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Please tell me which tool I have to use to create a video?
After Effects could certainly do what you want, as could Apple Motion (only for Macs though). If you're on a budget you might want to look at something lower cost - or free:
Natron is an open source ...
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How can encode video with images like these (overlay a video over a fixed image) with ffmpeg?
To overlay a half-sized version of a video in the center of an image, use
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i image -i video
-filter_complex "[1]scale=iw/2:-1[ovrl];
[0][ovrl]overlay=(main_w-overlay_w)...
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Footprint or breadcrumb animation
A simple way in blender or any other 3d package would be to use a boolean modifier, if you want to subtract real geometry:
use a array modifier to duplicate your shape
create a path and aligning the ...
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Footprint or breadcrumb animation
here's a solution that I've used. It can be used to reveal a shape path, or as a way to add a smooth fade-out on the stroke effect as-is:
Create your dotted path using the pen tool (or whatever you ...
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I'm having trouble scaling strokes in After Effects
If you created the shape with the rounded rectangle tool, then you won't initially have the same control over the transform as you would if you'd made the shape with the pen tool. But there's a ...
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How do you zoom in (animated) on a portion of your canvas?
Here's what I would do...
Create a camera
Create a null object
Set the parent of the null object to be the camera
Make the null object a '3D' object
Use the null object's properties to zoom and move ...
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How they did it? (3D-like screenshots with animation)
This looks like 2.5D to me, probably in After Effects. You create high res art, perhaps by capturing web pages from a 4K display, then animate each screen. Its only a small amount of mousing. Then use ...
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How to create a blinking effect in After Effects CC?
Create your keyframes
Select them by holding down Shift, via box select or simply click the Flare Brightness Property
Then hold Alt and click the stopwatch icon, this will create an expression
Then ...
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Sci-Fi intro logo animation
In the example given, typical motion graphics techniques are used. There are several ways to achieve this animation in After Effects. Probably the easiest way is drawing a mask shape per letter on top ...
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Is possible to use this "map" as a mask? (After Effects)
Create an adjustment layer above the base image and apply one of the effects to it (you will have to do this whole process several times with one effect per adjustment layer).
Add the colour mask ...
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Why do a lot of animation videos have wiggly lines?
This seems to typically be called 'Squigglevision', it's even patented. There do seem do be ways to replicate this in After Effects.
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After Effects: Make beam effect go over end/beginning
You can't do it with the beam effect as it stands. But…
A workaround would be to move your start and end points further out along the line that they define. A bit of maths and an expression will do ...
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How are motion graphics like this created?
Totally doable using After Effects as it comes out of the box.
I'd be making each letter a separate layer, turning that layer into a matte for the colour, which would be provided by the gradient ...
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How can I reduce the size of a webm to 2MB?
Use Avanti with ffmpeg. The former has a job control manager where you drop in multiple files at once and go. You can find webm encoding guide for ffmpeg here: http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/VP8
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After Effects added an extra move to the animation, how to get rid of it?
OK, I finally figured it out. This bug is known as "Boomerang Effect".
Reason: Bezier will cause After Effects randomly mass up the path of the shape.
So you can simply right click the keyframe ...
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How do you zoom in (animated) on a portion of your canvas?
You can simply scale the layer (or a null object) to get something like:
Click on the stop watch of the position and scale properties of the layer at the first frame (to enable the properties: select ...
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Puppet tool - how do I make the arms stay attached to the same points on the body?
If you put a puppet pin at the point where the arms attach, then you can tie the position of the arm layer to the position of the puppet pin using an expression. This will attach the layer to the ...
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I'm having trouble scaling strokes in After Effects
Animate the x value of the Size property of the rounded rectangle path, rather than the Scale to leave your strokes the same width. This will let you change the size of the rectangle without affecting ...
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Please tell me which tool I have to use to create a video?
After Effects is a good, reasonably priced solution. If you're not on a tight schedule and on a tight budget, The Foundry is releasing a noncommercial version of their Nuke compositing platform, which ...
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Do cartoon creators have to pay software owners?
As a media creator, you pay for use of the tool, not for the use of the result from using the tool. Different companies have different systems, but you either buy the software up front or pay a fixed ...
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Creating a stream of the same object between two points in AE?
One possibility is to move a single object along a path (an asterisk in the example shown), using some position keyframes.
Then place an adjustment layer above the object, with an Echo effect on it....
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How to remove transitions from title motion adjustments in Premiere Pro?
Set temporal interpolation to Hold as seen below:
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AE Counter Switch (Mins > Hs)
Make three text layers with a slider on each. Call the layers value 1, value 2, and value 3.
In the source text of each of the text layers put this expression, to display the slider value and round ...
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Do cartoon creators have to pay software owners?
Once you bought a license for the software you are good to go. In case of Adobe you simply subscribe to the Creative Cloud. There is no royalties for the usage of software, like for the usage of ...
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How can loop animations with a different start and end point in after effects?
Using time remapping could be a solution. You animate one full circle of the animation and precompose this. Then you time remap that layer and use loopOut('cycle').
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after effects - circular trim path
I can't reproduce your issue on my end, but I can offer an alternative method. Another way to create the circle example you've provided is to use a Radial Wipe effect on the shape layer:
Effect > ...
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How do I do this Text animation in Sony Vegas (..or AE)?
It's called Kinetic Type generally (that link is for Templates). Depending on what you're looking to do you either need to do it manually or can use scripting to auto-fill a list of words. If you auto-...
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How Do I create this liquid like animation?
Those paint splats are often done with stock footage or filmed footage. Get a black or green surface, throw some paint at it and film it. Bring it in to AE and extract the alpha from the luma or with ...
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How to add simple textual animations to videos?
You can achieve that with ffmpeg. Draw text with drawtext command. And draw semitransperent beckground under it with drawbox. You can see more in that question.
You can add animation of moving text ...
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How to add simple textual animations to videos?
This code works well now. It has several text animations with FFMpeg.
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "[in]drawtext=fontfile=/path/to/font.ttf: text='First Line': fontcolor=red: fontsize=40: x=(w-text_w)/2: ...
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