[Nick Vitello]

I would export a still image of the elephant from AE and apply it to a plain in C4D.

Then setup a camera in C4D and frame your elephant.

Next create your scene and your car to the way you would like them to interact with the elephant

If your background scene doesn’t have any movement at all you can render it out as a still image

Animate your car and render that out with alpha by itself.

In After effects place your BG images from C4D, then your keyed elephant footage on the layer above that and last the animated car scene from C4D to be but on the top layer (If you want the car to go in front of the elephant)

Hope this helps

[Nick Vitello]

Have you tried motion tracking the cue cards and using that information to animate the new text?

Set up motion tracking on the corners of the cue card and make sure to track both the movement and rotation of the card. Then use those key frames to animate whatever you are placing on them.

[Nick Vitello]

I wasn’t able to view the link you attached but this might help you:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/3d_stroke_effect/

or

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/light_streaks/

[Nick Vitello]

If you know after effects you might also want to check out Videocopilots Twitch plugin:
https://www.videocopilot.net/products/twitch/

[Nick Vitello]

Do you want this effect for video or just for still images?

If you want this effect for video I highly recommend the Twitch plugin from Videocopilot:
https://www.videocopilot.net/products/twitch/

It comes with the plugin and tutorials on how to use it. This will definitely give you that Cloverfield effect. It’s terrific.

[Nick Vitello]

I can’t think of a tutorial for this. But to create this effect you first need to find the exact frame you want your family member to freeze on. Then export just that frame from your video editing app or after effects. Remember that frame number because you will need to come back to it.

Next cut out your family member from the image using photoshop or any other image editor and save that cutout with the transparency. Use a image format that supports an alpha channel such as .png.

Now in after effects put that exported frame image on a layer above the movie clip. Then bring that cutout image into after effects and put in on the layer just above the frame still image. Have both those image layers start at that frame you exported from.

Now you can have whatever background you want to appear behind just your family member by putting it between the export frame image and the cutout image. To the viewer it will appear like the background disappeared as the title background appeared while leaving your family member.

For a nice effect try panning the cutout image a little over the new background or make them 3D and pan a camera over it.

Hope this helps.

[Nick Vitello]

The best way to achieve this 3D effect is to cut out all the elements on your picture in Photoshop and bring them into after effects on separate layers. Make them all 3D and add a camera. For the out of focus use the depth of field options in the cameras transform settings.

Take a look at this to help set up your 3D picture:
https://www.adobe.com/designcenter/aftereffects/articles/aft65sd3dtrick.html

[Nick Vitello]

If you wanted to create this manually in After Effects you could use a displacement map to get that corrupted image jag.

Or duplicate the image and use a combination of masks and adjustment layers to add the jags and color tint changes where you want them to appear.

[Nick Vitello]

But Camtasia’s made for screen recording. What I need to do is scale down a screen recording that I already have, but keep image quality. Anyone have any tips or tricks?

[Nick Vitello]

I’ll give it a shot and let you know how it works out.

Thanks a lot Daniel