Anyone Here Familiar With Adobe After Effects?

Michael Knight... · Postby **Michael Knight...** » May 23rd, 2013, 2:20 pm

I have a project that I'm working on and I'm in need of some serious assistance. It's basically a film project that is. Just want to add some special effects to it but I don't know what I'm doing and the youtube videos I googled are not providing detail with respect to the type of effects I'd like.

Can anyone help?

Sacchetto Boutique · Postby **Sacchetto Boutique** » May 23rd, 2013, 2:29 pm

REALLY? I found that this site has some good tutorials
http://library.creativecow.net/tutorial ... tereffects

DTAC · Postby **DTAC** » May 23rd, 2013, 5:09 pm

Well, what effects/types of effects are you looking for? Do a break down and I'll tell you how/where to get them.

Michael Knight... · Postby **Michael Knight...** » May 23rd, 2013, 9:44 pm

Ending credits with a faded effect. The film is definitive of a guy with eyesight problems so I want the credits to look a bit out of focus and then they slowly come into focus. I want a four second delay for the focus effect.

DTAC · Postby **DTAC** » May 23rd, 2013, 9:49 pm

That sounds dead easy. Make your layer of text with all the credits. Put a keyframe at the start and then move the layer up to complete the crawl to the time you need. Then duplicate the layer and apply a Gaussian blur to it and offset it on the timeline by four seconds.

Send me a message with the text and I'll comp it up for you.

Michael Knight... · Postby **Michael Knight...** » May 24th, 2013, 1:10 am

Hmm, trying it first. Will still message you though.

st7 · Postby **st7** » May 24th, 2013, 12:08 pm

DTAC, why not just add the gaussian blur on the same layer instead of duplicating it - then keyframe the blur from whatever value it on, move up some frames and keyframe a 0 to get it back into focus.

DTAC · Postby **DTAC** » May 24th, 2013, 4:31 pm

I read the description as having text scrolling and then the same text blurred and running a few seconds behind the original text simulating double vision.

Sinister_Audio · Postby **Sinister_Audio** » May 24th, 2013, 8:45 pm

DTAC wrote:That sounds dead easy. Make your layer of text with all the credits. Put a keyframe at the start and then move the layer up to complete the crawl to the time you need. Then duplicate the layer and apply a Gaussian blur to it and offset it on the timeline by four seconds.

Send me a message with the text and I'll comp it up for you.

textbook

meccalli · Postby **meccalli** » May 24th, 2013, 9:11 pm

You can do those effects in premiere no? no sort of rendering for after effects.

Michael Knight... · Postby **Michael Knight...** » May 24th, 2013, 11:39 pm

Well I pulled it off, kinda. The text fades enough to simulate the double vision but I'm adjusting the timing now. Took me a half hour to do that. Geeze I'm a noob.