Creating a vignette in After Effects

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Course contents
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Inspiration 4:15
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Swinging text 10:36
SECTION: 14
Puppet tool 5:54
SECTION: 15
Effects & presets 6:56
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What now? 3:56

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Course info

53 lessons / 6 hours

Overview

Motion graphics are an essential part of video creation and editing. From moving titles across the screen to stabilising your footage to smooth out the bumps or replacing a sign in the background. Ubiquitous, subtly powerful, and for the beginner, a bit mystifying. You need to learn motion graphics. You need a tutorial that will help at every step of the way, without leaving you drowning in details.

If you’ve ever made a video, you’ve probably already discovered that it’s all the little extra infographics, titles and animation that make your project look professional – and you’ve probably already wondered which is the right After Effects tutorial that will let you access the potential.

After Effects is the industrial strength tool for putting the motion in your graphic designs and content. It can also appear to be pretty deep, so getting guidance from a pro that understands how to teach, as much as how to use, After Effects is going to be the key that unlocks your potential.

How about a motion graphics tutorial taught by a working professional who just happens to be great at teaching too? Daniel Scott has been working with animation and motion graphics for over a decade and is the founder of Bring Your Own Laptop - they've been helping people learn design and animation all over the world for just as long.

 



 

Daniel, an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, will take you one manageable step at a time through motion graphics in a series of small practical projects that come together to unlock Adobe After Effects, animation, and infographics. These tutorials give you the complete foundation that you can build on for years to come. Learn the principles and the specifics of producing content, in a way that you'll understand and remember. And stay awake.

Just 3 hours long, and very hands on, you’ll take on specific tools and techniques one at a time so you can easily comprehend each aspect of the tutorial, and see all the parts of creating motion graphics before you get intimidated by the scale of what you can do. From zero to hero, as we like to say.

You get downloadable exercise files that match the course, so no time wasted trying to match project settings or finding material to work with. And you can use the end results in your own projects or portfolio – you can customise them to suit your needs as you grow in understanding.

To learn motion graphics is to unlock the door on the magic that makes your video or web content stand out in the crowd. Daniel is going to provide you with the motion graphics tutorial you’ve been looking for to get more than your foot in the door – you’re going to be able to create beautiful animation and infographics. You’ll be empowered to use After Effects the way it was meant to be used, and to create your own creative content, even during the tutorial itself.

What are the requirements?

  • This course is for absolute beginners

  • You'll need a copy of Adobe After Effects CC 2015 or above. A free 30 day trial can be download from Adobe here.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • Create beautiful motion graphics

  • Animate compelling infographics

  • Choose the correct video settings.

  • You’ll learn how to exporting your video easily.

  • You’ll be able to create slick type animations.

  • Rendering your video for Youtube & Vimeo.

  • Create titles for interviews.

  • Add music to your motion graphics.

  • Trim & editing video.

  • Add watermarking your video.

  • Fixing shaky footage.

  • Color correct & fix any bad footage.

  • Add a vignette to your video.

  • Learn how to use your skills from Illustrator & Photoshop

  • How to use green screen footage

  • How to mask like a pro.

  • How to animate infographics like bar graphs, line graphs & pie charts.

  • How to use camera to make 3D type.

  • Animating static images using parallax

  • Plus basic character animation.

  • + More…

What is the target audience?

Yes:

  • This course is for people who want to start earning money as a motion graphics designer.

  • This course is for beginners wanting to learn to use After Effects for motion graphics and infographics.

  • No previous After Effects or animation skills are necessary.

No:

  • This course is NOT for people who have a good understanding of After Effects already. This is for new people only.

Course duration 5 hours+ your study.

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

Hi, welcome to this video. Were going to make a vignette, now a vignette is that kind of glow or black darkens around the outside, so photographers from the days of your, spend their time trying to remove it because it was part of the photography process with flash bulbs. Now we all add it to make it look cool, so were going to do is to this case. So were going to put it around the edges and were going to add it to the one and were going to use it throughout the project because I don’t know why, its one of those little sec ret sources. We've done easing which is nice, motion blur which is nice but vignette which is one of those nice little things that make it more after effectsy.

So to do it, its really easy you just add this one here, the lumetri colour so if you haven’t done the previous video just type in here lume and what you're going to do is make sure that actually lets, well leave it here. So if you haven’t done the last video go and do that and we've created this thing called an adjustments layer, if you haven’t go to layer, new and add the adjustments layer. There he is there, then drag lumetri onto this layer, and hey presto you’ve got him here in your effects controls. If you can’t see effects controls, go into here and there's effects controls.

Alright so we've been playing around in the last one so we've got all this stuff here, what we might do is just twirl it up to make it look nice and pretty. So close them all down and even if you haven’t done basic correction from the last one, you're just going to do vignette you can leave all of those blank and just do vignette here. Vignette here is one of those words that I will die not knowing how to spell, vignette. I can never Google it so it takes me ages to figure out the spelling for this one for my notes. But anyway, so vignette is just this glow around the outside and you'll see if you drag it to the right it goes white, and I never need a white vignette, its always dragging it to the left. So I'm clicking and dragging, remember you can lower this and use this if you prefer, can you see the black around the outside that is vignette. And it just gives it that feeling like it’s a little bit old school. Watch this, my ones not keeping up very well, I'm on half, I'm going to go to full just, but you get a sense for it right. I'm scrubbing through it and it just gives it that glow around that outside, you might hate it don’t do vignettes. If you do like it, add them to everything

Alright so that’s a vignette, you can play around with these things in terms of the mid points. Watch this I can get it to creep in a little bit more, I'm really over cooking this at the moment but I'm okay with that, I love vignettes, the more the merrier. The roundness depends if it’s an oval or more like a square. I'm going to make it a bit more like a square. Feather, just the transition its perfect as it is but let’s move him around. You can see that’s what we’re starting with here. And hey presto vignette, you like it, on, off, on, off. It’s definitely a lot different than it was. You might be horrified at the over saturated colours but I don’t mind. You can do it your way when you're doing it.

Alright, that’s how to do a vignette in after effects.

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