ADOBE TUTORIALS TIPS TRICKS

A bunch of GREAT tutorials on how to use Adobe products, including After Effects Animation, Premiere, Photoshop. I've been teaching video classes for 20 years and these are my best tips and tricks.

TUTORIAL: I show how to make a Behance site and move it into MyPortfolio.com to create a fantastic website for the cost of Adobe Cloud.

TUTORIAL: CLONE TOOL & CONTENT-AWARE FILL After Effects: Masking JUNK (Booms) out of your videos "Track Masks"

Tutorial and Tips and Tricks for using Photoshop to create layers for animation in After Effects. Take your art and animate it!
TUTORIAL and Tips and Tricks: How to best use Photoshop to create perfectly sized and optimized GIFs. Using Photoshop's TIMELINE to edit the .GIFs or animations. Using FILE > EXPORT > SAVE FOR WEB (legacy) to create awesome .GIFs.
TUTORIAL and TIPS and TRICKS for using Illustrator to draw or autotrace imagery that can easily be animated in After Effects. For a cleaner vector drawing look.
TUTORIAL and TIPS and TRICKS: Advanced Premiere Pro: How to best set up for Premiere editing, Advanced Audio/sound editing, Professional tips. Lots of great things you can do to up the quality of your Premiere projects.
TUTORIAL: "Everything After Effects can do!" (ALMOST). I give a great and broad overview of all the things that can be done in After Effects to animate and fix footage, create masks, creating solids, parenting, animation via keyframes. A great, fast "Getting Started with After Effects."
TUTORIAL: How to draw and do frame-by-frame animations in After Effects. Rotoscoping, Using the brush. Write on, etc. Hand-drawn animation in After Effects. Adjusting the brush tool. Various ways of onion skinning in After Effects too.
After Effects Tutorial: using "time remapping" to change the pace of your footage. Make it go forwards, backwards, STOP, freezeframe, and essentially do "scratching on video". A great way to add some comedy to your YouTube videos or repeat gags over and over.
TUTORIAL and TIPS and TRICKS: How to create a mask in After Effects. What is a Matte in After Effects. A demo of how "blending modes" work in After Effects too. Making text see-through.
More Advanced stuff you can do in After Effects, including Masks, animated masks, 3D shapes vs. using SOLIDS to create shapes. Adding lights and cameras in After Effects. Cameras are a great way to zoom around your images. Almost like nesting or creating a reframe-able composition.
TUTORIAL and TIPS and TRICKS on how to use After Effects' PUPPET PINS to "morph" or bend a mesh that controls the shapes of your objects. Puppet mins are relatively new in After Effects and they can create a new form of animation, other than stumping off all the parts in your pics.
TUTORIAL: Advanced KEYFRAMES in After Effects. A simple demo of how to use KEYFRAME variations in your animations to create a "smoother", more "chilled", or human-like movement in an animation. Less robotic movement with "Easy Ease" keyframes and EASE IN and EASE OUT keyframes.
BUG FIX: "Where is my Audio after importing?" Adobe Premiere has had this odd bug for years. Even after a clean install, sometimes the audio of a clip just disappears when you drag it to the timeline. You know the clip has audio! Where did the audio go? This quick tutorial shows how to fix this annoying bug.
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