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Here is a quick test utilizing some new features of Sure Target 2. Notice the bouncy movement and the subtle roll and pitch of the camera as it moves.
Think about being in a car with very soft suspension…
Watch Test Video (looping)
The camera Roll is also velocity based so that it will inherit the speed of your camera movements and the amount is controllable as with the inertia.
You might also notice the variable target distance from the first title to the second… Each Target has a slider to control the (dolly/truck) distance from the camera so some targets can be close and others far without having to move your layers or animate the camera manually.
UPDATE: Just doing some more testing and should have a tutorial and download ready next week. See you then.

Great awesome good notbad just right.
Very Nice
I like the bounce when the camera stops!
Wow- looks very smooth, and I look forward to using it!
Very cool work Andrew, you provide the best free stuff around. Thank you so much, keep up the very good work:)
Best greetings from Italy,
Alex
Looking forward to getting a hold of this. Can’t wait.
Awesome! ![]()
Cannot wait.
It took me about 2 minutes to realize it was looping.
NIIICE! Bring it!
WOW! I am SO impressed! I CANNOT wait. I also love that inertia effect. WONDERFUL!
Andrew: Is it me or the reflection plug-in is also working with the Sure Target?
Can’t wait Andrew!
Where is the reflection in the last 2 titles of the animation?
VC Reflect looks good on the first 2. I use this plugin all the time now. Thanks so much for making it available!
WOW! I feel like an idiot! I watched the clip for lie 15 sec. or so, then I noticed it was on a loop. haha… very nice though.
That would go great with Twitch also.
Andrew. you are awesome. nuff said.
That’s so cool!
Awesome plugin
Great job Andrew!
Can’t wait! Andrew you started a new concept in the net!!!
look great. THANKS!!!
Oh My God !! these is greet
I want gift my friends these Video
Thanks around .. You are working hard
nice camera moves
That´s cool. I liked it so much, i actually watched the video looping at least some 60 times.
Very nice! Can’t wait to check this out.
I really like – but when will video end? Waiting for hours…
thanks 4 thee free stuff, here in venezuela it´s so hard to find dollars!!!!
fu%k chavez!!!
thanks andrew
OMG!!it’s aweeesooomeee :O:O:O
Looks veeeery interesting
you aren’t human…you are an alien!!!!!
Alien’s technology…
WONDERFUL!!!
Bye
Gianni
Amazing, can’t wait to get it.
by the way thanks Andrew for this.
This is awesome Andrew. I look forward to using it! Thanks.
Beautiful AK!
That’s all I was going to say but I got bounced for making too brief a comment.
I think you and I will meet some day.
Awsome ^^, next year i’m movin to são paulo work with video and i cant’t wait to have good internet (here at my little city is just 300kb/s
) to watch all the tutotials
AWESOME MAN….. Cant even wwit for this to come out…. YOU ROCK MAN!!!!
Andrew,
That looks amazing!!!!! I cant wait to download this plugin great work man!
By the way I’m ordering Action Essentials 2 and a T-Shirt later tonight
Freaking awesome!
There are so many new features in 2.0 I think it should actually be called Version 5.0… you just skipped over a ton of updates and upgrades
Thanks again Andrew! Really looking forward to using this plug-in.
Looks so nice Andrew Thanks
Looks really good. I would like to see more of the pitch and roll like a plane though.
Outstanding, Mr. Kramer. Can’t wait. Well…I can. And I will.
awesome, as always.
can’t wait)) super handy tool!
awesome, like always AK
I hope this comes out either tomorrow or Tuesday. I have project I’d love to use it in.
Wow another great plug-in from VC cant wait to use it thanx VC.
WOW!!! that’s AWESOME!!
Thank you so much!
from brazil
Awsome ,Looks really good,WONDERFUL!!!
pramod-india
YEAH baby yeah, I can realy use that!!! bring it on
This looks amazing! Unleash it now please!
Excellent work. Looks very, very promising.
Perfect!
I will add a little wiggle also.
you are awesome andrew, we love your stuff. pretty cool.
just PERFECT!!!!
Its funny how you added a reflection to “Introducing” and “Sure Target 2″, but not on the other stuph ![]()
I still cant wait, that camera movement is awesome, It might make typographies a little simpler..
(:
LG+LG+LG
Life’s good so let go and let God.
thanks Andrew! You were the one that opened the filming industry for me.
(: thank you
- Jeromie
Hey Andrew did you use nuke rolling shutter?
I could go for a sandwich right about now.
I am like a dog who is hyper active but his owner say i have to stay put in my basket hehe
very smooth camera animation …
n the suspension is working very well //
love that bouncy effect, can’t wait to have this another AWESOME plugin
Thanks Andrew!
Agreed! The bouncing effect is awsome!
Can’t wait to try it!
very nice camera =))
Beautiful!!!
Very nice!
Esperamos…:)
How is this free?! Christmas has come early!
Love the reflection and shadows too and the bouncy camera effect is so realistic.
You are a great person that i have ever see….
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GREAT Tutorials And FREE Plugins….
Thank a lot Andrew Kramer
sweet lighting and movement looks great
U R the Best Mr. Andrew………. Only 1…
Must Be Cristmas Gift For us, Mr. Krammer……..
English
can’t describe the good things you have given us
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French
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Spanish
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Greek
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Italian
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THANK YOU
Looks freaking awesome!! I will try to control myself while I wait for the tutorial!
can’t wait..! + optical flare!!!!!
peace bro
lufee,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Very cool. Nice job Andrew.
OSOM!
cant wait to have it at my fingertips
You got reflection on only 2 texts..
??
nice… looks worth the turkey sandwich
With the camera roll, the plug-in should be called Not-So-Sure Target…
Enough already with the teasing bring on the goods sir!
I was just thinking yesterday how does one (one being you Andrew) get to know so much about AE and all that it does? My god man I can’t keep up and I don’t have enough time left on this earth to get it all.) I do have a request I would like to see a text tut on instead of blowing the text up do it in reverse. There is probably a very simple way to reverse it but me being 57 and I guess feeble minded I have not figured it out yet.(
Thank you sir for all you do……..
oh my… I’m so going to use this! [:
Awesome! I just used SureTarget 1 to make a title that blew my client away!
Great stuff guys! Many thousands of dozens of thanks!
Amazing, this is a great update. Thanks Andrew for your passion.
wow nice one i like it very much…i like u very much andrew
Terrific. This looks fantastic. Very exciting.
love that little bumpily effect ![]()
good job, andrew, can’t w8
Wow, the possibilities are literally endless, this put’s another foot down for AE in the 3d animation world
WOW wonderful you rule andrew !!!!! no other site gives us this kind of things love this site !!!!!!! im on it everyday !!
Really looking forward to the release. Doing a project now that could have used this.
EXCELLENT! Another great product! I love freebies!
Wow! I have no wors to describe what I’m feeling at the moment.
I’m looking forward to the release.
Andrew, you RULE, man!
Sure target= awesome
lens flare = awesome
when can we get it?
(HINT: now = awesome)
1)NOW
2)LATER
3)NEVER
It’s look very nice. Congratulations
i didn’t like sure target 2.5 or which ever one he did the sure target tutorial on with the squares in the background and lil strokes of light, i just couldn’t seem to get it to work right, it was just impeding everything i did, i move it to one point rotate key it, move it to the next, key rotation and position /stuff, then when i play it back it screwed up the first key frame and rotated it backwards. im almost certain i did it right. it just doesn’t want to work.
excelente… este kramer realmente es un genio… gracias hermano por todo el aporte q nos das… de todas las paginas q eh revisado esta es la que me ah ayudado mas…
saludos desde Perú….
Anderson Soria Amasifuen
jusst amazing!!
Another GREAT stuff…Thanx Andrew
super awesome !!
YOU ARE THE MAN… SO CANT WAIT
Look great !! ![]()
cant wait for it.
greetings from holland
Words fail me…
I love turkey sandwiches!
Looking good can’t wait to try it out!! Cheers mr Kramer you’re a top geezer!!
you are THE man! thank you….
Oh man, there were so many family members on Thursday that there was no left over turkey! Hence no turkey sandwiches! GRRRRRR. Next year, I’m making my own turkey and gravy so this doesn’t happen again.
Thankfully, I have the thought of Sure Target 2.0 to lift me out of my depression.
AK! VC’s Cyber Monday?
above and beyond, as usual, andrew. can’t wait. looking forward to the 100th, too. it’s like christmas around here or something…
Those shadows are amazing!
Awesome! Hopefully we can use this with optical flares, the bar graph tutorial, and all the added tutorial for action essentials 2 that haven’t been released yet!
Are you an alien? :O Just Awesome!!!
Very, very curious about this one.
Looks awesome, looking forward for demonstration video.
hey, great to c this nice update, i kinda used my own here to simulate the bounciness of a camera moving from text to the other, take a look http://vimeo.com/7657303.
but now with this i dont have to write a wiggle expression to my cam move…
thanks Andrew
after a minute watching it i got dizzy.
. cool stuff
Cool video, Stan Winston called this effect the wagga wagga, so in honour of an inspiration and really friendly guy thank you for creating this.
Stan spent years trying to remove wagga wagga from his animatronics and this video reminds me of this.
Wow! It’s looks fantastic!
Awesome! Cant wait!
I learned alot from you Andrew!
Thats my newest clip done in After Effects
Looking forward to this one
Your the best!!!
Hello
I’m from Saudi Arabia .. In fact, impressed by this wonderful site .. especially as I was trying to make every effort to
Learn this program
And I am working on adobe Premiere and Photoshop for a long time
But I forget some of the steps and go back to the key lessons in Alafteravict
I hope Mr. Andrew guideline and give me some tips
Especially
There are some problems I am having to use some of the effects that Ibda Mr. Andrew in the manufacture
Sometimes when I close the program effective application of an error
I need to advise
Greet you
This is great and something imo has been long over due.
Just in time. Was designing my trailer/ad/reel thing and this new version will just be PERFECT… and for $FREE.99!!? Andrew, Thanx!!!.
Sweet. This looks frickin’ awesome.
Nice work Mr Kramer sir.
cool that’s very awesome
i like the new features
Wonderful, you are amazing!
I think there is a small chance Andrew reads the posts, if i am correct i want to thank you. It seems most people gush in their posts and its plain to see why. This site is fantastic, all aspects. I have just started watching/reading the blog and to be honest its to give me a laugh more than anything, the rambling is so funny.
The tutorials are the best i have come across and if i had to pay for them i wouldn’t be any less happy (maybe a little bit).
I was planning doing a full time course on 3D animation but I’m seriously considering motion graphics now.
Thank you Andrew.
Added a Twitter feed to the blog eh? Hopefully you’ll start using twitter more!
Haha, stephen. He does actually read them. He’s like god around here, he sees everything you write and think
Thanks for the update Kramer! Can’t wait untill next week…..
Can’t wait to see the tutorial…
Yay great to see what this version can do! Man really love this site and all the work around it. And also a dank je wel (Dutch for thank you) for the cool t-shirt I bought and received recently! Wearing it as I’m typing
Next Week! I can’t wait!
When is it available Mr. Krammer.
HI ANDREW…
Thanks You So Much….
CAN’T WAIT CAN’T WAIT CAN’T WAIT CAN’T WAIT CAN’T WAIT CAN’T WAIT CAN’T WAIT CAN’T WAIT CAN’T WAIT CAN’T WAIT
Very cool. I think I might be able to make use of this on my next project. Which just happens to start next week.
Hi guys, check this video out
It´s amazing a guy in uruguay called Federico Alvarez made it with only 500 dollars budget, some guys in hollywood saw it and they inmediately contacted him and flew him to LA to sign a 30million contract to make a movie. They got him a new apartmnet, new car and now he´s working with spiderman director Sam Raimi on creating the new film
Source: http://newslite.tv/2009/12/02/unknown-filmmaker-gets-30m-for.html
This kinda things encourage us to keep learning on this beautiful field of visualfx and maybe someday make something like that
Kind Regards
Forgot the link to the video
I can’t believe this is going to be free. This is awesome Andrew, keep up the good work!
Hurry up please, I love suretarget. In fact I’d love a suretarget t-shirt.
Wow, great again!
I noticed that springy movement in some Discovery Channel video and jingles (the ones with jungle and grass). I used that techique by manual keyframing camera, and now its gonna be much easier, with SureTarget 2.
Awesome, but looks like your shadows are off when “Video CoPilot” is on the screen (going diff. directions)
wow, looks freaking awesome. nice job AK
As much as I love free stuff, and even better free stuff that is amazing and worthwhile…… Have you considered a free ware donation….such as offering those who enjoy a special preset, plug-in etc can then donate a few bucks to the cause to help you guys out?
Once again thanks for revisiting Sure Target and making a good thing a better thing!
Andrew, You are a GENIUS!
I’m from Brazil, and I apreciate your job… it’s amazing… I have no words in my poor english to express that… I hope that you continue this gorgeous work…
and don’t forget of free stuffs…. ![]()
You’re the man of the after effects.
ABSOLUTELY.
Nice Plugin, and the tutorials too.. when it will be available
I don’t Like it…
@Sidyk: Whats there not to like!?! This is a time saver!
when we get sth new?:-s
Randy, as AK always says when someone poses that question, ‘Buy Video Copilot stuff.’ That’s the donate button.
Hi Andrew
the world is a better place with people like you.
hard to believe that you are doing this for free.
you are making many fans like myself very happy.
keep up the noble work.
Sunday morning in rural Iowa, patiently waiting for new VCP videos from Andrew… more snow then updates
All I want for Christmas are my two VCP Tuts… (Optical Flairs and Sure Target 2) xD
waiting for updates bro……….
that’s a long video
wait, was it looping? ![]()
Loved it!
It takes a great man and a kind heart to do something like this fir free
keep on going Andrew Kramer!!!! ;D
Doing this by hand would be kinda lot of work!
Holding back the start of a new project waiting for Sure Target 2 to be available. Awesome stuff.
help me please….i am sorry my english is bad
“sure target at tutorial why my particle world not work,this is stay not work, not fantastic?????help me please…or email at http://www.tenebaum@yahoo.com
One of the problem of the sure target 1.6 was the fact that he can’t work with object parented.
In fact, it worked with only one axis at the the time, if you played with expression in the 3 axis, i make something a little crazy :
A link to explain the first problem
http://aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1350&p=5172#p5172
A video about the problem
http://www.dailymotion.com/falsetto/video/15173169
Very nice, Thanks you Kramer
awesome nice job
Any idea when SureTarget 2.0 will be out? I could really use it for an upcoming project!
Post it today and all will be forgiven.
Andrew, as always, this looks great. Just want to say thanks for always inspiring me. Can’t wait (but will) for the plugin.
Hope you are well.
Awesome. Sounds like the update will ROCK. Happy holidays, hope to see Sure Target next gen soon!
ETA for Sure Target 2 ??
We could really use this on a current project. Need beta testers??
I know it will be worth it wait, but I don’t wanna wait anymore!
: P
very nice….Good
please….I want a project file….
Any update on Sure target 2.0?
Yeah, i’ve been anxiously awaiting the arrival of this. Big fan of 1 & 1.5 Thanks for continually pushing the bar and creating so many useful tutorials etc for our community!

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Awesome! cant wait