Category Archives: AfterEffects

How to Animate Text in After Effects

By Jackie Giusti | Published: October 27, 2012

In this entry, I am going to explain how to animate text in After Effects. This can primarily be done one of three ways: using pre-made Animation Presets, focusing on the position control, or using a camera layer. I hope with this tutorial to give a brief explanation of all three and how they can [...]

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Big Heads, Tracking Motion, and Napoleon Dynamite

By faber | Published: April 10, 2012

Written by Tim Yoon I love watching the NBA. In addition to loving the game, I often enjoy watching the NBA promotional video series (“Where Amazing Happens” is a personal favorite). There was a particularly amusing promo series a couple years back where NBA stars had big head cutouts and looked akin to bobbleheads: Today [...]

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Improve Post-Production by Transferring from Premiere to AfterEffects

By faber | Published: October 28, 2011

In the MPS, Adobe Premiere versus Final Cut Pro is a question that comes up for patrons new to high-end video editing.  For the most part, the two programs can all accomplish the same tasks and the outcome of the decision won’t have a huge impact.  However, Premiere, as part of the Adobe Creative Suite, [...]

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Animating Text in Adobe After Effects

By faber | Published: May 4, 2011

Written by MPS Consultant Angie Yu – for more help with this topic, visit Angie at the MPS during her scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. To add text, select the Text tool (the “T”) in the Tools window and click anywhere on the Composition. To change the text style, there is a Character [...]

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Adding Muzzle Shot effects in AfterEffects

By faber | Published: April 12, 2011

Written by MPS Consultant Mike Kuo – for more help with this topic, visit Mike at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. Want high action scenes in your movie?  Have a low budget?  Maybe if you equip yourself with a couple of “hand” guns*, you’d be able to put some action into [...]

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