adobe Media Encoder Q. All right, so I don't currently have it installed on this system, okay? I don't have the package installed on this system, so that's why it's grade out, right? It's not even allowing me to choose it. So if you have it installed, you will see that it's available here as an option. You can click on it and it will start opening Adobe Media Encoder, and you can now use Adobe Media Encoder to export it to a smaller site. So there are so many setting like we have in Premiere Pro on Adobe Media Encoder, and you can use that same exact settings I showed you in Premiere Pro in Adobe Media Encoder and reexport to a smaller version. But don't worry if you don't have Adobe Media encoder, you can just use Premiere Pro to reexport to a smaller file size. Okay? So that is that with exporting your video and saving your project in after effect. Thank you so much for watching this video, and I'll see you in the next video piece out. 20. Conclusion: Yo, I'm super excited that you guys made it this far. Yes, you just concluded the Adobe After effect training. Alright? And this particular training is for beginners and intermediates, okay? And I'm sure you're already filled and fired up to do great and amazing things using after effect. Alright, guys. So thank you so much for joining me from the very first video of this training. Straight down to this last video. You are the champion, okay? So if you want to learn more, you can browse other courses on the website, especially you want to browse the after effect advanced class. So you can move to the next level if you feel like you're fired up and you're pumped up to go deeper into after effect. But if you feel like, Oh, I send need to learn more right here, you can start this course all the way from the beginning again and go through everything again until you feel like you are satisfied with what you have learned, okay? So I'm super excited to have you guys here. You can check out other courses like web design, digital marketing, photoshop, Premiere Pro, you know, Illustrator, all on the website. It's been an amazing time with you guys. And I will see you in the next video. It's your boy K show, and I'm signing out. Pooh.