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Kajik on Jan 7th 2009 with 30 comments

After Effects forBeginners: Effects &Animation

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This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series After Effects for Beginners

After Effects for Beginners: Getting Started


After Effects for Beginners: Advanced Techniques

When we launched we asked you to tell us what content you wanted and quite a few of you told us youwanted the basics. This is the second installment of our 3 part series for after effects beginners. Eachsection lists at the top the topics that are covered in that section. Even though this series focuses on thelatest CS4 release, most of the concepts apply to all the versions of After Effects.

This second part of the Essential Training series will teach you how to get started using effects and creatingbasic animation in After Effects. You will learn all the basics you need to be able to use After Effects andunderstand the cool tutorials posted here.

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Eduardo January 7, 2009 at 6:37 pmIt’s getting better and better! I love envato blogs =)awesome tutorial by the way!

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Ross January 7, 2009 at 7:07 pmNice, very helpful

I’m a Photoshop guy but trying to learn AE so this is great, keep it up!

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callegg January 8, 2009 at 2:41 amhttp://www.videocopilot.net/basic/

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mr.white January 8, 2009 at 4:35 amgreat tutorial!

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BogDinamita January 8, 2009 at 5:56 ambeautiful, quite thourough; could you go about setting up After Effects preferences; likeexplain why some settings are right or why some aren’t in a future part please ?:D

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Kajik January 8, 2009 at 7:14 amHi BogDinamita,

I’ll keep that topic in mind. Maybe there will be a future tutorial about how to set up AfterEffects for efficient use.

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Applying Effects & Presets – Drag&DropAfter you found one in the Effects & Presets Panel you can simply drag and drop (1.) it to the footage in theComposition Panel (2.).

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Applying Effects & Presets – Right-clickAnother way of applying an Effect is by Right-clicking the Layer and then going to Effect to choose theEffect.

Applying Effects & Presets – Menu barThis time go to Effect > and select an Effect you like. Various features in After Effects are selectable via thisthree ways.

Fuad Ahasan Chowdhury August 31, 2009 at 10:37 amfantastic.. I wish I can do it now :p

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Effect Controls PanelAfter applying an Effect the Effect Controls Panel will appear next to the Project Panel. In this Panel theEffects you choose will be listed. You can modify the values like the Histogramm (1.) or the Input andOutput Colors. Every Effect comes with its editable values and you should experiment until you findsomething pleasant. The outcome will change when changing the order of effects. The little fx-Sign enablesor disables the applied effect.

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2. AnimationCreating an Animation is the main reason why we use After Effects. In this step we will learn the basics ofthe following:

Essential Transform Controls (Position, Opacity, Scale, Rotation, Anchorpoint)

Keyframes

Keyframe Settings

Parenting

Motion Blur

New SolidCreate a new composition and then create a new Solid Layer. Right-click in Layers area > New > Solid.The Solid Settings will appear.



SettingsGive it a name (1.), set the size of the Solid Layer or choose Make Comp Size and give it a color you like(2.). Click on OK.

New Solid LayerNow you can see a new layer called “Red” and the Rectangular Shape in the Composition Panel (1.).



PositionOne of the Transform Controls in After Effects is the Position. By selecting a layer and hitting P the Positionwill pop up. The numbers next to it are the X and Y values which relate to the left and top of thecomposition. The values show the distance between the Anchor Point of our Square and the left and top ofthe Composition. You can actually let After Effects calculate by entering, for example: 360/2.

OpacityBy selecting a layer and hitting T the Opacity will pop up. It’s the only Shortcut which is not beginning withthe first Letter. You can change the Opacity from 100% which means the footage is opaque to 0% whichmeans the footage is transparent.



ScaleAnother Transform Control you should know is the Scale which is selectable by hitting S. The Scale is alsomodifiable between 100% which means full size and 0% which means its gone.

RotationBy hitting R the Rotation will pop up. The value on the right side is the degree you rotated your footage.After rotating more than 360 degree the left side will change to 1. Which shows a full rotation. By entering 3the footage will rotate 3 times.



Anchor PointThe Anchor Point is selectable by hitting A. It is the geometric reference and rotation center point of a layer.You can change the anchor point to the corner of a rectangle or wherever you want it to be. By doing thatthe Rotation will change since it normally rotates around the Anchor Point. As you can see the values arethe same as the Position values of our Square.

Selecting multiple Transform ControlsOften times you want to change more than one of the Transform Controls. For example the Position, Scaleand Opacity at the same time. When hitting P the Position will pop up as we know. By hitting S the Positionwill disappear and the Scale will pop up. To select them and be able to change their values at the sametime you have to hit the Shortcuts combined with the Shift key (hold it). Shift+P+A+T will do the following.

Keyframes – ScaleWe’ve learned how to open up this controls and now we want to animate our Square. Select the Layer > hitthe letter S > change the value to 50% (1.) and hit Return.



Keyframes – OverviewThis is how our Square looks after scaling it down to 50%. In the center of our Square you can see theAnchor Point. If you take a look at the Position values you can see that although we changed our size theposition didn’t change since it refers to the Anchor Point.

Keyframes – StopwatchNow we will set our first Keyframe. It holds the information about the adjustments we made at this point(Frame 1, 0 sec). You can animate all of the Controls we discussed so far. To set a Keyframe you need toclick on the Stopwatch. This creates a Keyframe, a yellow diamond.



Keyframes – 2nd KeyframeGrab the orange CTI (Current Time Indicator) and drag it to 1 sec. Once you change the values AfterEffects will create a new Keyframe. Another way to create a new Keyframe is by clicking on the diamond onthe left side (2.) and not on the Stopwatch (1.). By clicking on the Stopwatch all the Keyframes will bedeleted.

Keyframes – 2nd ScaleNow change the Scale value to 65%.



Keyframes – First ShapeThis is our Rectangular Shape at 50% at the beginning of our Timeline.



Keyframes – Second ShapeThis is our Rectangular Shape at 65%, at 1 sec.

Keyframes – Easy Ease KeyframeA very interesting assistance of After Effects is the Easy Ease Keyframe. By choosing it the animation willcome to a smoother end. It will slow down a little bit before stopping at the new size or position. You caneither select a Keyframe and hit the Shortcuts or you can Right-click > go to Keyframe Assistant > EasyEase. You can also choose between Easy Ease In or Out.

Keyframes – Easy Ease Keyframe SymbolWhen selecting Easy Ease Keyframe the little diamond will change its appearance to a symbol similar to a



sand glass.

ParentingA very cool and useful feature is the Pick Whip. You can select it and drag the line to another Layer, valueor other controls (1.). This process is called Parenting. It defines the Layer you choose as the Child (2.) ofthe Parent, in this case the Layer above. You can also select a Layer from the Drop Down Menu (3.) on theright side of the Pick Whip.

Parenting – ExampleA second ago we parented our two red squares to each other. The upper square is the Child and the lowersquare is the Parent. When we change the position of the lower square the upper square will imitate ourchanges.



Parenting – ExampleChange the position of our square to the right of our composition and watch what happens. Make sure youselect the lower square since its the parent. If you select the upper square you won’t see the parentingeffect we want to achieve.



Motion BlurMost of the time when creating animations they look too sharp and not flowing. Therefore we have a veryimportant feature called Motion Blur. You can select Motion Blur for each layer seperately (1.) and thenenable (2.) Motion Blur for the whole composition. By combining the Easy Ease Keyframes and Motion Bluryour animations will appear very smooth and flowing.

3. KeyingWe use Keying to composite characters on different Backgrounds. Each time you want to record footageincluding a person you should use a Green Screen. There are three different Screen types: Red, Green andBlue like the RGB-Colors. Since the human skin contains Red tones it’s not a good idea to use a RedScreen because of the low contrast. What After Effects does is, it selects all the green tones in the footageand makes them transparent. There are a few built-in tools which we will talk about in a second.



Built-In Keying tools

Garbage Mask

Preview Panel

Keying Example

Other Keying tools

After Effects Keying toolsYou can find the Keying tools in the Effects & Presets Panel or by clicking on Effect > Keying or any otherway we’ve learned so far. I listed some of them below:

1. Color Difference Key

2. Color Key

3. Color Range and

4. Keylight

Garbage Mask – The Pen ToolSometimes its useful to create a garbage mask before keying the footage. This is a Mask which makes thekeying process easier. By creating a Garbage Mask we cut out some obvious objects which interfere withour scene. In the next section you’ll learn how to make Masks with the Shape tools but this time we want touse the Pen Tool which is also available in After Effects. Select it from the Toolbar and let’s get started.

Garbage MaskAfter selecting the Pen Tool we start to draw a shape around the characters we want to keep visible. As youcan see there are the lights at the top and some cuttlings at the bottom which we can easily cut out with ourgarbage mask. You have to be careful to make the shape big enough since the characters will often moveand the mask could interfere with the characters. You can make it either big enough or you can animate itusing keyframes.



Garbage Mask 2ndAfter you complete the Shape everything outside our Garbage Mask will be covered by Black which meansit will be transparent. You should preview your Footage to make sure the characters are visible during thewhole scene. You can render and watch the whole clip but you can also play it Frame by Frame.



Preview PanelAt this point I want to bring in a very important panel which you will use all the time, the Preview Panel. I’llshortly explain how it works. I think all of you know what the buttons do but some of them are interestingand not obvious at the first moment. The button on the far right is the Ram Preview Button (2.) whichrenders and plays whats on the Timeline. The Button right next to it on the left side is the Loop Button (3.,4. and 5). You can choose between Loop, Ping Pong and Play once. The Resolution affects the renderingprocess. You can change the resolution which makes rendering and previewing faster. If the resolution is setto Auto (7.) it will consider the information of resolution given below the Composition Panel (8.).

KeyingI’ll explain shortly how the Color Key Tool works. Unfortunately I don’t have Keylight at the moment. It is themost powerful Keying Plug-In which comes with After Effects. Normally it should be in the Effects Panel butif not you can install it at a later time. To start keying select the Layer go to Effect > Keying > Color Key. Asyou can see the Effect Controls Panel opened. Select the Eyedropper (1.) and click on an average greenarea (2.) to set the Key Color. After clicking on the Green Screen After Effects will start to cut out the green



area. To improve the cut out you need to play with the values in the Effect Controls Panel. By playing withthe Tolerance and Edge values you can achieve a good outcome.

4. Masks, Transfer Modes & TransparencyMasking

Mask Settings

Transfer Modes

Transparecy

Setting up CompositionI prepared a composition with two Layers. The first Layer is a Shape Layer called eraser and the Layerbelow is the Background which is an image of a city skyline I found on sxc.hu. You can go ahead and createa composition with a Background you like and a Rectangular Shape. A little tip at this Point: If you select alayer you’ll create a Mask but if you don’t select any Layer you will create a Shape Layer. In the next stepyou’ll see how the arrangement looks like.



Composition ArrangementThe Rectangular Shape is arranged on the left side above the Backround Layer.

Mask – Rectangle ToolSelect the Background Layer and go to the Toolbar. Select the Rectangle Tool or hit Q until the RectangleTool is selected. Now select the Background Layer to create a Mask and draw a Rectangular Maskapproximately the same size such as our Shape.



Mask – ModeOur Background image disappeared (1.). Only the Mask Shape you created will let us see whats on theLayer. Shortly after you let your mouse go the Mask controls will pop up. You can also click on the littletriangle or hit the letter M. By changing the Mode from Add to Subtract (2.) we’ll achieve the effect we want.

Mask – ControlsNow we can see the Background except the area where our Mask Shape sits. Our Mask Shape was a littlebigger than our blue Shape. the Mask expansion control expands or shrinks the Mask. I set it to -9 pixels(1.) to hide it behind the blue Shape (2.).



Rectangular Shape – AnimationNow set a keyframe on the beginning of our timelime, move the CTI (Current Time Indicator) to the right (2sec). Select our blue Shape and move it from the initial position to the right. By holding Shift you’ll be ableto move the Shape in a straight line.



Mask – AnimationAfter animating our blue Shape we want to animate our Mask. Since we want to create an eraser we want tohide everything our blue Shape passes over. Go back to the first Frame, set a Keyframe at the Mask Path(1.) and go to the second position at two seconds.



Mask – Shape sizeWhen approaching the Mask Shape your mouse will change to a black cursor. Double-click > select theside and drag it to the right until the blue Shape hides it again (2.). Double-click again to save the newForm. Preview our little composition to see what we’ve created. The eraser should delete the Backgroundimage while it moves to the right. Done. This effect is very simple but you can use this simple effect tocreate interesting compositions.



Mask Controls – Ellipse ToolYou can use Masks to create the cool shades at the corners by selecting the Background Layer > choosingthe Ellipse Tool and creating a Mask Shape.



Mask Controls – FeatherWe already changed the values of the Mask Expansion but this time we want to change the Mask Feather(1.). This gives us the Gradient from Black to Transparent (2.).

Mask Controls – OverviewThis is how it will look like. It’s a little bit overdone but you can adjust it to your needs.



Transfer ModesI imported two images to a new composition. The first image is a texture which I downloaded from theFreebies section from PSDTUTS.com and below I placed the city skyline Background (1.). Now we want tochange the Transfer Mode, respectively Blending Mode as we say in Photoshop. To do that we need toToggle the Mode (3.) and Track Matte (4.) Dropdown Menus. Either click on the Button: Toggle Switches /Modes (2.) or hit the key F4. The Wall texture is 100% opaque and since After Effects works with layers wecan only see our texture and the background is hidden.



Transfer ModesClick on the little triangle to open the Transfer Modes and choose one you like. The most common TransferModes are Multiply, Overlay, Screen and a few other. You can try them out and take a look at what they do.Multiply would hide everything black and show through the areas where it is white, Screen the opposite. Inour case we did a little mixture choosing Overlay.



TransparencyThe Track Matte allows us to add Transparency to a Layer which doesn’t already have a transparent Track.If you want to check whether your image has transparent areas or not you can click on the TransparencySwitch in the Composition Panel noticeable by the chessboard-like button. By setting the Track Matte it willuse the Layer above it as the Transparency Source. Choosing Luma Matte will make the black areastransparent and the white areas will show through.



TransparencyBy choosing Luma Inverted Matte the opposite will happen. This time the white areas are transparent andthe black areas are showing through. Feel free to try out the Alpha Matte and Alpha Inverted Matte.



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