This tutorial teaches you how to turn on and also modify title safe and action safe guides in After Effects.
After Effects
The blog posts and tutorials in this category are about After Effects. These resources should help video editors in virtually every version of the software.
After Effects, commonly referred to as AE, is an animation and motion graphics software by Adobe. No matter what NLE a video editor knows (Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro X, etc.), learning AE is a must! The blog posts and tutorials about AE on the Edit Video Faster website teach shortcuts, provide tips, and expert insights from a freelance video editor and video producer with over a decade in the industry.
Here are some topics you will learn about on this website:
- Copying effects of a property onto another layer
- Creating guides and copying them into other compositions
- Adjusting the volume in After Effects
- How to change the space of letters and lines of text
- Changing font and color of text layers
- Making solids and how to change their colors
- Solving common importing issues
- Keyboard shortcuts to show and hide properties
- And so much more!
How to Delete a Layer in After Effects
This tutorial teaches you how to delete a layer in any version of After Effects with one keystroke.
Find Duration Between Keyframes in After Effects
This tutorial teaches you how to easily find the duration between two keyframes in After Effects. This is one of those After Effects tricks that you didn’t know you need and didn’t know even existed. It’s simple to do. Let’s get into it.
Import PSD with Layers in After Effects
The tutorial teaches you how to import a PSD with layers in After Effects while keeping all of it’s layers intact. When you import a PSD with layers in After Effects you can manipulate each individual layer in AE instead of running back and forth into Photoshop.
Easily Center Text in After Effects
The tutorial teaches you how to easily center text and any layer in After Effects.
Solved: After Effects Can’t Edit Keyframes
This article walks you through the simple steps to solving when you can’t edit keyframes in After Effects.
Solved: After Effects RAM Preview Won’t Stop Playing
This tutorial teaches you what to do if the RAM Preview function in After Effects won’t stop playing and is freezing your computer.
How to Split Layer in After Effects
This tutorial will teach you how to split a layer in After Effects. You’ll learn what splitting a layer means, why you would want to do this, how to split a layer using a keyboard shortcut, and how to do this through After Effect’s Edit menu.
Import Image Sequence into After Effects
This tutorial will teach you how to import an image sequence into After Effects.
An image sequence is a group of image files — .psd, .jpg, .png, .tif — that are numbered sequentially together in a folder. Each image acts as one frame of video. And what you are trying to do is import an image sequence into Adobe After Effects. Does that sound right to you? If so, great! Read on.
Add Stroke to Text in After Effects
This tutorial will teach you how to add stroke to text in After Effects. You’ll also learn how to keyframe the stroke so you can change its color over time. And you’ll learn how to make your text display just a stroke so that the inside is see-through.
Just to make sure you’re in the right place, a stroke is a colored border or outline that surrounds text. And you’re looking to add a stroke to text in After Effects. Does that sound like what you’re trying to do? If so, read on!