03/02/2013

Hi,Andrew.3ks for your all efforts!

09/19/2012

THANK YOU! A LOT! This really helped! Thanks again!

09/05/2012

My explosion is moving with the shot... why?

01/04/2013

you need to motion track

10/15/2012

Because you didn't track it properly

10/13/2012

U need to do /or to do better camera tracking... use Mocha,built in camera tracker or foundary camera tracker

09/05/2012

It wont let me paste the motion tracked footage from mocha back into my AE.
I can paste it into the main screen where the footage is. But it isnt doing what its supposed to be doing.

04/19/2013

You need to paste it on a null object and unclick anchor point.( If you did Position, Scale, And Rotation.

09/04/2012

Thank you this was extremely helpful!

08/15/2012

Andrew Creamer's
Thanks for your informative site
In Iran, you're one of the most popular faces

08/06/2012

DO NOT FORGET!!!!
Depending on the light change the smoke, dust, and shockwave depending on your light to make it blend with the footage

07/30/2012

It's a great work, dear andrew.

06/26/2012

Andrew man u got crazy skills
im sure this is practice of years... anyways awesome effects and editing.... Loved it

06/15/2012

hey Andrew love the tutorials best I've ever seen for anything, i was wondering if you could do some water/earth/fire/air bending or anything with controlling the elements would love to know how to do them and aslo I've learned so much from you thanks a mill :D

06/12/2012

I have almost done through this great tutorial.But with the shockwave layer when Im trying to set the keyframe assistant the "exponential scale" is gray.
I did the setting as Andrew said.I scaled a white, masked solid with 2 keyframes.But I cannot set the timings.

06/06/2012

am! can i request? can you show us a project that can be challenge and fun to fallow in your tutorial like transformer in text only with 3D graphics back ground and lights and sound effects ? thank you hope you under stand me because i am one of your pans

05/14/2012

Steps I follow after watching a tutorial by andrew:
-"That looks awesome! Im going to do a similar one with the same technique."
-After one hour "Oh that looks like shit. Im going to do the exact same things as shown in the video"
-After one more hour "Still looks like shit" *being upset*

05/10/2012

My CS4 full version can't play MOV files. please, need helps here !

12/13/2012

you must install quick time player

09/20/2012

download format factory, for change from .mov type into AVI or FLV or type do you want

05/10/2012

is QuickTime installed ?

04/17/2012

you need to slow down a little and expain more and why the explostion doesnt show up

02/21/2012

i dont get the cc sphere up what should i do :/

02/07/2012

Hi guy! where can i find mocha? is mocha a plugin?

03/10/2012

mocha comes with AE. It's a standalone program with full user interface.

02/02/2012

I suddenly feel soooo dumb when he's talking 'bout all the stuff I was doing and says " Oh well that's a great way to waste lots of time" :D
But well now I know better !

01/17/2012

hey guys for the ones that couldnt paste the stuff from mocha to cs4, just type in the "effects & presets box": CORNER PIN

01/09/2012

i love your tutorials, thanks aloooott.
but i have an interesting challenge for you: would you be able to recreate the city folding effect in inception? i'm sure alot of us would be extremely thrilled to see you attempt that effect, thanks :)

02/02/2012

haha I know how to answer that! you need two shots: one from the street in a horizontal angle and one shot from above. ( might be difficult to get THAT). The you just mask out between the buildings (at the horizontal shot) and make the shot made from above appear between the horizontal which is masked out and the horizontal shot without a mask for the background Looks like( I I L ' )from the side ( the first I is the horizontal shot without a mask, the second I the shot from above and the L the shot with the mask. The " ' " is the point your viewing. then make the horizontal shot go upwards, maybe rotate it a bit and to prevent cutoff edges just use a CC sphere. Try it out and well.. good luck ;)

and yeah you could also do it with 3D software blablablaaa but I don't really use them :D

12/20/2011

What is the point of tracking? I don't understand that.. Can someone explain ? What happens if i don't track it

05/13/2012

try without tracking and you will see a diffrence

01/03/2012

if you don't track, then everything with just move with the camera, it will look fake, tracking makes it look like its involved in the scene. Even if you have the best looking assets it will never look perfect unless you track (which sadly takes a while). Hope i answered your question :)

12/20/2011

ok.
very nice

12/09/2011

Hi, im just wondering, why would i want to render out inn a jpeg sequence...just cuious:P

02/02/2012

well ahh I guess so it's easier for Mocha to track even with motion blur

12/03/2011

hello can you give me the particles leaving the EXPLOSION porfabor or tell me where you get

12/02/2011

Where I can get free mocha 1.2 soho edition?

10/12/2011

Anyone know where I can download free explosions like the one Andrew used in the video??

09/12/2011

How can i make more explosions in the same footage??...say maybe 3 or 4??

09/24/2011

Just duplicate the explosion comp and place whatever copies you want, wherever you want

09/11/2011

Great tutorial. It's been over a year since I've played around with After Effects so I wanted to try this out.

My own experiment with the effect wasn't quite as good as Andrews however.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef0d52TRoAE

But every time I attempt one of Andrew Kramer's tutorials, it deepens my understanding of After Effects.

If you are wanting to try effects like this, purchasing Action Essentials 2 gives you some awesome stuff to work with.

10/12/2011

That was reallly good~~

09/02/2011

what is the specs of your pc? :D

09/03/2011

first it should be a desktop, with XP to make rendering faster, but if you have a laptop, you shoul have 4 GB RAM or more, to make render fast and don't take long time, NVIDIA VGA or higher VGA, windows 7, high-speed laptop and high CPU performance, if u have 2gb ram th render of 30 secondes will take about 30 min, that what it take on my laptop ...... :P

08/26/2011

best doing & technical i hope i can get this tutorial
thanks y do hard for all

08/21/2011

hi andy i you are the best but i dont have money to buy the effects of the page what i do now ??

09/03/2011

Get a job? Go and grab a copy of the free learning edition of Nuke and the free tutorials and transfer the skills.

08/19/2011

how do u post a video in youtube plz tell me cuz i dont know how

09/22/2011

If you have a channel and all that... at the top next to the search bar there will be a little link which is called upload... ope that and drag your movie into the box... wait for it to upload and there you go! if you have a mac an easier way of doing it is to open your movie in quicktime, open up the share bar at the top and click you tube :)

08/11/2011

exelentes tutoriales--muchas gracias cucho por compartir de esa manera, sos el mejor

08/04/2011

Copilot is my most visited site for film making tips per week

08/03/2011

Andrew,I love your works so much,I'm from China.You're the best,Thank you for all

08/03/2011

10+ for tutorials and -4 for OUR comments,becsause you dont put all coments-good or bad-

08/03/2011

in this tutorial do you use a jpeg or quick time mouvie FIRST before you will use MOCHA,please,i dont understatnd,YOU are verry goooooooooooood,thx for yours tutorials

08/02/2011

very nice thanks andrew .thanks videocopilot

07/28/2011

lol omg i wanted to rewind that explosion clip and i was clicking the quicktime movie player icons instead lol you got me andrew...with love from syria
btw the guys at mbc tv network learn from you alot! most their ads on tv is your work ;)

07/28/2011

hahah thats funny coz my friend just tried to do the same thing

07/26/2011

Hey guys thanks for all the supporting comments, check back here soon for more tutorials in after effects :)

07/19/2011

Yeeee man... you realy good ... Im from russia and eng language so hard for me... but u realy good... thx you gl hf ...

07/16/2011

Hi andrew
you are best in after effects on the world.
im from afghanistan and I really love your works!

07/05/2011

Awesome :)

07/05/2011

nice tutorial dude! :))

07/03/2011

Wow! Nice tutorials :)

07/01/2011

nice tutorial Andrew, but why you don't have channel on YouTube?

i see many video for you on YouTube but i know it's not you!

07/01/2011

thank you

06/27/2011

nice

06/24/2011

Hi Andrew!

Long time viewer, first time commenter.

Just wanted to thank you for these tutorials. I truly appreciate the hard work you put in to these.

As long as you keep making them, I'll keep watching!

Thanks again dude,

-Alex

06/18/2011

and i can use for BOMBARDA spell (harry potter) this is one of my dreams :/
THANK FOR BLOG!

06/18/2011

Thnx andrew cramer you really are good at after effects....

06/15/2011

Epic VFX here!: http://www.youtube.com/user/OscarLvera

06/15/2011

Epic VFX here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Os­carLvera?feature=mhee

06/21/2011

I LIKE YOU TOTURIALS AND I WONT MORE

06/14/2011

I couldn't paste mocha in new solid :( help me please

06/13/2011

I JUST got After Effects today because of you Andrew. I love it and hope to buy the Action Essentials II pack soon but for now I will have to make my own stock footage. What a shame. Oh well! I have always been geared towards being a film maker. I can honestly say that from the moment I first saw one of your videos I new I wanted to be a Director for sure. It is my goal now. It used to be just a hobby. To further that statement I can also say that I will be helping my cousin out on his Vietnam movie whenever it enters production. He is much older than me too. You truly made a good choice in life, helping others, and I hope that I have made one too. I am happy to have found a great community full of people I can relate to. You have change my life and many others.

-Thanks for everything

07/21/2011

Hey, I got after effects of a school project, and had no stock footage to start with. There are some "Okay" Free stock footage sites out there with acceptable stock footage, but theirs usually never any of the kind like explosions or anything. I got all of my Video Copilot products like Action Essentials 2 from a friend.

06/08/2011

thank u for giving the explotions effects on a black background for free ! ( i don't have to by action essentials i just take them from ur tutorialz ;D )

06/13/2011

Sure you could do that... but without him you wouldn't have any of that stuff. I would suggest that you donate a little by buying it instead. That way you have more than one explosion and Andrew's hard work pays off. Everyones happy that way.

05/31/2011

Where can I get the dust wave elements?

06/08/2011

action essentials 2 buy it

06/02/2011

From the Action Movie essentials 2 package, of course!

05/27/2011

hey
if i make the (schockwave layer) 3d, it turns all black, which it doesnt in the movie, i got cs 5 , someone knows how to prevent that from happening?

05/17/2011

Good One Adrew .. Your the best m8 ... @ Jonas You Dont have give racist comments to that irani guy .... This was very bad dude !!! very Depressing to see

05/16/2011

If I had a nickel every time you said, "actually, and "so" I could retire at an early age. Try reading a book on VO. It could make you sound like an adult.

Decent tutorial, but too fast at times. I hope someone else narrates the DVDs.

06/19/2011

I enjoy a good piece of flamebait when i see one! So I'll just chime in, mindless nincompoop as I am! Here goes: Andrew, I hope your personal and friendly approach to VO (that we all LOVE TO F'N BITS!) will have a hasty end since I have sent you pills that will age you to about 160 yrs and make your beard grow inwards. Just down the pill with a glass of rasperry-juice.

04/27/2011

hi!
very good .
Thank you for downloading and learning.
I'm from Iran,
Be successful.

05/16/2011

Hahaha Jonas, LOL at your comment!

05/05/2011

Do you even need to creating this in post production if your from Iran?

04/15/2011

Very nice :)

04/07/2011

oh,very nice
i want to know about how to get shining small star effect from a book

04/04/2011

Vegas Pro 10.0 is nothing compared to After Effects.
Thanks Andrew, u tha best!

04/04/2011

Grad job ...........
You mind very grad
thanks...............

04/04/2011

this site is very usefull fow who want to learn after effect

03/30/2011

Thanks so much Andrew. Just started learning this software. So again, you and Zach King and Freddiew Wong are the best!

03/30/2011

nice,i like it

03/26/2011

Thanks andrew! this is great work!

03/25/2011

???? ?????
from ethiopia we thank u a lot.
by the the script is ethiopian above

03/24/2011

super sin palabras

03/23/2011

Its amazing site & tutorials,,,,,

Andrew you are good man and helpfull person.

thanks alot and i will be with you all time.

sorry for my bad English

your brother from saudi arabia

03/21/2011

Andrew you are the best!!!! Regards from Lithuania :)

03/21/2011

hey andrew I'm a fan of yours..you are great!!!no.1...thanks man for your tutorials..

03/20/2011

very nice tutorials, sir

03/29/2011

SIR YES SIR

03/20/2011

This is awesome beyond description. I'm totally new to After Effects and was overwhelmed by it until now. You guys rock.

03/19/2011

BOM!!!
-Brasil-

03/19/2011

i have a problem, i cant paste the video to the mocha, i did it in all the formats but i cant

03/15/2011

thanks for the tutorial
i really learn so much out of this

03/10/2011

i enjoy this tutorial but where can i get some good explosion sounds effects

03/05/2011

thank you so much !!! very nice effect !

i made this :

http://www.youtube.com/user/lolipopliki



Yazid From Algeria .

03/05/2011

Thank you so much for your tutos Andrew , im yazid from ALGERIA , i made this :

03/05/2011

nice work sir.

03/03/2011

carry on ANDREW
& THANKS 4 THIS COOL EFFECT.

03/03/2011

so nice work

03/03/2011

thans for our good site!
in the more project is not thr AE project please
put there project

03/02/2011

hahahaha you said the frist one is real it is not you got us Lol keep the good work

02/28/2011

sir very very nice

02/27/2011

IN THE NAME IS ALLAH
HELLO
Thank you for all Tutorial

02/19/2011

sir this was n-ice.........(:

02/19/2011

thanks a lot for your work,you are so amazing,look forward more,from China

02/26/2011

hi, how are u,i come from Shanghai China either,nice to meet u

02/18/2011

If need a Canon 5D original footage for practicing with AE, download it free here:

http://www.cubicdisseny.com/2010

Nice Tutorial Andrew, my best whises for you!

02/17/2011

what a great effect,i would be lost without you a great teacher. well done in all your work :)

02/11/2011

dude,im a great fan of ur work....keep rockin god bless u andrew

02/11/2011

very good tutorial and this is great Idea

02/11/2011

SUPERB tutorial. That really cleared up some problems I've been having with mocha. Seriously helped, thank you

02/11/2011

he's not dead... yet

02/11/2011

WoW Awesome

02/10/2011

very cool tutorial Andrew Kramer

02/05/2011

Great tutorial!

Thanks so much.