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 mike009 08/31/2010
great tutorial, really helpfull,
thanks a lot ;)
by Pierre 08/24/2010
Greeeeaat!!! nice video!!!
by swayne 08/08/2010
i am new this Adobe thing..... but i want to learn... hope these tutorials will be a great help
by thirupathi 08/01/2010
your great sir sir happy friendship day
by Hayyan Media 07/06/2010
Absolutely amazing what you can do with this program. Just finished the 10 basic tutorials and this sky one, all fantastic tutorials, thankyou so much.

Will probs buy the serious fx disc once ive got the hang of all these. Excellent stuff :D
by Fábio 07/01/2010
Nice tutorial,you are a good teacher.
by Toyomu 06/25/2010
Thank you
by Jaimiko 06/24/2010
Hi! i like this page.

I have one problem: AEGP Plugin AAF

Please i need help!
Sorry for my english, i from Chile

Thanks!
by Karlos - Ecuador 06/08/2010
Genial los tutoriales, pero más chevere sería si lo pusieran en español tambien .

Les felicito es un gran aporte para los que estamos empezando
by Aga 05/22/2010
Hello, i ve been working with after fx since 9 years ago, but after seeing your tutorials i believe i still have much to learn. the only bad thing is that things are so fast at work (tv commercials) that i dont have time to do such fancy stuff... most of the complex 3d stuff are done in 3d programs in the first place...
by Franky 05/22/2010
Thx so much. I learn so many useful thing here.
Now I would start from 1 to learn more detail from each=]
by Yahel 04/10/2010
Hi Andrew and all his actors helpers :D

I just had to stop by after spending a full afternoon(6 hours or so) watching your tutorials.

If I ever become really serious about After Effects, I'll make my client buy all your plugins and Sound effects just to try to start to be even with you !!

Yours tutorials are fantastic from lesson 1 to the end I never felt left behind, everything is very well explained and progression from basic to more advanced is very smooth.

I never leave comments but today I just had to !!

Thanks a lot. Keep it up :)
by AjayiScenelock 04/10/2010
Andrw u are the man of brain and magic, thanks
by XmlB 04/07/2010
that was really cool. Thx
by aBo 04/03/2010
hi all

thx a lot for all. ;) i am developer and starting to work with AF with effects (andthis site help me to do it as well)

thx thx thx thx thx thx thx thx a lot (btw site is great too)
by theMightyThor 04/01/2010
Haha sometimes its funny to watch these earlier Tuts because i am so used to the sauve, cool voice of andrew kramer. and the the eme music not being there is a little eerie. (this is a back handed compliment, you have come a long way Mr Kramer!)
by ferks 04/01/2010
wow, really ... are the best, thanks for these tutorials, I'm Mexican and I see all the time!!
by Ken 03/28/2010
Here we go count me in! I only hope that someday I might be able to make a difference with AE as he does here for us! And I would hope you feel that way too.
by Josef 03/28/2010
I will be watching EVERY tutorial, starting from now, I just watched the basics....
by mzm402 03/18/2010
good
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 02/16/2010
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 08/04/2009
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 07/28/2009
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 07/05/2009
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 06/09/2009
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 05/26/2009
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 02/08/2009
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.
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