Bulk Font Replacement in Premiere Pro

If you want to change the font of multiple text layers in Premiere Pro, there is a simple bulk method that will replace them all…

Fractal Noise Gradient in Adobe After Effects

To make a gradient with fractal noise, we start with a new solid and add the fractal noise effect. We want to make this look…

After Effects Tutorial - Loop Fractal Noise

Fractal Noise is one of the most useful effects available in Adobe After Effects. Since the pattern is generate randomly, you might be wondering how…

Flicker Text Reveal in Adobe After Effects

One way to animate text to appear in After Effects is to create a flicker-on effect. With your text layer selected, choose the animate button…

Control Text Glow with Audio in After Effects

With a Glow Effect added to your text and an audio track in the composition, the first step is to right-click on the audio track…

Ferris Wheel Rotation in After Effects

To animate a Ferris Wheel, start with the cars on separate layers from the wheel shape itself. Then, import your graphic file into After Effects…

Throw Expression in Adobe After Effects

The “Throw” expression is a time-saver in After Effects. It allows you to move something at a constant speed without keyframes. To create the expression,…

After Effects Tutorial - Text Blur Reveal

Here’s a way to do a quick blur reveal for your text layer. Start by going into the text options to click the Animate button…

Work Hard, Sleep Well

There are times when the life of a videographer or photographer puts the body through a lot. Whether its camera setups at sports arenas, days…

After Effects Tutorial - Shape Layer Stroke Animation

We’ll start with a shape layer, and our goal is to animate the stroke, duplicate it out, and alter the copy for a cool effect.…

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The Video Creators Virtual Summit was a great success, offering 52 courses from expert instructors in Premiere Pro and After Effects. If you missed the…

Expand Text Reveal in Adobe After Effects

Here’s a quick tutorial for text reveal where your text layer will expand outward quickly. Start with a text layer and animate Position, Opacity, and…

Online Conference Offers Free Training to Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects Users

Video Creators Virtual Summit is coming February 18 – 22, 2024. Twenty of the world’s top Premiere Pro and After Effects instructors will be sharing…

Synchronize Audio in Adobe Premiere Pro

You don’t need to search through your audio clips to find matching waveform peaks to sync audio manually in your Premiere Pro timeline! Simply select…

Solar Atmosphere in Adobe After Effects

To begin, create a new solid and add Fractal Noise. For this instance, Dynamic Twist is a good fractal type since it creates swirls and…

Auto Resize Shape Layer in After Effects

Add a shape layer background that resizes automatically when you change the text! First, we start with a text layer. In this example, we’ll simulate…

Shape Layer Wave in After Effects

Here’s a quick way to make a wave shape by essentially just drawing a straight line. First, create a shape layer with just a stroke…

Whip-Swish Pan in After Effects

Use After Effects to create your own transitions between clips. One interesting transition is a whip pan, or swish pan. This is when the camera…

Copy & Paste Layer Order in After Effects

Frustrations on the order that layers appear when copy/pasting in After Effects are usually apparent in forums. However, the remedy is quite simple. Select the…

Smoke Creation with Particle Playground in After Effects

One way to create smoke within After Effects is by using Particle Playground. Add Particle Playground to a solid layer by going to Effects –…

Color Match with Lumetri in Premiere Pro

The Lumetri Color panel in Premiere Pro is an excellent color correction tool. It also includes a feature to auto match your clips, and this…

Export with Alpha Channel in After Effects

An Alpha channel defines the transparency in a video clip or image. Basically, transparency is assigned to the pixel. In After Effects, if you create…

Adobe Aero Tutorial - Getting Started with AR (Augmented Reality)

Take a quick look at getting started in Adobe Aero. You’ll see how to quickly position elements and share them via QR Code to an…

Generative Fill in Adobe Photoshop

Using Firefly AI, Adobe has released Generative Fill in Photoshop Beta. It’s a great way to gain efficiency with altering, extending, or replacing content in…

Incremental (Stepped) Movement in After Effects

To move position in increments (or a stop-motion movement), we can create a position expression that takes the rounded value divided by our desired increment.…

Time Remapping in Premiere Pro

If you want to change the speed at certain spots in a singular clip, use the Time Remapping feature. Right-click on your clip and select…

Looping Wiggle in After Effects

You probably learned the Wiggle Expression early on in your After Effects career. In fact, it was the first tutorial presented on my channel. But,…

Inherit Parent Opacity in After Effects

When you parent one layer to another, many properties work in sync. However, opacity does not. To inherit parent opacity, you could use the pickwhip…

Dehancer Pro Plugin in After Effects

Dehancer is a plugin for film effects and film-like color grading. This comprehensive film emulation tool follows the science of analog film making techniques, building…

After Effects Tutorial - Auto Fade In and Out

If you create an expression to automatically fade a layer in and out, it can be efficient in the long run. This is because you’ll…

After Effects Tutorial - Even Layer Spacing

If you want layers evenly spaced in a composition, there’s a handy expression for that. First, create a position expression and make a variable. The…

Name Expression in After Effects

If you want to incorporate a layer name into your composition, the name expression makes it easy. This expression isn’t one of the more popular…

Easy Text Reveal in After Effects

If you want a text layer to be revealed, an easy method is to use a shape layer. Create the shape layer so that it…

Wave Warp for Flag Motion in After Effects

Wave Warp is a tool with many uses, and one such use is to make a flag appear to wave in the wind. While it…

Visual Storytelling Conference heads to Vegas

NAB Show is around the corner. This epic show for broadcasters and other video professionals coincides with meetings and industry sessions galore. If you’ve ever been…

Trim Paths Arrow in After Effects

If you want to create an arrow that moves along a path, especially a curved path, Trim Paths is useful. First, create a shape layer…

Venetian Blinds Techniques in After Effects

Don’t overlook this transition. It may seem simple and boring, but you can get creative with it. A new take on an old effect, Venetian…

Point Control Solution for Maximum Slider Control Value Limit in After Effects

Slider Control Maximum? Point Control to the Rescue! If you’ve tried to make a number counter using Slider Control, you may have noticed a limitation…

Add Motion to Still (Parallax) in After Effects

Often you have to use still images in video. Sure, you can zoom or pan across them, but it would be even more engaging to…

CC Composite After Effects Tutorial

The CC Composite effect in After Effects offers an efficient way to composite an original layer over added effects. The effect is found in the…

CC Power Pin After Effects Tutorial

CC Power Pin is an effect that helps transform your layer to fit into a certain space. Similar to Corner Pin but with more options,…

Null Objects in After Effects - A Basic Tutorial

Null objects are invisible layers in After Effects. You can use the parent pick whip to have other layers in your composition follow the movement…

Clamp Expression in Adobe After Effects

One useful expression is the Clamp Expression. This essentially “clamps down” on the values of a layer by creating a minimum and maximum value level.…

Selectable Track Mattes in After Effects

The recent Adobe update to add selectable track mattes to After Effects is a big deal. This will make your projects much cleaner and your…

Fractal Noise Transition/Reveal in After Effects

As you probably know, Fractal Noise is an effect that has tons of uses. Here, we’ll create a transition with it. We start by creating…

Checkbox Expression Control in After Effects

The Checkbox Control is an expression control that works differently than the other controls in this group. This is because a Checkbox Control can only…

Color Expression Control in After Effects

Apply the Color expression control to easily change the fill color of multiple layers. For example, apply the Color Control effect to a shape layer.…

Layer Expression Control in After Effects

The Layer expression control is useful to have a layer use certain properties from another layer. In this example, we have two text layers that…

Random Fixed Color Expression

This tutorial expands upon my previous tutorial on creating a random color expression. That expression randomly changed color of your shape layer, but you achieved…