After Effects 101

130 Comments

BaluKutti

5 years ago

Sir, my system 8gb ram & 64bit Pc installation Aftereffect cc2005 but not installed @ video copilot effects
Pls solve my problems
I love my afeter effect.

???

6 years ago

Hello,I'm a fan from China,thanks for these videos,that's a lot of help!

nic

7 years ago

I lovd this

Bryant

9 years ago

I haev never worked with After Affects, so this video has helped me a lot.
Thanks You!

bob craimer

9 years ago

really good tutorial m8

DRJ-21

10 years ago

hello Andrew i m from INDIA and i m biggest fan of you. And thanks for these tutorials

ikram ullah

10 years ago

very useful

Varient

10 years ago

Very Smart Tutorial. Thanks for sharing.

Letsoetsa

11 years ago

Dear Video Copilot
I am not familiar to After effects and I realy have a burning desire to find myself as a professional of after effects and i am very greatful to find your site and I love your tutorials

Michael

11 years ago

Andrew your the BOSS!!!
I love your tutorials..very helpful..thx

Karen

12 years ago

Hello Video Copilot,

I am new to After Effects. My desire is to learn all I can, before my scheduled August 14th special effects class. Thank you for your willingness to share. The tutorials you post are fun and exciting. I can not wait to freeze time and blow up a tanker truck.

Thanks for sharing your excellent tutorials. I am truly grateful.

Tereanio

12 years ago

Where are you taking classes?

Name

12 years ago

What happens if you use a verb without preceding it with the phrase "go ahead and," DO YOU DIE

kohn

12 years ago

never too late to learn.
i started to learn AE by watching this tutorial in 2009 and then i got big accident in my life. and now 2013, i'm starting over again.
it is excellent tutorial.

Thanks Video Copilot

Samu Mojica

13 years ago

Excellent Tutorial! it get all the basic and fundamentals in once. Thanks a lot

Jamel Debbiche

13 years ago

Million thanks man, it is about time to get started

Chris Power

14 years ago

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14 years ago

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Casey

14 years ago

SOOOO ANCIENTTTTT

Anthony

14 years ago

This is good for people who don't want to take the time to go through Basic Training.

Xander

14 years ago

It's even better to put on "draft" source materials with tutorials. Just for learning, the very "draft" absolutely cannot be used for commercial usage... =.= anyway, AK's pretty good and handsome and bla bla bla......

Jon

14 years ago

After Effects is great add graphics to video

sammy

14 years ago

his first tutorial!!! xd! he sounds almost... nervous!!! hes so different now!

airborne101st45

15 years ago

Why do you have such an old version of windows

anim8or

14 years ago

to airborne101st45.....

This tutorial was published in 2005........! LOL

14 years ago

I'm not Andrew, however I think this video was posted in 2005.

Bonzos

14 years ago

Besides the fact that this was posted on June 13, 2005... the windows enhanced theme settings were possibly shut off/set to "classic" for better performance using after effects/running the screen capturing software.

Sam

14 years ago

June 13, 2005

darg

14 years ago

I think Windows XP is the best version, too.

soccer

14 years ago

cuz they jt do

jaime

14 years ago

Cuz this tut was made in 2006

sree

15 years ago

tanq man i really afried of AE.right now im using Eyeon fusion.u r da man who solve my problem i need more detail how to learn AE more easly ind

mohamed

15 years ago

th u

15 years ago

Thank you very much for this. Basic, but just perfect for a beginner like me. This was all I needed to know to get started right away

Curwen

15 years ago

Thanks! Nice tuto

15 years ago

Hi..This is Jp all of those tutorials are very usable for interested persons...so i have learnt lots of thing from this website but one thing is i tried to buy and dowload those products so i did not find any options in here anyway thanks alot for your free tutorial...

Richard

15 years ago

You are an amazing individual, keep up the EXCELLENT work my friend

Eduardo Correa

15 years ago

Is a good tutorial; but the positionof this tutorial has to be the first video and not the four video tutorial.Anyway is good remember the basic. Keep continue the tutorials.

Muhammad Farooqi

15 years ago

Hi Andrew... you know i've been appointed in a multimedia college.. as a Sn. Graphics Tutor ..
... and i'm really loving your stuff
thank you so much!!!!

Alex

15 years ago

Hey, thank you andrew forall these tutorials!

By the way, look at the hour in the corner. Pretty late in the evening? haha

akam

15 years ago

very nice

Robin

15 years ago

Very easy to follow guides you've got here. Thanks alot for this, you got me into AE (after I have been using vegas pro 9 for a while), AE was very hard to understand before I watched yours vids because the interface was so diffrent. Now it all makes sense though and seems so easy

vijay

15 years ago

no faffing around, simple and very useful tutorial, just the way i like it

yuyukangkang123

15 years ago

i love u man

ramkandel

15 years ago

pretty useful!
ram kandel, nepal

Timothy

15 years ago

You rock Andrew.

Timo from Uganda

Ian Hendri

15 years ago

Hi i'm a flame artist. thank you for the free tutorial. it is very brief, compact, and easy to understand. i can start to play around with AE soon...

David

15 years ago

thanks

vijay mohan

15 years ago

thankyou

dan

15 years ago

awesome

this site is a life saver!

much love from oz

Iqbal Khan

15 years ago

Very helpful, nicely presented. Thanks a lot.

Reno

15 years ago

Thanks this was very helpful

munna

15 years ago

hi
brother..

this site is very very good it's the library of AE,dictionary of tutoriyals if any one entere this site they never go out bcoz that much most importent,easy

L Montgomery

15 years ago

This is awesome thanks a lot

Lewis

16 years ago

hey man! thats great! that version of affter effects is SO old! I got the new one. It's funny, because I think that windows ME was acctually running quite fast, but it had shitty internet. FLIPPIN` AOL! I hate that AOL when it started up. "welcome- to AOL." and you had to sign in to the internet to be able to browse. and google wasn't even known very much back then so you had no way of browsing the internet! its soooo frustrating! but now we have XP, Vista, and windows 7. so its okay

Martin

16 years ago

Thank you

CryoGen

16 years ago

Very nice basic tutorial, it got me on the right track. Thank you. Regards from the UK.

Gino

16 years ago

Thank you.

kyungho baek

16 years ago

Thank you very much.

your tutorial is awesome and this is like a public service!!

AAA

mango

16 years ago

Thanks Andrew.

Russel

16 years ago

Dude! I really freakin love this site and just keep that nonesense but hilarious jokes. and please make more tutorials. peace out!

Fabio

16 years ago

Nice tut man !!!

Dil

16 years ago

Hey man your basic training series videos r not working ...i mean video watch links r failed.

Check the web links.

Whenever it is working condition e-mail me.

Bye

Devon

16 years ago

Very informative, but I think it should of been in the basic training. I'm going through all the tutorials in order, and I feel that I already knew all of this information already.

N77

16 years ago

pretty useful!

and a compliment you speak very clearly

Darkfaced

16 years ago

That was really cool...getting familiar with the tools and parameters and some features...Thanks!

Rose

16 years ago

Very good,You are e very good tutorial maker.

Cam

16 years ago

What is a website that is a free download for this!!!
im really into movie making soooo can someone please tell me!!
ohh and i want the full version for free
thnx in advance!!

MARAM

16 years ago

THANKS SO MUCH WONDERFUL AND HELPFUL

Scot-Free Productions

16 years ago

Two True Heroes...

With Peace from Scotland

Simon

16 years ago

Very good tutorial but i was wodering if you have a tutorial on After effects CS4? i just started and i couldn't get the hang of it

oplexity

16 years ago

wow, I am only 14 years old and I understand everythings. You are e very good tutorial maker.

THX

s Faizan

16 years ago

Mind Blowing tutorial Andrew Kramer Thx Plz basic tutorial share this site ok

omarcom

16 years ago

Excellent tutorial Thanks you mester andrew

Daniel Lanchipa

16 years ago

bueno, como estas, me da mucho gusto que visiten esta pagina para realizar TODO relacionado con efectos especiales, yo aconsejaria que segan practicando y no dejen de chekar esta pagina porque realmente esta buenisima

Frankc

16 years ago

Excellent tutorial. Thanks a lot, appreciated.

GSCreative

16 years ago

Hello,sir.I have recently discovered this site,since then I become a fan of you.This basic tutorial is nice.I am new to AE,so It helped me a lot.Thank you,sir for your free tutorials,BYE....

yamaniac

16 years ago

Dude!!! you rock! looks like you got yourself another regular visitor...

keep up the good work mate..

Pooja

16 years ago

Hey HI,

I want to learn After Effects from the begning, can you please tell me how do i start?

Puke

17 years ago

Adobe should be paying you big time.
I'm using Adobe After Effects solely on the fact that I wanted a program that had great tutorials so I could actually figure out how to use it.
These videos make it so easy.

puk

17 years ago

hi..Emm.. thanks for help.i'm not good in english but i think your tutorial 's easy to understand. so, thank you again and again.

Madiha.

17 years ago

I really love this site, I am new to after effects but with the help of you "Andrew", I am sure I will get going very well.

Very very well done.

Thanks!

P.S. Am I like the only girl here??!?! =/

Costy

17 years ago

You are the best man!GOOOOD Work end GRAZIE!

Jetin Anand

17 years ago

Andrew all these tutorial are just great - Keep up the great work - God Bless You ! !

PostMagic

17 years ago

King Tut!
I'm just learning AE, so these "refresher" courses are great. Thank you.

Dan

17 years ago

Simple and effect. It helps a lot, thanks!

Ofer

17 years ago

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I really needed it!

17 years ago

Thanks for all of your help!

You Rock!!!

help

17 years ago

where is the effects ans presents directory

Gusdgr

17 years ago

Thx for all the help

astrojeet

17 years ago

thank u!!
your tutorials r so easy to understand!!
ure the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

George From Russia

17 years ago

Andrew you are the amazing!!!!!!!!! Your tutorials are greater that anything in world!! Go on man impruve yourself and impruve us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Washington Luiz dos Santos

17 years ago

Obrigado Andrew, por disponibilizar este videotutorial bÃ¡sico que me ajudou muito, embora eu nÃ£o fale inglÃªs, nÃ£o fiquei com dÃºvida.

ola george olanrewaju

17 years ago

thanks man thanks! thanks! and thanks a million,u've really changed my life with this tutorials, i think i am addicted to AE now ,am very greatful.GOD bless you for sharing.(OLA 4RM NIGERIA)

max

17 years ago

YOU RULE!!!

ronald

17 years ago

..your tutorials are simlpy the best andrew! im really thankful that there are still people like you who share their talents by heart ^_^ keep it up man and YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!

Him

17 years ago

hey i need help plz, here in my AE CS3 Pro, when i do masks etc, after a time, my movies start to shake,returning and going fast, like a person shaking the body when walking for behind and front.

Joshua Savieti

17 years ago

hey man thanks soooo much man im trying to teach myself but i heard about this site.... its helped me alot very quickly too...

thanks heaps!

Francesco

17 years ago

I'm sold. Excellent work. Will def. buy the dvds

marvin

17 years ago

great tutorial - fast and to the point - really helped me out - if you know the concepts of key framing from your NLE but just don't have experience of the AE interface, you can get up and running with this basic tutorial right away. It helped me a lot.

Steven Calvaruso

17 years ago

I just started using AE about two weeks ago. I simnply was not prepared for how complex this program is even after using Premiere Pro for two years.

Thank you Andrew for these fantastic tutorials which is making learning of this program a pleasure.

Steve

DoomAx

17 years ago

Thx man

sami

17 years ago

really it'sa fantastic tutorial thanks alot i hope you add more and more.

Mohamud

17 years ago

thnx Andrew
mohamud from (somalia)

Charles Pool

17 years ago

You have very good. Congratulation... I dont have very experience but, I work in a Channel, but I cant do the thing that you can make..

I need a little help. If you can send me Something backgraunds for THINGS parlamentaristas... or Congrest!!

Thank you

For all!!

Augustus

17 years ago

What a great site. I'm so glad I stumbled upon this. Thank you.

Austin

17 years ago

I downloaded the FRate converter to use in 6.5 but the preset will not show up. Am I lacking a plugin?

AntÃƒÂ´nio

17 years ago

OlÃƒÂ¡, Andrew!
I'm falling in love with AE just cause this site! I've never used AE before. This is getting contagious. Exciting!

Thank you so much!
AntÃƒÂ´nio (Brasil)

Alessandro

17 years ago

Hey Andrew!

Excelents tutorials, thanks!

Please, where can preset 3D Text to install in (animation presets) for the AE 7.0?

Thanks

Byron

17 years ago

man, you are a saint! thanks for this great web site and for this great lessons.
your new fan

Heather

17 years ago

Hey guys, you just saved me from having a heart attack over an experimental film I am trying to make. I now know how to achieve what I am after.

Thanks heaps

ronald samson

17 years ago

nice

peter

17 years ago

para empezar con el after effects esta muy bien!

pamela

17 years ago

thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sam

17 years ago

hehe, this is a nice tutorial... thanks for making this, its simple but its kidna like a tour of all basic-ness in after effects. Andrew your videos are really helpful.

eric

17 years ago

Thank you, for a newbiz like me this tutorial was very interesting.

nooben

17 years ago

pwnage!!

jeremy

17 years ago

Thankyou! This tutorial was very informative and to the point.

Brenton Richards

17 years ago

HEY! i just got after effects and was looking for some good tutorials. Yours is definitely the best, quick, precise and FREE! keep it up up your awsome!

Joe

17 years ago

Thank you!! I really needed this!

Doodee

17 years ago

Thanks for sharing

ricardo

17 years ago

Thanks, muito obrigado, gracias, gratie, Andrew, this tutorials are the best in the web, very simple, creative and interactive whit my, all know the AF is thnks for your tuts and triks (sorry i am not speak inglish, but i am learning listen this tuts)...

Victor

17 years ago

Thank you for doing this, I'm learning After Effects from you every day now. Someday if I can make it out there, I'm going to thank you personally

Alberto

18 years ago

man i love all the totorials.they are wow !!!the only thing i would like to learn how to do it but i think i get lost what do you recomend me i order the Serious Effects & Compositing DVD but please help me out i would like to get good on this i love it!!

Jack

18 years ago

Thanks alot

GastÃƒÂ³n

18 years ago

Andrew youÃ‚Â´ve a new fan from Argentina!! All your stuff is the best I ever seen. Thank you for shearing

japex

18 years ago

simply the best, thanks! any additional tutorials in the near future? --from the philippines.

Alex

18 years ago

HI i am from Rassia i wery glad that people like you help people like wee thanks .

i think you andarsten what i whant too say akskiuze for my mistace

exis

18 years ago

Do You have only one 6.5 tutorial?

kevin

18 years ago

HI evryone all this tutorials rocks !!thanks !!!
thanks to andrew i now now alot of things.
i wanted to ask somthing can sombody tell me what programs do they use to make effects on movies and series like : heroes,smallvile and all that kind of things please somone respond me

tuyen

18 years ago

thanks

Aaron Duncan

18 years ago

I just discovered this website about a week ago and haven't left since then. This site is amazing. Thank you very much for providing these awesome tutorials.

Manu Joseph

18 years ago

Simply Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome
Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome...
Your new friend.

sam

18 years ago

Would love to see one for CS3 as I am fairly new to AE, but have recently been dipped into CS3

simon

18 years ago

u da man

Haitham Nori

18 years ago

really i downloaded all your tutorials here & it give me a strong motive to start working with after effects, your simple description, your smart choice for tutorials, all of it makes it very variable for me.
thanks allot man

Nasir AlBashir

18 years ago

you know not a day goes by without me checking whats new on your website. I know all your tutorials by heart

Matti Holmes

18 years ago

Very basic and simple tutorial but it's a very effective one, so thanks alot Andrew

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