Video Composition Projects

He's the Man of After Effect's Tutorial.

After gone through Andrew Kramer's Tutorial at videocopilot.net. and purchased some of the essential preset and plug in there, my level of video compositing is now improved in a short period of time.

Preparing myself from the basic learning to the advance structure is exactly fun especially when it's from Andrew Kramer at videocopilot. Nearly hours spent for the tutorial is paid off.

If you are new to video compositions, and urgently wanted to impress your girlfriend, bosses, colleagues, well, videocopilot.net  is where you start. Period! word of advices, First, start with the basic tutorial before  you go any further. or else u ended up in awe of "what is he talking about?" most of the TUTs there is awesome, easy and fun to follow. 

p:s/ If you a girl, u might want to fall in love with this guy because i personally think he has this charming charismatic good looking guy come with a good sense of humor too. :P The generosity of this guy is obviously can be seen in all his tutorials.Very resourceful and pleasant.

Although i'm one of the prone adobe products user in the world, i used a lot of adobe premier before, few years back, I did a few video editing for corporate presentations,  video testimonials and others video related projects. using just only flash, dreamweaver, 3ds max for animation, but I never came across anything like adobe after effect..although i tried and stop half way but i'd never really had this intention to learn or to notice any of it possibilities.  My interest for After FX, kicked start when i saw some of the coolest video of lightsaber fight, spoof and one single camera shot of fake car accidents on Youtube  And all of the sudden, i just knew it, it  must have come from the after effect application. and i was like.. HEY i got that software in my pc!! damn i must try it now! but where to start!? i browsed, i searched and hopefully to find an appropriate tutorials out there which lead to frustrating findings. until one of my UK friend emailed me  and recommended me the videocopilot site. i should thank her. Meanwhile, Back to the youtube, The videos which was made from professionals, amateurs, fans and even kids. which in my opinion are sometime done with "make to believe". although some are really fake to look at. But, hey! it is an outcome of digital content. u shape it how you want it and how well you blend it! :)

There's are loads of video composition softwares to help us with these, Sony vegas for instance have also  have a few cool tricks up in it sleeves. camera wiggle, color, keying, chromatic, and so on. But after give it a go.. no thanks, i stick with Adobe after fx :P

My next project is Trapcode particles, 3D composite (3dsmax, cinema 4D, blender ,Vue(u can see the works in Avatar James Cameron), krakatoa (smart particle element). Magic Bullet encode or anything i find it compatible with my existing *.aep.

Below are the sample video made with Adobe after FX CS4 using action essential 2 plug in, from videocopilot.net. although my composition need more realistic aspect of actions and more room for improvement. But Hey... then again... it is a digital content.. no human, crew, animal, or building were abuse. :P

 

video of my daughter's kindergarten sport day with a touch of Andrew Kramer's Actions Essential.

The smoke effect text - As result with the help from Mr Eran Stern tutorial at creativecow.net