Once you’re happy with your word (move it around, scale it up, have fun), drag the texture image from the project window to below your text layer in the layer stack. If the text is too huge or tiny, it can be adjusted in the Character Panel on the right hand side of the screen as well. In the Character Panel on the right hand side of the interface, change the font to “Impact”. Click in the composition window (or preview window) to bring up a text cursor. Start by choosing the text tool from the tool panel at the top of the After Effects interface. Ok, now it’s time to put that texture image to work. Check out Videomaker's Instruction Videos, Jeff Foster’s “The Greenscreen Handbook” and Video Copilot’s #10 tutorial – Basic Color Keying – to take your next keying project to another level. Voila! There is a lot more that can be done to clean up this keying job, but this is simply a start. With the eyedropper selected, click on the green background in your footage. This will allow you to choose the color to be removed from the footage. Next to Screen Colour (note the British spelling), select the eyedropper tool. There are many keyers, but this one from The Foundry is excellent, and ships with After Effects. In the top menu, choose Effect, Keying, Keylight. Just for fun, drag the clip from the first lesson into the Timeline window and place it just below the greenscreen footage in the layer stack. Drag the greenscreen footage onto the “Create a New Composition” button at the bottom of the project window. Let’s make this one the same way as last time. While keying is truly an art form unto itself, performing a very simple first test isn’t, and this can merely act as inspiration for a long journey with keying.įirst, we’ll make a new composition. Removing a greenscreen from footage – or keying – might seem like a huge leap from fading in footage – and it is – but it’s a particularly neat and fun one. Remember: there are no rules, so experiment away! Try creating keyframes to animate the other properties, such as Scale and Rotation. Take the CTI back to the beginning of the footage and hit the spacebar to preview the animation.Ĭongratulations! You’ve completed your first animation. This will increase the opacity of the layer to 100%. There are other ways to do this, but that’s for another day. Next, drag the Current Time Indicator (CTI – the time indicator which moves over the timeline – look for a red line with a yellow arrow atop it) to the one second mark. This will create a keyframe on the timeline, locking in 0% as the opacity value this time on the timeline. This will reduce the layer opacity to 0%. Start by clicking on the “100%” property next to Opacity and replace 100 with 0. We’ll use these stopwatches to create keyframes, which will determine the property value at that time on the timeline. Note the small stopwatches next to each property name. All of these properties – Anchor Point, Position, Scale, Rotation and Opacity – can be animated. Click the arrow to reveal the Transform properties for the footage. We’re going to fade in the beginning of the footage over one second.įirst, look for a small twirl-down arrow to the left of your footage’s name. Now that we have a composition, you’ll notice the footage appears as a layer in the timeline window, and a look at the first frame will show up in the Composition window.įirst thing we’re going to animate is the opacity of the footage to make it fade in. It will match the size, frame rate and length of the clip being used. This will automatically format a composition to match the settings of the footage being used. Select the footage to be used in the Project window, and click and drag it onto the “Create a New Composition” icon right at the bottom of the Project window. We could create a comp using the menus in After Effects, but as long as we’re learning tricks, let’s make this even easier. To start, let’s create a new composition – or comp – that matches our footage dimentions and settings.
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