Hi Andrew,im wonder how to do if i want that follow on the path instead? I love to watch your tut.Have spend here weeks to look at your tut,keep going men.
Thanks for all.

You have to buy trapcode. Go to google and type redgiant software

I don't have particular. Does it come with Ae, because everyone but me seems to have it?

good thank you!

Very good~
thank you

What about Trapcode 3D Stroke?

Yo, TrapCode's Particular v2 has no "custom" particle type. However, i found out that "textured polygon" works quite well instead of that... you might wanna add a note to others out there =)

- BlueMoon (PT)

How come when you talk about bringing the "particle_50" then going to particle type then you have a custom button.....but how come i dont have a custom button?

To Mike.
I think, Instead of alt cllick the stopwatch and making the wiggle(.5,100)
you click the stopwatch and move it around and remember to move through time as well.
------

Great tutorial, really like it! Thanks!!

ps. At the end, you could say "Keep Winning!" or something.. uuhm.. ds.

Great tutorial ........ its very useful to every one ........

I don't wanna sound like a noob, but I just watched this and it's great.

But instead of setting it to make its own random movements, how would you go about creating a specific path or movement for the light?

Thanks,
Mike

Great turorial, very well explained.

Quick question.

Is there any way that I can use this effect to write a word!?

awesome!do you sleep man?!

Here's one way. Let's say your layer with the stroked path is called "Stroke Layer". Copy the mask shape for the path and paste it into the position parameter of your follower layer. This should create keyframes that cause the follower to trace out the path over a 2-second period. Then just add this expression for position to sync it up with the animation of the "End" parameter of the stroke effect:

percent = thisComp.layer("Stroke Layer").effect("Stroke")("End");
valueAtTime(2*percent/100)

Amazing Tutorial Loved it. Did a litle extra to the cameras and abit of change to the wiggle expression. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njln4KV9t98 anyone want to give so constructive critism to camera work please.

Hola,
He completado con exito el tutorial, pero ahora me gustaria usar este efecto sobre un fondo que no sea negro... he intentado cambiar el background a color blanco, pero entonces el streak me desaparece y no se ve... gracias por buestra ayuda.

Hi,
I successfully completed the tutorial, but I like to use this effect on a background other than black ... I tried to change the background layer color to white, but the streak is over and I can not see ... thanks for help

PLZ HELP where do i get trapcode PLZZZZ ANWSER

Wonderful....you're soooooooooo great!!!!!!thanks prof for sharing your wisdom....

i want to see the real comercial...
do tou guys have a link to downloadt it???
pls give it to me if you find out
cherrssss

Nice tutorial xD Ending was da best:
Ahh.. Shi*. (END) xDDD

when you started talking about the particular effect you put the animation preset to "t_o-fullReset" but i dont have that selection
can any one help

I react a little late, but I'm just watching your tutorials one by one until this one, and they're all fantastic. I was looking for this effect for a long time. Still 80 tutorials to watch !
thanks a lot,
Cloughy - France

Anybody wants the trapcode find at www.redgiantsoftware.com... Any question about AF plug-in software extra just email me at sonjijintuaran@yahoo.com.my... Thanks...

excellent work

Wonderful!!! :) Thx!

dinosaur you should try final cut its almost like Ae but its avaleabule only on mac ;)

Hey I was following alone, but then I discovered that I don't have the (Trapcode-Particular) so what can I do? I'm using After Effects CS4 the full version, What can I do?

CAPO !!!!!!

ola Andrew é com grande estima que venho te parabenizar pois vc é o PELÈ do after effects.

valeu mano!!!!!!!!!!

jefson andrey

belem/para/brasil

hi i need help,sorry but this is the first time i am learning after effect,mine is mac and i can't find the trapcode =(

This is so irritating,
I did everything Andrew said but you cant see the light at all, you can only see the little two arrows following where the light is but no light. By the way if this helps I have CS4 and when I put the effect on the "Particles" solid and the put the option "light" it says:
"In this mode lights are used as particle emitters. Only lights whose names start with 'Emitter' are used. Creat a light with Layer>New>Light.

To change the name 'Emitter' open Trapcode Particular's Option box."

What do I do?!?!?!?
Plz help

wow wow wow........

hola amigos .si les gusta trabajar con Ae.les doy gratis.tengo los originales .los regalo escriban almail.o se los envio a su pais

vinico Ecuador Papá

Loved the ending thanks for making the best tutorial set for AE and explaining in a fast full and uncondescending way! I hope people buy your stuff!:)

awesome, damn im impressed..

I dont have glow. Can sombody help me!

Hi, I whanted to make that effect but i dont have some particules, what to do?

super cool

for those of you who want to know how to get the emitter to follow a specific path, just create a mask on a solid, then go to mask path, copy it and paste it to the emitter position.

If someone has already said this then sorry

you're so great . i've been watching your tutorials for some time now. thank you thank you so much.

any way, i just wan't to ask if its possible for the light to follow a certain movement? like in the ipod nano commercial? or to follow a text ?

Fiquei espantado com tanto talento, os tuoriais são espetaculares. valeu estou aprendendo muito.

Parabéns

Love it, simply one of the best AE tutorial ever made.

Thank you :),
Keep up the good work ...

Trapcode is looking important, but i dont know... i think CC Particle World is EASIER. Or not??

Esti genial, bravo

What a great way to end the video! You should end every tutorial like that

thanks

when i play my clip on the preview screen of after effects, the clip would play, but it keeps stopping or pausing evry like 2 seconds, it does not play straght through the clip. Does anyone know what the prblem could be, if so is there a way to fix it?

all your tutorials are simply amazing, sometimes I feel I am stealing from you! But to congratulate all your hard work, im going to be buying your DVD's~

thanks so much for a wonderful site!

you are the best of this shittttt

Andrew...you're #%&!ing amazing man!

I mean you got to be smart to do all that stuff!

i'll have to buy you're stuff...can you sned me an e-mail on hoe to proced to buy for example TWITCH?

this doesn't work for me at all and I copied it exactly, I find this happens a lot with these tutorials

I LOVE THIS..thank you...thank you!!!!!!! :D

Mine isn't in 3d space (or atleast I think it isn't). When I try to place an object in the middle, I can't get the streak to swirl around it. Any ideas?

thank's androw you are best teacher

Thanks Great Tutorial!!!

VolcEs you need to increase the particles/sec in the emitter options!

Can anyone tell me why is it when I link my light stream to a null it always shows a picture of my custom particle on the first keyframe of the null's position and it stays there its so annoying and it means i cant get anything done.

Great tutorial. I just have one little problem. My light streak isnt as clear as yours. Yours looks HD while mine looks kinda grainy and its got some lines in it. Anyone know why this is?

Where is "Trapcode" in CS3 version?
Is completly different, please help me...

Hey does anybody know how to make the the stream follow a certain point, such as if you imported a movie of your hand moving it would follow your hand? If anyone knows please email me at: admin@elitecs.info

I REALLY LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE YOU ANDREW !!!!

This is cool...
But it's look more great if add some object in this part..
Thanx

don't wiggle!
arsk too track. useing the script or the pully sperly, thing you now

have you tryed to use the tracking tool this may work.

1 act
2 trak the (i-phone)
3 apply to the light beam and done

please tell me if you found this to help you James, Rolando Rivera

Hey Andrew Sir Nice Tutorial, But Make Some Light Streaks like iPod Nano That Going Aroud An Abject How We Can Make Like That Plz Show As Make Tutorial ,,,Thanks

hey when i go to effects there is nothing that says trapcode?! im using AE CS3 does it work with this? help!

Hello Andrew,
For many you are a good tutor but for me you are more like a dream come true. I’ll explain that. Where I’m from, you cannot learn those special effect or 3d software. There’s no school for that. I’ve been seeking the net like crazy to find tutorial (especially about 3ds max and after effect) then a friend of mine living in the US told me to check you site. Than it was it. All that I’ve been searching was here and for free. Thanks man! I only hope that for the coming years I’ll see more 3ds max tutorial on you site.
Thanks for the possibilities that you offer me!

I am so buying your DVDs. all your tutorials are GREAT thank you oh damn so much ^^

Thx Andrew,

Bravo for the ending words :>

God bless u A.K.

Creo que eres el maestro mas perfecto.

que dios te de larga vida!!!

hey, i have a prob, and u guys seem to have this down. the prod is, the colorization layer, with the saturations , i did ever he said, but all i get is a boring white. email me

deviousalien@hotmail.com

hi Andrew "IdoL" Kramer

thanks for your brilliant mind!!
i really love to edit a film or a movie,

and now im so addicting in AFTER EFFECTS because of YOu IDOL"

keep going, and i will keep watching:D

<<<<<HOWEL_from: Philippines" im only 21yrs old!!!

Great tutorials every time;)

nice~

AWESOME!!!!!!

Thank you Andrew :)

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaahyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar

Great tutorial. The only problem I encountered was that my light stream does not travel around the screen as does yours. What do I need to do in order to change this.

heyy great tutorial! i love everything you do!

i just have one quick question:
i have an imac dual core 2.4ghz running leapord and i have after effects cs3. i made a video with this tutorial that was 1 minute 30 seconds long, and it took 4 HOURS to render!!! thats 2 min 30 secs of render for every second of actual video!

is there any way to make this faster?

thanks a lot! keep up the great work!

Very Good!!!
Thank you~

Thank

I figured it out on my own. I just increased the frame rate to 90 and it looks fine. The other problem I get is that the trail continues to change as time goes on. I want just the beginning of the swirly to have movement within the particle_50 comp and then once it becomes part of the trail, I want it to be static. If that makes any sense. I think it would look more like the Ipod commercial that way. Anyone have any idea how to do that?

Great tutorial, but I did not like how the Particle_50 shape was static the whole time. Instead I made Particle_50 a one second clip where each part of the shape moved a bit. At the end of the second all the parts were at the same spot as the beginning so there would not be a jump once every second. My problem is that the final result looks like this
http://web.mac.com/benjaminfinkel/iWeb/Site/Library_files/swirlies.jpg
Is there a way to smooth it out? Am I going about this the wrong way all together? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Your streaks look better then the ones in the ad! All the tutorials here have helped me a lot! Keep it going! I have learned a lot here.

Nice!

Hi! This is great! I tried installing trapcode particular, but for some reason it isn't showing up in after effects. I installed it several times and still no luck.

i really want to do this, but for some reason trapcode wont install properly.

do you know what I am doing wrong?

thanks! :]

How can you rip something off that was done inside after effects? I think it's cool people are copying and Andrew... that means he's the man.

ta dow!

Here is RIP or COPY or REMAKE of your tutorial : http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/ae/lightingstreaks/index.html

HATUR NUHUN AKANG ......MUACCCH

Awesome..o_0`

very Nice.. (",(V)

Shit is a good thing to say at the end of all your vids ^_^

thanks!!!!

where do you get the streak preset. Please tell.

this is the best of the best site!!!

Dude! The streaks in the original commercial really suck ass! Your streaks really own the shit out of there's!

I NEED CC!!!

THIS
TUTORIAL
IS
>-( AMAZING! >-(

Thank you very much! C: I'm definitely using this in my next video!!

very very very very very very very good

that was relly nice tank u andrew sir

YOU R SO COOL .SUCH A GREAT VISUAL EFFECT.LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR NEXT TOTURIAL.

So How Would You Make Something Like This??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv6A_QjxDFk&feature=user

please Do a Tutorial!!!!!!

or I Will End Up Dieing trying to Work It out!!!



P.s is That how You Spell Dieing?

HI andrew,the effect is really off d hook,but ive not bought "Trapcode" yet cos credit card buyin is not my style.How can I do d effect without "Particular?Thanx

Hi andrew, this tutorial is super =) good continuation ;) thank you

Hi Andrew, your king of the world . greating from Africa- Tanzania

merciiii bcp pour touts les tuto je vous remercier bon continuation

Mentor, Jedi, Guru!!
Thanks for your Time!!!
Really appreciate it!!
wanna make some Biz? let me know....

جميل جداً هذه الأعمال
ولكم مني جزيل الشكر والتقدير
لقد تعلمت منكم الكثير
وإلى الأمام

Very good~
thank you

Hey, thank you so much! You're just great

Greetings from Austria,

Jul

Andrew, you are the best! my congratulation from Argentina!

this tutorial is so cool, i bow at the presence of greatness, ur the man

Great tutorials.

"listen, listen to the music, yeah"

haha that's hilarious.

Thanks for the cool trick.

This tutorial is as amazing as all the others! I love it! But Trapcode's particular plug in costs $300!!! THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!! I can't imagine how to justify that.
Does anyone know a product that's similar to trapcodes plugin, that's not so expensive?? I'll be buying the 11DVD package from here soon, is there anything included in it that's similar to trapcode's particular?

very nice !!!thank Mr.Kramer ^^ i love u :D

hey this is my first time ever using after effects, i want to thank you for your generous contribution to your viewers first off
but i'm having some trouble with this module... i cant use my trackball to position the camera the way i would like it.. the setting is on active camera but its grey. any ideas?
sorry if i sound newbish lol

Thank you Andrew, that helped me a lot!
By the way: The best part of the tutorial was the end

Malte

Thank you so much for this tutorial Mr. Kramer.

I'm glad that there are people like you in this world who (unconditionally without taking any fee) give their self learned knowledge to others like us who are willing to learn.

you really are the best. your tutorials are exciting too.. nothing monotonous. always funny and entertaining . you can tell by your voice you care..

thanks once again Mr. Kramer... keep them coming

thaks you,excelente

you are the best,cameramon from youtube

Gracias excelente tutorial, Con estos tutoriales he aprendido mucho, hace mas de un año descubri Video Copilot y desde entonces sigo todas su creaciones e innovaciones. Mil Gracias. Bendiciones y Pura Vida

hi ~ andrew~~ very very nice tutorial~~

Hi, Its really a cool fx, and your tips like motion preview ,90 fps etc are really useful.

Thanks a lot, keep going

Hi! How are you? I'm sébastien and i'm french.

I had a problem...When I opened "Position" of Emitten I saw (or I seen? i don't know)... http://enemizz.free.fr/pb.jpg


Can you help me? (simply sentences please !! )

Thanks a lot !!

Andrew, seriously?

This helped me a lot - thank you...

When youll be in slowakia or austria letme know :)

(btw. I love your sense 4 humor ... "anonymous dating websites - letme put this away ...")

:D

Just watched a thing called "Bingolotto" (a gaming show here in sweden) and i saw this very effect in there at a couple of points. Seemed like they just downloaded the project file though, since everything looked EXACTLY like it did in the project.

Anyway, great tutorial! Big ups!

@ James

Try using Track Motion

Andy| u r king of visual art,i like your this tutorial,wonderful |||| ShabasH

Hi i need help this particular Video seem to stop playing after 6min 15s the light streaks vid.
Thanks to any other alternative method of viewing it.

To change your comp settings to show fps instead of seconds, click File > Project Settings

or you can Ctrl+Left click on the blue time numbers (?) in your timeline

Wow..grt tutorial...I never thought i wud be able to present the same as urs.But it worked out fine in my first try...thanks.Excepting more tuts frm u

Luv frm INDIA

Hey great tut!
Do you've seen the simple Plan video "when I'm gone"?
They are using a similar technique.
Greetings from germany!

I got the smae question as Carlos Paz how do I change my comp settings to show fps instead of secs any help would be sweet.

Check out www.templatemonster.com/flash-templates/18937.html
Anybody recognise that transition?

Hey im pretty new to After Effects and im using 6.0 can you tell me how i can install the trapcode into the program?

Subliminal message! no?, so awesome, Cool stuff, let's move on...

how can you make the light streak write a word? I mean is that possible?

yeah!! I did it!! thanks and check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3b0aDZlVFA

esta super salvaje, eres un maestro. sencillo, claro y directo, mejor no se puede

Music on the Music!
so cuti
thanks for tuto!!^^

thanks a lot for the tut!

all this tuts are great and I have all the collection of dvds but I don't know how to change the comps from secs to fps from00,00,00.00 to 00000 got it?

Hello

I would like to understand how to pass on a tape behind a character on affter effects and if possible!
I show you a video that is really super ...

Http://xplsv.tv/movie/2264/

Thank you

gracias por toda tu sabiduria y enseñanza me declaro tu alumno mas agradecido
pudieras hacer un tutorial mas amplio del trapcode particular

hasta la proxima clase master

hi guys i have a question that who knows where i can find TRAPCADE ?
thanks

Great tutorial!! thanks!
but the trapcode plug in wont work on my AE cs3.. can´t figure out why, and the trapcode web doesnt seem to have an answer to this either ( I downloaded the demo) does anyone know how can I make it work!?
thankss

muy chido el tutorial esta fantastico
me gustaria conocerte Alma, haber si me mandas tu correo,.
saludos y gracias andrew

with love from Russia! Very cool!

I don't usually comment, but stay admiringly in the background; However, while looking for ideas to spice up the name titles in the trailer that's been laid on my desk to cut, I decided to watch this and it's sister file. I just wanted to say, loved the inclusion of the ipod commercial. Hurray for fair use!

For the tracing issue, I'd probably trace my object in PS that I want to motion the emitter around then bring the path in into AFX and set it as a motion-path for the emitter to follow. Havn't tried it myself yet, but it should work!

Ps. as per usual superb tutorial mate ;)

TENGO WEBA!!!

this is my first time to come to this web-page, you're awesome man.

sexy

hi!

wow thats great...where can i download the tutorial video pls help!

thanks.

Thank you. I used this effect to great EFFECT in a Tokyo Motorshow car interface. I will put the link here....
....
no.
thats secret!
Oooops!

Thanks a lot!

Thanks a lot!

Thanks a lot! Your tutorial is very cool! I like it!

Awesome Tutorial!!!!!!! Muy Bueno!!!! Bardzo Dobrze!!!!

Please help here,

Is there ANY way to do this on AE 5 ?
Is it possible for ae5 to have the plug ins,
final word... help?

Alot of people are asking how to make it follow a specific shape okay for this my method isnt the best so no critics here its an easy way that doesnt require too much thinking just make postition keyframes and drag the light to the shape you want

It is possible to follow a object. Just right click on your movie, and choose follow movement, or something similiar like that. ( I didn't know really the english name, because I have the german version. Then choose your object, which you want to follow an hit play on Following Tool... hope you'll understand.

greets

Thanks for this great tutorial!!
I learned a lot!

GooooooooooooooooooD

C'est top, merci beaucoup !!
Bravo !
Youhouuuu !

Same same.. /Lukas Says:

Is it possible to use Motion Tracking to let the Streak follow an object, like in the Nano Ad?

I tried, but this dosent seem to work out?

Have any one got this working?

GREAT TUTORIAL!

Hey, what a tutorial.

A good ending? maybe: have a good scene

All I can say is Wow!! You saved my ass..Thanks for this tutorial

I really worship you.

good . really good

Thankd a lot .

Muito Bom!!!! very good

very good man, congratulationas, I am from Argentina

Did anyone managed to aply a pat or a motion to that particular, instead of the wiggle?

Thanks for this Tutorial!
Is it possible to use Motion Tracking to let the Streak follow an object, like in the Nano Ad?
I'll try that now
Hope it works.

Great work. Thank you lot

Great turoial!! im a total beginner at after effect, but after watching this trailer i kind of get the idear... but if i wan't too use a movie clip and make the light streak follow a point of movement in the clip.. (like in the nano movie) is that possible??

But great and enlightning work...

cool thank you

Thanks dude! awesome stuff, but uhh... you spelled "Colour" wrong. haha jk.

nice ending.

uhhh.... shoot

hey andrew, dat was a gr8 tut... was trying so hard 2 get some effect like dis 4 sometime now ... u made it so simply... thanks a lot dude u made life easier 4 me...

I know! I'm having the same problem as Kieran. The Trapcode plugin doesnt seem to be working on my Mac with AE7.

Any suggestions what up?

can somebody plese help me

im new to after effects .... and i think the problem is the plugin just works for power pc on the mac and not under the universal settings????

hope this make sense to someone kieran

Man, you are the truth. Thanks for the knowledge base upgrade.

thank you soo much brother.

man, that a good one! I love this tutorial.
I saw a few now and actually I prefere to watch one of those than watching tv or play a game on my PC. Can't wait for the next one!

Good Ending!!!!!

greetz from austria

Hi Andrew!!! Good tutorials
I'm studing fine arts (specificly sculpture and audiovisuals) and this tutorials are useful to do my work.
(I'm sorry, I think my english isn't good, I'm from Spain, je!)
Thx u so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andrew u are so smart i don't get how u figure these stuff out

...thx a lot...great job..!!!

hey , from lebanon , thx a lot for this tutorial . so cool . i'm using it a lot on my work , thx again

cool! thanx! you rule!

EXLENTE APORTE MASTER!!!+
TANKS+

to answer the question, probably just use a motion tracker to track the movement of the object you want this effect on.

An very very nice tutorial like evereytimy by Andrew . But I`ve got a question... It`s a 3D-room so I want to create a path for the light that looks from one site like an random path an from an other view when you use the Orbit Cam looks like a signature. That`s all no real problem but when I create the path by hand it don`t looks so smooth like when I use the wiggle function. It don`t looks good? So is there any smooth funtion i could use?
Kevin - Germany

Brillian

Muito Bom o tutorial, parabens!
Estou aprendendo muito com esses caras.
Obrigado
Alexandre - RJ - Brazil

Enhorabuena, este y todos los tutoriales son geniales.
Pero en este en concreto me he encontrado, que cuando le coloco la capa "particle 50" al plugin me desaparece, ha alguien le ha ocurrido algo así?

Enhorabuena, the this and all tutorial are brilliant.
But in this in particular I have been, that when I place the layer to him “particle 50� to plugin it disappears to me, is somebody him has happened something thus?. Excuses by my English

Very cool tutorial!

One thing to help.
A other way to solve the problem when you have hard corners in the streaks effect is to recomp it and set the FPS from 25 to 100. So 4x the original FPS. Then enter the first comp and stretch the time back to 25%.
Now you got a nested comp running on 100FPS BUT with the time stretch of 25%. that's it.

keep on Rocking!
Greetz From
www.cekalovic.com

Wow!! Great! Thank a lot for your kindness tutorial! God in hand.

Muito bom o tutorial! Acho que dá para adaptar ele e fazer com que as luzes sigam pontos específicos usando ao invés do wiggle, o anchor point do particular, animando ele como se fosse um position


Very good the tutorial one! I find that it gives to adapt and to make with that the lights follow specific points using instead of wiggle, the anchor point of the particular one, livening up it as if position was one

Great ! thanks a lot

I got the same question of James, any way this tutorial it´s really cool, thanks a lot.

Cheers.. your tutorial won us a pitch..

but... How do make the light source follow a specific shape?
I want it to write on a logotype!

J

Very good~
thank you(^^)

Very good~
thank you(^^)