Lock Layer Position with Expressions – Stop Accidental Moves!
Tired of accidentally dragging your layers in After Effects when all you wanted to do was adjust an effect? Here’s a quick and easy way…
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Animate 3D paths around the world in After Effects
For this video, I show off a technique that involves no 3rd-party software, plugins or subscriptions. This has been something I’ve seen asked for a…
Easily Format Big Numbers and Currency in After Effects
A quick expression to automatically add separators, decimals and currency symbols when using a text layer. I have seen this problem raised a lot on…
3 Expressions to fade layers for you in After Effects
Breaking down three different ways to control the visibility of layers by adding an expression to the opacity property. All three methods provide you with…
Using Luma Mattes in Adobe Premiere Pro
This very quick tutorial shows you how to take an RGB clip and apply its separate Luma Matte pass using the built-in tools. This lets…
Using Luma Mattes in DaVinci Resolve
This very quick tutorial shows you how to take an RGB clip and apply its separate Luma Matte pass using the built-in tools. This lets…
Every way to export transparent videos from After Effects
In this video, I break down each way you can export a video with an alpha channel. Each format and codec has its own benefits…
Rotating around an object or layer in After Effects
One of the most frequently asked questions on forums is: “how can I smoothly rotate around or orbit another layer?” And the answer is really…
Animate 3D Materials in After Effects
Swap textures on 3D models for animated precomps, with only a tiny element of Blender needed. In this tutorial, I build on the technique I…
Animate color changes of 3D Objects in After Effects
It is so cool these days that Adobe After Effects supports 3D objects directly. Being able to import GLB, GLFT and OBJ models makes animation…