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How To Create Circle Bursts in AE
You’ve seen them everywhere, from whiteboard explainer videos to business presentations. The circle bursts are fun to use and they add character to your videos. Let’s go ahead and see how to create them in After Effects The steps First we’ll create a new solid, Layer – New – Solid, and we’ll make it the

How To Make a Cool Progress Bar With A Percentage Count in After Effects
In today’s article we’re going to take a look at how to create a nice looking progress bar animation inside After Effects and we’ll also create a percentage counter using a simple expression and a slider control. So, without further ado let’s jump right into it and see how it’s done The Steps To Creating

How To Make Auto Adjusting Lower Thirds in Adobe After Effects
In today’s article we’ll take a look at a very cool and simple to use a technique in After Effects, that will enable you to create lower thirds that automatically adjust according to the length of the text you type in and this will make your animation work super quick and efficient. To do this

How To Zoom In Your Footage In Premiere Pro
In today’s article, we’re going to take a look at how to zoom in your footage and this technique is very easy to use, yet very powerful and useful To achieve the zoom effect we will work with the scale property, and optionally the position property so we’ll need to adjust those accordingly. So let’s

How To Create The Light Leaks Effect In After Effects
In this tutorial we’ll take a look at creating the popular light leaks effects in After Effects and for this, we’ll only use the build in the plugin that comes with the software and we’ll give a special twist to the Fractal Noise effect, so let’s get started The light leaks effect can be used

Kinetic Text Animation in After Effects
In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at creating a cool text kinetic animation in AE and for this, we’ll be using the built-in tools from the software along with a helpful expression. So let’s go ahead and see how it’s done The steps to creating the kinetic text First, we’ll create a new composition

How To Use Both Sides Of A Layer
Welcome to this tutorial and today we’re going to be looking at how to use both sides of a layer, more specifically how to make use of the backside of a layer when rotating it. There are 2 ways to go around it, we’ll be using a special expression for our first example and a

Swinging Text Animation in Adobe After Effects
In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at re-creating a popular kinetic animation in After Effects, the swinging text animation. We’ll be using a special swing expression for the movement and you can edit the values and come up with your own variation of the animation. This method is very useful for creating

Hand Camera Movement in After Effects
Hi and welcome to this tutorial, in this article we’ll take a look at creating a fake hand camera movement in After Effects and for this, we’ll be using a simple expression. We’ll also be adding a slider control so you can change the movement settings easily or turn the effect off. This will enable