TUTORIALS FOR VFX & MOTION GRAPHICS
Free After Effects Tutorials & More Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
January 06, 2005
• Learn to enhance video with sky replacement
• Perform 2d motion tracking & basic color correction
 
 
TUTORIAL NOTES:
See Tutorial #42 for more advanced sky replacement tips as well as Tutorial #45 called Set Extension.
Running Time: 7mins.


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by Daniel 02/22/2010
Hello, well those tutorials are just amazing, thanx so much for sharing your knowledge with us, you are such a master dude and a pretty good teacher... i will watch all of your tutorials right now, it will take me some months to watch them all but it woths, thanks again and good luck!!!
by Tiesto_X 02/17/2010
Really tnx.
by raulpercy 02/13/2010
Gracias excelentes tutoriales ;).
by Jason 02/13/2010
Sweet, those are clear and easy to understand.
I finally found Great tuts to learn from,
Great job dude! ^^
by lin 02/11/2010
Thanks for your tutorials,
I can learn a lot form them.
by Matteo 02/08/2010
This was my first tutorial to complete after I finished the After Effects Basic Training. I really liked this! It will help me a lot with my future footage.
by KARINA 01/22/2010
HI HELLO HAAHAHAH
by sj 01/15/2010
This is cool.
by xavichoy 01/07/2010
cool beans
by César 01/07/2010
Excelente... Son los mejores tutoriales que hay en la red... Muchas gracias por ello...
by PaulPo 01/05/2010
:::::::::::::::GRAZIE::::::::::::::::from Italy
by Simon 01/04/2010
Stunning, thanks Andrew. You make an excellent teacher and your work really is of excellent quality.

Thank you for your efforts they really are appreciated!

:)
by Karthikesh 12/31/2009
how amazing ur r u did splendid job
by Sunny 12/24/2009
1-100 Nice Work....
by arman 12/19/2009
very good tutorials, you are the best!
by kimochaser 11/21/2009
thanks a lot Andrew you giving us a lot , bless u man .
by paul 11/18/2009
This is without doubt the best tutorial site on the web. Thanks for all your help!
by mithun 11/15/2009
thanks man ,its good, i am learing all your tutorials
by vignes 10/11/2009
awesome......thanks andrew.............
by Max 10/09/2009
Tnank's!! You are amazing!
by Gopal 10/06/2009
All tutorials are very well described. Thanks Andrew!! You are a good teacher :)
by mango 10/01/2009
Thanks Andrew. A informative tutorial.
by min 09/18/2009
wow...
I have a dream. because you.
by myname 09/18/2009
yepp! keep it up. tutorials are fantastic! learned alot! thx!
by mmcf(Taiwan) 09/08/2009
You are my god!
by uguralbayrak 09/08/2009
thank you so much andrew health your hands
by Devon 09/04/2009
I found that turning the tolerance up on the keying too high started removing the dirt, so instead I used 2 copies of the keying effect, with slightly different colors sampled.
by Jason 09/02/2009
Thanks Andrew!
It's really interesting to see how far you've come from your first tutorial!
by Kyle 09/01/2009
Hey Andrew,
Thanks so much for these amazing tutorials! I watched this one a couple of weeks ago to get a sample, but when I came back today, I found that the video file is no longer online. I just thought I'd let you know.

Thanks again and God Bless!
by Bala 08/26/2009
Dear andrew sir,
Thanks for your all great tutorials.i'm a begining stage student.whenever i miss my classes i never worried.because of your site.now i have full confident to work with AE.thank you very much sir.you are a good man.
by Neil 08/25/2009
keep going man "Andrew Kramer Is the Guru of After Effects " ! i love the tutorials and follow them religiously

Dhanyawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!!!

Neil
by alex 08/20/2009
Muchas gracias, video copilot es lo mejor que encontre en la red.
by nehem 08/15/2009
makasih yah Andrew .K...
thanX a lot, Andrew
by MS 08/14/2009
Lovely It's Amazing
by ahmed 08/10/2009
thanks for all tutorials and it is the bes site
by pon 08/05/2009
Thank you so much!I come from China,You are my god!
by chopsticksamurai 08/02/2009
good!

You are the best!!!
by DarkEntity 08/02/2009
really cool...Thanks again Prof.Andrew and Congratz and more power!
by kas 07/30/2009
Hi...I'm kas...
when i open sky replacement file...where i can get standard 3d plugin?
by fahri 07/30/2009
thangs for you`re information. . . .
can i now 3d combain with AE tutorial. . .
bye
by fakhri 07/30/2009
it`s realy. . . . . . .
AE is fun. . . .
can 1 now AE combain with 3d tutorial??
by nibiru 07/29/2009
i want to download this tutorial how can i dwnload plz help me,i like this tutorial your great
by Danila 07/20/2009
You are the best. Ukraine, Kiev. from us there is hello
by Darkfaced 07/06/2009
Hey Prof Andrew.thanks for the very exciting tut.very hard though esp when i don't have the software installed.AE's very expensive here in our country i can't afford.also i don't want to go illegal(pirated software)watching your tut everyday over and over again i've been learning so much.the free trial version is not as good as what you're using.anyways,thanks a lot and more power to you!!!God bless you...
by Fas 06/27/2009
Hello Mr.Andrew Kramer
How Are You?
You are great Man.
Thanks for Teach us.
by pavan 06/27/2009
hi. 1st Thanks to Andrew.really i love andrew total tutorials. thank q. v much........................
by Jesse 06/24/2009
Just plain ACE!
by fernee 06/22/2009
Andrew...youre the man...!!!

awesome tutorials...


thanks a lot from mexico...!!!

by ghosttang 06/10/2009
How to download this tutorial???
by frog 06/08/2009
we dunt have many AE tutorials here!
thanks a lot!
u r so cool!
this is my first AE class
by Park 06/01/2009
I love this!
very useful tutorial.
when i was edit my movie, i always use this.
Thanks to Andrew.
by lsslhym 05/27/2009
yeah! very good , I like
by rush8080 05/25/2009
u rocks...
by Nick 05/15/2009
Today, I have begun my lessons from scratch. I'm learning the After Effects basic tutorials and plan to complete the full set of training in Visual Effects
by pica 05/13/2009
Thanks! ^^
by jimmi para 05/12/2009
Andrew Kramer is an outstanding Tutor.
Keep the Show Running....!
by Restless42 04/27/2009
I just finished studying the Basic Tuts.
Thanks a lot!
by oldschool 04/22/2009
Thanks! ^^;
by johny 04/17/2009
I like this tutorial because this is very very vry.......,nice.
by xiaoyu 04/13/2009
I am a Chinese, I like your tutorial, that I collected Oh!
by andrew fan 03/31/2009
i like your tutorials.i saw all your tutorials.i like very much.but i am a new visitor.i want to your photo.how to will i see.
by Javier 03/26/2009
Hi

thank you so much its very explaint and nice

thank you again
by Willem le Duc 03/24/2009
This was helpful to me. I'm new to After Effects and this is really useful for beginners like myself.
by karlos 03/19/2009
hey andrew im working on my own project, and im trying to replace the sky with moving clouds, i got a problem though, once i got the clouds there, and i try using the color key effect, i got trees in the background and its kinda hard keying the sky out without touching the trees, how can i fix this?

thanx
by Kwic 03/18/2009
I'm just after your basic After Effects lesson and I loved them all :) Your comments crash the brain hehe ;] That's a good thing obviously :)
Anyway, I can see that those first tutorials are stretched in time a bit and that the AE is older, a little harder to recognize what's what but it's ok :) Anyway, I wanted to thank you a lot for those tutorials and i'm certainly gonna watch them all :) Kinda but that my school suffers from it (instead of learning boring stuff I prefer learn sth about AE) but well, you can't have everything ^^

Can't wait to see all of them and new! :)
Cheers from Poland!
by Daniel 03/14/2009
Thanks a lot Andrew!
Cheers from Brazil!
by Grobi 03/02/2009
Great Work!

Very good for beginners!

:-*
by Adam Shore 03/02/2009
YAY i am ONE step closer to that bullet tutorial:)
by Toxii 02/26/2009
NICE
by Volker 02/26/2009
I did sky replacement before, but with your method it's way quicker and easier !

Big thanks once again !!
by Wuhan China 02/12/2009
Thank you very much
www.videocopilot.net
by AamirJalil 02/09/2009
I cant afford learning in proper institute but now i have no need for this because of your best of best tutorials.
by Anthony 02/01/2009
Dude, I love that you explain things in a speed which I do not fall asleep. This has to be the best set of tutorials that I have seen.
by magic net 01/23/2009
good tutotial
you are the best.
by colgate 01/18/2009
may i know how do download those great tutorial in videocopilot?
by Hubert Hotte 01/17/2009
Wow I just bought Adobe After Effect CS4 and I came here for a quick recap on how it works and this is the best tutorial website on the internet.
Really that's awesome.
by Junior 01/16/2009
Thanks, because of you i will learn that....
thanks a lot...
by chamusri 01/10/2009
good job tnz...web master
by chidoliro 01/07/2009
muchas gracias, esto esta muy chido cabron!! andale que sigo jalando con estos cheveres efectos buey!
by Vampirnata 12/26/2008
Amazing Tutorials Andrew!

You are a saint for sharing this with us.
by NIV 12/23/2008
GREAT BUT'
WHAT ABOUT IF U ARE DOING IT WHEN THERE IS SNOW [OR
ANY OTHER PROBLEMATIC EARTH COLOR] ?
by Damo 12/12/2008
You need to redo this one, you didn't make no funnies !! :)

j/k :)

but 2005 - no wonder you're so damn good at this, you make it seem so natural, like watching someone drive a suped up racing car, makes me think it's easy, till I get in the seat.. where's the clutch again?! THIS Is the steering wheel??

;)

Awesome, just.. awesome..
by ariel 12/06/2008
greetings from the philippines! keep up the good work andrew. God bless you and your family.
by Sky diving 11/24/2008
I'm starting your tutorials now.
This is even on earth!
In debt for life.
Thanks.
Obrigado from Portugal.
by Glenn 11/21/2008
Great tutorial, I just started with AAE
by PostMagic 11/14/2008
King Tut!
Thanks alot!
by xiaozhu 10/22/2008
Thank you very much??
by Lucas 10/18/2008
Haha, I love to see how much Andrew's tutorials have developed since this one to the latest ones. Great job Andrew, you've helped thousands of people.:D
by lester 10/12/2008
ur the best dude!!!!!!!! i cant believe it!! finally ive found the best tutorials ever!!!!! keep it cool! keep rockin andrew!!!
by dj 10/02/2008
going back and watching the earlier tutorials, love them all ! great stuff!
by astrojeet 09/30/2008
another awesome tutorial!!!
by Arjan 09/29/2008
very very very nice tutorials, learn so fast this way!!
by jun 09/29/2008
Thank you for the study very good..
And i will always tryed for the Affect Effects.

From Korea
by Beto Urrutia 09/25/2008
Son muy buenos los tutoriales publicados aqui, te felicito, ademas de darte las gracias, se te felicita desde Santiago Chile

Adios
by lxlPeRieNcE 09/23/2008
That cool, thank a lot for the tutorial.
by Michelle Lilith 09/09/2008
Hey,

just wanted to say that you guys are great!!! I learned in a few hours this night far more than in the past 2 days by reading the documentation or watching those $100 tutorials they sell (yeah, I started but got pretty quick pissed off)! Thanks so much for that!!! Now let's go to work and let's do some videos

Kisses from Paris,

Michelle
- a creature of night -
by Dave 09/07/2008
Great tutorial. Jestes naprawde poebany.

Spierdalaj!
by Kyle 09/05/2008
Yeah, I had the blue grain too. It's actually the key not working so great towards the end of the footage. I just copied the key effect, so there was too on the same layer, then applied the second on to the grainy crap at the end. Worked great.
by Phoenix 08/26/2008
Just heared on school that i'll be getting some After Effects lessons so i got started with this tutorial, the result looks nice enough though in the end i have some sort of white grain on the upper left side of my footage, know what this is?

Thanks for the great kickstart for my (hopefully) After Effects career.
by Francesco 08/19/2008
AWESOME!!! Please keep up the awesome work.
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