[Michael Szalapski]

That’s some random wiggling on text animation for per character spacing, scaling, and opacity.
It looks like that layer was copied and Fast Blur was applied to the copies.
Then there’s some wiggling on Fast Blur (some set to blur horizontal, some set to blur vertical)
That should at least point you in the right direction.

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[Michael Szalapski]

If you mean that part at the very beginning where orange cards transition into a screen shot; there’s no depth there, that is easily done with regular Card Dance or Card Wipe.

If you mean the part with the playing cards; that is definitely a 3d program. This entire demo reel is showcasing 3d animation work. All of it is done in a 3d program. (AE may have been used for compositing and coloring)

That could be faked in AE though. If you used Card Dance or Card Wipe for the background cards and Zaxwerk’s 3d Invigorator for a few foreground cards you could pull it off.
If you don’t have the 3d Invigorator, you could use Shatter. There are several posts/tutorials out there on using Shatter to simulate 3d.
Or you could create a bunch of identical layers barely set off in z space from each other. Parent them all to one of the layers. Enough layers spaced the correct distance apart can give a good illusion of 3d.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Try one of the luma keyers available with AE or you could try Unmult, which is a free plugin originally intended to do transparency for lens flares on black.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Do you have a link to an example?
Off the top of my head, you could build pieces in AE with solids for the sides and back, parent them to the front piece and each card would be animated separately (or with expressions).
Or an actual 3d program could have been used.

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[Michael Szalapski]

And in Premiere, did you set the clip’s transparency to be based on the Alpha?

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[Michael Szalapski]

I understand how you created it. (But that video showing it is really cool.)

I was just trying to explain how they were suggesting you do it in an NLE. I agree with those who say you should check out the expressions forum and see if anybody there has a good suggestion.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Doing this in an editing program wouldn’t take as long as you think. Once you get a segment the length you want, you just copy and paste it. Then copy both of them and paste them. Copy the four and paste them several times and you’ll get a long sequence of that tiny segment looping like in your clip. Time remapping is cool and all, but the speed it plays would be different, your example seems to all be playing at the same speed. Like I said, just make a clip in a video editing program (Final Cut, Avid, Premiere) and repeat it, make a different length clip and repeat it. You don’t have to do all the cuts by hand at all.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Trapcode’s 3d stroke is quite useful too.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Not really.
You could create a couple instances of it and offset them from one another, but that would probably look a little weird. You could use Shatter and time remap it, but you won’t have the same kind of controls.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Thank you for the compliment on my demo reel. Yes; it’s all in AE.

I haven’t looked at that particular Particular project myself, but it should be as simple as importing your footage or picture into the project and dragging your footage/picture from the project window into the timeline.

Please, for the love of all things good and holy, read your After Effects documentation. Have the documentation open in one window while you play with AE in another. Follow along, play with what the documentation is talking about.

Before you start trying to create such advanced effects, you need to learn the basics of the program. It is a very complicated piece of software that can do amazing things, but you absolutely must learn the basics first. It’s not an easy program to master. If you want to do cool things, it will take some time. That’s why people like me can sometimes charge over $100 an hour for our work.

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