After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Previews in After Effects CC 2015
After Effects CC 2015 introduced a greatly overhauled previewing scheme, including the ability to edit your projects while previews...
After Effects Hidden Gems: Adjustment Lights
The built-in 3D implementation in After Effects is nowhere near as deep as a dedicated 3D program. However, it...
Measuring Rotation in After Effects
Last week, we posted a short tutorial on using expressions to measure the distance between two points. This was...
After Effects Hidden Gems: Illuminating Dark 3D Layers
You could be forgiven for thinking that to illuminate 3D layers in After Effects, you just add one or...
After Effects Hidden Gems: Sequence Layers
After Effects is not a video editing program – but it does have a few good editing tricks up...
DIY DCP
You used to hear a whir, the sound of sprockets pulling film from a 15 pound reel at a...
After Effects Hidden Gems: Replace Source
It’s not uncommon to working on a layer in a composition – including editing its duration, adding effects, or...
After Effects Hidden Gems: Grow Bounds
Some effects – usually those in the Distortion category – will try to create new pixels in After Effects...
After Effects Hidden Gems: Color Working Space
Not all pixels are created equal. Different devices often use different internal representations for the same color we see....
Hues on first – easy and fast colour correction
Colour correction is one of the most important aspects of compositing and visual fx. This quick tip will show...
