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Compositing Text and Video in After Effects

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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

Introduction
  • Compositing text and video in After Effects
  • What you should know
1. Concept and Design
  • Overview of the client brief
  • Creative agency pitch deck
  • Storyboard presentation
  • Team project credits
2. Integration and Preparation
  • The importance of picture lock
  • Integrate via Dynamic Link
  • Copy and paste between applications
  • Import Premiere Pro project
  • Preparation for compositing and VFX
3. Mask the Dust
  • 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
4. Liquidize Type
  • Selective color correction
  • Designing and animating text
  • Creating a liquid displacement
  • Masking foreground elements
5. Compound Elements
  • Cleaning lens dirt
  • Removing color cast
  • Placing and scaling text
  • Wiping titles
  • Extracting and masking
  • Repeating the key process
6. Sugar Particles
  • Enlarge while preserving quality
  • Using parenting to animate
  • Blending the type into video
  • Disintegrate text using effects
  • Disintegrate text using particles
7. Merging Shots
  • 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
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Eran Stern

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