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As promised, here is the second tutorial this week with minutes to spare here on Saturday night.
In this new 2-part tutorial you will learn a great method for stabilizing footage in After Effects that smooths the result rather than freezes the tracking center. We will also create smoke flying behind a police car, which is as fun as it sounds.
This one tutorial has many great tips and techniques including, rotoscoping, expressions and matte blending.
Download the footage and try the technique out for yourself. I’d also like to thank Mark Christiansen for allowing me to demonstrate his stabilize technique in this tutorial. For more information about his great After Effects book Click Here.
PS: Getting ready to go to NAB, more info about the T-shirt contest when I get back.
can't wait to watch it!
keep up the great work Andrew!
I'm also looking for another copy of this book (I currently have one at a school but I leave it there for students) if you have a used one leave a comment and I'll get back to you. Can't afford new right now.
It's a great book though. Highly suggest it as well as AK's products like evolution.
Alright Andrew I said it. I'll be expecting my check later this week. :p
Tut, Tut, Tut... ;-)
Hey people if you buy VCP products AK will mention you in his tutorials like he did me at 10:50 in this one ;)
GG man :)
Thorsten ~ StrongMocha.com
I'm getting speechless day by day. :D
Your tutorials are just AWESOME.
sidefx of Andrew's tut = u will speechless day by day. (hehehehhe) :D
Thnx Andrew - Thnx a lot
Regards
Sandy
damn, i need to start design the T-shirt now!
Germany says thanks!
Please help us get this on UK TV guys and move our productions into HD...
http://www.doritos.co.uk/index.html?videoid=3rDsI3PkB7g
Big love to video copilot!
I turned to particular but I could not control the speed of the particle generation since the car played back at 90fps and the smoke had to generate super slow.
With one day to brainstorm the effect, I left the car smokeless. It was still an awesome effect yet it could have been even more dynamic.
So in essence I am thanking you for such an awesome tutorial.
Thanks a million once again. I will experiment and add the car with smoke for my reel tape.
Peace out.
Oh btw the car was sliding sideways and then had to turn (all at 90fps) and when that happened I did not have time to properly track the effect using particular and your null control tutorial about 30 lesson back. I thought of asking for you help but could not contact you on the matter. All is well and have a great day.
Keep up the great work!
Good work! Planning on submitting my own ad for this soon.
@ Andrew: Nice tutorial, it will come in handy.
another great tutorial.
Greetings
Did anyone else have problems with the sample footage of the car at 23.98? I keep getting repeated frames in the timeline.
Thanks,
This is what I see vs. an import into Final Cut Pro and export (automatically does 23.976).
http://yourvisualimage.com/test/footage_sidebyside.mov
Anyone on a Mac have success? I wonder if it's just me.
i have worked with some shaky footage befor, but it was intended at that time.
but this will most certain come in handy one day.
keep up all this good work you are learning lots of people alot of stuff, including me ofc.
I was wondering, is this the most realistic way to create smoke in AE? Or could you use the same technique as in the tut where Sam breathe smoke/fog out of his mouth? Or maybe other ways? Maybe it's just me, but somehow the smoke seems a little bit animated in action.
Anyway, I love the tutorials. In every lession I learn more about how AE works, and sir Andrew, you are the boss of teaching it :-)
about the Growing 3D Vines
and if so what did you think about it
THANKS!!!!!
Your tutorials are great, and you gonna get a place in Visual Effects History,
that your works made vfx guys to go deep in to AE. before After effects was an industrial software and only experts can work on it, now its a toy for young inspired artist, we gonna see some awesome works among the Andrew's Fan.
Even in my university, guys doing some great works, when we ask, hmm, excuse me, from where u inspired to do such an awesome stuff, they reply simply. "VCP" what is VCP, ohhhh, its Andrew.
and I really waiting for the offer of Adobe to Andrew. Good luck Andrew. your work is More than Appreciate. From me, i dont know how to thank you, the great thing is you shared all the tutorials in the net. I pray for you, its the best thing i can do for you, and cant get by money.
:)>-
Shafeek
i want to invite you to see a little video aplying some of your tips.
that'd be nice if some of you guys post your opinion, and if some one see andrew or know how to let him know about this please tell him of this little tribute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKw6YKGqTgU
saludos desde mexico
I have 6.5. Does the tracker work differently in 6.5 because I tried to track the same point you did and I couldn't make it work for the life of me. What settings do you recommend for tracking?
So, my friend and I are out here at NAB as well, and he's 100% he saw you today at the convention center sporting some sweet "VideoCopilot.net" t-shirts. It was also awesome to see one of my AE heroes, Steve Holmes from Energi Design, using YOUR Evolution stuff in his demo @ the Adobe booth. He plugged the daylights out of you as well. It was great to hear. Anyway, while you're out here, I'd love to meet you. Hope I get a chance. Take care.
Ralph Helm
Level 3 Media Productions
http://www.level-3-media.com
I tried it in 6.5. It works it's just a pain in the ass. Remember you can go to the point where it screwed up. Move it, Change it, and restart the track from there.
I do not think the tracker was updated in 6.5. I recall having a hissy fit over it in the adobe forums long ago. Don't quote me though.
talking about NAB - do you know the fmx at Stuttgart/Germany?
Take a look: www.fmx.de
It is a very fantastic conference with a lot of talents and many guest speakers from all over the world. Maybe some guys from Adobe could invite you to do a little AE workshop there ;)
Greetings from Germany,
Francesco
Shawn
I have and continue to have trouble tracking/stabilizing anything.
I set my tracker exactly as you did in the tutorial. I track a few frames perfectly, then it all goes out of whack and I end up having to do it frame by frame.
I don't understand the problem. I am using AE 6.5.
I used to think it was my footage DVX 100A Dv footage not giving a strong resolution to track, but I am using the same police car footage as you are, and setting everything up the same, but all I manage to do is create a bunch of new and exciting swear words!
Any ideas? Suggestions?
Thanks as always Andrew for all the awesome work you do,
Mike
thanks for the tutorials!
this one is great
i wonder
how to create a rain effect using trapcode
i do mean a realistic rain effect
VIDEOCOILOT ROCKS----
AK's camera is a JVC HD 200, yes it shoots 720P
For Rain, Aaron Robinowitz from CreativeCow has a cool 3 part tute on weather replacement. Check it out: http://cowcast.creativecow.net/podcast/weather-replacement-part-1--6
ciao
Thanks
http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/superheromovie/trailer1/
Thanks!!!
R
Can you tell me wich camera you used for that clip?
Thank you.
Yeah, there are a lot of amazing plug-ins out here. They've got the whole "Plug-In Pavilion" going on again, with tons of great presentations from Trapcode, DigiEffects, Digital Anarchy, Automatic Duck, etc. Also, The Foundry has a really nice booth this year, as does Black Magic Design. I'll be blogging about it on my sight tonight. Sadly, no more VideoCopilot sightings, save for the one my friend had on Monday, but I did get to meet Aharon Rabinowitz from Creative Cow today, which was really cool.
Cheers,
Ralph Helm
http://www.level-3-media.com
best,
chris
P.s. If its not to much trouble and if you got the time or are stuck in on a rainy day could you please make a tutorial on how to make a teleporting effect like the one in X-men 2, where after the guy teleports he leaves a weird cloud behind then re-appears in the air and disappears again, it would help me greatly
thank you in advance
You are Awsome man.. you are really a great person, honestly im telling you that i hv learned a lot from you, really i didnt know how to use after effects... but now.. in my work im using your tutorial in defernt way...and my company is really impresd with my work and thy hv increas my salary its all becase of you.. thanks a lot.... also i have so many question for you...also im going to buy some of your product soon...now i didnt hv enough money to send it you...
Thanks you again...
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