05/25/2013

How can we use this in combionation with Element ?

05/13/2013

waa thank you very much the effects are great and I made them without failure ^^

04/29/2013

super

03/09/2013

how do you do the alt in bracket thing

03/03/2013

what is ?
after effect cs4
me win is win7 32bit
i have after cs6 pleas hellp me

06/10/2013

after effects cs6 runs on 64bit only

01/29/2013

For the love of God don't double click a mask. It deletes everything and resets your command/control z

01/29/2013

Whenever I use the elipse tool the CC Ball Action stops working.

01/27/2013

thanks soo much

10/15/2012

Thanks soo much for sharing the knowlege with us!
Awesome tool to add to the utility belt.

10/13/2012

OMG MAN! this guy is awesome! I wanna have sex with this guy. lol I love oyu kramer. (I am straight) lol

09/14/2012

Your saving private ryan from a jurassic park by throwing a large dispersion of balls at them. XD
This was a great tutorial, i did this one in school last year for a Multi Media class. just found it again. A really good tutorial. But i would like to know how to do the one with the CD case.

09/07/2012

Hey! Very nice tutorial and effect applied here but I want to know (the effects applied in the video of TWITCH)please give a video tutorial, How all the effects applied including cc ball action, in the video TWITCH.

09/06/2012

Saving private ryan... LOL

08/10/2012

Hey! Very nice tutorial and effect but I am having problems at exactly 08:03 . My comp screen remains black after that point but it shouldn't. I am completely desperate and I have no idea how to fix this. This is my first tutorial apart from the basics and I really don't know how to do this. I am using CS6.

sincerely,
P

08/02/2012

the "Jurassic Park" part, super LOL

08/01/2012

hi..andrew..

08/01/2012

This tutorial was super.
any classes going there. Kindly send the details.

07/26/2012

thanks for teaching Andrew!greetings from Argentina ;)

07/22/2012

Thanks Mr.Andrew

07/06/2012

Hello,

I'm having this bug (I think) which is causing me empty black spaces between some of the balls, similar to what happens at 14:12~.

I notice that right after that he does something that fixes it (14:14).
Can anyone help me please and tell me what it is please?

Thank you.

11/26/2012

I had the same issue. You just need to adjust the mask expansion on your second mask on one of the layers until you see the empty spot fill in. After that, take that number and change the mask expansion number on mask 2 for all of the other layers.

07/03/2012

For min 9, if you have a mac key board, you should set your keyboards language to us international and then the shortcut will be

option key plus [

06/21/2012

ok im stuck at 9:15

He says to "Ctrl a to select all then apple begin bracket" and it brings all the layers back to the first frame but leaves them sequenced...or stepped i guess...Now if i hit alt+[ it will stretch all the layers to the first frame but they are not sequenced. Just like what he does at 8:03

So i cant go any further than that.

06/21/2012

ok im having a huge issue....
at 9:15 he say "hit ctrl a to select all then apple begin bracket"

This is where im lost...If i hit the "ctrl+[" then all my layers extend to the beginning. which isnt what hes showing. I cant get any further!

Thanx for the help...

btw im on a normal u.s. pc keyboard...

07/03/2012

Did you get to solve this problem? how did you?

06/14/2012

Is there an effect like cc ball action that can be assigned to another video clip (like a bug or bird)? looking looking trying to find an easier way to do a transformation like the ravens in Snow White and the Hunts man.

06/03/2012

The awkward moment when you have to use an onscreen keyboard to click the home button because your using a laptop other than that a very good tutorial thanks.

05/24/2012

I did many turtorials, but this one its confusing

05/06/2012

Mac Translations:

Begin/End Bracket Shortcut: Option+[
Option+]

Home Shortcut: fn+Option+Left Arrow Key

Happy Editing!!!

05/05/2012

what is the shortcut of begin bracket and end bracket?

05/02/2012

were is the begin braket

05/06/2012

Hi ! Try Alt+ù for "begin bracket" and Alt+$ for "end bracket"
Hope it will work for u ! ;)

04/10/2012

what if i have a short keyboard for mac..what would the command be if i dont have a "home" or "end" button?

03/19/2012

i cant move on from the 9 minutes when he start talking about the the begin bracket and that stuff =S!!! HELP ME PLEASE

03/10/2012

i cant find cc ball action on adobe after effects cs5

03/22/2012

do you have the education version? I think they left out all the cc effects for education versions.

02/22/2012

Thanks Mr.Andrew
But I do not understand your comment " alt in bracket"

03/10/2012

hold alt press 9

02/16/2012

thanx Mr.Andrew

02/03/2012

After i offset them and do the strech layer to the bigingish, it doesn't fill up the video i have a big circle in the middle?

02/03/2012

Where is the Script download?

05/14/2012

I have a bunch of them they could be useful

02/23/2012

I Stupidly found it. lol

02/02/2012

Lulz, Got to love Jurassic Park. Only go with lizards,since that's what most dinosaurs were. Lizards.

01/04/2012

Lesson Learned: Shorts are no good, just follow the tutorial step by step! If I did, I wouldn't have to start all over, after thinking I was just about down :(

12/17/2011

andrew, thank you very much for the wonderful tutorial. keep up the good work.

12/16/2011

This guy thinks he's funny... and he's just not

12/16/2011

Hahahaha, couldn't stop laughing when I heard the Jurassic Park reference, laughed even harder when he said "Saving Private Ryan"

12/05/2011

i,m student i need tutorials please

12/03/2011

Its pretty bad to use commands of specific places in tutorials, I suggest at least to put on the screen the pictures of the keys you're using while using them, that could help so much .

01/31/2012

+1
Problem whit the "begin bracket". In spanish keyboards, the combination is: Alt + }

11/23/2011

Bravo Andres de verdad hace poco que encontre esta pagina gracias al twitter y de verdad que es muy buena ya esta en mis favoritos felicidadez excelente trabajo... Saludos desde Venezuela..

11/15/2011

thank you my friend for this verry goood lessons or tutorial
and i like this sit web
thank you !!!

10/19/2011

Life.. eh, finds a way

10/12/2011

Hi Andrew,

First of all, LOVE all your tutorials. It's so awesome.

Do you, by any chance, have the BOX Animation tutorial.

Thanks
Rz

10/06/2011

WHAT THE F*** IS THIS BRACKET **** ??!

Sorry, I just spend 5 hours searching everywhere to find this bracket begin bracket in thing, with no success, so i'm in a pretty bad mood.

If you have a solution for me, please involve pictures...

11/10/2011

The 'bracket-shortcut' unfortunately only works on US-keyboards. So if you come from another part of the world, its just hard work, layer by layer

10/10/2011

There is no need of doing that as you will see later. just download the ''sequencer'' script and apply it to your layers, instead of doing that. (he explains it at 14:20 or so)

10/07/2011

The bracket thing is either ( ) or [ ]. I haven't tried it yet but I think that's what he meant.

10/03/2011

Hello,
I really liked this tutorial. I'm continually getting stuck in one past of my project-@ 5:00 Animate the mask to grow out; I hold down shift + alt + ctrl and the scale of the image keeps increasing to around 2000% at frame 25.
Then also the 2cd keyframe in the timeline doesn't show up.
Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?
Thank you for your time.

09/24/2011

I have a MBP with no "Home" button. What am I to do?

10/06/2011

If you hold down fn and the left arrow that will act as your home button. fn and the right arrow will act as an end button.

09/29/2011

Buy a PC!

09/24/2011

Hello, Andrew Kramer. I use your tutorials for some movies and video shorts, thank you for them. The only thing that really annoys me about this video and maybe some other videos is the fact that i went over my presets and such and there was no "sequencer script". I tried looking for it, and i found nothing; dissapointed, i tried offsetting the layers frame by frame manually, but it does not give the same effect results for the video. Someone, or preferably you, reply and/or give a link as to where this could be found. I could not continue as to what the effect as failed.

11/10/2011

download the project files

09/21/2011

Hello and first of all thank you so much for the really great work you do.

I am currently excercising on the "3D Ball Dispersion" tutorial, focussing my work on the star effects.

I am trying to substitute the star (which is native black in png) with another symbol (which is whitem in ai), but I don't understand why, after the work, the symbol I am trying to use stays black (despite its color is white!)

I look forward for a suggestion, and thaks again for your help!

Elenuccia

09/20/2011

Hahahaha omg the cheesy joke was all worth it in the end when you said "The movie we are talking about is obviously 'Saving Private Ryan'" Hahahahahahahahahhahahhaa

08/19/2011

I wonder how you could do this with Trapcode Form...

08/18/2011

Hahaha I love it. "You have to have a star wipe or a page peel in a home video"

08/16/2011

Hello.
Thank you very much for starting this site.
Do not get tired.
Good luck.

07/26/2011

Ah! I figured it out myself!
The English "Home Key" is in Germany "Pos1".
I've never used that button before. Now
I know... xD

PS: THat's really one of the best tutorials
because I can't afford all those plug-ins
and you don't even need one for this although
it looks amazing!

(You actually might think about making this
to a new plug-in I think. Adjusting just to or
three bars and "Bam!". There you get your fully animated Ball animation)

07/21/2011

hey i have cs5 and there is no "cc ball action" how do i get it please, thank you

08/05/2011

Its a plug-in from cycore.

07/20/2011

Haha I loved the bit about the frogs and male/female DNA :D .

07/06/2011

hey andrew kramer..u r awesome.but plz tell me from where that SEQUENCER SCRIPT came from.......i dnt have it in my CS4.......can anybody tell me from where i can dnld that sript for free.....plz.......plz

07/07/2011

You're serious?
Why not read the Tutorial Notes above?

07/05/2011

what suppose to be alt + bracket on mac??

07/14/2011

option + bracket

06/29/2011

very nice for all of you

06/22/2011

what is alt begin bracket

06/18/2011

hay
I'm still a beginner in this case can help me

06/07/2011

I'm totally hooked on this site! going through your tutorials have opened my eyes to a entirely new world and I'm having so much fun!.

along the way i've encountered various problems.
but for now how the heck do i make a sequencer?
meaning there are now script when I follow! (offset by 1) thats the script I mean. I came back to tutorial 103 to find it or to see how it was done please help (at 104 Shatterize) sitting here lost on that part!

06/02/2011

xellent tutorial,,,tnx mr. hey ! whts up.........

06/01/2011

Andrew you are incredible!
Will you marry me..... ha ha..haaaa..

05/16/2011

I just figured out the alt+home dilemma, here is the fix if you don't have an fn key.

"TimeStretchIn" = "(Ctrl+Shift+Comma)"
"TimeStretchOut" = "(Ctrl+Alt+Comma)"

Literally just hold down ctrl + shift then press comma etc.

10/18/2011

Thanks! that was it! mac: cmd+shf+, cmd+alt+,

04/26/2011

where did the sequencer script come from????

05/17/2011

It's fairly simple to write a script that offsets layers in time, but there are other sites out there that use sequencer scripts in their tutorials, my guess is that it was just andrew messing around with sequence things, and found that there are sequencer scripts out there, whipped up one that he liked, and then used it to create this awesome little effect :D

05/11/2011

Paul,

It's in the project files folder. Open it up, you'll find it in there :)

04/21/2011

I'm using the effect for a logo. The logo is solid white, and I have it on a blue background. I added an "overlay" effect to the white logo so it would blend with the background.

Can someone tell me WHY after I complete the tutorial, my white logo (with the ball effect) is giving me radial STRIPES?!

04/12/2011

How do you make the title page?

03/27/2011

very nice tutorials god of after effect

03/24/2011

Very cool thank so how open and close brakets

03/21/2011

Hi

For After Effects 7.0 I got the problem solved, just by finding the After Effects 7.0 shortcuts.txt fail and changed the "TimeTrimIn" = "(Alt [)" to "(Alt 8). Thanks to the commenter belove Sandinama 10/19/2010.

03/18/2011

I cannot do this one, after 9 minute it becames too confuse :(, but.. good job anyway! ;)

03/17/2011

why am i having issues when i sequence the layers by one frame and then do the alt + [ (its around the 8 minute mark of the tutorial). the issue i'm having is that there are some balls missing. i've tried getting some answer's on the forums but thats taking forever ; ;

04/14/2011

Try changing mask expansion on all layers.

03/14/2011

On a iMac, running CS5. Spent 4 hours on this tutorial and could't get beyond the 9 minute mark. Followed your instructions to the letter, and all 25 Title Comps play in reverse order or don't work at all.

03/09/2011

this don't work with cs5.

03/13/2011

worked for me and I have CS5

03/07/2011

LOL @ Jurassic reference, great video!

03/05/2011

I'm not the first to say it, but Andrew Kramer - you're a good man.

I used a variation of this technique with live action footage on a short sci-fi film I made. (50 seconds in if you can't handle the Scottish accents)

http://www.vimeo.com/20621227

03/03/2011

When I duplicate the layers, there are weird empty patches between some dots... i dont know how to fix, please help me!

06/27/2011

try changing the mask expansion to be equal to the ball size

02/28/2011

very well
the tutorial was so good
i would like many such tutorials
thank you so much

02/27/2011

hey Andrew , i like ur work and want to know if u can make a Tutorial for the box animation with the 3d ball Dispersion. It would be great i u can give a feedback for that.

Thanks for all the other great tutorials.

;) greatings from germany

02/26/2011

I am a new learner to After Effects. It took me forever to understand how Andrew did the "animated sequence" part because I kept on delting the files. It looked like he was doing this, but he wasn't (7:13 minutes).Finally got it.

02/26/2011

hahaha I love the quip abour Jurrassic Park....but it wasn't just dinosaurs that changed their gender, some humans do as well, and when they do they become celebrities!

02/17/2011

Just giving my opinion: the video player should be in the center. just add
<center> *video code* </center> before and at the end of the html video code.
In this way my neck should feel better.

02/10/2011

Andrew.you r so great man,this is so so way good.

01/30/2011

I loved the part when you said you dont want to cut off the balls... LOL

01/30/2011

great dude...
i like so much......

01/30/2011

Hi Andrew,

A fantastic tutorial, thank you for putting it together. For the unimaginative among us please would you take a little time and show how the star and DVD wipe was done. Maybe one of your shortcut series please.

Waiting in anticipation...

01/27/2011

WOW! They've done it again!

01/28/2011

wow

01/26/2011

how to alt home!! plz :D

02/28/2011

fn+alt+left arrow

01/25/2011

05:40 we're not cutting of the balls. Haha xD

01/25/2011

learn ae

01/20/2011

i couldn't do the "begin bracket" move, but i just change my region keyboart to U.S. and that was the solution to my problem. the shortcut is "alt + ["

01/05/2011

its cool
good job my friend

01/01/2011

Superbbbbb....

12/30/2010

Alslam alikom

very very good .

thanx alot

12/29/2010

How do you do the Begin bracket thing. I do not understand that.

02/25/2011

Alt+]

01/05/2011

the begin bracket thingy is above the apostrophe and @ button on the key board and it looks like this [
just press that button while you press the alt key
hope this helps :D

01/05/2011

the begin bracket thingy is above the apostrophe and @ button on the key board and it looks like this [
just press that button while you press the alt key
hope this helps :D

12/28/2010

Hey I was just wondering how you got the title cause i learned how to do it just i want it to be 3d like yours :D
Thanks heaps loving the tuts