[Chase Massingill]

You can do this using a “custom effect.”

There are various tutorials online and tools for creating these. Its pretty straightforward – the only part that took me a while to get was actually doing a popup style option, since none of the tutorials I found online include this, perhaps because it was added as a feature after the time of their writing.

This tutorial gives a good start, and there is a tool for doing the basic creation of the UI as well.
https://www.batchframe.com/tutorials/12

Once you get a grasp on how to create a custom effect, you can modify what you have learned there to create a popup by looking through PresetEffects.xml file mentioned in the tutorial. It has some hints on the syntax and even a few custom effects in there you can look at as examples.

[Chase Massingill]

Tim,

Although I have never really talked to anyone who had a subscription, I did get a chance to do a lesson when Dean was at NAB/BEA last year. I think it was when he was first getting the Anvel off the ground, but at the time the coursework seemed really solid, definitely alot better than anything I ever learned in my AE course in college (although that was horrible so its not much to compare to). It was alot of like real world scenario kinda situations and how to work through them, and very cool way to learn AE since you feel like you are actually doing something cool and not just walking through some cheesy tutorial. Unlike alot of tutorials and training I have seen, the stuff you create in his courses is actually well designed and professional.

Dean was super knowledgable, and was also kind enough to take a few minutes to chat with me and give me some career/demo reel advice that was really helpful as well. So, from my experience, if you are looking to learn some AE its a solid choice. Plus, 4 out of 5 cow rating is sure fire.

-Chase