When we show our work or customers work, hopefully, we want it to look very, well lit, you want to stand out. Cropping is a good way to highlight the potential of art, but when we want to do with this site, we have some tools to choose from. I just created a display, that is a beautiful tile work. Looks good, works great tiles, great pictures, but needed a little 'of something. I understand that the definition of design, execution, may actually help create it apart from highlighted items.
How could the screen frame chip? What's better than the tile itself ... with an alpha channel support some of Photoshop and the mixed layer in After Effects this should be a fairly easy task. I thought the two presentations, either the presentation of the company's products or just a family album that show very well with this technique, which is definitely worth sharing.
Choose the image you want to be your limit. It will help build the slide show in After Effects first to have a simple "before and after 'contrast to assess your limit. Note size of the composition, as will determine the size of the border you want to create in Photoshop.
Open the image you have chosen your line in Photoshop. In my case, I decided to add the line that I wanted to make the edge of the frame. You can do the same pattern or texture that overlap in Photoshop to create four times up, down, left and right limits the bandwidth, but you could also choose the format that will be the '"alpha" out of the center so that it comes from outside of the frame.
In both cases, when you built your border in Photoshop, create an alpha channel to remove the central part of the images that we will use this as a finished image in After Effects. A simple way to create alpha, using the share is to copy the image layer, scale it down to 90% using the Free Transform tool:. Typing "Ctrl + T" and then enter 90% of the width and height (just below the toolbar) Use this "inside the left image to create the owner of Alpha, the image you want to show through.
Highlight this small part of the image to select reverse. When you create a new channel in Photoshop to create a section of the channel, which is not selected, invert the selection, which is your body. Now the channels tab, click Save Selection as a channel, the second icon from the left channel tab, "Save selection as channel". If you click the eye next to the new channel is the top event of default red to show the region that has been added to this new alpha channel. This is the part that is not visible in the saved file.
Save the selection as a targa file type "TGA", then import the file back into After Effects. Place this new file as the top layer of the composition and see your newly created connection with the underlying layer shows through.
These simple steps to create an alpha transparent area and in this case, create the desired image with a transparent area on the screen. When you import this file into After Effects, placing as the top layer of the entire composition shown below, except in the lower layers will appear in the center, the area of alpha.
This same technique can be used in many applications, mixing images and video with a creative way.
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
Adobe After Effects CS5 - Guide to Slip Editing
After Effects provides several tools to edit layers and editing layer of time presence is one of the most useful. When we see a typical ad, or even a sequence of film, we see that the overall message is always composed of parts, incomplete parts, which nevertheless add their special part of the message. After Effects provides several tools to modify the window of time in each layer. A very flexible and accommodating is "drop the issue."
When you mix the various resources of your composition, especially different videos, you typically use only parts of them. Exactly how to mix them together, the timing that allows them to work together and editing process that helps you make these decisions, working together to make your compositing the final product that you want it to be.
Generally, when you select the resources you want, choose when you want the "fine tuning" process can be longer. You want your transition to work, you want them to be trouble and you just want good portions of different approaches to make the right contribution to the overall product. This is where the drop editing can be a very valuable tool.
The value of the coupon easy installation offers a choice of two or three videos on the composition, reducing overall time interval and take them to your "best guess" how to work together. When you hover your mouse at the beginning and end of each level, you'll see two arrows to show you can adjust the settings. Please note when you set the start and / or the floor at the end of the bar is now gray area shows that part of the duration of the video is no longer used.
Screen very useful when working with these changes is the same-time information available on the left side of the timeline. Resources under his bed are three icons that displays the information changes: overlapping rectangles to see the change information layer, a circle / square icon control information transfer switch, and a set of devices that display information time for each layer.
This time information is divided into 'In, Out, Time Stretch' time. While most of us do manual changes of our resources," seeing "the changes we make, it is useful to know the exact time, we create our visual adjustments. All events of the layer to maintain synchronization of the total composition in a predetermined time window to use this information accurate.
When you make changes go, this time the information is not changed. This is a useful reminder of what a fitting place. Since After Effects has the double arrow icon when you hover over the start and end of a sequence layer when your have reduced this time, and hover in the gray, you will see these double-headed arrow with two vertical bars at each end. This tells you that you are in edit mode fall.
Note that when you push your time adjustment layers from front to back, your in, out, and the length does not change. You are not changing any of these values. What you are about to change just that part of the cut layers will be displayed.
Imagine that you have completed the exact time a window, which operates in this layer. You know exactly where they should appear (and disappear) in relation to other levels. You also know how long it can be. Slip editing, you can optimize your content and what part will appear in this time window. Having this extra degree of control will help to develop a little 'more, you get to focus on time-sensitive content of each layer.
When you mix the various resources of your composition, especially different videos, you typically use only parts of them. Exactly how to mix them together, the timing that allows them to work together and editing process that helps you make these decisions, working together to make your compositing the final product that you want it to be.
Generally, when you select the resources you want, choose when you want the "fine tuning" process can be longer. You want your transition to work, you want them to be trouble and you just want good portions of different approaches to make the right contribution to the overall product. This is where the drop editing can be a very valuable tool.
The value of the coupon easy installation offers a choice of two or three videos on the composition, reducing overall time interval and take them to your "best guess" how to work together. When you hover your mouse at the beginning and end of each level, you'll see two arrows to show you can adjust the settings. Please note when you set the start and / or the floor at the end of the bar is now gray area shows that part of the duration of the video is no longer used.
Screen very useful when working with these changes is the same-time information available on the left side of the timeline. Resources under his bed are three icons that displays the information changes: overlapping rectangles to see the change information layer, a circle / square icon control information transfer switch, and a set of devices that display information time for each layer.
This time information is divided into 'In, Out, Time Stretch' time. While most of us do manual changes of our resources," seeing "the changes we make, it is useful to know the exact time, we create our visual adjustments. All events of the layer to maintain synchronization of the total composition in a predetermined time window to use this information accurate.
When you make changes go, this time the information is not changed. This is a useful reminder of what a fitting place. Since After Effects has the double arrow icon when you hover over the start and end of a sequence layer when your have reduced this time, and hover in the gray, you will see these double-headed arrow with two vertical bars at each end. This tells you that you are in edit mode fall.
Note that when you push your time adjustment layers from front to back, your in, out, and the length does not change. You are not changing any of these values. What you are about to change just that part of the cut layers will be displayed.
Imagine that you have completed the exact time a window, which operates in this layer. You know exactly where they should appear (and disappear) in relation to other levels. You also know how long it can be. Slip editing, you can optimize your content and what part will appear in this time window. Having this extra degree of control will help to develop a little 'more, you get to focus on time-sensitive content of each layer.
Adobe After Effects CS5 - Having Timeline 'Helpers'
Once you have selected the content of your video After Effects, it is easy to modify the different layers, their time time, add effects, and of course, their relationships to each other edition. This "fine tuning" stage may be the most important and for many of us may be longer. Fortunately, After Effects includes several useful tools here, and a tool of choice, is simply the "slip editing'. Slip editing we can change the start and end in the different layers when editing their presence in your video. After Effects timeline also provides many "assistants" to help with the editing process.
To introduce and experiment with editing or sliding, to select three or four videos you want to merge into a single composition. Place them in different time intervals and using the time setting changes each time is used less than the full video. By placing the mouse on the start or end of a layer, is the "double arrow" indicating that you can slide the time editing the layer of the part of the video is shown first (or last).
If you do not see the double arrows at the end of the video layer, but can extend beyond the time window of its composition. Look at the small bar at the bottom right of the timeline. He has two small icons pyramid on each side. This slider and pyramids allow you to expand (and outside) in parts of your timeline.
This can be useful when you are putting in place, perhaps only a fraction of a second, but also hides the details of the timeline. All the tools, I think we all have experienced some frustration in After Effects, when we follow the directions, but just does not seem right. So ... The two cases do not see the arrow of time to change layers, make sure you are at the beginning or end, be sure to time slider is not always to the left, so exposed to all the timelines, and finally, the layer is viewing may actually be longer than the same composition.
If you've tried everything and still can not see two arrows at the end of your floor, push it inward. Use the mouse to move the entire layer in the Timeline to the end, then when you move the mouse at the end of a piano bar, you'll see two arrows, as well as reducing the end of this video.
To introduce and experiment with editing or sliding, to select three or four videos you want to merge into a single composition. Place them in different time intervals and using the time setting changes each time is used less than the full video. By placing the mouse on the start or end of a layer, is the "double arrow" indicating that you can slide the time editing the layer of the part of the video is shown first (or last).
If you do not see the double arrows at the end of the video layer, but can extend beyond the time window of its composition. Look at the small bar at the bottom right of the timeline. He has two small icons pyramid on each side. This slider and pyramids allow you to expand (and outside) in parts of your timeline.
This can be useful when you are putting in place, perhaps only a fraction of a second, but also hides the details of the timeline. All the tools, I think we all have experienced some frustration in After Effects, when we follow the directions, but just does not seem right. So ... The two cases do not see the arrow of time to change layers, make sure you are at the beginning or end, be sure to time slider is not always to the left, so exposed to all the timelines, and finally, the layer is viewing may actually be longer than the same composition.
If you've tried everything and still can not see two arrows at the end of your floor, push it inward. Use the mouse to move the entire layer in the Timeline to the end, then when you move the mouse at the end of a piano bar, you'll see two arrows, as well as reducing the end of this video.
Adobe After Effects CS5 - New Roto Brush Tool
One of the additions to After Effects CS5 is their Roto Brush. This tool can be considered their quick shortcut to the tedious process of rotoscoping. How many times you want to extract something or someone in our video, mixing images from various videos. The Roto Brush provides a fast with very impressive results to achieve this goal!
After Effects CS5 includes Mocha, which is a far more ambitious follow-up, but the basic cuts and isolation of specific regulation of the objects that you will like the Roto Brush tool. Select the video, which is a good candidate for you. Choose something that you want to isolate the object of this exercise, and we will do something, something to distinguish it from the rest of the video processing. You can change the colors or apply a color effect, changing the tone, but choose something that is easy to work and influence, which is easy to distinguish.
There are many ways you can put Roto Brush tool to work for you, but we want this operation to show how it works in order to better understand the possibilities. Once the composition has created a short video, one of the comfortable isolation of the candidate, to copy the video, so you can apply this new effect of a single copy. Think of this as the effect of the mask, a smarter mobile, depending on the area selected mask.
Double-click to bring your copy in the window layer, which is where you apply the brush effect. Looking at your Tools menu in the right side, just left of the Puppet Pin tool, you will see the Roto Brush. It is easy to use and you basically just paint the inside of the object you want to isolate. In my case, I wear a black hat, I will paint the inside of the hat to "choose" it.
As you begin to apply with a brush, you will notice that the mouse pointer diagonally to adjust its size by making the brush size to large and small by choosing your destination. When choosing your theme, highlighted with a pink color scheme that shows what will be included. Like many other similar tools, ie the ratio of pixels used to make your choice, you can expand and improve its selection. If you have a domain you want to delete the selection, hold down the "alt" will move to a "subtractive" mode which allows you to highlight what you want to delete.
Once you are satisfied with the outline of your brush in the mask, the opinion of the "freeze" on the calendar in the layers panel. This will capture the selection. Also note the number of images selected in the timeline. You can drag this selection to the right or left to increase the presence of time your mask.
With the tent and the time you want to go back to your compose window and apply our selection to illustrate how something can be treated just the part that you have captured with your exercise Roto Brush. Remember that began with a copy of our original video and one for the application of this effect. In my case, I have isolated my black hat, and return in the composition, the effect applied to fill the "effects produce" turn the red hat. Applied to fill, now my black hat turned red with the length of time window was frozen "in the layers panel. Make sure the layer is applied and a Roto brush to apply this effect to Again, it is at the top of the copied layer. You want this to stand out. does not apply to the area selected for its Roto-brush, but appears only if the above the double layer.
Like all effects, which require more than understanding the impact Roto definitely requires some practice. By selecting "the most likely candidate" with a beautiful color and light is easy to distinguish the definition of the model will be of great help. In practice, this is a small tool, the new CS5 can go a long way to the flexibility of mixing and, in particular by applying a special treatment in some parts of the video.
After Effects CS5 includes Mocha, which is a far more ambitious follow-up, but the basic cuts and isolation of specific regulation of the objects that you will like the Roto Brush tool. Select the video, which is a good candidate for you. Choose something that you want to isolate the object of this exercise, and we will do something, something to distinguish it from the rest of the video processing. You can change the colors or apply a color effect, changing the tone, but choose something that is easy to work and influence, which is easy to distinguish.
There are many ways you can put Roto Brush tool to work for you, but we want this operation to show how it works in order to better understand the possibilities. Once the composition has created a short video, one of the comfortable isolation of the candidate, to copy the video, so you can apply this new effect of a single copy. Think of this as the effect of the mask, a smarter mobile, depending on the area selected mask.
Double-click to bring your copy in the window layer, which is where you apply the brush effect. Looking at your Tools menu in the right side, just left of the Puppet Pin tool, you will see the Roto Brush. It is easy to use and you basically just paint the inside of the object you want to isolate. In my case, I wear a black hat, I will paint the inside of the hat to "choose" it.
As you begin to apply with a brush, you will notice that the mouse pointer diagonally to adjust its size by making the brush size to large and small by choosing your destination. When choosing your theme, highlighted with a pink color scheme that shows what will be included. Like many other similar tools, ie the ratio of pixels used to make your choice, you can expand and improve its selection. If you have a domain you want to delete the selection, hold down the "alt" will move to a "subtractive" mode which allows you to highlight what you want to delete.
Once you are satisfied with the outline of your brush in the mask, the opinion of the "freeze" on the calendar in the layers panel. This will capture the selection. Also note the number of images selected in the timeline. You can drag this selection to the right or left to increase the presence of time your mask.
With the tent and the time you want to go back to your compose window and apply our selection to illustrate how something can be treated just the part that you have captured with your exercise Roto Brush. Remember that began with a copy of our original video and one for the application of this effect. In my case, I have isolated my black hat, and return in the composition, the effect applied to fill the "effects produce" turn the red hat. Applied to fill, now my black hat turned red with the length of time window was frozen "in the layers panel. Make sure the layer is applied and a Roto brush to apply this effect to Again, it is at the top of the copied layer. You want this to stand out. does not apply to the area selected for its Roto-brush, but appears only if the above the double layer.
Like all effects, which require more than understanding the impact Roto definitely requires some practice. By selecting "the most likely candidate" with a beautiful color and light is easy to distinguish the definition of the model will be of great help. In practice, this is a small tool, the new CS5 can go a long way to the flexibility of mixing and, in particular by applying a special treatment in some parts of the video.
Adobe After Effects CS5 - Options for Timeline Layer
Timeline of options in After Effects adds special effect to project management skills. Even if you manually change the layer in the timeline using the duration of life / traction control panel allows you to make precise changes. If you want to synchronize layers, or set the exact date, using this feature is a customizable control for selection.
How many of the changes in After Effects, hand tools are provided so you can make these changes visually. However, if you look at the panel in the lower left of tools for the timeline, you will see three icons which we will visit later, but now the third icon on the right side shows a pair of enclosed in brackets '{}'. This option opens and closes the 'duration, the section of "boxes. This screen shows from start to finish, and duration of the layer in the timeline. And' the fourth column, after" in, out, their duration ", the "Stretch." This shows the percentage of "stretch" so if you stretch or shrink your coat, you change the time. This is the same screen presents Suitable for these parameters, so it might be easier to adapt and provide access exact settings, if you want the video to appear at the exact moment, or run a certain length. This tool is indispensable if you want to synchronize your floors will appear at the same time or stagger with the exact offset.
All of these controls, it is easier for you to manage your layers, and especially their temporal relationships. Being able to define the exact time sequence and exactly where it comes and goes is a powerful tool. As they begin to experiment with mixing and blending of layers of different resources, the layer management tools increasingly useful and important.
There may be a message with pictures and videos with many different topics and a very different landscape. As your online message is displayed, combining these different points of view and the normal transition from one to another with little overlap, fading in the past that the image of the new applications center stage for your message. Using the calendar command lets you change the duration of the images and define specific transition windows.
You can even use the management tools as a design tool. Say you have two layers, which begins the film with a video version of introduction to the next video. If you open the duration / stretch panel on your calendar, you can see the time repeatedly shown that you manually set the second layer. Whether it should be a little longer, you can adjust the value of stretching, and simultaneously see how long how long "in your layers.
In this sense, the monitoring tools an information tool for you so you can make visual changes while it shows exactly what time your adjustments are made. These tools are an excellent addition to your manual changes, you mix your resources together to create exactly the presentation you want.
How many of the changes in After Effects, hand tools are provided so you can make these changes visually. However, if you look at the panel in the lower left of tools for the timeline, you will see three icons which we will visit later, but now the third icon on the right side shows a pair of enclosed in brackets '{}'. This option opens and closes the 'duration, the section of "boxes. This screen shows from start to finish, and duration of the layer in the timeline. And' the fourth column, after" in, out, their duration ", the "Stretch." This shows the percentage of "stretch" so if you stretch or shrink your coat, you change the time. This is the same screen presents Suitable for these parameters, so it might be easier to adapt and provide access exact settings, if you want the video to appear at the exact moment, or run a certain length. This tool is indispensable if you want to synchronize your floors will appear at the same time or stagger with the exact offset.
All of these controls, it is easier for you to manage your layers, and especially their temporal relationships. Being able to define the exact time sequence and exactly where it comes and goes is a powerful tool. As they begin to experiment with mixing and blending of layers of different resources, the layer management tools increasingly useful and important.
There may be a message with pictures and videos with many different topics and a very different landscape. As your online message is displayed, combining these different points of view and the normal transition from one to another with little overlap, fading in the past that the image of the new applications center stage for your message. Using the calendar command lets you change the duration of the images and define specific transition windows.
You can even use the management tools as a design tool. Say you have two layers, which begins the film with a video version of introduction to the next video. If you open the duration / stretch panel on your calendar, you can see the time repeatedly shown that you manually set the second layer. Whether it should be a little longer, you can adjust the value of stretching, and simultaneously see how long how long "in your layers.
In this sense, the monitoring tools an information tool for you so you can make visual changes while it shows exactly what time your adjustments are made. These tools are an excellent addition to your manual changes, you mix your resources together to create exactly the presentation you want.
Adobe After Effects CS5 - The Transforming Sets of Animation
One of the things that make After Effects animation a bit easier is that the design of the areas of five basic characteristics of a "transform" set is all that is common to all After Effects items. It is this common foundation makes the field a little more familiar and help you plan your design.
Each object in After Effects has the same set of attributes in the group to "transform": ". Anchor Point, Position, Scale, Rotation and Opacity." All of these attributes are displayed with the stopwatch icon to the left which means they can all be animated as you discover new attributes, it is a visual instant message, and it is if you see a clock on the left of an attribute can be animated!
Some may surprise you. For example, when you add new text and see the clock next to the original text, which is why it can be animated. If you type "Hello" at the beginning of the timeline, then 3 seconds into the film to change the text to say "goodbye", this change in the text is animated.
After Effects has many tools, wizards and many shortcut keys. For me, like driving a car, many will become familiar with the use, but fortunately for this basic set, the shortcut key is the first character of the attribute: 'A' for 'Anchor', 'r' for 'Rotation' and so further. These keys are not case sensitive. There is an exception in this group and it is "opacity" if the shortcut is 't'. You need this often, and if you enter one of these "P" for the position, this attribute will be open this attribute. Even if you have opened several others, enter the shortcut key for an attribute to open one.
If you have an attribute is displayed, then enter the keyboard shortcut for a second while holding the shift key ', will both be displayed. Adobe offers an index of all their shortcuts, but your memory will store the ones you use a lot, and you can watch this index when you want to know about the others.
All these attributes have the value displayed in a manner familiar to you clearly said that can be accessed with a click of the mouse. An excellent introduction is simply to change the values and see the evolution of the objects it manipulates. Choose the "opacity" and drag up and down while watching the object and disappear from existence. Its range is always between 0 and 100%. Select "Position" and move the object side of the stage and get an idea of the values of proximity. The position values based on the size of your composition, size of the scene.
After Effects has a rich collection of effects, readings and special songs, but when it comes to moving in "Motion Graphics", you will spend much time with the "Transformers" set of values.
Each object in After Effects has the same set of attributes in the group to "transform": ". Anchor Point, Position, Scale, Rotation and Opacity." All of these attributes are displayed with the stopwatch icon to the left which means they can all be animated as you discover new attributes, it is a visual instant message, and it is if you see a clock on the left of an attribute can be animated!
Some may surprise you. For example, when you add new text and see the clock next to the original text, which is why it can be animated. If you type "Hello" at the beginning of the timeline, then 3 seconds into the film to change the text to say "goodbye", this change in the text is animated.
After Effects has many tools, wizards and many shortcut keys. For me, like driving a car, many will become familiar with the use, but fortunately for this basic set, the shortcut key is the first character of the attribute: 'A' for 'Anchor', 'r' for 'Rotation' and so further. These keys are not case sensitive. There is an exception in this group and it is "opacity" if the shortcut is 't'. You need this often, and if you enter one of these "P" for the position, this attribute will be open this attribute. Even if you have opened several others, enter the shortcut key for an attribute to open one.
If you have an attribute is displayed, then enter the keyboard shortcut for a second while holding the shift key ', will both be displayed. Adobe offers an index of all their shortcuts, but your memory will store the ones you use a lot, and you can watch this index when you want to know about the others.
All these attributes have the value displayed in a manner familiar to you clearly said that can be accessed with a click of the mouse. An excellent introduction is simply to change the values and see the evolution of the objects it manipulates. Choose the "opacity" and drag up and down while watching the object and disappear from existence. Its range is always between 0 and 100%. Select "Position" and move the object side of the stage and get an idea of the values of proximity. The position values based on the size of your composition, size of the scene.
After Effects has a rich collection of effects, readings and special songs, but when it comes to moving in "Motion Graphics", you will spend much time with the "Transformers" set of values.
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