New Tutorial: 3D Offset

July 18th, 2008

In this tutorial we will be animating layers with the intelligent shifting of time and space. This new tutorial has many great tips throughout including some powerful expressions used in a very practical manner.

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This is the first tutorial of the week and one more should be out soon as promised, probably tomorrow.

Now the good/bad news, we are pushing back the release date for the new website just a little longer to make time more detailed testing and to add some last minute features we recently discovered. Should definitely be worth it.

SHAMELESS PROMOTION:
If you need something to do in the mean time, please check out our great products and DVDs : ) We appreciate your support and you help make this site happen. So thanks everyone!

Andrew Kramer

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17 years ago

61 Comments

Atlanta Video Production

15 years ago

Anything about expressions is always helpful to me.

Connor

17 years ago

Awesome tutorial! It's a shame about the date being pushed back a bit though

Any ideas how long it'll be, i cant wait!

Mr t;

17 years ago

Malpa thats a very very nice title opener!!

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Phill

17 years ago

@ James Price

Cheers!!

Malpa

17 years ago

Hey see this trailer made a your product very cool Videocopilot inspiration!!!!

http://www.artofthetitle.com/media/tv/2008/eldon.mov

A Gorilla

17 years ago

Could have use this Tutorial a few weeks back when my client informed me that they needed to have multiples of the product in the "11th Hour"... erie how the ad is similar-ish. Check it out!

http://www.vimeo.com/1369969
(used your keying tips to pull a key from HDV footage! They said it shouldn't be done, oh well)

Like the use of Expressions to make AE work for you! (I will be doing more of that)
Thanks Again keep up the good stuff and the Bullet DVD was worth every penny and more!

`CharLeS x

17 years ago

this expression is very very useful, tnk.

guy from switzerland

17 years ago

Great tutorial.
I'd like to see more tutorials with expressions, they're really great and you can save so much time. The others are great too, but I hope you know what I mean

Thanks Andrew

versa

17 years ago

I like expressions. It's very handy in workflow and save cuple of time. But some people really scare expressions, cause they are loving make zillion keyframes by hand

James Price

17 years ago

@ Phill...check these out.

http://www.motionscript.com/

http://www.aenhancers.com/

Phill

17 years ago

Andrew are there any websites about with all the expressions on? I need some that i think you might never cover.

clight

17 years ago

I really appreciate the way you teach expressions. I've read Dan Ebberts site and frankly, I'm just not smart enough to run with that crowd. When you show an expression, I get it.

Uh... that didn't come out right. Hmm Okay... You are an excellent teacher and everyone here is very smart.

I'm just making it worse now. I'm bailing.

Thanks AK,
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Jason

17 years ago

Sorry this is completely off topic but I thought it might be useful to other members. I was out skateboarding with my friends and we were doing some filming and my friend just got a really nice dolly. It was super mobile and smooth and I am thinking about getting one for myself. Here is the web site where he got it from. Check it out.

http://www.eazydolly.com

Joe G

17 years ago

Excellent tut Andrew! AE is even more powerful with expressions, I can't wait to learn more!!
AUSUM!!!!!!

Loay

17 years ago

awesome stuff
thanks !

Daryl Booth

17 years ago

Hmm, when I first realised this was an expression tute I went cold with fear...

But at the end I was pleased, its a great tut AK. Great job!

jorberg

17 years ago

Guess you can't please everybody -- there will always be someone complaining.

Sudhanshu

17 years ago

Another great tutorial by andrew kramer... love it and its really going to be useful for me... watching your tutorial has given me a great idea for a product design... thanks a lot... and as usual your tutorials rock !!

Andrew Kramer

17 years ago

You don't like expressions?

RiddickMedia

17 years ago

no like.....

Nico

17 years ago

Wow this is really cool, but I've one question.
Can't upload the irregular fonts that you use in some of your tutorials.
For example in this tutorial there's a font called intrepid and it's not on my computer and I can't really find it on the internet

Thanks again for all the tutorials

P.s. It's possible that this fonts are regular system fonts on your country but in wonderfull switzerland it's not

Some Guy

17 years ago

Ausum tutorial! I guess that's how you created the 3D text. By offsetting the text layers in Z-space depending on their indexes... I gonna try it right now. Thank you for the tutorial. I also like how you created the background. It is something new, not just a vignette mask.

Quebecker

17 years ago

Not so exciting...

Colin Harvie

17 years ago

Yay! new tutorial!

You discovered some new features? Were they lurking there in your website without your knowledge?

Andrew Kramer

17 years ago

You can use the expressions for almost anything. In the next tutorial we'll take a look at another cool expression called valueAtTime( )...

VFX-Anomaly

17 years ago

It's about time you taught us something useful

Just kidding...
very nice use of Expressions!

Thanks Andrew

Hector Alcaraz

17 years ago

very good..! again, thank you...

Mohammed Mohssin

17 years ago

can i use this expressions with effects, rotation....? thnx

Manuel Giordano

17 years ago

I have bought all your DVDs yet...can't wait

Oh, thank you for your products! They're wonderful

daveyg

17 years ago

could this be done with echospace too.. im sure it can but this is great for those who dont have any plug ins.

Flubber

17 years ago

nice, good work as always, keep up the good job guys and thanks for thinking at us and keep making those free tutorials which are awesome

thanks again!
keep up the good work VideoCopilot

Boddo

17 years ago

Looks amazing as usual, keep it up mate.

also can i just say i dunno if anyone else has noticed but andrew really reminds me of dane cook

anyway thanks

Leonard Koch

17 years ago

Why does everyone keep saying that the tut was awesome? :O
It was AUSUM!

LocalViper

17 years ago

HAAA MAN!!!! these tutorals are seriouly awsome! like 10000X awsome

Stephen Bolton

17 years ago

Awesome as usual . Thanks .

Seth

17 years ago

very cool andrew,
i was waiting for a tut like that
thanks

Ben Wotton

17 years ago

Looks interesting!

Unfortunately I have to wait for tomorrow to watch it.

The title should read like this though- 'Video Copilot, more fun than you are'

That would probably be a bit more realistic.

Kevin G

17 years ago

Man VCP is starting to take on the power associated with APPLE. People lining up around the corner for blocks to see a new tutorial or launch of the website. More power to you guys, you have given it to us. Thanks for another dynamic and real world tutorial.

Jeff

17 years ago

Wow! The little bits of information within this tutorial are bit helps. The overall tutorial is also quite sweet. Thanks for this Andrew.

Infaas

17 years ago

Wow!

john drach

17 years ago

Sweet. I can really put this to good use.

cyco

17 years ago

Thank you!

jorberg

17 years ago

Thanks AK -- We appreciate your hard work

Lawrence

17 years ago

Hey AK, thanks for another amazing tutorial... And don't worry about getting the new site out too soon, one thing I've learned from being inside is patience, well patience and how to make toilet wine. I raise a glass of fine merlot to you sir. Good work.

Nikolaus

17 years ago

Hey Andrew,

thank you so much.

Kenneth

17 years ago

a very interesting and different tutorial, your tutorials are very easy to understand and execute.. thanks again.

Conor

17 years ago

Just in time for some lunch-break viewing! Looking forward to the re-launch.

Kevin

17 years ago

Great.......
Andrew i hope you will be life 1000 Years !

i am one of your first Community Visitor .-)

Thanks man !

sry for my english

ToLy

17 years ago

Awsome tutorial !
Thanks !

3CardMonte

17 years ago

As far as the timeremapping stuff, you should try playing around with some dynamic expressions a bit more. To be fair I haven't watched all of the tutorial yet, but I skimmed through.

Using INDEX variable to indicate where in the comp it is, coupled with "Show at time -.5"(or some similar command, I don't remember the EXACT syntax) can offset these... And then you can just keep adding new layers,and it will dynamically update itself, because the index variable is offsetting it.

I personally haven't tried this method in anything more than just playing around, but it sure would be neat to.

Vikram

17 years ago

Thanks andrew....

MAY GOD GIFT YOU WITH MORE N MORE IDEAS to HELP US OUT

Stefan

17 years ago

Awesome! Thanks Andrew i waited for this one so long! =]

chris

17 years ago

Take your time with the homepage. waiting for a great is better then shorter waiting for an good. ^^

DarthSylar

17 years ago

Thanks for all your work

http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_UdZjg3ktM