Video Copilot - Serious Effects & Compositing

Serious Effects & Compositing TUTORIALS:

01. Getting Started & New Features (15:00 min)
 -Introduction to many new features
 -Overview of After Effects 7.0
 -Discussion of tools used, such as Tracking, Parenting,
Transfer Modes & Switches


02. Basic Color Keying (13:00 min)
 -Learn to perform a clean key with less than perfect footage
 -Precision edge adjustment for green screen footage
 -Comprehensive color correction techniques
 -Create shadows that follow subject


03. 3D Silhouette (36:00 min)
 -Create human silhouette
 -Composite groups of people from 1 person
 -Create 3D Camera Moves
 -Utilize multi-viewer workspace when 3D compositing


04. Cruise Control (11:50 min)
 -Create the illusion of a car driving
 -Advanced compositing techniques
 -Add realistic reflections & generate a light wrapping effect
 -Use advanced studio masking techniques


05. Creating Advanced Muzzle Fire (14:20 min)
 -Create realistic Muzzle Fire with AE's built in tools
 -Create Flashes and learn to randomize effect
 -Composite a smoke element with fire
 -Utilize Turbulent Displacement and CC Radial Blur

06. Blown Away (25:30 min)
 -Composite actors in front of a large pre-rendered explosion
 -Create camera shake
 -Add displacement ripple effect
 -Use parenting, null objects, and transfer modes

07. Floating Text (9:15 min)
 -Advanced 4-point motion tracking
 -Create the look of 3D tracking inside AE
 -Make text appear to be floating over live action video
 -Technique works on less than perfectly stable footage

08. DVD Menu Creation I & II (27:15 min) (12:00 min)
 -Create a DVD Menu from start to finish with transitions
 -Advanced use of the Fractal noise and other effects
 -Basic tour of Encore
 -Simple technique to create button transitions during authoring

09. The Teleporter (12:15 min)
 -Composite character onto background
 -Create an opacity track matte using the Fractal Noise
 -Overlay pre-rendered particle effect
 -Enhance using transfer modes

10. Selective Color Correction (12:15 min)
 -Create Color mattes to increase density where needed
 -Motion Track adjustment layers to follow certain areas
 -Fix slightly overexposed Footage
 -Use subtraction masks to get desired effects