04/04/2013

very cool thank you for that great tutorial

03/08/2013

Im trying to find where i can download this plugin and no luck :/

03/15/2013

Download the project file

02/27/2013

Man you are the best

02/13/2013

when i check the camera roll my after effects stops working;/ help andrew!

02/06/2013

This is an absolutely awesome plug-in. Thanks for making it available!

02/02/2013

Your the best andrew! im a big f@n! ^^

01/29/2013

For some reason when I adjust the aperture nothing happens, is there something I'm missing?

01/28/2013

How can i work with 500 layers...I added sure target for the 1st 100 layers but how do i make the reamining 400 the part of the same thing..because my typography reveals an image so all words should be in one camera :(

04/29/2013

I have been trying to get this sure target 2 on CS6
I have tried all possible ways since few days. but no luck.
I tried few different computers still not working

I really need this to make it work. can some one please help me?
is there any problem with cs6? 1.5 is working fine but 2 is not

Thanks

03/11/2013

Use precomps and enable continius rasterization. Or fake it. Just align all elements as you like and then zoom out the camera.

01/26/2013

You are great sir!Thanks for a great tutorial and really cool plug-ins

01/11/2013

Andrew,

Unreal plugin. I am hoping to make this work with 3D text from Element 3D. Is this possible and what is the work flow. So far targets will not auto rotate as Element 3D is working in another world coordinate system. So it appeers. I'm ready to use both (hopefully) on a project this weekend. Thanks.

01/04/2013

Dude you are awesome :D

11/27/2012

LOL, ST&R;is in case you catch fire.

Great tutorial though, and great plugin!

11/06/2012

how did you create the background ? please do reply :)
and the motion blur effect .

10/12/2012

Oh jeez. Thanks so much for the plug in! Much love.

09/03/2012

thank you so much!

08/07/2012

thank you for this tutorial and plugin.

07/22/2012

This great free plugin has an issue in AE CS6...i think! Need to be upgrade?

09/30/2012

Really? I'm using ST2.0 in CS6 with no problems

07/19/2012

Hi andrew u r tetorials are great make some super heros tutorials
i am waiting

07/17/2012

Thank you for all of your tutorials, they are great.

So, with Sure Target 2, I already have a project started with 10 target layers. I would like to change it to 25 layers and it is not letting me change. What am I doing wrong?

07/05/2012

Thanks man...poor your wife jajaja (Y)

06/25/2012

Awesome tutorial!! Gave a new lease of life to my ass. Thanks a lot Andrew, really appreciate it. :D

06/05/2012

Cool improvements.

Very nice plug.

06/01/2012

Great plugin. Wondering if there will be an update for CS6.

05/31/2012

Gotta say, this is a very frustrating plug in. I REALLY like it, but it seems to track very strangely at times. Maybe I just have no idea how to work it, but I am 1 more RAM preview away from throwing my computer out the window...

05/23/2012

My cousin died because he tried to Stop Drop and Roll during an Earthquake... thanks jerks!

05/04/2012

Thanks for the tutorial and will hopefully see you at DMLA in May. This is what I've learned so far:
http://www.toastedmango.com/projects/banners/boom.html#!prettyPhoto[flash]/0/

Again Thanks!

05/02/2012

Is this compatible with the 3d falloff preset?

04/21/2012

Hi andrew Am A Boy In 13 I could Work At The 3D Set Extention For All Ly Self So That's Good Thank you And I Wish If I Can See You That's My Only Dream This Is My Adrees: merabtine2010@live.com Please :) !!

02/17/2012

It took me some time to build up steam... like a long time. I start bouncing around in intermediate lessons and beginner tutorials. I admit Andrew pissed me of to the point were i wanted to rip him one. but i must say diligence pays off, Andrew you are AFTER EFFECTS.

01/31/2012

Thank you for the outstanding FREE plugin!
all the best!

02/17/2012

Whr du u get the free plugin?

01/09/2012

I really wana call u as SIR, this is the most respectable word i have for you, God bless you i really pray for you from my heart, SIR i have no words to express my gratefulness, Thank you thank u thank u very much.

12/15/2011

Professor Andrew dear Is it possible to explain the background used in this lesson because it is very beautiful and Try it to work like it did not appreciate. I hope you can explain to the needy of this explanation, I thank you very

12/13/2011

Haha not only are your tutorials educational and awesome but your hilarious lol...

"Pretty official"

04/06/2012

haha that story at the beginning cracked me up so bad!!!

12/09/2011

Wish you would've put up the legit project files. But thanks anyway! Amazing tutorial

12/01/2011

You are Amazing Andrew, thanks for all your Tutorials and Help

11/04/2011

this is sure one good offer

10/28/2011

dude,
you're amazing :D you link fun and lesson so perfectly!
nice tut, nice plug-in! keep going!!

10/19/2011

Really helpful tutorial.

10/06/2011

thank you andrew kramer you've saved my butt again! just when i thought i would never get AE camera's down i found this plug-in!!!

09/15/2011

Is it possible to add in video and not text? :D

10/13/2011

As i understood it, it works with a null objekt that is tied to whatever you wish it to.. - video as well.
- I think...

09/02/2011

Mr.Andrew,You are Remarkable with this work
i adore it

08/30/2011

Is Sure Target 2 compatible with AE CS5?
Because it is not working on my system. I'm on a Mac and I've installed it in the Plug Ins folder, but no Video Copilot nor Sure Target heading appears in the Effects & Presets window.
Thanks

01/25/2012

Hey. I was having the same problem but I figured it out.
I'm on a 32-bit OS Mac and if you use the 32-bit plug-in in After Effects CS5 it doesn't recognize it so you have to use the 64-bit one no matter whether your OS is 32 or 64 bit. Hope that helped.

10/07/2011

I have followed the steps to install the SureTarget 2.0.10 in the plugins folder. I still dont get any preset or plugin in my AE list? COuld this be because I have suretarget 1.5.1 installed?

Win 7 64bit AE CS4

09/16/2011

Just copy the file to aplications > adobe after effects > plug-ins. Don't put it into plug-ins>effects. Ps: you gotta know if your mac is 32 or 64 though... I'm on a macbook pro , 64, running cs5, and doing ok. Works for me, so, not a mac problem.

09/01/2011

I'm using CS5 in Win7 and sure target works great.
maybe problem with mac?

08/31/2011

I am having the same problem. Installed the 64 bit into my Plugins folder and does not show in the menu. Even after a re-start and a refresh List. I am on a mac and running CS5

08/29/2011

amazing man with great tutorials :)

08/05/2011

men you are the best!!! and so funny!!! your plugg in is telling you how to use it!!! men the plugg in rockss!!!!

08/01/2011

Andrew, great tutorial on Sure Target ... keep having to come back to it as I forget various aspects but being a teacher ... have to say, it is Drop & Cover ... not sure where you got the "roll" but you are forgiven as you probably aren't on the West Coast. Again, great tutorials and keep them coming. :)

08/19/2011

Stop Drop & Roll is what you do when your on fire. I've never heard of Drop & cover before, im guessing by covering you mean get under someplace hard, like a desk. since that's what your suppose to do when there's an earthquake

08/19/2011

Tim, he's joking... Stop drop and roll is for if you catch fire. He's assuming we already know the difference lol

07/26/2011

and how did you add the new columns at 4:51?

07/26/2011

ia it possible to put pictures instead of text?

07/29/2011

Andrew, if i were a woman, i'd be in love with you for making these awesome tutorials and plugins!!!!! Thank you very much!!!

07/20/2011

Andrew Kramer, you're awesome! Video Copilot is a great service on web for those who wants to learn about vfx in after effects. And, it's FREE! Awesome tutorials, techniques and resources.

Great Job! I'm your fan!

07/05/2011

Andrew Kramer and all at Video Copilot are my hero's. This plug-in is so incredibly impressive. Thanks so much - my respect and gratitude for Video Copilot hasn't stopped increasing since I first found the site - and my initial reaction was very positive.

07/06/2011

Sure Target

07/04/2011

is there a way for me to download this tutorial? i have a slow internet connection, and im going to leave this all night. it would realy help if could download it to my computer.:) thanks.

06/25/2011

Hi Andrew,

I´ve just download this plug-in, it really seems to be really useful, I was looking yesterday at the tutorial and today I was put it on practice for the first time. But I had a problem.

I am on an animation project, in the scene I am making there is a car running in the middle of a landscape, it is not footage, it is all made by me in a 3d space in AE. The idea is that the camera focus on some part of the car while it is running. I tried to use the "sure target" plug-in as you taught in the tutorial but something goes bad.

I have made some null objects to which I want the sure camera to target, I parent this objects ith the car layer, this for the sake of follow the car in movement, but after stablish every keyframe changing from one to other of the targets in the Sure target menu, I realize that as the null objects have a relative cordinate position to their parent (i.e. the car layer) the sure target does not understand it and just go to the position each of the null objects have fixed.

I was thinking how to solve it and I think that I can solve it but It would be great to hear if you have some comments about it.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge in such a kind way,

Kind regards,

M

06/25/2011

Transformer Bumble bee ... enough people want to make a tutorial ...

06/19/2011

next time you need to find your cellphone, just call it with your home phone or something, follow the ring. Always works!

06/18/2011

How do you set time to each target? I'm working with sure target, and the targets are videos, so i want each video to stay on screen until it finish and then move to the next target.

06/21/2011

easy: when you are at you first target, keyframe it then go to the end of that target and keyframe it with the same number as the first time.
it will look like this:
1...........1;;;;;2...........2;;;;;;3.......3
with the ...'s as the time the video plays and ;;; for the movement between 2 videos
good luck =)

06/15/2011

I cannot get the auto execute to work correctly on my mac. I make sure that sure target is selected, I have tried both command click and control click and I always get an error when I hit execute. The control button on a mac will not let me select multiple layers, that is why I tried the command button.

09/03/2011

Shift?

06/03/2011

Awesome tutorial! and thanks for the plug-in, that's very helpful! You surely need to make that future detective short film ;)

04/27/2011

Awesome tutorial.Thank you !!

04/05/2011

stop drop and roll if you are on fire...haha! but awesome video as usual

04/04/2011

One problem I am having is that when I use Sure Target 2, my screen flashes. Anytime I click around or change values, my screen flashes real quick. Everything works, but I can see this getting real bad for my eyes.
I use a Mac if that helps.

03/18/2011

This tutorial ist pretty da** BAD... you know... it doesn't work with a turned off computer!

Just kidding, YOU ROCK!

03/13/2011

I cant get it to work when using the Print to PF thingy. Every time I try to, the image just goes to the background and I cant get it to move at all.

03/06/2011

What an awesome plugin
its so great!!!!

03/06/2011

"First, make sure that your Computer is on"

02/25/2011

Thank you Andrew :)

Solution for the PDF print => http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php

02/13/2011

It would be great if there was a way to delay the camera from following the POI, as if the camera is looking towards the direction the target is moving. Currently the target and the camera move in sync.

I was able to accomplish this by putting an expression on the null layer's x and y rotations, but it would be great if there was some sort of "follow delay".

02/08/2011

Great tool! Thank you! However, in CS5 Mac I'm having a few glitches. When the plugin is first applied I get an error message, saying that the plugin can't be found and the expressions will be disabled. This is simply fixed by switching the expressions back on and then it works fine.
The other glitch is in rendering if OpenGL is enabled - it just doesn't like it and often crashes. This is the only plugin I use that seems to have this problem on a regular basis, though it does sometimes also occur with the Foundry's Camera Tracker.

Keep up the good work. Dominic

02/02/2011

Great plug in & great tutorial! I'm suddenly having an issue though. Every time I attempt to move the position of the null object, the X position automatically goes to 0.00 the first few times I try. Not only that, but it will also jump to 0.00 randomly for 1 frame without a keyframe or anything! Ghosts!

01/31/2011

One problem I am having is that when I use Sure Target 2, my screen flashes. Anytime I click around or change values, my screen flashes real quick. Everything works, but I can see this getting real bad for my eyes.
I use a Mac if that helps.

Thanks, and I hope someone can help me with this issue.

04/29/2011

I posted something in the forum but no response. I am having the same issue.

03/14/2011

Yeah, I'm having the same problem on Mac as well - it didn't used to do it on my PC. Any pointers would be really appreciated, thanks.

02/23/2011

Same here

01/31/2011

Great tutorial! thank you VC.

Greetings from space station Jupiter.

01/29/2011

Getting ready to watch a movie ey ;)

01/26/2011

you are my hero men... you save me a lot of time over here

01/25/2011

Last time I checked stop drop & roll was for fires, I'd hate to be rolling in a collapsing building. Love your tutorials, you are the one video tutorial voice that I've found that actually makes me want to watch more videos just to see what shenanigans you are up to then as a byproduct pick up some awesome tips and tricks!

01/24/2011

Hi, great tutorial !
Cant' find the AE project ! Where is it.
Just have 4 .pdf files, not AE ...
Thanks for answer

01/08/2011

ARGH.. Why can't I get darker particles on light scenes like you. As soon as I set mine dark in CC or particular, they vanish completely!

Please include your projects for things like this, so we can glean settings.

Great plugin (and tutorial) by the way. :)

01/06/2011

i love dis tutorial, tanks a lots andrew.

01/03/2011

Hi andrew my name is brahim 19 years from morocco thanks for toutrial you are best i witch be motion design like you

01/02/2011

I downloaded the Sure Target 2 file but its extension is .plugin and i put it under my plugins but when I try to access it, it wont show up. I also put it under the Video Copilot presets but the problem is it has to be an .ffx to be a preset. Please help :) Btw, this is an awesome plugin and I really want to have it! Thanks!

05/20/2011

we had the same problem bro. But now did you manage to install Sure target 2? If you did, tell me.. tnx

01/08/2011

I had a similar problem. I m using vista 64 bit with both after effects cs4 and cs5. But it worked when i installed 32bit for cs4 and 64bit for cs5. Hope this helps. And thanks Andrew Kramer. This is an Awesome plug-in. Saved me a lot of time.

12/31/2010

andrew, im doing a report on my hero (which is you) and i was wondering if you could write a bio that would help me in this

12/13/2010

Hi Andrew, this is Amazing.
i love the way After effects runs in your PC. Would you please tell us what hardware you have. It would be a great advice specially the holyday's shopping are comming.

12/06/2010

Ahh, I figured it out. Just in case anyone else is struggling with the same problem, use the camera tool to position your text.

01/03/2011

Thanksgiving

12/06/2010

just wondered why my text isn't centered like it is on here when i do it

01/27/2011

For centre alignment of the text u need to move ur pivot point, from the side of the word to the centre of the word...

Awesome Plugin

12/06/2010

Very nice. I made a nice little title using this, the 3D room tutorial and some grunge textures.

11/30/2010

everyone are saying this plugin wont work in another version except cs5. its works in cs3 as well.....

01/03/2011

This plugins doesn't support cs5 yet.. all Videocopilot free plugins for that matter

11/29/2010

Hey!
Is this a stupid question:
Where do i get Sure Target?

Is it for free?

Realy need to know =)

12/13/2010

its free and its in the project files download them

11/23/2010

Paste Sure Target 2.0 into C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS3\Support Files\Required and it will show up under Effects.
(works for CS5 also)

12/13/2010

where do u get sure target and how much is it. There doesn't seem to be a price here.

11/22/2010

Just installed Sure Target 2.0. But I'm getting lots of crashes when I try to preview my animations. I'm running windows 7 (64bit) with CS5. Is there an update on the way. Never had a problem with any of your other products. We love twitch and flares at my job!!! Please look into Sure Target. ThanX!!!!

11/15/2010

Please update for CS5, lots of bugs and crashing (on OSX)

11/16/2011

By default it has 10 layers (T-1 to T-10). How do you add extra layers to this? I mean T-11, T-12 so on?

11/14/2010

you saved my life with this great plugin THANK YOU !

11/13/2010

If you are having problems installing the plugin in windows 7 x64 try this... copy the 32 bit windows plugin instead. It worked for me.

Andrew, you the man! Keep it up!

11/11/2010

dear Andrew Kramer,
You are Amazing, I love you...

11/08/2010

Man, congratulations!!! This plugin is a life saver (and time saver as well).

You're the best out there!!!!

10/26/2010

Hi man.

cool stuff man.keep up the human race.
in todays world survival isnt necessary
but the rising and shining high is.
So shine high.

10/24/2010

Awesome! Great work ;)

10/21/2010

Love this Tutorial, Please add more cool title tutorials.

10/21/2010

I used it for a few minutes. But it didn't work with Trapcode Horizon and after a few more steps without Trapcode Horizon CS5 crashed again. So I have to use a Null object ... :(

10/04/2010

downloaded this plug in but when installing to CS5 I don't see the plug in anywhere!, does this work for CS5?

09/29/2010

Anyone know if the energetic titles project file exist. Would like to open and see set up et.

09/27/2010

Cant get this plugin to work on windows7 with CS4. I put it in the plugins folder, but when i start up CS4 i cant find it anywhere. :(

09/04/2010

tax man u ra life sever

08/21/2010

Hey andrew i just want to ask how can i create that background with gradients you know the visual effects.. please tell me i need this i have to create something for school and need it day after 2marrow