Category: after effects

How to effectively use Warp Stabilizer to make your shaky footage rock steady

John Aldred

Even if you’re trying to be as rock steady as possible with your footage, the camera almost inevitably moves in a way you hadn’t counted on. Sometimes you’ll just shoot it again, but there may be no opportunity for that. You might not even know there’s a problem until you’re back home reviewing the footage. […]

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Advanced video stabilisation with Premiere and After Effects

John Aldred

One of the most off putting things for viewers of video is shaky footage. The best way to keep the camera steady is to use a tripod, but sometimes we want to add a little motion. Quality sliders can still cost a fair amount of money, and not everybody has a gimbal or other stabiliser. We just […]

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How to create the dolly zoom effect without a zoom lens

John Aldred

The dolly zoom, also known as the “Vertigo Effect” or “Hitchcock Zoom” can be an amazing technique to add tension or drama to a scene. It’s a process whereby the camera is dollied in toward your subject while the lens zooms out wide. Or, the reverse, where the camera moves away from your subject while […]

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Motion tracking in After Effects with Mocha for perfect tracks every time

John Aldred

Once limited to the realms of Hollywood, motion tracking has become easily easily accessible today. Adobe After Effects comes with three trackers. There’s the original 2D tracker that AE has had for a long time and also the 3D camera tracker introduced in CS6, which analyses your footage to recreate your camera’s movement. After Effects, however, also comes bundled with […]

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Motion tracking in After Effects with Mocha for perfect tracks every time

John Aldred

Once limited to the realms of Hollywood, motion tracking has become easily easily accessible today. Adobe After Effects comes with three trackers. There’s the original 2D tracker that AE has had for a long time and also the 3D camera tracker introduced in CS6, which analyses your footage to recreate your camera’s movement. After Effects, however, also comes bundled with […]

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Adobe just dropped a CC2015.5 update with “Face-Aware Liquify” and a bunch of other cool features

John Aldred

Today, Adobe finally unleashes an update that many users have been waiting for. As well as giving us back the Legacy Healing Brush, this update to Adobe’s CC2015 suite of applications brings some great new features to Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere and other applications. We’re going to look at some of these new features, and thanks to […]

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How to spawn clones of yourself in video with Adobe After Effects

John Aldred

As more DSLR owners shoot video, it’s natural that they’re going to start experimenting with visual effects. In this video from Tobias at Surfaced Studio, we’re shown how to clone ourselves in video footage using Adobe After Effects. While you might not want this exact effect in your own work, the video is still worth watching. In it, […]

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Adobe responds to QuickTime for Windows security flaw, offers native ProRes support

John Aldred

Many Windows based video users have been concerned lately regarding security flaws which led Apple to pull all support for Quicktime for Windows, with the Federal Government going so far as recommending that Windows users completely remove it from their system. Adobe have today announced a response to this issue, declaring that they are adding native support for […]

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Faking the tilt-shift video look in Adobe Premiere Pro

John Aldred

Since the first tilt-shift timelapses started to appear online several years ago, it’s a look that’s been attempted, copied, and improved upon quite a bit.  Tilt-shift lenses, however, can be pretty expensive, and for something that you may only use occasionally, an expense you may not be able to justify. As a consequence, the tilt-shift […]

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Adobe CC Keyboard Shortcuts. Every. Single. One.

Udi Tirosh

So there a great debate out there: which method is faster? Using the mouse or using keyboard shortcuts? I was sure that keyboard would be the fastest but test results are inconclusive [pdf] (some even suggest the complete opposite). One thing that stands out on research is that if one is very proficient with keyboard shortcuts, then […]

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