Jul 9, 2008 - Here are some free news templates I created for After Effects CS3. Help me, just how do you make the news ticker work and change layers? Has this effect of 'reflection' kinda. Would be awesome if youll ever cover how.
Create a broadcast news style ticker in After Effects using shape layers and expressions! This video tutorial will show you how.
Great for a news or magazine style program (or a parody of these shows!), this tutorial will show you all you need to create a news ticker in After Effects. This particular example is created with only shape layers and text, but you can expand on the principles of this technique by adding your own gradient and graphics for a custom look. Motion is added to the news ticker animation using After Effects expressions – so those not familar with using expressions in your AE projects may want to check out our previous post “ “.
We’ll also cover exporting the file with an alpha channel, so you can easily layer the After Effects news ticker over footage in any video editing application. Give your project the official look you see on popular stations like BBC and CNN – check out this quick tutorial for making a custom news ticker in After Effects: Full Video Transcript: [color-box color=”gray”]This is Evan Abrams for Premiumbeat.com, and today we’re going to make this falling photo montage in After Effects you can use to display vacation photos or really any kind of photos, like they’re falling Polaroids. So let’s open up After Effects and get into it. The first thing to do is make a new composition.
You can it make whatever you’d like, but we’re going to go with the HGTV1080 preset, 1 minute in length. First we’re going to make the actual photo template that we’re going to use. That’s done by making a new shape layer. Then we add to that shape layer a rectangle, and we want it to be as accurate to the size of Polaroids as we can. We know that it’s approximately 350 x 425. Make sure that it has a fill and set that fill to white.
Okay, now we’re going to duplicate that to create a new rectangle, and this will serve as the alpha channel for the photo parts. I’m going to change its size down to be 300 x 312.5.
Then we will change its color to be red and just adjust it up slightly to be in the correct spot. And then we will just rename these appropriate to what they stand for, so that we don’t get confused. Now we’ll create some text using the text tool to make some labels.
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Just as a pro tip, you don’t want to be absolute in your color values all time. Then we’ll just position this right there, and we’ll use the rotation and scale to get it just to the right size and shape that we would like. That looks good, and now we are ready to add a photo into this. So go ahead and import a photo. Any photo will do.
We’re going to use some tropical beach stuff. Just drag that below the red rectangle, and then scale it down to fit appropriately around it. Toggle switches and modes, and then set it to alpha mat of that red rectangle. We’ll go to positioning and you have created your Polaroid. Now we’re going to set all the boxes to be 3D for these layers, and we’ll just edit the position of that photo layer to be slightly higher, which is important to prevent tearing that happens in the 3D rendering process. Tecmo cup football game sega genesis game cheats 2017.
As well just to hit AA on the bottom layer, and set it to cast shadows, which will be also important later. Select all of those, and then pre- compose them, calling that new composition, “Photo 1”. Click the Collapse Transformation button, so that all of the attributes inside that composition will function out in the main composition. Create a new solid that will serve as our background. Make it a light grey color, just to differentiate it from the white of the photos, and then set it below that photo layer. Make both of the layers, three dimensional by clicking their 3D switch boxes. Create a new camera and set its blurriness to 200, and its aperture to 1.4. Make sure that its depth of field is on.
As well, make a new light. Make it a point light.
Make it at least 100% intensity, so that we have some light in our scene. Now open up the position of the light in the camera, and copy the camera’s position onto the light, which will put the light at where the camera is. We’re going to just push the background back a little bit. Open up its position and move that Z position back just so we can see the shadow coming around the photos.