Overview
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Get a glimpse behind the scenes of a real-world commercial made with After Effects—and learn advanced techniques for compositing text and video.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Compositing text and video in After Effects
- What you should know
- Overview of the client brief
- Creative agency pitch deck
- Storyboard presentation
- Team project credits
- The importance of picture lock
- Integrate via Dynamic Link
- Copy and paste between applications
- Import Premiere Pro project
- Preparation for compositing and VFX
- When the Warp Stabilizer fails
- Using the classic stabilizer
- Formatting the text
- Animating and exposing text
- Keying dust based on its value ranges
- Rotoscoping using masks
- Selective color correction
- Designing and animating text
- Creating a liquid displacement
- Masking foreground elements
- Cleaning lens dirt
- Removing color cast
- Placing and scaling text
- Wiping titles
- Extracting and masking
- Repeating the key process
- Enlarge while preserving quality
- Using parenting to animate
- Blending the type into video
- Disintegrate text using effects
- Disintegrate text using particles
- Reviewing the packshot
- Replacing elements with 3D tracking
- Creating a rack focus effect
- Tracking and replacing a texture
- Cutting out a background
- Compositing shots together
- Reviewing the logo animation
- Adding final touches
- Next steps
