Deleted Scenes
July 18th, 2007

Well it is no secret that sometimes I cut out little things from my tutorials. There are a lot of considerations when this happens. Usually for good reason, I don't like to over complicate things with endless sidebars that make the tutorial seem convoluted or many other reasons such as:

  • Effects that take too long
  • Senselessness
  • Not Humorous
  • Sad and Disappointing
  • Sake of Professionalism
  • Rendering times (figure 2 minutes of rendering to 1 final)
  • Corporate sponsors Like Coke & Pepsi, (not yet sponsors)
  • Incoherent rambling and childish name-calling

Here are a few deleted scenes from the vault.
Watch Now

NOTE: I know it goes black for a sec towards the end.Long story, but it is part of the moving 3D lines tutorial.

Andrew Kramer
POSTED:
18 years ago
116 Comments
Lol, always fun to peek behind the curtain.
Romee
16 years ago
hahaha
ITS GONE!
16 years ago
Darn, it says it can't find the page

I say them before but I wanted to see them again. *sigh*
-David
*sigh*
16 years ago
why are they deleted? I want to see that stuff!
VFX-Anomaly
17 years ago
I'm late, I guess I missed this blog
hehe
18 years ago
Thank you for sharing!
Eliot
18 years ago
lol
Asher
18 years ago
Hey Andrew, What screen recorder do you use? I have been looking around for a while, and it looks like you have a good one.

Thanks,
Asher Kaye.
Alex Joyce
18 years ago
lol i couldnt stop laughing at the refraction part lol nice work andrew love it all keep it up man
Titso
18 years ago
haha Andrew, my god laughed so hard when you started with the google search on "aftershake" haha genious
18 years ago
Andrew cross hair's are for first person shooters like counter strike, were not playing them right now gosh.
18 years ago
I use HDV JVC HD200

You some times have to track by hand moving the cross-hair as needed. Or larger track points.
Mike
18 years ago
Thanks for all the great info.

One question: What are you shooting these videos on? HD?, HDV?, Mini-Dv?

Did I say one question--cause I meant two!

When I try tracking I have the hardest time finding a point that doesn't become blurry at some point and throws the tracker off--I shoot on a Panasonic DVX100A 24P advanced.

Any ideas?

Thanks again--this site is why the internet doesn't suck!
18 years ago
that was great, its really good to see that you make mistakes just like we do. I had an image of you being an after effects programmed robot lol
Jason
18 years ago
How about a tutorial on broadcast colors...final output to dvd, tape or whatever to be able to get the best quality possible.....I always seem to edit something and it looks awsome on the computer...I put it on a dvd to check it out on tv and I am like What the hell happened. It looks nothing like it did on the computer.
Chef Tony
18 years ago
... and no After Effects for 2 weeks!
Dustin James
18 years ago
@Sandy

now go to your room...
18 years ago
@ Dustin James, actually that's not light wrap. My dumbass exported the video out from AE at a different size than what I exported it at in Final Cut. So what youre actually seeing are the black bars from my first export. I must have had the black bars when I brought it into AE and added the lighting effects onto pof it so it looks lighter. wont happen again hopefully thanks for checkin out Berringer. Were doing some more shooting in 2 weeks. Expecting some big things for this project. I cant wait to share it with everybody. Stay tuned!
Sandy
18 years ago
Hey Andrew, Sam & everybody.

I feel sorry 4da bunch of ha haâ??????s I posted yesterday, I did'nt mean anything wrong, it was my mistake.

Anyways SORRY Everybody & I apologize for my Mistake

Thnx & Regards
Sandy
Dustin James
18 years ago
@bones

That new video of Mr. Barringer is nice.. i noticed that your lightwrap layer was several px higher than the rest of the comp... (it might be a different layer...)

sorry if you meant for that.. it was just going above the letterbox..
Jacob Aaron
18 years ago
Hey that was a treat! Hmm google search "After Shake" I mean After Shock. Thanks for letting us behind the scenes.

Thanks again,
Jacob Aaron
18 years ago
Hey Drew, is it okay if I call you Drew? I posted a short thanks to all the folks here at 'Copilot for checking out my blog over the past couple of days. Thanks to your site and this blog, I went from 10 hits a day to 700 plus! I know it's probably no where near what you get in a day, but it's pretty amazing to me how awesome that it! Cheers!

Bones
Jacob Behunin
18 years ago
Lynda.com also doesnt offer this kind of training. They cover the basics of the program. They also have a "title techniques" dvd, but they're kinda lame.
Andrew Kramer can school them any day of the week.
HEY, Heres and Idea. Maybe Andrew Kramer should do a Lynda.com Training DVD, and up their standards a bit haha

-Jacob
That was something... Like Bloopers, or WaTTS on Eurosport Man I love you, I wish I was a female xD
wayne
18 years ago
agree with Mehrad,lynda's sucks,totaltraining is toooooo long and boring~Andrew is the best from now on
Will
18 years ago
I have to say that Mehrad is right ! Lot of video tutorials I have seen was sooooo boringgggg ... soporiphic voice ...
Maybe some on Creative Cow are nice but at this time, tell me who is as good as Andrew ? ok, Andrew, we are friends
Mehrad
18 years ago
i love andrew , and his tutorials .
when he teach something he has positive energy and every body who listens to it like it .
that's really great .
if u don't understand me , just buy Gnomon's boujou training DVD . and after 5 minutes u'll be sleep on ur desk right infront of computer .

thanks andrew for ur great tutorials
Batyram
18 years ago
I just want to say to all these people that came here to visit the Andrew Kramer's web:
Just buy the DVD's, it worth it!!!!!!!!!
I have bought all of them and I am really happy!!!!
Help Andrew keep this web working on!!!!
By the way, I do not know Andrew and I am not his friend, but I would like...

Comprad los DVD's,merece la pena!!!!!
Yo he comprado todos y es lo mejor que he podido hacer!!!!!
Comprando los DVD's ayudamos a Andrew a mantener la p??¡gina!!!!!
Por cierto no soy amigo, ni conozco a Andrew aunque me gustaria

Love from Spain,
Carlos
Chef Tony
18 years ago
First comment in the website...
Great stuff Andrew, the initial part remids me of Monty Python!!!
Thanks for everything!!!
Sunil
18 years ago
Apologies for posting a query - can Andrew or anyone reading this please point to tutorials showing how to create a Flash carousel similar to the one done in the Products page of Videocopilot?

Thanks in advance
Doug
18 years ago
Awesome! Keep the jokes coming!
18 years ago
"it' like a book without end, it's an endless .... book"

(X

i just can't stop laughing.
Andre
18 years ago
Brillant! Thanks for lighting my day
r-m-p
18 years ago
hey I find aftershake good
18 years ago
3d refraction fawk...
wayne
18 years ago
very funny~
18 years ago
Ahaha...'After Shake'

...Classic Kramer
18 years ago
In the last video you said you can not control the wiggle that it is always shaking. Im sure you know this but you can control it if you link the wiggle expression to a expression controller such as a slider. Just thought I'd bring this up. Hope you don't think I'm a smart ass. Good stuff like always

forums...
Dustin James
18 years ago
I was hoping for the mid-week tutorial..

I thought you might post that up today.. but i guess not.. mmmhh.. hint.. (please)

I'm bored and my g/f is at a fashion show and I'm needing something to do/make...

some inspiration.. maybe... just.. well.. anything..
Neeraj
18 years ago
LOL!! MAN!! i love the google bit. haha. really funny. keep it up

Neeraj
18 years ago
hey, tnx for the tip....
18 years ago
Hey what's up Djeki Bidjerano here
In my room
Writing a pathetic comment
Its about 1:15
Im all alone
And its dark
Just about out of electricity
Need to find the candle
Ive been in the attic all day reading a book
Its called Writing a comment for DUmmys
It never ends
Its an endless book
The story never ends
Its about this brave Knight
That never ends
-anyways

*bleep*
Crest
18 years ago
Aftershake was the best, also the Refracting Reflacting was great.

Output MOAR Bloopers.
John Paite
18 years ago
lightwrap is gonna be so useful for blending an actor(shot infrnt of a greenscreen) with the bg..
...I love aftershake ohh i mean after effect and its felxibility!! hahaha
Felix
18 years ago
haha, nice. the "aftershake"
Ron
18 years ago
Your sense of humor is why i keep coming back, ohh and the great training.
18 years ago
The ha-ha overflow is messed u-p because of the ha ha's being one word. For the render engine this means no linebreak. If it was like hahahahahah haha(mention the whitespace) then your browser would have applied a linebreak.

fix for IE: add in css: word-wrap: break-word;
Firefox wraps whenever it can AFTER a whitespace. so big bug, know for years, dno why it's never fixed.

This fix doesn't comply to W3C rules and therefore stay away from it Opera seems to handle it fine I guess.
Zumez
18 years ago
I am going to name my first born "After Shake" It's strong but gentle. Plus it's unisex so it could be a boy or girl. Thanks for making my morning less crappy, now back to the grind.
Magnusfaz
18 years ago
That's why Videocopilots rules!!! yea baby!!!!
18 years ago
LOL!!!


how come when you typed
aftershock in Google it was already
searched before? hahaha

anyways, funny stuff

http://www.et-films.net
otherwize
18 years ago
Aftershake sounds like a nice thing to drink lonely Friday nights... or maybe a beforeshake, after which you shake your ass AND just THEN get an aftershake...
rejuvenation potions = wiggle effect

what logic
Novastorm
18 years ago
Andrew youre "taking over the world" plan is actually working. Wikipedia is even mentioning you now, go to [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_After_Effects[/url] and look at the plug-ins!!
Johnny Handsome
18 years ago
great stuff... by the way, does anyone know how i can get fonts into after effects? I got this beautiful Predator font but cant use it, so does anyone know how i can get this font into after effects? thanks in advance
Dominic
18 years ago
Does anyone else feel dirty after watching the deleted scenes?
18 years ago
Yea Sam. Someone broke your blog
Harry mcHugh
18 years ago
^ right after he filmed you getting hit in the nuts while you were sleeping
18 years ago
It's not just your computer Sam, I see it too. Andrew probably snuck into your place and messed with computer though, lol.
Coop
18 years ago
After Shake...Hmmm, sounds to me like an Adobe/Apple software merger. Maybe they'll do After Motion, too. Funny stuff, AK.
Coop
18 years ago
After Shake...Hmmm, sounds to me like an Adobe/Apple software merger. Maybe they'll do After Motion, too. Funny stuff, AK.
Blatman
18 years ago
Very nice !!!! thank you andrew !

ps : If one day you create a dvd with all tutorials, you can put this video in bonus section !
18 years ago
It must be my computer, it looks as if somebody exceeded their post box with a bunch of ha ha's.
How is this possible? â?????Inconceivable!â??? =o
18 years ago
Lol Andrew, the refraction one is hilarious
Georgi Zhekov
18 years ago
Inhuman "the Room where you're caugh by the cops"-pretty nice
Sebastian Vázquez
18 years ago
HAHAHAAHAHA Did you mean AFTERSHOCK?, yes I did xD AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LMAOOOOOO
18 years ago
Haha. That was good. By the way, you have a lot of plugins. Is furnace any good?
barry barrera
18 years ago
still.....interesting.....yet complicated......but still catchy!!!
keep it up master
Yva
18 years ago
Mr. Kramer lets be clear here! Jim Carrey can hide in the mouse hole in front of you! I was just trying to be funny, sorry!
Dustin James
18 years ago
Good stuff... very informative and fun at the same time..

I liked the finger tapping cut while it was rendering... cause I do the exact same thing... I started laughing hard...
18 years ago
"Inconceivable!" =o
m.abulazm
18 years ago
Dark ... Candle .... recordering ..... hahahahahah
nice collection Andrew
18 years ago
Hey,

Its nice to see that a god like you... i mean person... messs up.
Any way, is there some way that you could do a zat tut. Heres a
good site that could help you...

http://members.lycos.nl/thenewgoauldworld/technicale_file_zatniktel.htm

Your friend,
John
18 years ago
aftershake..hummm...i learn somenthing new today, im proud of that....heehehe

ps. i need to do a bar chart for a project, i see a pie chart tut on creative cow, but i prefer a bar one, can anyone
give a tip, i??´ll appreciate it.
Jeff (NoodleMaps)
18 years ago
40th posts WooHoo

Anyway, Funny stuff, felt some of the deleted stuff was actually very educational.
18 years ago
Wow...this is getting insane. Aftershake...haha. Andrew, you are crazy for sure!
kaz
18 years ago
Ha ha, the ending just killed me.

I started to wonder what that "Girl"-thing was in the last tutorial. I must say I am disappointed.

keep up the good work
Orc Master
18 years ago
LOOOOOL!!!! MAN, that was so GOOD!!!

It was informative AND funny, just like Videocopilot is supposed to be LOL, looking forward to that girl tutorial, whatever it might be. Also, the first part was hilarious! THAT actually showed me the meaning of life!

Wiggle, aftershake... It's all the same! But aftershock? :s
Martin
18 years ago
The Eglish language is so funny. Andrew, you are funny!
Novastorm
18 years ago
Lol the never ending of the ever never ever ending book. I thought you were going to say never ending story lol. Atreyuuuuuuuuuuuu xD
Sandy
18 years ago
ahhahahahahhahahhahahhahahahhahahhahahhaha...

SUPERB JUST SUPERB. !!!! ANDREW !!!! VERY VERY HELPFUL.

Now I'm absolutely clear abt Track Mattes. THANKYOU.

I REQUEST- MORE DELETED SCENES.

Superb --- Keep up the amazing wrk.
U R THE BEST.

WARM REGARDS
Sandy
18 years ago
Eheh funny but also useful, i found some useful tips too
18 years ago
Hey Andrew...

of course we are cracking you up. Hehe; if anyone is smart/intelligent and AT THE SAME TIME as funny - its you!.

And thats not a joke (saying it in your words

Personally what I liked best was the really creative jokes in the last two Tutorials (you know, 10000 miles of fishing string and 500 Laserpointers to blow up to moon = ROFL, LOL, ROFL)

Just wondering: How do you figure that out so make such jokiful tutorials? Are all those just Ideas of the second? Or do you collect them for the next one?

But nevertheless be careful: One day you have "your shirt turnes inside-out"

PS: Besides I found a market giving away free Computers (and the ones even YOU could not affort- not even in for stupidest dreams (which of course you have, I suppose )

(Just remember your Promo-Tutorial for Filmmagig Pro ^^
هـــــاشـــم
18 years ago
lol
thx andrew
18 years ago
Sorry to double post, but I got two questions for you Andrew if you care to Andrew... When do you care to show some of your movies you made and could you talk to Kathlyn for me about my tutorials I submitted to the cow about a year or so ago, she said shes posting them, but they never got up there and I can't get ahold of her.

-Scott
18 years ago
Aww **** LOL hilarious...
Hampus
18 years ago
love this! you should do stand-up!
Tim
18 years ago
Hey you ever actually got anything from your shamless plugs?
18 years ago
You guys are cracking me up!

Yva? What happend, i thought we were friends...
Conor
18 years ago
I think we should all lobby Adobe to change the "wiggle" command to "aftershake".
michi
18 years ago
great! aftershake!
Yva
18 years ago
You are funny as jim carrey in 23... just kidding! You are really funny. Aftershake, aftershave.....no After Effects!
Magnusfaz
18 years ago
Hahahahah!!! cool!! the meaning of life!!!
18 years ago
Can you tell me the name of the neverending book? Mine all have endings....
1943
18 years ago
Perfect
Will
18 years ago
mmmh ... if i say all your tutorials are boring ... will you use more girl in there ?! I don't know what you drink Mr. K. but there's some funny times.
Thx.
Some Guy
18 years ago
Thank you, Andrew! That was very funny and very informative at the same time. I think it's the best video on videocopilot.net. I did know how to do a lightwrap in Photoshop for a still image but couldn't find out how to achieve it in After Effects. And the stuff you showed with that Girl.mov brought me to some cool ideas. I never thought before to use a ramp with an adjustment layer to apply effects. So, thank you for listening to your community and bringing out this amazing blooper reel. Things like this makes you to the best tutor on the internet.
The new guy
18 years ago
Hahah that was funny
18 years ago
HAHAHA aftershake. God bless google lol. I bet 90% of people will search those words themselves.
18 years ago
That was pretty funny. Kind of puts me in the mood for a milkshock. Errr... I mean milkshake.
18 years ago
Andrew - Keep an even balance? You're soon upto 50 tutorials, and the tutorials scale nicely, so I don't see a problem keeping on with the long more advanced tutorials.
18 years ago
huhu ! I see that you spend crazy afternoon at home :p
18 years ago
I'll try to put out some more "advanced" stuff, but I do have to keep an even balance.
Slupert
18 years ago
Hehe TuxedoKat, I was thinking the same thing. That Andrew was colorcorrecting his...dirty movies...
Jonas
18 years ago
Nice work as always Andrew!

Personally I would like to see more of the 'Effects that take too long'..
A more advanced tutorial = a more fun tutorial
18 years ago
I'm pretty sure that saying Refracting 3d Reflections is truly as harder to say than it may appear. lol. nice work Andrew.
18 years ago
Lol excellent! this is so funny lol
Blair
18 years ago
Is "gradiated" a real word??

Nice work, Andrew!
TuxedoKat
18 years ago
So thats what the girl.mov file was in the sky tutorial. I was thinking it was something your wife wouldn't approve.
Spence
18 years ago
good to know that your human! Love it!
18 years ago
That came out abit wrong, I mean: Give more bloopers. Love hearing all the funny stuff that can come out of that!
18 years ago
Heh, nice ... "aftershake" was best
18 years ago
Release a bloopers-scene, would be funny to see the masters mouth mess up or do something wrong ;p
18 years ago
HAHAHAHA, I laughed like crazy at the start. Rofl AHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHA. Best joke ever! Still listening, BRB! ;p
Gonads
18 years ago
The google bit I thought was the best.
bas
18 years ago
Really great i enjoying it now!!
bas
18 years ago
first to post!!!!!