[Jason Mettler]

Thanks!

[Jason Mettler]

You can always change the composition setting resolution after making your scene. Then highlight all layers, right click on them and under “Transform” choose ‘fit to comp’

[Jason Mettler]

Use a solid with a mask feather out quite far. Use the ‘wiggle’ expression on the Opacity. To get there, highlight the layer, Alt + click on the stopwatch, and then type the expression: wiggle(1,5)
Experiment with the numbers.
Once you have the look your looking for, duplicate the layer a few times and move them around and off-set their position in the timeline so the flickers are different.

That should do it.

[Jason Mettler]

Click the mouse and drag the highlight square over all the layers you want to select. Simply, then, click on one of the layers in the view with the colored bars. Don’t let go, and drag them all over to the spot you want. You must have done something to click off the layers because your instinct was right on your first attempt.

[Jason Mettler]

Check out:
videocopilot.net
AE.tutsplus.com
sternfx.com
graymachine.com
motionworks.com.au
redgiantsoftware.com
mamoworld.com

That will keep you busy for at least a year!

[Jason Mettler]

Make the angled plane and spin it 90 degrees. Make the front plane. To get them to touch move each planes axis point (with the pan behind tool) to the touching edge.
Then, under the layer property ‘transform’, uncheck the paper clip box on ‘scale’. Keyframe the X value from 0 to whatever and time the outer plane to start just as the side plane finishes.

Hope that helps!

[Jason Mettler]

You can create a special folder and move the effects into it. Find ‘Computer/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe After Effects CS*/Support Files/Presets’
Put folder in here. You can run into trouble if you move a part of a plugin and not the whole thing (Optical Flares, etc.) so try them out as you move them.
Also to get a folder to stay near the top make its name like this:

__Folder Name__

[Jason Mettler]

Yep. The easy way to set that up is to create a new camera and a new null object. Parent the camera to the null and then only animate the null. The reason for this is that the camera has two parameters that are difficult to get just right sometimes, but using a null eliminates that problem.

[Jason Mettler]

I don’t recall seeing a tut on this but you can assemble it yourself – it will just take some time. Create your squares and make them 3D. Use the ‘pan behind’ tool (Y on the keyboard) to move the axis point to the edge you want the square to rotate on. Then put them all in place first. Rotate them 90 degrees on the Y or X axis to disappear and rotate them to 0 degrees to show. To get the bounce effect, check out Dan Ebbert’s site. He has an expression that will do this quickly.

https://motionscript.com/expressions-lab-ae65/table-of-contents.html

It’s under ‘Pendulum’

Hope this helps!

[Jason Mettler]

Did you set the rotation to a negative number when you slowed it down? An easier way may be to set your rotations and then pre-compose your scene. In the new comp, use time remapping keyframes to slow or speed the scene up. You have much more control that way.