Creative Communities of the World Forums

The peer to peer support community for media production professionals.

Activity Forums Adobe After Effects Looking for a tutorial of a scary intro

  • Looking for a tutorial of a scary intro

    Posted by Hugo Soares on February 3, 2012 at 8:58 am

    Hello my name is Hugo Soares and I’m 17.

    I’d like to know if is there any intro tutorial like this : white background, black smoke appears and leaves a title, black smoke appears again and leaves with the slogan.
    Something like that scary… slowly.

    PS : I’m very beginner -_-
    PS2: And please, why, when I try to save something in AVI in After Effects of like 3 minutes, why it comes with 5GB or more? D:

    Thank you.

    John Cuevas replied 14 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
  • 1 Reply
  • John Cuevas

    February 3, 2012 at 7:04 pm

    As a beginner, you should start here

    I highly recommend the video copilot series and Angie Taylors videos.

    There are also 2 entire basics series for AE, HERE at the Cow

    AE FAQ: Why is my output file huge?? The short answer though is After Effects renders files to uncompressed “AVI’s”. If you want to compress your files AE can do it, but it’s not the best tool. The general work formula is to take that uncompressed file to media encoder where it can do a much better compression job.

    Here’s a from VideoCopilot that shows one of creating the smoke/wipe you are trying to achieve, but it’s may be a bit advanced. If you to a google search for “create smoke after effects” you will find a lot of different recipes for creating smoke(there are a ton)

    Good Luck

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

    “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
    —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

We use anonymous cookies to give you the best experience we can.
Our Privacy policy | GDPR Policy