0 00:00.810 --> 00:03.840 Hi guys and welcome to your first Effect. 1 00:03.840 --> 00:11.070 The purpose of this lecture is not only to show you the effect but to show you how effects work in aftereffect. 2 00:11.080 --> 00:12.230 They're pretty simple. 3 00:12.480 --> 00:18.510 As soon as you get the concept a bit at least you'll be able to play with all the effects that aftereffects 4 00:18.530 --> 00:19.410 has. 5 00:19.700 --> 00:23.520 Just a word of warning not all effects will work with you. 6 00:23.550 --> 00:29.040 Some of them will be hard to play with and hard to apply and some of them you will not see anything 7 00:29.040 --> 00:33.540 on the screen and some of them require solid layers and other kind of layers 8 00:33.720 --> 00:34.530 So let's start. 9 00:34.560 --> 00:35.550 The first thing we want. 10 00:35.550 --> 00:41.970 Like we said in the previous lecture, is a composition just come to the button here and click Create 11 00:41.970 --> 00:43.260 a new composition. 12 00:43.260 --> 00:49.800 Now we want the same parameters we are going to put the name let's say visual for visual effects the 13 00:49.840 --> 00:55.090 slight effect is OK and choose also HDTV 720 By 25 . 14 00:55.110 --> 01:01.440 you can come to the menu if you don't have it and choose it over here and it will give us a composition 15 01:01.470 --> 01:04.470 of 12 80 by 720 that's fine. 16 01:04.530 --> 01:07.650 The frame rate you can't care less but the duration here. 17 01:07.740 --> 01:10.010 Make sure you type at 500. 18 01:10.240 --> 01:14.030 Let's leave the background color to black. 19 01:14.260 --> 01:20.550 We click OK and here we are we have our first composition and we notice that a composition has 20 01:20.550 --> 01:21.650 been created. 21 01:21.650 --> 01:23.550 It's called visual effects. 22 01:23.680 --> 01:29.410 We want now to put some text. Come to the T here in your toolbar. 23 01:29.730 --> 01:36.170 OK you click on it and then you come in the middle of your composition somewhere you click and let's 24 01:36.170 --> 01:41.280 write a visual choose your selection tool. 25 01:41.310 --> 01:45.000 If you notice the character panel has opened it should open with you. 26 01:45.010 --> 01:47.810 So what I would like you to do if you have a different font. 27 01:47.880 --> 01:52.380 Please make it uppercase or all caps and make it bold. 28 01:52.380 --> 01:53.340 We need that. 29 01:53.340 --> 01:58.410 Then you can make it big and small the way you want by doing like this let me show you. 30 01:58.410 --> 02:00.010 Come to the TT here. 31 02:00.120 --> 02:06.200 The font size and your cursor will turn into a small hand as a finger up and two arrows. 32 02:06.420 --> 02:09.660 You click on it and you can scrub up or down. 33 02:09.920 --> 02:13.900 Just scrubbing and you will get the size the way you want fine. 34 02:14.040 --> 02:22.470 Now you have put the size what you want to do is to put the effects. Come to window and go to effects 35 02:22.500 --> 02:25.970 and preset click on it make sure it is ticked. 36 02:25.980 --> 02:29.740 If you are already ticked you will see here the Effects & Presets 37 02:29.760 --> 02:35.640 Now there are so many effects and preset here that it's impossible to know what is what for now. 38 02:35.700 --> 02:40.370 Later on you will become very familiar with this come to the search here. 39 02:40.380 --> 02:48.270 Just click inside and write a ball and you will find all the presets and the effects that have a ball 40 02:48.270 --> 02:50.250 inside them inside the name. 41 02:50.400 --> 02:52.790 But we want a simulation board. 42 02:52.830 --> 02:53.760 Click on it. 43 02:54.000 --> 02:56.030 Now you can click and drag. 44 02:56.250 --> 03:03.480 You can either drop it on the player inside the composition viewer or come to your layer inside the 45 03:03.480 --> 03:05.390 timeline here and drop it. 46 03:05.390 --> 03:06.470 I want to drop it here. 47 03:06.480 --> 03:07.580 It is nicer. 48 03:07.620 --> 03:13.530 You notice how it made the square around and two bars to show you that this is there where you are going 49 03:13.530 --> 03:15.780 to put your effect. 50 03:15.930 --> 03:21.230 So let's release the mouse and it immediately takes effect. 51 03:21.290 --> 03:22.250 That's good. 52 03:22.290 --> 03:23.850 Now what happened exactly. 53 03:24.350 --> 03:26.340 Notice that visual here nothing change. 54 03:26.340 --> 03:31.640 I don't see anything in my layer but a panel has opened. 55 03:31.650 --> 03:39.720 This is the effects controls panel. it is here opening on the layer called visual If you click on it you can see the 56 03:39.790 --> 03:45.200 layer visual on there and then its visual effects and it's a layer visual fine. 57 03:45.210 --> 03:53.280 Now we have the name of the effect here and you have several parameters like scatter rotation ball size 58 03:53.280 --> 03:54.160 and so on. 59 03:54.270 --> 03:56.420 Most of them have stopwatches. 60 03:56.580 --> 04:03.420 When you see a stopwatch it means you can keyframe it means you can have an animation before we start 61 04:03.420 --> 04:04.300 animating. 62 04:04.320 --> 04:06.330 Let's look at these parameters. 63 04:06.330 --> 04:09.380 Now most of the effects are the same. 64 04:09.420 --> 04:12.470 You have the name of their effect and then you have parameters. 65 04:12.480 --> 04:15.570 Sometimes you have group of parameters it gets complicated. 66 04:15.570 --> 04:17.150 This is a very simple one. 67 04:17.160 --> 04:18.300 Let's look at scatter. 68 04:18.300 --> 04:26.700 I can come and click when the mouse has become a hand with double arrows click and scrub it to the right 69 04:27.540 --> 04:30.550 or to the left and you notice what's happening. 70 04:30.550 --> 04:31.980 You can see the effect. 71 04:31.980 --> 04:35.320 Exactly what is happening to the effect. 72 04:35.400 --> 04:36.640 That's about Scatter. 73 04:36.650 --> 04:41.080 If I want to reset it all I have to do is to point at the parameter. 74 04:41.130 --> 04:42.400 In this case cutter. 75 04:42.600 --> 04:50.580 Right click and say reset goes back to its initial value when you dropped the effect on the layer. 76 04:50.580 --> 04:52.980 Now we have a rotation axis. 77 04:52.980 --> 04:54.270 This is a choice. 78 04:54.870 --> 05:01.350 Lastly with the X-axis you have a rotation and to rotate it here you have the full rotation. 79 05:01.350 --> 05:08.970 The first one zero times are the full reiterations and here the 0.0 degree is the angle 80 05:08.970 --> 05:10.050 that you want to have. 81 05:10.050 --> 05:17.990 If I click and scrub through you notice you are working already in 3D and that is pretty amazing already. 82 05:18.090 --> 05:21.850 See how you can even create an animation comes from here to here. 83 05:22.200 --> 05:25.940 Things like this. I will right click and say reset. 84 05:26.280 --> 05:28.200 Lets look at the twist property. 85 05:28.200 --> 05:32.620 Also you have some choices here you can make. 86 05:32.640 --> 05:33.710 Nevertheless let's 87 05:33.780 --> 05:35.480 Keep it on x axis. 88 05:35.760 --> 05:41.630 Then you have the twist angle full rotations and the degrees here. 89 05:41.650 --> 05:46.780 I can click and write for example 90 degrees. 90 05:46.900 --> 05:51.200 Here are are I have a twist. More interesting if I click and drag. 91 05:51.450 --> 05:55.110 I notice how it is twisting the layer very nicely. 92 05:55.110 --> 05:58.440 That will be a nice animation comes from here to here for example. 93 05:58.440 --> 06:05.440 Not the ascribing left and right and is changing the values I want to reset it right click and say reset. 94 06:05.760 --> 06:11.540 So now together we are exploring this effect and that's what you should do. 95 06:11.550 --> 06:12.660 Sometimes you get nothing. 96 06:12.660 --> 06:13.650 Be careful. 97 06:13.650 --> 06:15.970 Now there is the grid spacing here. 98 06:15.990 --> 06:23.000 If I take it up I notice that it's giving me some funny big balls and it's quite nice by the way. 99 06:23.250 --> 06:27.350 If you start from here to here actually zero is normal. 100 06:27.360 --> 06:32.700 Let's put this one to three. So you put it at 3. 101 06:32.740 --> 06:35.340 What I did is to click on it and type 3. 102 06:35.380 --> 06:42.090 Now the ball size that's going to be interesting if I click and scrub down so the value is down now. 103 06:42.180 --> 06:45.180 Actually I'm having something pretty interesting here. 104 06:45.340 --> 06:47.600 That is cool fine. 105 06:47.620 --> 06:49.140 This is very beautiful. 106 06:49.160 --> 06:54.790 Now you already have a visual effect or an effect on your text. 107 06:54.790 --> 07:00.810 There was no need to do much just take the CC Ball drop it in change a value of grid spacing and ball 108 07:00.820 --> 07:03.760 size and you really have something amazing. 109 07:03.760 --> 07:05.680 Let's create an animation. 110 07:05.680 --> 07:12.780 Let's go to one second do click on your current time indicator and you drag to 1 second. 111 07:12.790 --> 07:14.800 It will really snap a bit. 112 07:14.810 --> 07:16.760 You'll see one second here. 113 07:16.810 --> 07:20.380 Let's take the scatter and take it to the maximum. 114 07:20.660 --> 07:21.820 It's going to go very big. 115 07:21.820 --> 07:25.100 I can click in and write 1000. 116 07:25.150 --> 07:27.320 So it has totally. 117 07:27.460 --> 07:29.490 Now I would click on the stopwatch. 118 07:29.740 --> 07:34.620 Unfortunately when you click on the stopwatch it will not show anything in your timeline. 119 07:34.810 --> 07:38.520 What you have to do for the effects come to your timeline. 120 07:38.680 --> 07:44.280 Click on the layer and press the you key and here you are. 121 07:44.280 --> 07:49.240 You can start seeing your keyframes the keyframe has been created here. 122 07:49.240 --> 07:55.130 When I clicked on the stopwatch where the time line indicator was I click on the time line indicator. 123 07:55.130 --> 07:59.930 Drag it to the beginning come to scatter and put it back to zero. 124 08:00.790 --> 08:07.930 So now to run our animation and see our work we can come to preview and click on the play stop or we 125 08:07.930 --> 08:10.770 can press spacebar and it will play. 126 08:10.780 --> 08:13.980 I will press spacebar and here you are. 127 08:14.020 --> 08:20.590 You have a very nice animation of course is a very simple animation but it will give you a notion of 128 08:20.620 --> 08:22.920 how visual effects work. 129 08:23.080 --> 08:26.520 Let's press the spacebar again and have some fun here. 130 08:26.740 --> 08:33.130 Of course you can come and change the color of the text you go to characters you change it to. 131 08:33.130 --> 08:41.440 For example blue and your animation is still rallying and the colors have changed. Cool that's wonderful 132 08:41.450 --> 08:49.690 if you come to the keyframe here and try to change the value of the grid spacing for example run my animation 133 08:50.020 --> 08:51.320 is always the same. 134 08:51.460 --> 08:51.910 Beautiful. 135 08:51.910 --> 09:00.340 So what I would like you to do is to go to after effects big CC Ball from the effects & presets 136 09:00.520 --> 09:02.880 and drop it on your text layer. 137 09:02.890 --> 09:08.890 You can drop it on a shape layer if you like it will have the same effect and nicer and come and mess up 138 09:08.890 --> 09:11.100 with all these parameters. 139 09:11.110 --> 09:19.090 The purpose of this is for you to you know get somehow familiar with the effects so an effect is applied 140 09:19.090 --> 09:23.240 to a layer and then the act itself has several parameters. 141 09:23.260 --> 09:25.800 Some of them can be keyframe in case. 142 09:25.810 --> 09:30.070 all of them and some of them will not be able to keyframe they're just a choice. 143 09:30.490 --> 09:36.340 And then you can create an animation using the keyframe like we have seen in this lecture and the lecture 144 09:36.340 --> 09:38.890 before or couple of lectures before. 145 09:39.040 --> 09:41.100 So thank you very much for listening. 146 09:41.200 --> 09:44.530 This was an introduction about visual effects. 147 09:44.530 --> 09:45.690 It's very interesting. 148 09:45.850 --> 09:51.490 I encourage you to come and play with CC ball action and then return to the course and we continue 149 09:51.490 --> 09:52.250 together. 150 09:52.650 --> 09:54.160 See you in the next lecture.