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How can I make animated overlay effects?
EDIT: Never mind. I found out that the process is called “Motion Graphics”. I’m actually sort of disappointed in this site, since nobody even bothered to reply to the post in over 27 hours..
It’s fine though, the post was a little hard to understand at first. But still disappointed that nobody replied, 9 hours since the edit. Just leaving it up here in case anyone is interested or something.Hello guys! New to Adobe After Effects here.
I’m trying to add effects to videos for Youtube, and I’d like to know how to make animated effects for overlaid photos. There must be a name for it, but I just can’t find any mention of it anywhere!
I don’t know how to call it, and every single “photo effect for videos” or “photo overlay effect” yields results that I really don’t need at all. Like “how to animate still photos!” or “how to overlay channel name for livestreams!” stuff like that.So, I’m looking to be able to animate text and images with or without transparent backgrounds (like simply spinning them in/out of the frame, or scrolling through them) on top of the video, like shown in the video below. (2:05 is a good example)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNTBC7Qe-R0
(Please excuse the wildly chaotic video; I just can’t really find a better example of what I’m talking about.)
I don’t need such dramatic effects, I’m trying to create a calm tutorial channel and I simply can’t find how else to describe what I’m talking about!
Could anyone inform me on how to create this effect, and if possible, tell me what it’s called so I won’t have to pester you guys all the time? 🙂Some contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.
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Candid and truthful opinion, I guess. I thought my explanation should have been sufficient enough to at least put the thought of “motion graphics” into SOMEBODY’s mind.. I guess not.
On other news, I’ve been looking into lots of tutorials on motion graphics and such, and have progressed significantly into the world of After Effects. Most of it was very easy to be honest, I was able to get the hang of it in less than an hour.Thanks for the reply. Although I wasn’t able to get any answers on this question, judging by the other questions and answers on this site, I think I’ll be using it later on as well. I hope I get answers then!
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Dave is right.. Learn the basics..
this is a great place to start
https://www.videocopilot.net/basic/
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I did “pick up random youtube tutorials”, but that was only for motion graphics, which is quite simple if you’re only trying to do simple things.
I will learn the other basics from the tutorials you gave me. Thank you! -
I think you don’t fully understand the term “Motion Graphics”. Motion Graphics is an entire field, not a technique. It’s half of what AE is used for.
To put it simply, compositing programs like After Effects are used for two different purposes: Visual Special Effects and Motion Graphics. Special Effects is any process in cinema used to manipulate, augment, or create realistic video footage: sky replacement, explosions, CGI landscapes, etc.
Motion Graphics is a subset of Graphic Design, literally putting motion to graphical elements. Logo animations, adding text, user interfaces for apps/games.
Both of these are complex specialized fields that people get degrees in and spend their entire lives perfecting. They are also creative forms, so saying “motion graphics is simple once you get used to it”, isn’t really relevant. It can be very simple, or it can be very complex depending on the task, and same with special effects. I’ve spent days rotoscoping a video clip for special effects purposes… I’ve also spent days programming motion graphic user interfaces using pages of scripting code in AE.
Just a few little chestnuts for ya.
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oof, that’s embarrassing. Now I sound like a 12 year old. X(
I tend to do stuff like this: Learn things from a certain subject, then think I’ve learned pretty much everything, when there is in fact tons more to learn, and I would never be able to go on with only the content I’ve already learned.
I’m going to be very busy for the next 2 weeks or so, and I really can’t start watching it now, but I will, once I can!Thanks for the detailed explanation; I probably would have had some big difficulties if I just went on the way I was.
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