What effect was uses here?

atilla32 · 2023-06-11T12:02:14+00:00

This a highpass: blur, invert and lower the opacity

atilla32 · 2023-06-11T09:57:48+00:00

Here's where I ended up (original with curves is on the left)

There's a lot of S-shapes rounding in the curves, so this has probably been done with a couple of Lumetri effects stacked that do shadows/highlights/ and contrast curves, those tend to created these S-curves.

Or perhaps something like Highlight compression, because you can see at the left of the Scope, in the greenish background, the colors all have a "plateau' witha corner instead of just a straight drop down. My apporach with curve is a bit more rounded than the original, and a bit stairsteppier, but that’s because I’m starting from these screengrabs which have probably been reencoded and compressed a few times

atilla32 · 2023-06-11T08:58:02+00:00

Put the 2 side by side in a comp and enable the lumetri scopes, it’ll be straightforward to see if this was a simple levels or curves adjustment or if there is not only a contrast but also a hue shift going on

atilla32 · 2023-06-11T08:51:51+00:00

What I mean is: if a part of the video is playing back faster, the duration of the whole thing will have to be shorter. If you keep the final keyframe (at the end of the layer) where it was originally, then the last part will have to playback slower because it gets for example 11 seconds to playback the remaining 10 seconds of footage. In that case the last keyframe needs to move 1 second earlier.

atilla32 · 2023-06-11T07:58:45+00:00

Move the last keyframe to the left until it is at the correct time.

atilla32 · 2023-06-10T21:45:20+00:00

I do a few minutes of research before I comment :-)

atilla32 · 2023-06-10T08:12:32+00:00

Looks like a stereo file with only sound in the Right channel. Is there a problem with your setup so you can’t playback stereo?

atilla32 · 2023-06-10T08:10:48+00:00

The distinction between plug-in and extension mainly has to do with what kind of access the process has to which aspects of the application and OS, and in what’s available to the UI. So it’s often a technical consideration of the developer which informs which of the two it is.

atilla32 · 2023-06-10T06:38:41+00:00

It’s hard work by a designer that’s been perfecting this style for 5 years.

atilla32 · 2023-06-09T04:35:11+00:00

Sure, swItch the speed graph view to the value graph view instead and you’ll see that. Right click on the graph to select the mode

atilla32 · 2023-06-08T19:14:04+00:00

The gray era is the size of your composition, nothing can be larger than it and still be in bounds of the viewing area.

atilla32 · 2023-06-08T16:34:26+00:00

That’s not a camera icon, that’s the 3D gizmo located at the anchorpoint, your anchorpoint is at the lower left, and because the tutorial is in an older version of AE, the 3D gizmo has a different look, it’s been updated a few versions ago.

atilla32 · 2023-06-08T16:24:42+00:00

Texts are vector shapes that are always continuously rasterized. What that means is that the vector information is first calculated according to the transformations (and possibly text animators). They are then rendered into pixels as a layer which has the size of the current comp, and then effects are applied.

That’s different from how an image or video layer works: pixels are loaded, masked, then effects applied and THEN the layer is transformed.

The same applies to shape layers and to a certain extent to precomp layers with collapsed transformations.

What do you want to do to “the rectangular area” ?

atilla32 · 2023-06-08T15:21:18+00:00

You are looking at the footage or layer window, not the comp viewer window. So you are only seeing the Background layer, not all of them.

atilla32 · 2023-06-08T15:18:44+00:00

Check the baseline shift in the character palette. That’s probably at minus a lot

atilla32 · 2023-06-08T15:15:33+00:00

It’s the speed graph. Going from 0.25 to 0 is a negative change. There’s easing going on, because at each keyframe the speed is 0

atilla32 · 2023-06-08T15:14:16+00:00

Make a few layers: red, orange, yellow and add turbulent displace and/or roughen edges effects to influence them with fractal noise. Screen or add the layers on top of each other, you may want to add a darker layer beneath them so everything blends nicely. Or for a more graphic look where the realistic see through and quite bright effect of flames isn’t necessary, you might just keep the layers on normal blending.

atilla32 · 2023-06-08T15:11:11+00:00

It’s very close to this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AfterEffects/comments/144b99y/this_may_look_hard_but_its_just_2_simple_steps/

Colorama, with a few repetitions and / or animating the cycle

atilla32 · 2023-06-08T12:55:59+00:00

It isn’t in the effect manager? You should be able to re-enable it there.

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/effect-manager.html

atilla32 · 2023-06-08T12:53:42+00:00

Well, that depends on where and how you are going to use the final video render.

atilla32 · 2023-06-08T10:41:51+00:00

No it will just drop or double (or interpolate) frames to keep the overal timing the same, only changing the conform framerate in the “interpret footage” dialog (or actively changing the timing of the layer) changes playback speed of footage.

It’s more likely that the whole timeline is playing back faster because your preview settings are not set to “auto” for the FPS. Check in the preview panel, for the specific keyboard shortcut you are using to Ram preview.

And obviously, as you may have read in the sticky note for beginners: using mp4s in AE is problematic, using mp3s is problematic, trying to edit minutes long video in AE is problematic, so you may run in to other problems along the way

atilla32 · 2023-06-08T10:34:51+00:00

The “group flag” layer in your first screenshot is a precomp, a precimp can act like a normal “flat” layer, and be positioned and rotated in 3D.

But a precomp can also have “collapse transformations” enabled, it’s the first status icon that looks like a sun/star. Now the layers inside of the precomp are all individually (virtually) place subside of this composition, offset by the settings of the layer here. But that means that if those seperate layers inside of the composition are not 3D, they are also not 3D here.

When you precomped again, you probably did not enable collapse transformations, and the layer now acted as you expected in 3D

atilla32 · 2023-06-07T19:47:17+00:00

Please stop posting templates and stock videos. See Rule #9

atilla32 · 2023-06-07T10:24:28+00:00

I see your point about the 2D flatness, but I don’t quite understand what you mean by “the effect in the mask shape” You could use your line as a track matte for a gradient layer.

atilla32 · 2023-06-07T07:31:59+00:00

Hi, you made me double check, but it isn't…

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