really cool...

The presets are awesome! Only one problem.

I get the dreaded green X on top of the layer I apply the preset to. Specifically, 'easy reflect'. If the presets are free.... why? I don't mind paying for them but why does it act like it a 'trial' version?

Handy presets... Thanks!

CS4 users should use the presets in the AE7 folder. These presets seem to work fine with AE9 while the ones in the CS3 CS4 folder do not.

help please! i can't find the linear wipe (7:20). I use CS4 so i think that's the reason for my problem. Do everyone know how this effect is named in cs 4 or doesnt' it exist ? thanks

hello! i have a problem downloading the Quick 3D Reflections preset!i do not know how to solve this problem. It keeps telling me HTTP NOT FOUND. What should i do? Please help me!!!

Great work. Thank you.

For CS4 Users: The order of the effects is wrong, plus remember to use the effect ON YOUR OBJECT. Not the floor. ;)

This Reflect seems to be not working on my CS4 Version.

I did ABSOLOUTLY Everything you did, but i couldnt see the reflection for some reason.

Please help.

You are a great person. Helping other people without expecting anything. Thanks a lot for all your tutorials and presets.I've learned a lot and I just love to visit your site every day.

You are D Guru. Great site greater stuff !

*** CS4 FIX ***
In the presets folder there are 2 versions one for CS3/CS4 and one for AE7. I found the one for AE7 works on CS4,I think they put them in the wrong folders. (from the forum)

thanks for sharing?

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thanks!

Great preset! How can one get it to work with text? Thanks

Hi everyone here. I was excited with that easy reflections plugin. How i going to get that plugin and were to downloading it. Thanks

Sorry..very n00b like question here but how come the background to your normal layer is black but mine is always a grey checkerboard..? thanks :)

Andrew... you are actually one of the most helpfull people in the world! You have no idea how much respect i have for you :) thank you so much for all of these tutorials! They are the best! :)

Hello thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am from mexico and my English is not excellent but I try to be still your tutoriales stepwise. I have the after effects cs3 version in Spanish and your presets dont work very well in my mac so my cuestion is what I can do in order to work better the presets. Thank you

Hi I am working on AAE CS4 and when i put the easy reflection to the object i have this massage : This favorite contains 2 references to missing effect. Please instal the following effect to restore these references. ("CC RepeTile",CC Composite")
Tell me please what is the problem ???
Sorry for my english :)
Greatingt from Poland

WoW Andrew!!!! I design and train motion designs in After Effets over 10 years, and I confess, you are awsome. You are very talented and I really appreciate your creativity.

and why dosnt the opacity take the transparence of the reflection?
it seems to be, that it can adjust just the orginal. thats sux.

Thank you so much for the presets. Really amazing work and generosity.

Where I will find cc Reptile and cc Composite ??

This looks great, but im getting this weird error saying it references plugins that dont exist.
Here is a screen capture here.
http://www.musicboxdigitalmedia.com/error.JPG

any help? I'd really love to use this.
Thanks!

Easy to use, realy helpful, what else can i say, videocopilot still kicking asXX

Hmm..fooled around some more to get this working...seems like the order of the effects in this preset need arranging to make it work in CS4. After moving the falloff part of the preset to the top of the fx stack it seemed to work more sensibly.

Something doesn't seem to work right in regards to the linear wipe portion of this preset when using in CS4/Vista 64. The transition completion control in this preset has a scale that does not produce suitable results. At anything more than 1% completion the reflection has far too much opacity falloff. This behaviour is the same if replaceing this portion of the preset with Linear Wipe manually and adjusting it's transition completion value. Again anything higer than 1% generates unusually high amounts of opacity fallof. Sorry, doesn't work for me...:(

I am using a After Effects on a MAC. Does anyone know why the presets wont work for me?

When I applied the reflection effect nothing happened

Love the tutorials cant wait to make awesome videos thx to you nice work

It seems like it's not working on CS3. I get reflection on the bottom of the picture itself, but not on the base ground. I tried different orders, but it's not working. Is there any suggestion?

thanks realy useful !

Hey Andrew

First off Andrew, thanks for creating an amazing community here.

I have a question about the easy reflect preset. I found that the preset works great for original footage but I got tripped up on pre-composing.

I was applying the easy reflect to a bunch of stills that were all over the place in quality and size, and did not have time to bring them into photoshop. My approach was to use a white solid as a matte in After Effects, so I could have the freedom of adjusting the picture and have them all look the same in a 3d move....but with all the precomposing, it meant I had to make my reflections the old fashion way.

So my question is if there is a way to make a preset like this that will work with precomps as well?

Thanks

MP

HI Andrew
Desde Mexico... SALUDOS!!

Me encantan tus trabajos, eh aprendido mucho de ti y tus maravillosos tutoriales! se te agradece que des algunos tutos libres!

Good Luck my friend!
take care!!

take a bow, sir, cause you are the master.

Thanks for your help!=]

Mil gracias son un chico q esta por estos rumbos y me encontre con tigo y me dio mas ganas de aprender mas se te agradece.....100 puntos...

This is great Andrew! Been doing this manually for some time now. I've downloaded the preset. It's gonna be a real time saver!

wow...thanks, that's a useful and time saving tool!
i'am search the effects PLZ

Wow thank you Andrew !
It's EXACLY what i was searching for !

I am trying to use the reflection preset and the only way I can get it to work is to add an adjustment layer, why?

yeah dude, I try that, thanks.

(I have the crappy trial) but I download the trial for the cycore FX.

Hi. Awesome present. Just one question: can I apply it to text (I tried but it doesn't seem to work). Thanks!

To Virio And Jrmagic,

The message you are getting (CC RepeTile and CC Composit) is an indication that you are missing the Cycore FX plugin.

This plugin "Cycore FX" comes bundled with Adobe After Effects CS3 full version only... and not the demo version.

You can Google Cycore FX and download the trial version of this plugin. Be aware that the trial version will render a green "X".
Hope this helps!

Yeah Virio, same here.

I hit okay after it shows that error and it just lowers some of my images footage opacity to 50 percent it's weird.

I hope you can get a soultion up and running my man. :)

Your really good, thanks so much for everything you have done.

Hi Mr Andrew, I tried using this tutorial but when I try to apply the preset it says, "This favorite contains 2 references to missing effects. Please install the following effects to restore these references CC RepeTile, CC Composite.

Can you please help me? thanks!!

Mr. Kramer sory I am a french an I love than all your preset and you tutorial but I want no the french version are existing. thank you very mush .
chrisdelore@yahoo.fr - CAMEROUN -DOUALA - AKWA

For those having a Green X after installing Cycore. The unlockable demo version includes all features from the full version, except for that it renders a green X

hi sir this is ayyappa i learn aftereffects this videos is very simple under stand the technics
thanking

regards

ayyappa

thx.
very good very good

If you have some problems with "CC RepeTile, CC Composite", you have to install the Cycore Effects. That´s all!!!
Your friend, Agustín.

i insert it to my picture and it has a big green cross through it how do i get rid of it??

hey! I'm having the same problem as a lot of you here. I'm working in After Effects 7 and cant get the effect to work, it says "This favorite contains 2 references to missing effects. Please install the following effects to restore the references. (CC RepeTile, CC Composite)"
(By the way i'm trying to put it on a 3dlayered picture)

I installed Cycore like someone wrote here and installed it in the presets folder but it still doesnt work.(!)

Pleease help me, it's such a great effect, it would help me a whole lot!

Add me if you could help me please:
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Andrew your the !!! I love your tutorials !!! Keep it up !

Ohhh Man! You're sooooooo DAMN Good ^^

I've got a lot of respekt for your works and presents

THANK you !

exllent goog job.
thanks for that Andrew Kramer

Hey there. I'm just getting my feet wet in AE with some pretty big projects and your tutorials have been a life saver. Thank you for being so generous with your time. I can't than kyou enough.

thank you very much I use this tutorial in my family video

Your the Man Andrew.
This site has helped so much in advancing me to that next level. I have had after effects for about 2 weeks now and, because of what you do for us I'm at a much higher level than a friend of mine who has had Cs3 for near 6 months now. I told him bout this site and will refer it to anyone who wants real tutorials.
Thanx again.
Klassic Reel Entertainment.

Thank iu! man! iu teh best of the best... and this download is the best thing happened to meXD jajaja :P thanx!

I´m brazilian, i don´t speak english very well, but i have cycore effects plugin. if somebody to need, please send me your e-mail ok.

hola, oye como instalo el preset en mi after effects??, hi, how can i install the preset in my sfter effects?

Can't find a demo downloader for this effects at least one should try before buying. Windows OS thanks

Hi Andrew, the preset don´t work with rasterized layer in AEFX CS3, Does any solution?.

Sorry for my english.

u guys are really making it easy for me and i like to say i like it. hi5 4 u all.

u guys are really making it easy for me and i like to say i like it. hi5 4 u all.

i can't find easy reflection same tutorial. Helf me!

can't seems to find reflection in my preset, am using CS2

Anyone has solution for the issue with CS3 Pro?

would it be because i'm on a Mac?

Gr8 man Nice Tuturiol.......
I am a Big fan of U Mr karmer

This is supper. Tnx

umbeliveable

I keep getting green crosses when I put on reflection. How do I fix that?>-(

This is a GREAT preset! :)

Did anyone however find a way to resolve the "GREEN CROSS" issue? I'm getting it on simple JPG's...

Please help.

you re my life

Thats good!!U are the one!!!please plugins to me!Please!!!

Marshall where do you put the cycore fx in?

Thank you very much for this preset! It's very cool

Thank you very much for this preset! It's very cool.

Nice Tutorial , you are the best

Thanx, great preset.

But i've got a problem, when I use cc-composite there appears A green/blueish cross in the centre of the images. Any suggestions?

Great preset, but I don't believe it works properly with CS3. Any suggestions?

Hey mr. Kramer. I've followed the steps and I see the preset in EA but when I aply it , it looks like it doesn't work. Can you help me?

Thank you very much for this preset! It's very cool.

gracias thank you sos un grade es demaciado para aquellos que nos cuesta trabajo aprende gracias maestro

I FORGOT YOU CAN CHECK OUT SOME OF MY WORK AT myspace.com/simeonhedge or at youtube type in SIMEON HEDGE at the search bar for videos. respect and keep up the good work.

Im a jamaican well know music video director and im trying to bring the game to a next. all these tutorials really insire me. WHAT I WOULD LOVE IS IF I COULD GET A COPY OF THESE TUTORIAL ? THAT WOULD BE GOOD IM PLANING ON BUY ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE SELLIN ON THE SITE, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOVE COPIES OF THE TUTORIALS PLEASE PLEASE !!!

Sexy preset there. Thanks alot.

goooooood

Arron. How do you chage or put a different background then the black?

Hi Andrew;

Thanks a lot for such a great web site. The tutorials are helpful.

I am very new to Adobe AE. I covered basic tutorials and start with presets. I was trying Quick 3D Reflections , but could not apply the reflection effects - I was getting the message that I have to upgrade my AE 7 pro.....

Can you please advise... I also wanted to buy "Evolution" and "Sound FX", but now I am concern that I would not be able to use it with my current version...

Sincerely,

Kate

Thanks andrew. it's very good of you sharing all that stuff to us so we can learn. keep up the good work. I also in video editing and now im stating to learn after effects.

Thanks

armin

Thank you so much man this rocks.... I need to hook you up with some of my wifes brownies the best is Texas , love all your stuff man keep it up....

Ditto on the problem above. where would we be able to find those files/references in order to get this rollin?? this is exactly what i am looking at for my project. I would love to get it working!!

I am having a common problem I see from some other questions... It says I am missing the two references. CC RepeTil and CC composite! Could some one please help.... I am working with AE 7

This is the best tut place ever!

Hey grait, bat don´t work in my computer i have CS3 end tell my this: (whit shake preset): don´t have any propiety end metodo whit name ¨Slider¨ expresion desabilitada whay??? end whit this preset(reflex) tell my what I don´t have CC Reptile and CC Composite what i do??? Sorry for my Inglesh I am from Argentina

Hey WHitey,

experiencing the same problem:

A green/blueish cross in the centre of the reflection and the image itself. Anyone any thoughts?

(By the way, thanks for the tutorial Andrew)


Maximus

Hello from Vienna Andrew,

your site is excellent and i learn all day a little bit more.
I have a question, do you make more Basic Tutorials for Beginner in Future???
My Problem is, i have AE CS in German and my english is also not perfect.
Have a nice day Andrew

Any ideas about how I could adapt this for an element such as a coin rolling across the screen? Or anything with a Z rotation for that matter? Thanks!

Great Tutorials!

Just keep bringing them. I would like to see a little more text animation or more of what is presented on Tv.

Judahpasard

Hey, this is great! But still having problems with cs3. Installed cycore fx HD and then reflections preset. i apply it and change the order but the result is not correct. then i've tried to apply the linear wipe and still nothing happens. any help? thnx

Great Tut. How would you have it rotate around several pictures?

Im getting two green lines crossing through the video and the reflection. Any idea how to hide or get rid of that?

Hey Andrew,

Great stuff man. And thank you for all the hard work YOU put into helping us become better at what we're trying to achieve.

I am having a problem with the reflective preset. The reflection is being applied to the photo which makes it look like a gradient applied to the photo. Not a reflection like your tutorial.

Any suggestions?

thanks
Juan Fra

You deserve an award man..

Well... eveything is correct, except one thing, when i had EasyReflect It says :

This favorite contains 2 references to missing effects. PLease install the following effects to restore there references. (CC RepeTile, CC Composite)

What can i do? I am new to it.

umm the preset wont open in affeter effects it says that i can't open that file type could you help me

good tip, a little problems on cs3, but finally it worked.
thnx for help to train to newcomers on this software without earning money, today everybody wants money for everything. cool that education is the purpose here (Y) keep doing it

regards to problem with CS3 PRO;

1. change the order to
FX_Reflect 2
FX_Reflect 3
FX_Reflect

2. then apply linear wipe
in linear wipe control, make the transition completion to 0.1~0.3 and apply feather.

I got a fine result out of this.

THX 2 Mr.Kramer and hope someone having same problem get over it.

Cheers.

Mr. Kramer. You are the man.

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I have searched long hard for some down to earth tutorials on After Effects ... for the past 2 years since finding out what after effects is all about. I do freelance illustrations and design and wanting to do some animation as well as short films thank you guys so much for the renewed creative energy I am now experiencing since coming across your site last nite. I am now saving up for the big bundle you have on all your stuff ... a lot cheaper than paying to go on a course for 3 years ... may you prosper and prosper

from New Zealand

kramers THE MAN!!! thanx dood

dude you did great i really like to work there in future after i graduate. i want too learn more about animations like after effects.. nice jobe keep it up!!

Many many thanks!

A great effect made easy ... thanks Andrew !

谢谢
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I LOVE YOU man very BIIIG thx i've watched all the music vids always seeing these things and now I know how to do .. I want to have a Baby with u

verry good! thankssssssssssssssssssssssss

6.5 version PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks in advance.

thankssssssssssssss

Can't seem to find the AE6.5 version. Do you have it please?

I really dont know wether your company subscribes to karma but i belive if u do good unto others good things will happen to u. it works for me... is teaching people how to make stuff in AE and earn money in return for site traffic doing good> i sure as hell hope so. u guys are terrrific role models and i love your business structure.
your well wisher and encourager,
kamran.

thank you , Is this reflection effect already in AE CS3 ?

Nice presets!! I have AE CS3 and when I apply those presets, nothing happens. I play with the order and the settings of the effects and it's done sometings pretty cool...!

thank you

Hello, I down loaded your " Easy Reflection presets" for After Effects 7, and placed them in the Preset folder and add a folder names VideoCopilot. I did every thing your tutorial said. This is what happened when I applied your first effect. It says I am missing CC Repetile and CC Composite ( Missing: FX_Reflect & Missing: FX_Reflect 3 ) It does not work for me. I deleted the folder and went ahead and down loaded the files again. Did everything your instructing video said to do for installing but it still is missing the above files. Can you help out. I love this effect and would like to us it on a DVD for my company. I look forward in hearing back from you. Thanks, Steve.

reflection is not working to well in CS3... I changed the stacking order to 2-3-1, but i dont get a fade-out of the reflection. I just mirrors it over the X-axis.

Anyone has a solid solution yet?

thx for awsome tuts btw

Looks like an awesome present, but does it work with 6.5?

ANDREW....very coooool, i like it very muuchh.(the tutorial) >-( warrrgh.. ..

this web site is great great great cause i loved after effects from this site , i would like to thanks all worke in this site ,and i liked all the
toutrials .
very thanks

Make sure you have Advanced 3D render activated instead of Standard 3D renderer. (look under composition settings and advanced tab to find it) It solved my problem with some weird stuff happening to the floor where it was shining through parts of the image.

Great Work. It took me a fair amount of frustration to figure this one out! I'm using CS3 and for some reason it wasn't working, until I noticed something... You need to precomp text for it to work!

To fix Max's issue:
You need to make a pre-comp for the text you want to reflect and apply the preset to the nest precomp. MAKE SURE that your precomp for the text is AS BIG as the text - meaning do not leave any "empty" space below because the reflection will use the entire comp.

For mine I just typed what I needed then scaled the comp to that size - worked perfectly.

Andrew - Any chance you could give a quick tutorial on how to make the reflection bend on axis?

wow, it's amazing what you can do with this program in such little time.

Cheers, thankyou thankyou thankyou

Hello Mr. Kramer,

I hope all is well with you. I installed the new presets for CS3, but when I apply it to my image it separates the reflection from the original image quite a bit to the point where it's unusable. Is their any reason for this? I am possibly doing something wrong? I would love some input on this issue if at all possible, if not then I can always do it the old fashioned way but I just wanted you to know that their is still a glitch on this preset...well at least for me anyhow. Thank you very much for your time and I hope to hear from you soon, thank you again.

Leon

Hi after effects god andrew!

one problem I had was just solved... I just changed the programms language to english... the german really bugged me.. some things were not working, I couln't find effects etc...

Now... I need help with the awesome Reflections Preset...

If i use it on a video or picture it works perfect...

What about text... it just woun't work.. I put it on the text.. precomposed... but.. no reflection!

Please help your buddy from Germany!

Max

How do you do with text? the PRESET

thnx marshall for CycoreFX .i had the same problém..but now i download it

That's so cool EZ 2 Used
Love that

Hi Ed, You need to install CycoreFX HD (v1.5 etc). I had the same problem. I installed CycoreFx (which ironically i dont use) and that fixed the problem.

P.S. - Im jealous. Im still using AE 7 Pro. Maybe someday i'll be able to afford CS3. :)

Having problems using the preset. I have installed the preset but when i apply it to the image file within the comp I get an error saying the "This favorite contains 2 references to missing effects. Please install the following effects to restore the references. (CC RepeTile, CC Composite)". I have a trial install of AE CS3 and am witing for the full version to be delivered.

Don't dowloaded . Anybody send to mail drul_@mail.ru . Thx

Te felicito por el trabajo que estas haciendo y gracias por tus tips y ayuda, tu pagina es para muchos una ayuda a sus proyectos.
Gracias por todo
atte.
Manuel Pascal- Lima Peru

Todos los tutos estan bien te felicito por asi se esta contrubuyendo con los que menos saben, de verdad te felicito y sigue adelante Andrew.
Gracias por tus tips y ayuda
bye
manuel pascal-Lima Peru

Great preset! Im having a little problem though.
Im having glitches on my footage. I've tried minimizing the problem but i still have a glitch. Look at the middle picture and you'll see it - can anyone tell me what im doing wrong or what the problem is?

Thanks!

http://www.hum.auc.dk/~rmla01/glitch.wmv

For text you may have precompose it and place it at the bottom of the frame. Otherwise you may have to follow the tutorial.

hi master,

one quick question....it seems that it doesn't work on text...how do you add reflections on text? thanx

the new updated web-site is brilliant, you go from strength to strenth...well done andrew

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This looks great, but im getting this weird error saying it references plugins that dont exist.
Here is a screen capture here.
http://www.musicboxdigitalmedia.com/error.JPG

any help? I'd really love to use this.
Thanks!

Thanks for this great preset man!! ... it helps very much... with this, we can add more life to are videos ... Thanks a lot

Working now in AECS3 Pro.!
No more bugs.

Great job Andrew!
Steve

This is my experience with CS3 applying the preset to video footage.
the order of the fx are correct.
the only issue i see, is in the FX_Reflect02 the "Transition Completion" if you drop it to zero, the whole reflection is visible, if you raise the "Transition Completion" from Zero to one, and on up, it will apply the fade to the reflection, but from zero to one, it jumps far to quickly. you can't get good control on the amount of fade.

But wonderful preset. hope my info was helpful.
~NickBrown

it is very good project i like it thses kinds of projec i am from afghanistan kabul

Great presets, great Andrew...I was searching for it!
Bye
Gianni (from Italy)

Hi Ace,

thanks for the info. I'm having the problem as well. Working on Intel-MAC with AECS3 Professional.

However, I couldn't add an effect to the solid layer for the photo which is being reflected will not appear as a reflection. Just looks like an upside-down solid copy; with or without an effect to the layer. I did however manage to get it to work fine without manipulating the layer order in AE7 Pro. But this version constantly quits on me since it's not compatible with the Intel-MACs.

Andrew is aware of this and is working on it.

Hubba hubba hubba great work

Cabbe for After effects CS3 i had the same kind of problem ,after applying the preset effects looks like fx_reflect then 2 and 3
Putting the first one at the end resolve the problem
and the reflexion is ok !!!

So remember
The correct order
FX_Reflect 2
FX_Reflect 3
FX_Reflect

Thanks master andrew !
By the way if you come to paris just send me a mail
i'd love to show the city and pay a restaurant to
the man who made my last 2 month of Work !!
Adrien from PAris !

hey, great preset

question:

is there anyway to get the reflection to work on keyed footage? i'm having trouble getting keylight and the reflection preset to work together

cheers again

sid, out.

Mr. Kramer, this is amazing stuff! Thanx!

It works fine in my 7.0 version.

But in CS3 version it applies the preset. and i think that maybe it puts the "FX_Reflect" stuff in a wrong stack-order. Cause nothing visibly is happening to the layer. But when i move around the order of the "FX_Reflect" effects i can kinda get it to do a gradient on the image like the above commenter

wow...thanks, that's a useful and time saving tool!

wow...thanks, that's a useful and time saving tool!

hey i cant seem to use it or put it in my presets can it be used for 6.5

That looks nice. It reminds me of the cover flow feature in itunes :p
Also, it raised a question. That would look sooooo good if the fog (fractal noise) was 3D. It looks flat in this example. Is it possible to make 3D fog in AE?

Hey Andrew,

Great stuff man. And thank you for all the hard work YOU put into helping us become better at what we're trying to achieve.

I am having a problem with the reflective preset. The reflection is being applied to the photo which makes it look like a gradient applied to the photo. Not a reflection like your tutorial.

Any suggestions?

thanks
Steve

It's probably just me but when I apply the preset the video clip fades instead of reflecting. By the way the new site is fantastic.

This new cool site is excellent

Oh man, that's one awesome preset Andrew! Never thought it could be so simple :)

Wow, that was awesome! Reflections without the duplicating and even without the adjustment layer trick! Must admit I was skeptical at first, but now I've become a believer Great stuff, thanks.

Thank you so much man this rocks.... I need to hook you up with some of my wifes brownies the best is Texas , love all your stuff man keep it up....

You do great work Andrew,
I live in Holland and there are no such tutorials.
I realy love the presets, It makes it al so easy!!
And by the way congratulations with the birth of your lovely baby.
And the website looks great!!

imotep

I use this effect quite a bit. Thanks for making the preset, makes things A LOT easier. great job on EVERYTHING !

well well well explained....thanx master

omg you have just made life soo much easier
thanks soo much

Ah sweet! Thanks Mr. Kramer!