Gareth David Tutorials – Design Tutorials

Now creating video presentations can be complex and time consuming.
I always find it helps to have a plan before jumping into After Effects as it gives me something to work to.
Once you know or have a rough idea of what you are creating, it’s a lot more fun putting...

So now we are coming to the end of the essential practise section on the course.
Once we have finished our animation sequences and built our video presentations it is time to export them.
Now there are a few ways to export in After effect, but there is only one you should really consider using....

Over the past few episodes we have looked at precomps, and how they help to group layers together to apply effects and tracks mattes as a whole.
In After Effects there is another way we can group multiple layers and manage things like position and scale of multiple layers at once....

Now masking in After Effects can get even more dynamic. In After Effects we can use what are called track matts.
These track matts will often be used by designers to add more dynamic masking effects in After Effects
In this video we will be building on top of what we learned about basic masking and moving on to see how track matt’s work....