ae tips & tricks I wish I knew as a beginner || after effects tutorial
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- A bunch of tips and other things I would have loved to know when I was starting out with after effects!
Btw, whilst this video is technically a 'tips for beginners' type of tutorial, it's been made with the intention that you already have at least a basic idea of how after effects works (as in people who are still kinda new to the program but are now starting to get the hang of things) so if you're looking for a video made specifically for those using after effects for the very first time, you can check out my tutorial here: • how to make your first...
◦ timestamps
0:00 intro
0:10 tip #1
2:02 tip #2
3:05 tip #3
4:12 tip #4
4:46 tip #5
5:27 tip #6
6:23 tip #7
7:22 tip #8
7:55 tip #9
8:56 tip #10
9:44 tip #11
10:36 tip #12
12:25 outro
● where can you find me?
- instagram || / starknstrange
- payhip store || payhip.com/starknstrange
- tellonym || tellonym.me/starknstrange
- soundcloud || / user-558149148
◦ what do I use to edit?
- after effects cc 2017
- final cut pro x
● songs
- Rose (Prod. by Lukrembo) - Фільми й анімація
Be sure to share your own tips that I didn't get to in this video to help out others who might need them! :D
I need a lot of storage to make a edit XD lmao
I have a question: how do you manage your clips for editing? Like do you download and trim clips and save them separately on your pc and select some when doing an edit or do you just import a whole scenepack video into after effects for one edit and trim it? Or a different way?
Markers can be put just by pressing star / multiply button in num pad wherever the time line is just press star and marker will add there . We make AMVs and music vids , you can check us out 😌 . Thanks for this tutorial i revised all my lessons 💕
@@hannahjasmin69 It's super easy , just make a new composition ( name it anything ) In that cut all your parts and just copy paste it to other composition that you are working on side by side . It saves a hell lot of time and you don't have to use other app for cutting and saving videos separately . I mean do all cutting and editing in one project file by making two compositions side by side 😌
@@purityisbliss tysm
a tip that i can share is like when you play the audio you can click the asterisk (*) and it will automatically put marks without stopping it idk if yall know this already but this is very useful for me
@@l33haw ikr
ahh thank you for thissss!! It takes me *fOrEvEr* to mark the beats-
WHAT FR?
WOAH WHAT
hold on i'm back would you be able to elaborate on that? it works for me when paused but not without stopping :(
a rendering tip for everyone!! sometimes if your edits are between 35s-1min long and hella detailed with effects, 3d and layers, rendering can take an absolute AGE and you may not know if your ae has actually crashed in the middle of rendering. so what I do is to preview your whole edit on Full resolution so it basically 'pre-renders' your edit - this can also take a while, but shorter than adding it to your render queue straight away - and when it reaches the end, add it to the render queue (make sure to have caps lock on to stop it from previewing and render quicker) and it should render within 1-2mins or less.
bonus rendering tip: before you prerender your edit, check your media disk cache (Edit>Preferences>Media & Disk Cache>Empty Disk Cache) and delete the disk cache. this doesn't delete your edit at all or ruin any of your progress -- all it does is it deletes what it has previewed while you've been editing and just makes everything a hell of a lot faster/less susceptible to crashes. DO NOT CHOOSE THE 'Clean Database and Cache option' because that might delete everything.
hope this helps everyone with their edits! i myself have been editing 3 and a half years, and technically haven't edited in a while but editing is almost muscle memory to me and i love seeing everyone's creativity and ideas being brought to life.
Tysm i will try this
im pretty sure ur first tip and 2nd contradict each other, cause when u watch it on full all the way through that gets saved in dsk cache but if u clean disk cache then u did the first step for no use
@@grandecupofcoffee7942 they meant clearing the disk cache before pre-rendering (just playing the edit on Full quality), not before rendering. I hope you understood 😁
I think after effects is just a fucked up software... I don't why but I haven't seen more fucked up things man has ever creates on this planet... It's just a sucking software...by the adobe... suck
I haven't made any more complex animation ... Just used some already exported videos but this sucked softwares crashed in the middle of the preview.... Fucked up software...
Now I'm getting regrets Why I chosen this shit
Be organized: sometimes when we are editing we just bring all the media we r gonna need but we make a whole mess on the "project" panel, you can make folders/carpets to put them in a organized way, i always make these folders/carpets: compositions, videos, photos, overlays.
I would do that, however, I have a uhm- problem with being organized.
But still this is a really nice tip!
me too! or else it would get messy. especially with all the compositions
I AGREE
That's a pain to do so
@@agoodgirlsguidetotaylorswift tbh I'm not the best at being organized too and even just putting things into folders really helps. Like for example even just the minimum could be a folder for compositions and a folder for scenes
For my audio marking, I always mark directly onto the audio using shift+8 (asterisk). This is for in case I ever want to move my audio and the rest of my work to a different length or area in the timeline as the markers above can't move together with my work.(or maybe i haven't found a way for that yet)
I stopped editing bc I felt I was never going to be good as ones like you. But I’m worrying about my self more I’m starting a slime business, sewing a dress, and editing again. You encouraged me so much. Thank you
Trust me you can do it, I was in the same stage 3-4 months ago!
You literally highlighted every problem i've ever had on ae as a beginner, I wish I knew these earlier haha, but you still taught some tips I didn't even know, so THANK YOU
If your motion blur, 3d is not showing in timeline just click on toggle/switch modes.👍🏻
IVE BEEN EDITING ON AFTER EFFECTS FOR TWO YEARS AND THE FIRST TIP JUST SAVED MY LIFE ILY
hii i just wanna know how u got the after effects app bc i think it has to be paid?
@@ariitannie yeah i paid for it, but you can look for “free after effects” on yt and someone probably posted a free way
@@cata8209 yea they did the free one is safe I have it
@@ariitannie you can get it for free
i have after effects 2024 for free, you’ll have to crack it :)
Thank you sm for this! Your first beginners after effects wme was the reason why I started editing cause you made it sm easier.. forever grateful to you Lauren💗
yay that's great! thanks for being here!
Your voice is so unbelievably satisfying, I somehow managed to watch this entire video while paying all my attention to your voice and thinking about nothing but the words you were saying, but without actually comprehending a single one due to how hard I was focusing on how you were saying things instead of what you were actually saying
this is a great video! a tip that i've seen no one talk about that i really struggled with for awhile was the audio hardware settings. i'm not sure if this is just for my laptop or if other editors have had this issue as well, but whenever i would unplug my earbuds and then plug them back in awhile later, i wouldn't be able to hear the audio (an example of this would be if i wanted to hear something through the computer's speakers for a minute, but then replug my earbuds back in, there would be no sound). so what you do to fix this problem is go to the top of the screen where it says 'edit' then to 'prefrences' then to 'audio hardware' then there should be an option that says 'default output' where you can then change between the computer's speakers and whatever listening device you have plugged in. you don't have to do this every single time you open after effects, but let's say you had earbuds plugged in while editing then you closed your laptop and took your earbuds out, then it'll have you do this, at least in my experience. hope this helps someone!
this is a great tip- i just recently found out you had to check the audio hardware for it to work again and i've been editing for 1 and a half years lmao so beginners, on behalf of this person, ur welcome
@@eupvhria6738 hahaha, yeah i discovered it pretty early on but i needed to google it to find out how to fix the issue since no editor was talking about it
oh yeah this also happened to me bc i edit with my airpods in lol
omg ive literally had that problem for so long THANK YOU
The first tip changed my life!!!! I couldn’t for the life of me not get frustrated every time I was looking for clips, to the point choosing clips would be harder than the actual effects. Thank you so much🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
my fave editor back again, you've literally saved me many times
Thank you so much for the first tip! I kind of knew that it existed but not exactly how it works, so this is a game changer!
ive been using au for 2yrs and these tips are still incredibly helpful
i’ve been editing for 6+ years but i still learned so many new things tysm!! 💙 :)
okay so I've been editing for almost maybe 2 years now so this is like common sense to me at this point but def def I think this is a great compilation of tips that beginners may not know, and I can say I didn't know when I first started, but I wish I did
anyways I just wanted to say that this was a great videooo!!
and thought id share a tip that I don't see many many editors talk about, and bear with me ill try my best to explain it
okay so let's say you have a picture(or a video) you want to edit on your timeline, if you want to cut it at 1second, instead of cutting it with ctrl + shift + D and then deleting the excess, you can just simply trim it! all you have to do that is click alt + ] to end the clip there, and you can do the same to start a clip at a certain point- trim the beginning, by using alt + [ .
and another tip I have for layers is, if you have 2 layers A and B respectively first layer and second, but you want to make B the first layer and A the second, you can simply click on Ctrl + ] to move it above and ctrl + [ to move it below
I hope this was easy to understand lol hehe and if it wasn't you can just watch this video, ua-cam.com/video/KYgTEH-9T-c/v-deo.html
the cutting of clips was actually REALLY helpful, thank you for making this video!
Yesterday I watched a video of yours and it was about transitions , I did the inside 3D Cube one and my result was not the best but it’s just the beginning ✨, I appreciate it that you make these videos because some of us can learn by little by little and then and can have a better result , thank you :3 💎.
So glad these videos are getting recommended to me now that I started AE. Thank you! Will sub
girl your mic is so KRISP i love it and thanks for the tips
That first tip just saved my life. Thank you! ♥️
One of my favourites is if you need to proportion your key frames. Select all your key frames and hold alt and pull with the mouse to the length of your clip. Saved me so much time and don't be scared to mess up. Some of the best effects and transitions I've made were by accident or mistake lol
this was so helpful!! thank you!! expecially the cutting clips bit, iv been doing it the wrong way this whole time😭 it would take me ages just to put scenes together
you don’t know how much it’s vidéo will be helpful 😭🙏🏾💝
was scared to learn ae for so long but watching your tutorials just makes me want to edit on there all the time, you make things so clear and so easy to understand, thank you so much, these are so helpful!!!
Omg thanks for the first tip! It helps alot I was struggling so hard today but when I found this, I'm so grateful
I’m literally subscribing to your channel cause this video was soooo helpful. Mainly the first tip!
Starknstrange, I have just started using aftereffects, coming from someone who only knew CC and AM, seeing AE for the first time scared me a little, but your videos helped me understand the basics and how to actually begin, Thank you so much
I love these tips sm as beginner ae editor i really appreciate it ❤❤
im into this edit community since january 2021, and even now im still learning so much about this program, ily, tysm for this video, and i hope you can comeback to your yt channel soon bc you give a lot of inspiration and all ur edits are so incredible!!
thanks for the video! some of the tips i already knew (doesn't mean others did as well) but some came off really helpful! also you give off the helpful mommy vibes in this video, it's so comforting!
@@dkmalw i'm late but i recommend OBS studio it's really smooth (for me atleast) it's also good for live streaming
im so glad ur back and being active again TvT ily
i literally love you. thank you
Btw, with the separate dimensions one if you go into the graph editor you can select separate dimensions at the bottom (it’s like 2 lines with an x and y on it) I just find it easier than right clicking :)
oh great ty, I didn't actually know that one! I usually do the right click version mainly so that I can keyframe with the x and y values separately from the get-go rather than having both of them selected but both methods work for sure!
@@starknstrange yeah that makes sense, it’s different for everyone especially if you’re used to right clicking it and editing separately it’s deffo just personal preference, just thought I’d lyk :)
You finnaly posted!!!
BRO THANK YOU SO MUCH I RECENTLY GOT AFTER EFFECTS AND THIS HELPED SO MUCH
tysm tip #1 helped me sm ily
Omg you’re such a life savior!! Thankyou very much!
omg thank you so much!! I am learning ae and this helped me so much!!
Your voice is so soothing! I love it🥰
aw thanks!
thanks for this video and all the comments also, I just got ae a couple days ago and this has been really helpful!
best editor of the community literally
omg i just got ae and i am stressing so much tysm for posting this video
Thank you so much your instructions were so easy to follow !! This helper a lot ❤️
I'm editing in After Effects for more then one year but I was still doing a lot of things harder to my self then it actually is. Thank to this video I can save a lot of time wile editing. Thank you so much! ❤
Aaa thank you for the tips! -- As well as adding a voiceover. Made it much easier for me to follow 🫶✨
You're the best editor , also your voice is so cute , I love the way you explain about editing , keep it up 🫡
Great video, and i really like your education style, it keeps me focusing on the video.
Thanks for sharing this I've been doing my edits on premiere pro and wanted to move over to After effects but have been so overwhelmed by it. Honestly what drew me in was the thumbnail because I've had this idea for a wanda edit but have been wanting to do it with after effects thanks for sharing this again. Big help
i've been editing for years now and i didnt know some of these! thank you 🫡
snapped as always
This video really helped me. Thank you very much!
THE #3 HELPED ME FOR SO MANY THING OMG
You're a God send. Thank you so much for this
TYSM FOR THIS!! This was super helpful ♥️
Awesome tips!!
Thank u for this video..i was about to learn editing in ae and this makes it easier..ty❤️
Great video as always!
best tutorial EVER!!!!! well done
I absolutely love your voice 😩💘
TYSM. It was super helpful
tip 3 was a real time/lifesaver
If u add layer markers remember to add them to the audio because if u precomp any of the videos or photos the layer marker will go away
Im using ae for years but one of the tip on the video is a life savier
4:12 you can even change the amount of lines are in the grid in settings :)
THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS IS SO USEFUL
this is a really good video, thanks so much!
Try different styles until you feel comfortable and you actually have fun bc some editors I’ve known gave up bc they didn’t like their style and don’t compare yourself to other editors edit for fun! ( stay organized aswell where your overlays are on your computer especially cause I’ve had major issues with finding my scenes as other stuff.)
Thank you so much! This was really helpful for me.
God bless you for posting again ❤️
Tip #1 alone saved hours! 😃
thanks u very much for all this effort
Aweso tutorial bro! I like how you gets down to bus
this tips and tricks are super helpful for a noob like me 😁 tysm keep uploading more videos like this 👍
Love this video 😍 really helpful
well understood. Thank you you are the best teacher.
Ive been editing for almost 2 years n I had no idea about the 1st and 3rd one tysm
Got some nice work.. I really liked the how to videos.. More of those would be dope. :) Appreciate you sharing your talents/work/knowledge with us! :)
this is great! tysm ♥
I can't believe literally no one is talking about how satisfying Nice tutorials voice softs.
Great tips! Thanks.
Thank you for the tips! I appreciate it.
i actually use after effects for some time now, but some of the tips were pretty helpful even for me thx :D
Laurennnnn why did you took so long to send new videos
I'm a huge fan of you since 2018, thank you for this ❤❤❤
IM SORRY ITS JUST SO NICE HEARING SOMEONE TALK IN AN EDITIING VIDEO ABOUT USING AFTER EFFECTS OR JUST EDITING IN GENERAL OMG TYSM ITS SO GREAT OBKSBKD I FORGOT PPL THAT EDIT KNOW HOW TO TALK BAHAHAHAHH
this is actually very much helpful for me as person who is very much clumsy.
This channel needs to have a comeback!!
Excellent video, thanks. I'm forever messing up my workspace, will certainly be customising mine now :-)
i absofuckinlutely loved your content, KEEP CREATING !
bro i just subcribed you . thanks for this video and try to make many videos like this . love you bro
it very well! Good Job!
this was very useful thank you very much
tip 3 broke my heart
OH MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!
You really helped me!! TH
So helpful! You speak so fluently and clearly XDDDD
This is so helpful omg