Adobe After Effects is an animation software used for animation, visual effects, and motion picture compositing. It is always a smart idea to know the fresh, successful methods of this application. That’s why, in this blog, we’ll go through the top 10 tips and tricks for Adobe After Effects, so that you may use them for a variety of applications. Let’s get started.
- Copy And Paste Expressions: Select Copy Expression Only from the context menu after clicking an expression-containing property. Then, paste it into the layers you’ve chosen. This approach will also replace any existing expressions on the properties you are pasting to. If the source property has keyframes, copying the keyframes only will duplicate any preexisting expressions.
- Trim Comp To Work Area: Select “Trim Comp To Work Area” by clicking on your work area with the right mouse button. You can visibly cut the beginning and/or end of your sequence in the Work Area without having to precisely calculate seconds and frames, which is a wonderful way to swiftly adjust the duration of your composition.
- Shift Colors: Add the effect under Color Correction > Hue/Saturation after rotating the master hue. This is a great method for fast altering the overall color balance, such as shots that were incorrectly white-balanced, or desaturating any overly vibrant colors. You may also use it to test out various color schemes for your motion graphics. To alter the composition as a whole, add to an adjustment layer.
- Edit X And Y Positions: Right-click on the spot and choose “Separate Dimensions.” There are several circumstances when you’ll want the X position and Y position keyframe positions to be different. You can also divide the Z position using Separate Dimensions (on 3D layers).
- Using The Shy Switch: Use the shy switch to hide the ones you aren’t working on. Widescreen monitors are excellent for working with videos and animation, but the vertical area can easily get crowded with several layers. So, create Shy layers so that you can change their visibility.
- Expand Footage Dimensions: Increase the output width and height on a motion tile effect to enlarge your footage. This is kind of a band-aid, but if you only need a few extra pixels, it might be useful. Be cautious because as the area it must occupy expands, the Motion Tile effect will become more pronounced.
- Grungy Text: Under Add Effect > Stylize, you may configure the border and scale settings as well as the edges’ roughness. With a very thick typeface and a marker pen look, the default settings quickly come to mind. Reduce the Scale to create chalk-like strokes; raise the Scale and Border to create abstract.
- Create Old Footage Look: Select Add Effect > Color Correction > Tritone to quickly create a sepia tone. By using the Tritone effect, you may instantly add a sepia tone to your video. You might also put it right on your clip. Change the Midtones to even more precisely adjust the color hue.
- Parent Layers For Flexibility: Connect layers to the “parent” layer you want to follow with the Pick Whip Tool. Parent layers are quite useful when you want to link several objects to one animation source. The helix sign stands for the pick whip tool, which is used to graphically connect layers. The child layers will match any changes made to the parent’s opacity.
- Visualize Effects: Presets can be found under Animation (Opens In Bridge). For the bulk of After Effects’ animation effects, Bridge has a gallery of animated clips, which many people are unaware of. To examine the presets for text animation, is really helpful.
Conclusion: These are some basic but little-known After Effects tips and tricks. If you want to learn more tricks about After Effects, you can always go to YouTube and watch tutorial videos. On YouTube, there are thousands of videos on After Effects. For YouTube hand-holding training, use Career Ninja’s LearnTube. Learn Tube creates a course framework from the results of your YouTube search. If you search for “After Effects tricks” on YouTube, LearnTube will show you a series of videos that look like an online course. As a beginner, you’ll go through the videos from beginning to end, as if you were taking a YouTube course customized particularly for you.
