Enjoy the Weekend

Although I've been a little under the weather this week, I still spent a healthy amount of time developing content and ideas for the site. 2009 is going to hold many surprises and more tutorials than any other previous year. Not to mentions the products in development will blow your mind! Possibly in a literal sense... wait, that's too obvious. Oh well.

Now if my voice doesn't come back soon, I'll have to type everything up and use one of those computer speech programs. Not a bad idea...

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16 years ago
89 Comments
16 years ago
Keep the tutorials coming. You're making me look good to all my clients! Get Better soon!

Phil
shawn
16 years ago
Take a break and heal up. Chicken soup and tea with honey for the voice. Get all the rest you need. We will be right here waiting when you're ready.

Thanks, BTW, I've been putting your tutorials to use and have come up with things I would never have been able to do without the things I've learned from you. You've been a great teacher and your tutorials are so very appreciated. You've made a very real contribution to my life and I wanted to let you know! Thank you.
Tom Markiewicz
16 years ago
Hey Andrew,
Just want to let you know I bought AE CS4 and am attending the school of visual arts and taking After Effects. I need to learn it for my job. Just want to thank you for your hard work on the tutorials. You have helped me learn a great deal watching you. I purchased some of you products a few months ago which I tried using in Motion but AE is much easier in my opinion and i'm a newbie.
Once again thanks again. Im sure I can speak for everyone here you have helped us beginners as well as advanced user become better at their craft.
Feel Better,

Tommy
16 years ago
OOOOk ... we wait ... pluged-in ... in your site ... all day ... waiting, and waiting ... and waiting.

Take care Andrew.
16 years ago
Hi Andrew,

You probably needed a break....Is there anyway you can do a tutorial on kinetic typography? It is very popular and would look good with your products like Riot Gear!

There is only one tutorial on the web I can find and its not that good. If you could do a quick one, that would be awesome. You might be a great FX guy, but your a natural teacher as well!

Thanks,

Paul
nitin
16 years ago
Andrew sir i m great fan of urs. I use many ideas u shared with us in india and nepal. So ur da boss man. Whole india n nepal's ae users r ur fan that means more than 300 million people pray 4 u. Get wel soon.
dave
16 years ago
Hey man - just wanted to say thanks for all the great tutorials. An idea for an upcoming tut: wipes/transitions that TNT (cable channel) is using right now. Looks like something you could whip up quickly! It looks like tutorial 30 and 18 but on a path instead of an expression...
Mostafa Elsonbaty
16 years ago
Forgot to says somthing .... Great fan of yours
16 years ago
No! Andrew Please dont do that ! I love Yours comments i yours tutorials
16 years ago
take care of your voice~
ace high
16 years ago
cant wait Andrew.

and oh, i saw a few of the arrows from evolution being used on a big l.e.d screen at the grammy's. it was when kayne west was singing american boy. it looked pretty awesome.

and get well soon Andrew
Asri
16 years ago
nothing to say..b'coz nothing in my mind..that just computer speech programs...computer speech programs...computer speech programs...computer speech programs...computer speech programs...
wahhghg!!!this can make me crazy..
16 years ago
yeah! i cant w8 to blow my mind.
highdefw
16 years ago
I wander what the next product will be... possibly a new Advanced DVD?
AndrewYY
16 years ago
Hey. what is up? Microsoft Sam here with another exciting tu-toriall.

I'm having troubles imagining that
16 years ago
suddenly got warm here in toronto
marco
16 years ago
Hello Andrew Kramer okay?

I'm talking about the March of Brazil
I have a doubt, it will be good for the weekend bird training


be that you have a tutorial showing how to animate pictures?
a video reference

http://vimeo.com/1767025

Thanks
Francisco
16 years ago
Hey Buddy
Thanks for the site!!!!
Why don't you wow us with more smoke effects.

I'll greatly appreciated !!!
andi
16 years ago
As if anybody is 'above' the weather. We're all under it.

Unless, maybe if you were in an aeroplane. Or in space. Or somewhere else above it.

My point is most of us are under it.
16 years ago
woot!!!
head explosion tutorial!
16 years ago
Get well soon, Andrew!

I was thinking that a tutorial to make the Ghostbusters particle accelerator beams would be cool...

Just sayin'

r.
yes!
16 years ago
This is the greatest website ever!

Andrew Kramer is a Visual FX God!

I was so pleased when i saw the grammys it was like "WOW omg i regognise those elements"

Seems to be loads of speculation about the mind blowing thing being AME 2 well, whatever it is..it came from this site and therefore it will be AWESOME!

Lol, we're all hoping for some sneak previews can't wait for the next blog post!
16 years ago
i would LOVE it to be Action Movie Essentials 2!
Vladimir(Balakovo-Russia)
16 years ago
Hi !
The text runs from one point to another along a certain line.
How it to make?
16 years ago
Thanks Andrew

CreativeCow + Sur Target


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcbJDnAtM5E&
Arjan Elsinga
16 years ago
how about some tutorials regarding Heroes-FX (fire, lightning, plasma hands, etc.) in 2009? You already did the healing effect, but there are plenty more ideas in Heroes.
Dave B
16 years ago
Andrew Kramer. I'm beginning to think you aren't real. I'm beginning to think you are made up by evil machines that really want to control us by giving us something totally and utterly awesome. I think these evil machines put subliminal messages in your tutorials that give them control over our minds bit by bit. With every free awesome tutorial... the machines get more of our brains.

I think Video Copilot is too good to be true. You guys are freaking awesome. But I... Dave B... have unearthed the truth.

I'm totally just playing. Get well soon Andrew... we wouldn't want Sam hosting these tutorials now would we??? Lol.

"Hey wassup guys! Sam Loya here with another GREAT tutorial..." ... It just doesnt work.
Andre Prior
16 years ago
I love sneak previews... hope one is up soon.
polymr
16 years ago
humour transcends all languages so text an a hawking will do just fine, is it just a usual hangover or ru actually crook? make a vid about it or stop bn the funniest pr**k on the web greetings from oz
Lynton Brown
16 years ago
Fires in Australia
Our community was lucy, only loosing 9 houses and the Golf Club. plus other smaller items.
News just in that 130 people killed from our fires in Victoria, Australia.
Marty
16 years ago
Hey Andrew,

just wanted to tell you that your site is one in a million. Its hard to find sites like this that give you free access to such great tutorials, and all the other awesome stuff you have here. Not to mention your fanbase Keep up the awesome work, and get well soon!!!
The Douger
16 years ago
Wow. EVOLUTION all over the grammies. Maybe some RIOT GEAR too?
Tony Stark
16 years ago
Hey Mr. Kramer, let me tell you how thankful I am for finding people as talented and patient like you.
I got most of your dvds and with your tutorials you make our life much simpler.
Congrats and keep up the good work.
I play in a band, and your tutorials just help me gather new ideas and tools for upcoming videos.

P.D. of course I'm not Iron Man, but that's my alias
16 years ago
Just watching the Grammy awards tonight and saw some VCP evolution elements in some the background displays. Nice!
FMP
16 years ago
I'm here on my PC (doing some video stuff) and my TV is on. I happen to look over and there it was, Video Copilot's Flourishes in the background of The Grammys!

(PS. This is my very first post). I have lots of respect and admiration for people like you (VCP) keep up the awesome work. A lot of us really appreciate it.
Ricky Cavazos
16 years ago
Hey guys i just wanna tell you about the product evolutions, i think videocopilot is a great site and i just wanna say that i saw a few animations of the evolution product in the grammys tonight was very awesome see that videcopilot is growing and groinw thank you andrew thank you guys..
Mark Bowen
16 years ago
Get well soon Andrew. Just wanted to say thanks for all the fantastic work you do on this site as it is very very much appreciated.

Hope you get well soon.

Best wishes,

Mark
Sam
16 years ago
hi andrew, im from venezuela, if you put the new software that speaks what you type may translate the tutorials into Spanish?

im from venezuela own a television channel and a lot of my staff will guide your tutorials ...
FloVC
16 years ago
"Blow your Mind" ... something like little pieces of brain flying around

"Action Movie Essentials - Violent Edition" ^^
inviernoh
16 years ago
Get better, health is the first thing. Greetings from Spain.
bANKS
16 years ago
"Blow your Mind"...Yeah, I'm thinking Action Movie Essentials 2 or something with Gwen Stefani and Eve.
quatnumdomain
16 years ago
Get well soon!
We want you!
We love you!
take care.
Tob
16 years ago
Have you been swallowing bee's again?
16 years ago
the Program speed and fster than andrew and no joking even it did

we want andrew
Sandy
16 years ago
hahahaha mind blowing post, sounds gr8 in your voice..........hehehehehhe
16 years ago
hi andrew .. we are waiting the surprises ...
choroloco
16 years ago
your voice sounds better bro >
eladbari
16 years ago
Christopher Oliver
16 years ago
lol that would be funny HE LO AND WEL COME TH IS IS AN DREW KER A MER lol you get the gist of it lol
16 years ago
let me guess "Superheroes DVD"
Dee
16 years ago
Hope you feel good soon.

AndrewYY
16 years ago
My guess is explosion stock footage but who knows... it could be exploding ducks o_O
Bo
16 years ago
Cool man. I hope you feel better. I'm officially excited about the possibility of a mobile version of VCP because I literally just got an ipod touch about an hour ago.

That would actually be kinda funny to hear your sense of humor being spoken by the same voice as the youtube preview voice or something hehe.

Cool man, take care.
Matt
16 years ago
Hmmmm... mind blowing eh? sounds interesting! Cant wait! (sounds gory)
16 years ago
Blow my mind? reminds me of that scene in the movie Scanners I watched when I was a kid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ0pmMW6vxE
Get well soon Andrew
Dustin James
16 years ago
or... possybwee... AME v2.
Dustin James
16 years ago
Riot Gear 2... YAY! I'm excited..
Reginald
16 years ago
Hope that means more 3ds max tutorial for this year Andrew
16 years ago
Hope you get better soon. Enjoy your break... you definitely deserve one.
16 years ago
i have to commend you on your great training video's i've never been so excited about learning a new software (new to me.) and thank you so much for the cheesy jokes! for cereal! = (seriously)

your tricks and tips are great and as soon as i can afford my mac pro tower i'll be picking up the plug-ins/packages you've promoted. do this element generating is so much fun. i work with the local community TV station and they love the elements i've developed.
Sunny
16 years ago
Andrew Kramer....is there ever a day your not hilarious
NickT
16 years ago
Dang, Andrew cant get sick! The VFX god must be immune to all. jkjk. Can't wait to learn how to blow people's minds away lol.
AndrewisGOD
16 years ago
GO GO GO ANDREW!!!!I wish i could meet you in New York if i would live there i would definatily go to this event just to say hello to you .
16 years ago
I'm guessing he is talking about Action Movie Essentials 2.
Neil
16 years ago
hahahahaha, i like how on that youtube page everyone said "Andrew sent me"

and the last guy said "who the eff is andrew"

xD

that made me laugh out loud for reals.
Dont forget people, alot of folks OUTSIDE this website, dont no Andrew by first name.
16 years ago
YES! BLOW MY MIND!!!
Please do.

A lot of people have been under the weather here in Caldwell, ID to........*the freezing cold weather*
Willem
16 years ago
I can't even imagine VC doing more than you already have done so far. Which makes visiting this site all the more fantastic.
Amit Tiwari
16 years ago
aaaaaaw so sad sir, you are still struggling with you voice, plz take care, we all need you healthy, tuts can b tolrated for some days but be healthy soon, nd yes as everybody said vid is funny .. god bless u sir
NottaFinga
16 years ago
I have a theory, the suicide tutorial shows you how to blow your head up, using action movie essentials, is it possible that there will be a sequal to this popular product?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Pablo
16 years ago
Andrew, did you note that every link of youtube you put in your post, a lot of people go in?
its amazing!

and the "blow your mind!" i cant wait!!!!!!!

sorry for my bad english, im from Argentina.
16 years ago
OK, I seriously cant wait for this new product!

PLEASE PLEASE Post more news about this when your'e feeling better Andrew.

Looking forward to everything 2009 has to offer!
highdefw
16 years ago
rofl
dashzed
16 years ago
explosions???? awesome!!!
pvsciteach
16 years ago
Get some rest Andrew. Sounds like you are going to need it! Thanks for everything past, present and future! Does anyone remember the movie Scanners??? That was "mind blowing".
WuzzysBrand06
16 years ago
haha..nice video..here's another one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqEqk4ECCIE

...cant wait to see whats coming
16 years ago
Computer speech program why not.. i think it would be cool and different.i hope you get better soon you know what i do when i feel down, take all kinds of vitaminas and see some tuto
16 years ago
MAN! What product???? Mind-blowing? Literal? The site had some problems by the morning righ? It said the forum was out to lunch and then i couldn??´ta access VC anymore...but now things are good and i will be anxiously waiting to know the ANOTHER mind blowing product.
Azril
16 years ago
Get well soon!
16 years ago
Computer speech programs......hmmmm......you really are turning into RoboCop aren't you?
16 years ago
thanks for al you do as always. btw - i think it would be great if someone created a computer speech program in the voice of that movie announcer guy (not to be confused with the movie phone guy). that would rock.
TJ
16 years ago
hope you get better
cas
16 years ago
Or you could let Sam do a tutorial as a special event. Well... maybe not. But he could overvoice one. We still wanna learn from the master!
Kevin
16 years ago
Haha, c'mon, tell us your secrets!
Will it be editing like The Bullet or more like Evolution? I like text effects.
Paul
16 years ago
thank you for everything! you taught me so much I can really use for my job at a TV station in germany. you inspired me and i guess many other people, too. so thanks again and i'm really looking forward for new stuff!
Jan
16 years ago
that would be very fast tutorials and I dont think youd be able to keep up with keys and mouse..
diilman
16 years ago
Come on blow up our mind
Tell us!
Nibs
16 years ago
yes,not bad idea
berni
16 years ago
lol - what a crazy video
Anthony
16 years ago
haha, well i hope you get better, and no, we don't want you to use the computer speech programs!