LESSON 10: SPECIAL EFFECTS

So you want to create some amazing effects for your film and don't know where to start?  I great program that has a lot of support and tutorials online is called Adobe After Effects. If you are looking for effects for your movie intros or you want to create an explosion of some sort. This program can do it all.  Once again you can get a free trial here.  See below for a quick video that I created with Adobe after effects and some free music I found online.

For this video I used several plug ins to get this effect. Some that were included with After effects and Some that I downloaded. 

This text effect that was added came within After effects.
The bubble effect you see flying toward the camera is called Trapcode Particular - View product here

The lens flares is a product called Optical Flare from Video Copilot - You can see this and other products here

If you are looking for video tutorial I would recommend checking out Video Copilot as well - There are many step by step tutorial from beginner to advanced. This site is the best you will find online for After effects tutorials.

Another great option when you purchase Adobe Production Premium Suite.  There is a function called Dynamic Link,  it works between After effects and Adobe Premiere . Example, If you are doing your editing with your raw video files into Premiere,  you can choose to add your effects in After effect,  The changes will update in real time without having to save your video from one program and importing it into the other.  Dynamic link also works with the other Adobe production as well.

When you feel your ready for a more advanced editing software, I would recommend using Adobe Premiere as your editing software because of the Dynamic Link option

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