Blotter Media Effect in After Effects

Have a look at the blotter media effect in Adobe After Effects which is produced by Mohit Kapoor who is one of our motion graphics and compositing students.

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Learning Benefits of Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects is a non -linear motion graphic software provided by Adobe Systems.

After Effects is available in the market since early 1990s but in 2011 Adobe claimed the rights to After Effects and now it is a part of Adobe Creative Cloud.

Adobe After Effects is the most popular and common software for compositing and designing digital motion graphics. 

Benefits of Adobe After Effects are :-

1. In After Effects it is possible to animate 2D and 3D motion graphics, texts, objects, shapes and characters. 

2. After Effects has it use in every field whether it is marketing, designing, films, Television and social media.

3. But it is mostly used in films and television for post-production uses since with After Effects chroma cutting, adding and animating texts, masking, rotoscoping and much more has become easy. 

4. In marketing field After Effects is used for making presentation and advertisements, in television news channels use After Effects for chroma cutting, lower thirds, etc.  

5. Designers use After Effects for animated designs, posters, ads, logos and much more. And at the end of the day After Effects can be simply used for video editing. 

6. After Effects has amazing transitions, effects, and animations for simple editing which can make any video amazing to watch for viewers. 

7. We can also add audio but there aren’t many options provided for audio in After Effects as there are in Adobe Premiere Pro.  

8. Another pro, of After Effects is it can be linked with other Adobe software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe XD and Adobe Animate. 

9. Speaking of Adobe Premiere Pro, it is also a non-linear video editing software in which we can edit video and audio both can be edited and have numerous transitions and effects in it to take any video to another level. Big productions have also used this software to edit their movies like Deadpool, Avatar, Gone Girl and many more. So, if there is already a software available in the market which can edit videos and audio with numerous transitions and effects then, 

10. Why learn After Effects?

A person who is interested in becoming a video editor or work in post-production must have knowledge of After Effects so that they can edit the clips, transition, tracking and effects properly. The editor shall also have knowledge how to create title sequence for the film or series.  
Leaning After Effects has many benefits not only for an editor but also for a designer and marketing professional, as we have already stated above the uses of After Effects in marketing and designing field. 

11. Designers can also use After Effects to animate advertising campaigns for companies since in it the designers can animate logos and present an animated presentation and company message. 

12. Animation artists can create and animate 2D and 3D cartoon characters in the software, they can edit the whole sequence with the help of After Effects. 

13. Illustrator artists have the same use of the software where they can animate their 2D or 3D illustrations. 

14. After Effects is also used in gaming industry since in the software there are effects and other options available for editing videos for VR.

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Uses of Chroma Key in After Effects

 
Before we go and take a look at Chroma key, we need to understand what is keying?

Keying is a composition effect that takes a part of an image or a video and makes it transparent. This part of the image or video is chosen based of color blue or green.

There are different types of keying Adobe After Effects such as

• Color difference key
• Inner/outer Key
•  Linear color key
•  Keylight or Chroma Key

In Keylight or Chroma Key in Adobe After Effects, we take a composition of two images or two videos and compose them together in a single timeline.

As now we have understood what is Keylight or Chroma Key in Adobe After Effects now let's see how to make this happen.

For example, let's make news channel compositions.

First you would need a background.

The background can be an image but it would be suitable if it is a video related to news channel appropriate.

Add an anchor

Now we would need an anchor who is reading some headlines with blue or green background for this part you can download this an appropriate and suitable clip from the internet or shoot it yourself in front of a green or blue background.

You can shoot this clip otherwise standing or sitting; if sitting makes sure there is a desk you are sitting behind to give your composition a formal look. If you are downloading the clip from the internet make sure the anchor and the news, he or she is reading, complements the background. If the size of the anchor is cropped or zoomed-in in the clip make sure you resize it to the proper proportions. 

Add a Table

To make it more realistic add an image of table in front of the anchor to hide any cropped areas. Remember to resize the table according to the proportions too otherwise it may look out of proportion and unrealistic. 

Now you can start to make the news channel composition

First, we need to go to a new project to make a new composition, give any composition name as you desire then choose preset for the composition. You can choose any preset from the several presets provided in the drop-down menu or choose custom and give your own desired size. 

After that choose the Pixel Aspect Ratio, you can leave it at 'square pixels' or choose any other from the drop-down menu. 

Then choose the Frame rate again you can leave it at 29.97 frames per second or choose any other option from the drop-down menu. 

After that, you need to resolution in which you want to work on while composing your video. 

Then you need to enter the duration in which you decide how long you want the video to be. After that, we finally choose the Background color you want to work on.

Remember whatever background color you choose in the final render the background will be black. For any other background color, you need to take a solid layer in the composition and make that the background. 

After clicking on OK go to File click on import and bring all the files in the project panel then drag all the files in the timeline panel. 

Arrange the clips and images wherever they look appropriate. Then choose the anchor layer with a green or blue background and to Effect options from many bars. 

Choose Keying then Keylight (1.2) then take the eyedropper from the Screen color option and choose the background of the clip which is blue or green. 

This will make the clip or image under this layer visible. 

 

Now readjust the layers above to make the composition look realistic. 

Add an adjustment layer to the composition to colorize the video and make it presentable. 

Now that we have seen how we can make a news video clip with the help of chroma key let's see where else chroma key is used. 

Chroma Key is used in movies as a visual effect (VFX), in whether showcase for news channels, in music videos or in any simple images with plain green background. 

Chroma key also has its pros and cons is a very simple and easy tool. 

Pros - With Croma key, we can make a different composition with the same image or video by just changing the background. 

Cons -But chroma key also has some of its difficulties after changing the background the edges of the foreground image have to adjusted so that it looks realistic.

Here we have seen how and where to use chroma key and compose a video, we have also seen some pros and cons of chroma key. And where it can be used.

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Most Important tools in After Effects Application

1. Shape Layers

• One of the best places you can begin is with the shape layer. Shape layers are 2D, level items made either physically by the client with the pen apparatus (see beneath), or with a foreordained shape that After Effects offers, for example, a rectangle, oval, or pentagon. 
• Shape layers enable you to modify properties, for example, their stroke (framework of the shape), fill (the internal region of the shape inside the diagram), and even particular subtle elements like corner roundness. In light of their broad adaptability, they are perfect for rapidly producing symmetrical shapes, complex examples, and 2D craftsmanship. 
• Solid layers are very helpful too, however aren't sufficiently convoluted to warrant point by point clarification. They are essentially a shape layer without adaptable properties past measurements, shading, and standard 2D change properties like position, scale, and pivot. 

2. Pen Tool/Masks 

• We can't talk about shape layers and strong layers without addressing the pen instrument. The pen device enables you to make a shape or line by drawing a vertex at any given moment. This can be utilized to veil off a particular region of a strong layer, and it can likewise be utilized to draw another shape layer. These are its most major purposes, yet the pen device likewise enables you to draw and modify ways. 

• Paths can be utilized as position direction for a layer to move along, or notwithstanding for content, down to the individual character if craved. In this same vein, the stroke impact can be connected to a strong layer with a way, which will draw a movable line along said way — a more proficient substitute to enlivening a shape layer's worked in stroke.

• With these different applications, the pen device can be utilized to rotoscope (follow a protest include or evacuate it, generally from live activity film), make fine art, and accomplish an assortment of cool content impacts, for example, mimicked hand composing or wavy development. While there are for all intents and purposes interminable approaches to use the pen apparatus, these are among the most prominent.  

3. Track Mattes

• The pen apparatus is correspondingly vital with respect to track mattes. A track matte uses one layer to cover another as indicated by the straight forwardness or luminance of the veiling layer. For instance, in the event that you set a layer to Alpha Matte, it will constrain its appearance to non-straightforward zones of the layer above it. Alpha Inverted Matte would restrain the layer's appearance to just the straightforward regions of the layer above it.
• Track mattes are awesome for utilizing existing advantages for change layers — particularly Luma Mattes, since they depend on brilliance as opposed to straightforwardness. Be that as it may, the fundamental offering purpose of the track matte is its adaptability. When utilizing the pen device to veil off a piece of a scene, applying said cover to a committed matte layer will permit you more space for blunder. 
• For example, if roto scoping a man inside real to life film, you may wind up veiling off the recording layer itself. Instead of point of confinement yourself along these lines, you're in an ideal situation rotoscoping this cover onto a committed strong layer isolate from the recording, at that point putting it over your recording layer and setting that recording layer to Alpha Matte. 
• For one, this will enable you to see your veil with a level shading, underlining imperfections. Furthermore, with this veil connected to a processor-accommodating strong layer, you can copy it and utilize it to cover off different layers later on without stalling your render times or managing the challenges of copying covers. 
• Track mattes gloat effectiveness benefits too, as you would more be able to rapidly accomplish some veiling impacts by means of the position, scale, and turn properties of a matte layer, instead of the disappointing work process of complex position, scale, and pivot cover activity by means of the pen apparatus.

Adobe After Effects is a powerful application tools for VFX and Motion Graphics. We can use After Effects' tools to create dynamic designs for broadcast, web designing, DVD, and film production. This course will help you master the concepts and features to the program. It includes many advanced features, including tips and tricks using the newest version.