After Effects 2 How To Put Signs

Having the skills to perform common tasks like creating animated lower thirds and titles, compositing, stabilisation and even object removal can greatly enhance not just your current projects, but your future job prospects too.

Plus there is a run down of some free and paid for After Effects plugins.

This first video will take you through them all in under 2 minutes.

This will be an additional paid service by the sound of things.

These tutorials should set you up for completing day-to-day tasks with ease.

A variant or combination of the techniques used to create each of these should set you up for making animated lower thirds for life.

The benefit of this tutorial is that youll learn the essentials of masking, keyframe interpolation, and the graph editor.

All of these were also covered in detail in the first blog post in this series.

Basically, any parameter for any effect on any layer in any comp can be controlled from Premiere.

Use your imagination Anything thats keyframable in After Effects can also be controlled by expressions and you can control expressions with text links from Premiere.

To download the project files from these tutorials and for more of Evans work check out his official site.

After Effects 2 How To Put Signs

In this first tutorial you can learn how to put signs over people, which will teach you how to motion track a video and apply that tracking to another element.

This is a three part process of tracking, adding the element and using mattes to solve the occlusion problems.

These techniques would work for removing any kind of object from a scene, so its worth taking the time to fully digest what Seans doing.

Each time you do it it might be the same as other shots, it might be easy, it might be difficult.

The second video goes into a bit more detail in response to viewer comments.

They key to this is having a vector graphic for your logo file which means that it can scale to any size and now lose quality, something that you might not always have to hand.

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