Video Copilot - Andrew Kramer - Serious Effects & Compositing (After Effects 7.0)

01. Getting Started & New Features (15:00 min)
• Introduction to many new features
• Overview of After Effects 7.0
• Introduction to tools; such as Tracking, Parenting,
• Transfer Modes & Switches

02. Basic Color Keying (13:00 min)
• Learn to perform a clean key with DV footage
• Edge adjustments for green screen footage
• Comprehensive color correction techniques
• Create shadows that follow talent

03. 3D Silhouette (36:00 min)
• Create human silhouette from live action footage
• Composite groups of people from 1 person
• Create 3D Camera Moves
• Utilize multi-view workspace when 3D compositing

04. Cruise Control (11:50 min)
• Create the illusion of a car driving
• Advanced compositing techniques
• Add realistic reflections & a light wrapping effect
• Use advanced studio masking techniques

05. Creating Advanced Muzzle Fire (14:20 min)
• Create realistic Muzzle Fire with AE's built in tools
• Create Flashes and learn to randomize effect
• Composite a smoke element with fire
• Utilize Turbulent Displacement and CC Radial Blur

06. Blown Away (25:30 min)
• Composite actors in front of a large explosion
• Create camera shake
• Add a nice displacement scene effect
• Use parenting, null objects, and transfer modes

07. Floating Text (9:15 min)
• Advanced 4-point motion tracking
• Create the look of 3D tracking inside AE
• Make text appear to be floating over video
• Technique works on less stable footage

08. DVD Menu Creation I & II (27:15 & 12: min)
• Create a DVD Menu with transitions
• Advanced use of the fractal noise filter
• Basic tour of Encore
• Create button transitions during authoring

09. The Teleporter (12:15 min)
• Composite character onto background
• Use an opacity track matte with the fractal noise
• Overlay pre-rendered particle effect
• Enhance using transfer modes

10. Selective Color Correction (12:15 min)
• Increase color density in specific areas
• Motion Track footage to fix certain areas
• Fix slightly overexposed Footage
• Use subtraction masks to get desired effects