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After Effects Keyframes: Techniques Every Editor Needs
Keyframes Are Not Just Start and End Points Every editor learns what a keyframe is in their first hour of After Effects. You set a value at one time, set a different value at another time, and the software interpolates...
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Automotive Video Editing: Techniques for Car Footage
Car footage has specific editing challenges that general-purpose video editing advice doesn't address. The combination of fast motion, highly reflective surfaces, environmental color casts, and the visual weight of metal and glass creates a set of problems that will make...
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How to Make Footage Look More Expensive (The Edit)
The single most common misconception in video production is that expensive-looking footage requires expensive gear. It does not. The cameras on a $200 million film production and the cameras on a $5,000 indie short both capture light. The difference in...
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How to Export From After Effects (Best Settings)
After Effects has a built-in render queue. For most projects, you should not use it. This is not a beginner mistake or a preference. The built-in render queue in After Effects is genuinely limited in ways that cost you time...
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After Effects Text Animation: Bland to Cinematic
Why Most Text Animations Look Amateur Text animation is one of the first things every After Effects editor tries. It is also one of the areas where the gap between beginner and professional work is most obvious. You can tell...
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After Effects Expressions: 7 You Can Use Without Code
Most After Effects users avoid expressions entirely. The idea of writing code inside a motion graphics tool sounds like the wrong tool for the job. But the most useful expressions in After Effects are not code. They are one-liners you...