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A showcase of effects - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
A showcase of effects
In this chapter, we're going to look at After Effects' effects. It's going to be a very whirlwind super -quick tour because there are hundreds here, and we simply don't have the time in this training series to cover them, but effects are just so fun. They do so many different things. Here we have just a little sample of what effects can do. All of these patterns were created from scratch by effects in After Effects. And if I hit the Spacebar key, you'll see that the fire, the lightning bolts, the bubbles, the flag and the waving of the flag and these cool little light thingies in this little pattern, they're all moving. They're animatable and all this stuff happens from scratch in After Effects. So, we're going to be looking at a few of these. A good idea, when you're new to After Effects, is to go to the Effects & Presets panel and kind of scroll down and just look at these different categories of effects in the Effects & Presets panel, just to get a feel for what After Effects is…
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A showcase of effects2m 34s
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Creating a layer for effects3m 1s
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Applying effects4m 54s
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Animating effect properties4m 29s
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Using Glow5m 34s
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Creating patterns and textures6m 57s
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Creating a fireball7m 9s
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Using the Cycore effects5m 58s
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Adding blur5m 45s
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Creating a galaxy scene from scratch8m 38s
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Distorting objects with effects4m 7s
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Creating and using lens flares4m 21s
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Creating lightning bolts4m 3s
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Viewing random variations with Brainstorm4m 39s
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