What I like most about VC tuts, is they give us enough of an idea of what to do, but doesn't baby sit us and enables a lot of room for using this stuff for other purposes.
this tutorial is blowing my mind. I seriously started laughing out loud when you showed the align tool! Just that one little thing alone will save me SO much! This is probably my new favorite tutorial. There were SO many new things I learned in this one. These effects are really versatile so I can make this be my own and not make it look just like this tutorial
This is The one for my future animated logo! How did i not find this earlier... Very nicely done sir! The electric disturbance blew me away! Fantastic work!
I pre comped all of my sound effects, and set the source for the Audio Spectrum effect to this comp. So the animation matches the sound and gives it a way more organic feeling
Always love the sound design for your completed effects! Big fan of Designer Sound btw. It's a bit like BBQ sauce - instantly turns anything you pour it on into something awesome!
Andrew, you beast!!!! My boss kinda hates you because i learn more from you in half an hour than from him in a whole week lol. Please, never stop amazing us.
I don't understand some things on your video... I mean, sometimes, I have the feeling that I've missed something like at 12:25 where there's a new layer that was creat, just like that... Why ?
Great Tutorial. Using the mouse wheel to adjust the rounded corners of a rounded rectangle = AWESOME. How have I been missing this shortcut for the last 15 years???
Very well explained and led this great tutorial. Certainly, I have taken a giant step following step by step video and have been very surprised by the system to create such a powerful object and an impressive finish. Thanks friend!
First video of yours I've seen, been using AE about nine months, you are blowing my mind with these keyboard shortcuts. Really informative thanks, Subbed :D
Even tho I probably wont be using the methods used and the knowledge gained from these tutorials any time soon, I just love listening to Kramer and watching him.. make.. things. Things with awesome in them.
enable blending mode for layers with the button on the left bottom (middle one of those 3 guys) and another thing sneaky turning off the reapearing circle mask at 7:28 as always great work andrew
Thank you for all your efforts and time in sharing these videos. One bit of minor feedback you might consider is using a keystroke display as I've seen in multiple videos you've created (and reading the comments below others have the same experience) that you sometimes use hotkeys without explaining what you did and then for those of us that don't know how you did the hotkey we are lost. Your instruction is excellent.
Hey Andrew, I bumped into one of your blogs and I got hooked to your tutorials since then. You are great man. Thank you for sharing your ideas. I'm learning a lot from you. Subscribed and follow you already.
Thanks for this awesome tutorial. I have watched every single tutorial you made so far. But this is the first I tried out. Very well explained and easy to follow. I have used this spin effect as visualizer for my music, which I just released on my channel. Thanks again Andrew!
Oh my god. This tutorial is very helpful! Although I'm still having a bit of difficulty with the terms and the tools and stuff of After Effects. I'll subscribe so I can watch more of your tutorials!
hmm, can anyone explain what happens on 12:29? he unchecks the solo then a new line layer appears above it. When I do it nothing happens. Additionally, His is one long line that gradually blurs. Mine is still 3 with the dots in between :\
This is fantastic Andrew. I don't know how you do it. I wouldn't even think to do some of the things you do. I would have never guessed to use things like polar coordinates and such.
This was my first time using after effects, love this tutorial. If you could slow it down slightly and also explain more about what shortcut key you're using that would help. But other than that, really impressed with this tutorial, well explained, amazing effects generated from nothing. Thank you!
Hey Andrew, love your stuff man but do you think you could add either some quick keyboard shortcut captions as you hit em' in your vids? or maybe do a keyboard cam so we can see what you're hitting? I get lost sometimes.
Around 12:50, when I parent Lines to the Dots layer, then try and scale them down, it just thins out the layer until it disappears. Any ideas on why this happening? I know I must be doing something wrong, but I just can't seem to figure it out. I've been trying this part for the past 20 miinutes, and I can't seem to get the same effect...
what happened is that you don't have both of the layers selected equally. you have to zoom out and manually select them both together then you can scale them down
I know it's a little late but I might as well tell you since I had the same problem. I had to hold shift will parenting them and then make sure to click on the Scale option of both layers, not the Name. Then I was able to move both of them.
Thank you for the awesome tutorial! The end result is very cool and the tips about the AE keyboard shortcuts and various features were quite helpful as well.
At 12.30, when you try to spin the dots, i see that you have to add a duplicate of the dots and parent the new one with the old. So when I do so, my dots are still not moving :( What did I miss?
Awesome tutorial. Wow, I really need to look at all of After Effects tools! I overlook so many tools and dont realize their importance until you bring them up in a tutorial!
@video copilot 2 questions: 1) how do i watermark it? i mean how do i eliminate the black background to be able to reduce it and use it (as example) as a watermark for my text? 2) how do i put it on a video and how do i write text on it? 8this ought to be a level matter
what do you at 12:29 that duplicates lines and there is only a solo box on dots and the 2 [Lines] only have one box which is the lock key and is missing the solo box?
two people's heads blew up due to the awesomeness overload in this tutorial. This is beast. The only question I have is near the end Andrew talks about "turning layers on and off"; aside from tweaking the opacity (which is what I am assuming here), is there any other (faster) way to do this?
What music did you use in the beginning of the video before you're showing us the footage you made? Also, great tutorial. Need to try this out sometime.
in this video at 12 min 24th sec a new layer automatically gets created and you didn't mentioned it. can you tell me what it is? It is when you wanted to use those dots as lines but you also wanted rotations. so you used the layer below it. I don't know what layer are you talking about coz that layer dosen't exist if one follows your insructions. Please help and sorry for my bad english.
That is some great tutorial I see. I'll certainly use it for some other reasons and projects I'm working on. :D I'd like to ask you something. Around 29:56 you've clicked on a Transparent button on the video composition window. I'm not sure, but, does this button allows me to renderize the project as a transparent video, or it just hides the black standard background for visual and/or preview reasons? Thanks since yet! :D
Awesome tutorial! I saw the thumbnail and thought I'll never be able to make that, but I have it a go and followed along really easily. Very helpful, clear instructions :)
for some reason when i pre render i follow your instruction exactly but when i select quicktime and try to go to photojpg i dont have that i have different DV/NTSC 24p dv25NTSC so on and so forth then i have DVCPRO 1080i50 so on and so forth down to 720p60 then none uncompressed rgb 8bit uncompressed yuv 10 bit 4:2:2 but no photo jpg how do i fix this
***** just find the shape you want to color and then find "tint" in the search bar on the side(effects). change the white value in the tint effect to whatever color you want.
Hi Andrew i would like to ask how am i going to change the Composition DURATION into Frames, cause it appears on me is BASE 24.. hope to hear from you soon... Keep it up... More power dude...
Thank you for demystifying Vegas plugin and its potential. I was wondering how it can be used to have rainbow gradients instead of solid colors? I am working on emulating LED light programs.
Love the video. This is my first time using after effects and loving being able to generate FX from nothing. One thing though, how do you get the letters in the buldge? and what is the best procedure for export?
i am a start off dj ...planning on starting my youtube page for my fans.... i would really love to have this spectrum look..... awesone video by the way!
Its so amazing to see the possibilities of After Effects. To bad that After Effects and all Copilot Plugins are so expensive.... No cheaper software can do this.
The spin expression you gave "time*150". So that it'll spin whole the time. But I want to start and stop the spin at a specific time. What will be the expression for it?
Will you be doing a tutorial on animated your jet fighters with element soon, Im pretty bad when it comes to animating things such as a missile firing from its missile bay!
Real nice tutorial here, but I have my audio cpectrum circles blurred in the preview window and blurred even after rendering. Adaptive resolution is at 1/2. Ram preview is Full. 25 fps. And videos appear alright. Whay is that happening? Thank you!
Hi! I got that problem, when I turn the mode into "screen" there will be a grey area around my cyrcle and it also changes with the size of the cyrcle. By changing the mode into "lighten" the grey area disaprears. And on top of that, no matter how I change the settings, all the points are extremly unsharp and the "stroke" fx also doesn't really work as demonstrated in the tutorial.
hey how did you put the text in ? could you do a tutorial on that as well please. other than that its was a great tutorial which looks awesome. p.s. and by text i mean the VC
How i can get this sound effect?? i need this sound effect. and can i use this projects to my video into and one more question is it free to use?? thnks for help :)
Hey Andrew, what a great tutorial!!! Thanks so much - is there a way to make this a 3D layer? I want to attach it to an object in real footage. Any tip would be helpful!!! Thanks for your great work, Gerrit!
MOTION BLUR DISAPPEARANCE AND BEYOND ISSUE: Someone suggested: "Put CC force motion blur on an Adjustment Layer above the Audio Layer" It did show up again, but I couldn't get the ghosting effect to happen. I moved the layer without the blur into its own comp and then added the blur to it- WORKED. I am using CS4.
great work but i met a problem at the section where you create the Dots. Every time i enable the luma matte it doesn't show and I'm not sure why that is because I slowed the vid to make sure I didn't make any errors. Pls any help would be appreciated. Ps just trying to do it myself and its truly a great tutorial
video co-awesome. Your videos r the best man all of them are epic. I suggest that all the noobs out there who can't use after effects should come and learn from the master (Andrew).
For some reason I can't seem to make perfect circles even when holding Shift+Option+Cmd. I get only ellipses that are slightly stretched. When I adjust them to look like circles they are fine, but when I rotate them or try to add a rotation expression, they rotate as the original ellipse. Any idea how I could fix this or what I might be doing wrong? (Mac user, AE CS5)
it't 2023, and still the gratest visual effet teacher out there, Andrew's tutorials are out of this world 🌎 🔥❤️
"This is all in after effects, no third party required"
ahhhh, what a nice sound to my ears.
Aman Bhargava A song isn't a plugin.
audi787b OK,
audi787b he probably meant he likes that there is no 3d party plugin. not implying that the sound is 3d party.
musicpolygon you're probably not wrong!
ikr
What I like most about VC tuts, is they give us enough of an idea of what to do, but doesn't baby sit us and enables a lot of room for using this stuff for other purposes.
You are the Bob Ross of the Digital Era.
this tutorial is blowing my mind. I seriously started laughing out loud when you showed the align tool! Just that one little thing alone will save me SO much! This is probably my new favorite tutorial. There were SO many new things I learned in this one. These effects are really versatile so I can make this be my own and not make it look just like this tutorial
This is The one for my future animated logo! How did i not find this earlier... Very nicely done sir! The electric disturbance blew me away! Fantastic work!
I pre comped all of my sound effects, and set the source for the Audio Spectrum effect to this comp. So the animation matches the sound and gives it a way more organic feeling
Always love the sound design for your completed effects! Big fan of Designer Sound btw. It's a bit like BBQ sauce - instantly turns anything you pour it on into something awesome!
Yes sir I love ur video too❤️
@@PotatoGaming048 ❤️
Andrew, you beast!!!!
My boss kinda hates you because i learn more from you in half an hour than from him in a whole week lol.
Please, never stop amazing us.
I don't understand some things on your video... I mean, sometimes, I have the feeling that I've missed something like at 12:25 where there's a new layer that was creat, just like that... Why ?
Great Tutorial. Using the mouse wheel to adjust the rounded corners of a rounded rectangle = AWESOME. How have I been missing this shortcut for the last 15 years???
Using the Radial Blur as a glow mechanism, using Polar Coordinates along with Transform is brilliant! thanks Andrew!
Very well explained and led this great tutorial. Certainly, I have taken a giant step following step by step video and have been very surprised by the system to create such a powerful object and an impressive finish. Thanks friend!
First video of yours I've seen, been using AE about nine months, you are blowing my mind with these keyboard shortcuts. Really informative thanks, Subbed :D
Even tho I probably wont be using the methods used and the knowledge gained from these tutorials any time soon, I just love listening to Kramer and watching him.. make.. things. Things with awesome in them.
enable blending mode for layers with the button on the left bottom (middle one of those 3 guys) and another thing sneaky turning off the reapearing circle mask at 7:28 as always great work andrew
By completing this amazing tutorial I was able to create my own audio spectrum visualizer
Thanks bro
Thank you for all your efforts and time in sharing these videos. One bit of minor feedback you might consider is using a keystroke display as I've seen in multiple videos you've created (and reading the comments below others have the same experience) that you sometimes use hotkeys without explaining what you did and then for those of us that don't know how you did the hotkey we are lost. Your instruction is excellent.
The site's tutorial notes say to try putting it on an adjustment layer above your design elements.
only with this free tutorial I learned more than with many commercial. THANKS!!!
Hey Andrew, I bumped into one of your blogs and I got hooked to your tutorials since then. You are great man. Thank you for sharing your ideas. I'm learning a lot from you. Subscribed and follow you already.
damn this was so simple, yet so badass!! thanks
Thanks for this awesome tutorial. I have watched every single tutorial you made so far. But this is the first I tried out. Very well explained and easy to follow. I have used this spin effect as visualizer for my music, which I just released on my channel. Thanks again Andrew!
Oh my god. This tutorial is very helpful! Although I'm still having a bit of difficulty with the terms and the tools and stuff of After Effects. I'll subscribe so I can watch more of your tutorials!
As i get to 16:50 I don't have photo - JPEG what do i do?
WHAT DID YOU DO HHHHHH
when I switch to luma Matte (14:00) the dots dissapear. WHY?!
hmm, can anyone explain what happens on 12:29? he unchecks the solo then a new line layer appears above it. When I do it nothing happens. Additionally, His is one long line that gradually blurs. Mine is still 3 with the dots in between :\
***** Yeah, I realised :s but Thanks anyway!
This is fantastic Andrew. I don't know how you do it. I wouldn't even think to do some of the things you do. I would have never guessed to use things like polar coordinates and such.
Oh my goodness the force motion blur YES it's SO BEAUTIFUL :D
Robert Yang force motion blur never works for me.. WHY
Man this is crazy with ur inteligents u can save the world from suffering but the animation stuff is also cool :D
just love when you use French words : "Silhouette"... kinda cool, I use it all the time (I'm French :p)
Great tutorial btw
whats the difference between making the mask and do a polar coordinates
This was my first time using after effects, love this tutorial. If you could slow it down slightly and also explain more about what shortcut key you're using that would help. But other than that, really impressed with this tutorial, well explained, amazing effects generated from nothing. Thank you!
Hey Andrew, love your stuff man but do you think you could add either some quick keyboard shortcut captions as you hit em' in your vids? or maybe do a keyboard cam so we can see what you're hitting? I get lost sometimes.
I watched this three times in detail ... nice job .. thanks
Around 12:50, when I parent Lines to the Dots layer, then try and scale them down, it just thins out the layer until it disappears. Any ideas on why this happening? I know I must be doing something wrong, but I just can't seem to figure it out. I've been trying this part for the past 20 miinutes, and I can't seem to get the same effect...
Can you try making a null object, parent the two layers to the null and then scale just the null object down?
what happened is that you don't have both of the layers selected equally. you have to zoom out and manually select them both together then you can scale them down
why not just dowload it:P
I know it's a little late but I might as well tell you since I had the same problem. I had to hold shift will parenting them and then make sure to click on the Scale option of both layers, not the Name. Then I was able to move both of them.
Thank you for the awesome tutorial! The end result is very cool and the tips about the AE keyboard shortcuts and various features were quite helpful as well.
At 12.30, when you try to spin the dots, i see that you have to add a duplicate of the dots and parent the new one with the old. So when I do so, my dots are still not moving :(
What did I miss?
Video Copilot is my pilot. Andrew is awesome!
Awesome tutorial. Wow, I really need to look at all of After Effects tools! I overlook so many tools and dont realize their importance until you bring them up in a tutorial!
@video copilot 2 questions:
1) how do i watermark it? i mean how do i eliminate the black background to be able to reduce it and use it (as example) as a watermark for my text?
2) how do i put it on a video and how do i write text on it? 8this ought to be a level matter
what do you at 12:29 that duplicates lines and there is only a solo box on dots and the 2 [Lines] only have one box which is the lock key and is missing the solo box?
Why does Nuke have better flares then AE? I wish VC would create the same for each program!
two people's heads blew up due to the awesomeness overload in this tutorial. This is beast.
The only question I have is near the end Andrew talks about "turning layers on and off"; aside from tweaking the opacity (which is what I am assuming here), is there any other (faster) way to do this?
His tuts usually involve his own products and plugins of course, but several of his earlier ones did include Particular. Check out the website.
What music did you use in the beginning of the video before you're showing us the footage you made? Also, great tutorial. Need to try this out sometime.
Video Copilot is the best.
i love it... you are the best teacher at the world
in this video at 12 min 24th sec a new layer automatically gets created and you didn't mentioned it. can you tell me what it is? It is when you wanted to use those dots as lines but you also wanted rotations. so you used the layer below it. I don't know what layer are you talking about coz that layer dosen't exist if one follows your insructions. Please help and sorry for my bad english.
Layer Duplication. See comment by NF Teams for more info.
I do like the sound of this.
I am convinced that the one dislike was a accidentally misplaced click. Thanks for another great tutorial! I learned a ton.
That is some great tutorial I see. I'll certainly use it for some other reasons and projects I'm working on. :D
I'd like to ask you something. Around 29:56 you've clicked on a Transparent button on the video composition window. I'm not sure, but, does this button allows me to renderize the project as a transparent video, or it just hides the black standard background for visual and/or preview reasons?
Thanks since yet! :D
Awesome tutorial! I saw the thumbnail and thought I'll never be able to make that, but I have it a go and followed along really easily. Very helpful, clear instructions :)
for some reason when i pre render i follow your instruction exactly but when i select quicktime and try to go to photojpg i dont have that i have different DV/NTSC 24p dv25NTSC so on and so forth then i have DVCPRO 1080i50 so on and so forth down to 720p60 then none uncompressed rgb 8bit uncompressed yuv 10 bit 4:2:2 but no photo jpg how do i fix this
Instead of having all blue is it possible to make others a different color like Red, Blue, Yellow and have that spin?
No you can
+David Good loled
+David Good just change the "curves" settings or the "tint" settings, whichever you used in your project
***** just find the shape you want to color and then find "tint" in the search bar on the side(effects). change the white value in the tint effect to whatever color you want.
Hi Andrew i would like to ask how am i going to change the Composition DURATION into Frames, cause it appears on me is BASE 24.. hope to hear from you soon... Keep it up... More power dude...
at 12:30 on the left of the time line the 'lines' layer duplicates then when i do that it doesnt look the some
Thank you for demystifying Vegas plugin and its potential. I was wondering how it can be used to have rainbow gradients instead of solid colors? I am working on emulating LED light programs.
at 16:50 theres no option for photo.jpeg please help
"looks good to me, fuck it, we're leaving it in!"
Every time I watch a VC tutorial there is always that moment where I go "WHOA WHAT THE FUCK I DIDN'T KNOW YOU CAN FUCKING DO THAT!"
Love the video. This is my first time using after effects and loving being able to generate FX from nothing. One thing though, how do you get the letters in the buldge? and what is the best procedure for export?
really good tutorial, thank you. Also could you do a particle animation with the sound thing?
i am a start off dj ...planning on starting my youtube page for my fans.... i would really love to have this spectrum look..... awesone video by the way!
The spiny thing loks like it has a really interesting looking artificial iris! You should explore that more, maybe for use in a scifi clip
when i drag audio spectrum into my solid layer, it doesn't show up no matter how much i change the settings, any sugestions?
How do you get the scale setting for your mask?
How did you get the mode in the side of the side of a source
oh wait i just got it
Its so amazing to see the possibilities of After Effects. To bad that After Effects and all Copilot Plugins are so expensive.... No cheaper software can do this.
Where do you get these sound effects Andrew?
You should also do a tutorial on editing sfx.
Thumbs up for sound editing.
Videocopilot is the most important thing to ever happened to After Effects.
You're right! those other 140 tutorials were terrible! This one is pretty good
why cc force motion blur (7:35) not work?
ae cs3
thxs
to be honest, Video Copilot tutorials worth millions of dollars.
The spin expression you gave "time*150". So that it'll spin whole the time. But I want to start and stop the spin at a specific time. What will be the expression for it?
Will you be doing a tutorial on animated your jet fighters with element soon, Im pretty bad when it comes to animating things such as a missile firing from its missile bay!
awesome tutorial, but PLEASE! USE A SCREEN RECORDER that shows what key you pressed!
Ehm I have never seen this guys videos before. You can freaking download it too! WOW Subbed right away.
Great tutorial Andrew! Your tutorials have helped me through so many projects. Keep up the amazing work! :)
Real nice tutorial here, but I have my audio cpectrum circles blurred in the preview window and blurred even after rendering. Adaptive resolution is at 1/2. Ram preview is Full. 25 fps. And videos appear alright. Whay is that happening? Thank you!
Reminds me of just about every ELO album cover. As always, thanks for the tutorial!
you could've also used the polar coordinates effect for the "rounding" of the audio spectrum
Hi!
I got that problem, when I turn the mode into "screen" there will be a grey area around my cyrcle and it also changes with the size of the cyrcle. By changing the mode into "lighten" the grey area disaprears. And on top of that, no matter how I change the settings, all the points are extremly unsharp and the "stroke" fx also doesn't really work as demonstrated in the tutorial.
How do you create those awesome sound design?
No words andrew,such an amazing animation,so creative.Thanks a bunch sir!
hey how did you put the text in ? could you do a tutorial on that as well please. other than that its was a great tutorial which looks awesome. p.s. and by text i mean the VC
Awesome, Andrew! Your Tutorials are awesome!!!
Can you do a tutorial on advance expression usage ? And how you use expression on your professional work ?
How i can get this sound effect?? i need this sound effect. and can i use this projects to my video into and one more question is it free to use?? thnks for help :)
GENIUS² ! That was the best tutorial I've ever seen in my life ! More More please
Hey Andrew, what a great tutorial!!! Thanks so much - is there a way to make this a 3D layer? I want to attach it to an object in real footage. Any tip would be helpful!!! Thanks for your great work, Gerrit!
Check the 3d box (cube symbol) on all active layers then chuck a camera layer above.
wow dude I have learned in this tutorial more than I have ever! tnx ! super duper mega like !
good to hear your voice again
thank's man
very good tutorial! Im beginner but so happy to manage finish it! It took me a while though!
How can I Apply the circles to the videos?
Like flowing a football player on the pitch?
Andrew, does all your tutorials involve video co pilots plug ins?
MOTION BLUR DISAPPEARANCE AND BEYOND ISSUE:
Someone suggested: "Put CC force motion blur on an Adjustment Layer above the Audio Layer"
It did show up again, but I couldn't get the ghosting effect to happen. I moved the layer without the blur into its own comp and then added the blur to it- WORKED. I am using CS4.
great work but i met a problem at the section where you create the Dots. Every time i enable the luma matte it doesn't show and I'm not sure why that is because I slowed the vid to make sure I didn't make any errors. Pls any help would be appreciated. Ps just trying to do it myself and its truly a great tutorial
video co-awesome. Your videos r the best man all of them are epic. I suggest that all the noobs out there who can't use after effects should come and learn from the master (Andrew).
For some reason I can't seem to make perfect circles even when holding Shift+Option+Cmd. I get only ellipses that are slightly stretched. When I adjust them to look like circles they are fine, but when I rotate them or try to add a rotation expression, they rotate as the original ellipse. Any idea how I could fix this or what I might be doing wrong? (Mac user, AE CS5)
click to make your circle first, then use ctrl alt shift(pc user) and it will work