Hello, this is Eric D. Kirk for mamoworld.com
In this first part of our tutorial series we will start with something very basic and
create the following text overlay.
and if you are using Premiere Pro and want want to start learning how to create
titles or lower thirds for your projects in After Effects
then this is exactly the right tutorial for you.
We start here in Premiere Pro and in the timeline we right-click on the clip that we want to
manipulate in After Effects and choose "Replace with After Effects composition".
Now After Effects starts automatically and creates a project for this clip.
All I need to do is to choose where the project should be saved.
The user interface of After Effects might look a bit overwhelming at first, but it is
very similar to Premiere Pro.
You have your project panel with all your footage and all sequences (which are actually
called compositions in After Effects).
As you can see, your clip has already been imported here.
Also a composition has already been created that contains exactly the part of the clip
that we had in our Premiere Pro sequence.
If you already have an After Effects project open when creating an After Effects composition
in Premiere Pro, Premiere will not create a new project, but will simply add it to the
currently open one instead.
So let's say we select this first clip here in the Premiere Pro timeline and again right-click
and choose "Replace with After Effects composition".
Now a new footage item and a new composition have been added to the same After Effects
project.
If we double click on one of the compositions in the project panel, it is opened here in
the viewer and here in the timeline.
You can also switch between the open compositions by clicking on the different tabs
here in the timeline.
To give a composition a more meaningful name, just select it in the project panel and hit
the enter key on your keyboard.
Let's call this one "Scene 1" and this one "Scene 2".
Now let's create our text.
We choose the text tool and click in the preview monitor where the text should be and type
"featuring".
As you can see, we have now a new layer for our text here in the timeline.
Let's click with the text tool again in the viewer to create a second text layer
"John Doe".
Now we are done with the text tool and go back to the normal selection tool.
Then we go to "Window->Character" to reveal the character panel where we can choose the
font, size and color for the text.
Once we are happy we the design, we can start animating.
For this we will use effects and the extension Squash & Stretch for After Effects which contains
lots of ready to use animations that you can apply in a single click.
Let's start with the fun part and use Squash & Stretch.
It is available both in a Free version and a Pro version.
Let's take a look at the free version first.
We click on this icon here to open the behavior browser of Squash & Stretch.
Here you can see all behaviors that are included in the free version.
Let's pick this "Throw" behavior, for example.
We simply select the layer here, move the current time indicator to the time where the
behavior should end (because this should be the end position of the animation and the
timing option here is set to "End of Behavior") and then apply the behavior.
Now we confirm here that the text should be split into individual characters because it
usually looks much better if each character is animated individually.
We also confirm this message which reminds us that Squash & Stretch will need to precompose
the text to make the animation work.
You see that with the Squash & Stretch extension it is pretty easy to create complex animations.
But this animation is not really what we want, so let's quickly undo it again.
We look for a more subtle animation, of which you find plenty in the "Broadcast Bundle"
of Squash & Stretch Pro.
Squash & Stretch Pro contains 60 behaviors and can be extended with extra bundles that
can be purchased separately.
The Broadcast Bundle is one of those and contains 130 additional behaviors - so a lot of animations
to choose from.
We want to use the "Scale In Middle Abrupt 2 Slow".
Again, before applying the behavior, we need to move to the point in time where the animation
should end.
For this it is very handy to know how long the animation actually is.
We can simply click this work area button here, which will set the work area in the
timeline exactly to the duration of the behavior.
Now we know that if the behavior should start at the beginning of the composition, it will
end exactly here.
Now we select both text layers, since we want to apply the behavior to both of them and
click apply.
This time we decide to do not split the text, since it should animate as one single object
and not each letter separately.
Now let's refine this animation with at additional effect.
We select both layers and go to "Effect->Blur and Sharpen->Gaussian Blur".
If we twirl down the details of the two layers by clicking on this triangle, in the section
"Effects" you can now see the "Gaussian Blur" that we just applied.
You can also see the "Squash & Stretch Bezier Warp" effect that Squash & Stretch created
when we applied the behavior.
In general, Squash & Stretch creates effects and keyframes on your layers to create its
animations, but you don't need to bother about the details.
If you reveal the details of the Blur effect, you can control the blurriness by clicking
and dragging this number here.
We want the text to start with a heavy blur that should disappear over time.
To change the blurriness over time, we need to keyframe it.
We first make sure we are at the frame where the animation should start - say this frame
here which is the first frame where the text is clearly visible.
Then we click this stopwatch icon here which activates key framing for the property.
If we now change the Blurriness again, it will only change the blurriness for the keyframe
at the current position and not for the entire duration of the composition.
Let's set the blur to about 100 such that the text is barely visible.
Then we move to the end of the animation and set the blurriness to 0.
As you can see that created a second keyframe and the blurriness now fades out nicely.
Finally we work a little bit on the timing.
We don't want the texts to appear immediately at the beginning.
So we just drag them a bit to the right.
As you can see, all the keyframes move with the layers automatically.
Also, maybe the "featuring" text should appear a tiny little bit before the "John
Doe" text, so we make sure just this single text is selected
and move it a bit to the side.
Once we are happy with our result, we make sure to save it and go back to Premiere Pro.
As you can see, due to Dynamic Link everything we did in After Effects is now directly available
inside of Premiere Pro.
I hope this tutorial helps you to get started with After Effects.
In the next part of this series we will create a lower third and you will learn how to work
with shape layers.
For a more comprehensive introduction to After Effects please also check out our "mamoworld
Guru Lessons".
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Again, this is Eric D. Kirk for mamoworld.com - see you next time!
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