Adobe After Effects

June 28, 2025/AI Era

After Effects User Guide (Course)

May 21, 2025/AI Era

Adobe Podcasts: How To Create Audiograms

This tutorial will show you how to use Adobe Podcasts to create free audiograms to transform audio content into shareable video clips with waveform animations and captions.

May 14, 2025/AI Era

How To Animate PNG Stickers & Export With Transparency in After Effects

In this tutorial, I will show you my complete start-to-finish workflow for animating AI-Generated PNG Stickers using the looping wiggle expression in Adobe After Effects CC 2025 and exporting with transparency using Adobe Media Encoder.

May 7, 2025/AI Era

AI Build 109: The AI Sticker Pack Vol. 2 (Custom GPTs)

In this Mike Murphy AI Build video, I show you how to take a single idea — an AI-Themed Digital Sticker Pack— make a Custom ChatGPT and then turn the pack into a digital product for sale.

April 30, 2025/AI Era

AI Build 108: The AI Sticker Pack (Built with Chat GPT)

In this Mike Murphy AI Build video, I show you how to take a single idea — an AI-Themed Digital Sticker Pack— and turn it into a real product using Chat GPT 4o Image Generator + Adobe After Effects.

April 24, 2025/AI Era

How To Install & Use Stop-Motion Animated Texture Rig (AI Build 107)

In this video, I show you how to install and use the Animated Texture Rig from Mike Murphy AI Build 107 where I used Cursor AI + Chat GPT to build a digital product from start to finish.

April 23, 2025/AI Era

AI Build 107: Texture Animation Rig for After Effects (Built with Cursor AI)

In this Mike Murphy AI Build video, I show you how to take a single idea — animating textures with a stop-motion look — and turn it into a real product using Adobe After Effects + Cursor AI (smart code editor).

April 19, 2025/AI Era

AI Build: How To Make a Digital Product from Idea To Shipping

In this tutorial, I walk you through the start to finish workflow of building a digital product for Adobe After Effects CC 2025 (The Wiggly Squiggly Panel) using Cursor AI.

April 17, 2025/AI Era

After Effects Wiggle Panel: Add 12 Effect Buttons Using Cursor AI

In this tutorial, we re-open the Wiggle Panel Project Folder in Cursor Ai and add 12 of my favorite effects for stop-motion & hand-drawn style animations in Adobe After Effects

April 15, 2025/AI Era

How To Reopen After Effects Wiggle Panel Project using Cursor AI Code Editor

In this tutorial, you will learn how to re-open the After Effects Wiggle Script UI Panel Project Folder and update the Wiggle Expression using Cursor AI Code Editor.

April 8, 2025/AI Era

How To Use Cursor AI to Build a Wiggle Panel in Adobe After Effects

This free 4-part mini-course shows you how to use Cursor AI—an AI-powered code editor—to build a custom, dock-able Wiggle Panel inside Adobe After Effects. No coding experience required. Just curiosity, creativity, and a desire to build something cool from scratch.

March 26, 2025/AI Era

How To Create Stop Motion Paper Rip Transition in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to create a hand-made, stop-motion, paper rip transition using Track Mattes in Adobe After Effects CC 2025.

March 19, 2025/AI Era

How To Use Audio & Effects in After Effects

In this tutorial you will learn how to work with audio layers and audio effects. and make a fun audio spectrum animation that is great for sharing on social media and/or promoting podcasts.

March 12, 2025/AI Era

How To Create Dynamic Links Between Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects

This tutorial will show you two different ways to create Dynamic Links between Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects CC 2025 for a round-trip workflow.

March 5, 2025/AI Era

Dynamic Link Between Character Animator + After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to create a Dynamic Link between Adobe Character Animator and Adobe After Effects CC 2025 for a round-trip workflow.

February 26, 2025/AI Era

How To Use seedRandom Expression in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the seedRandom Expression with the wiggle expression in Adobe After Effects CC 2025.

February 19, 2025/AI Era

Epidemic Sound Plugin For After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to install the Epidemic Sound Plugin in Adobe After Effects CC 2025.

February 12, 2025/AI Era

Luma Mattes in Photoshop + After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to create Luma Mattes in Photoshop and then import and animate in Adobe After Effects CC 2025.

February 5, 2025/AI Era

How To Use Text Animators in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how control the number of keyframes that loop at the end of animations using the LoopOut Expression in Adobe After Effects CC 2025.

January 29, 2025/AI Era

Print Frames For Mixed Media in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how control the number of keyframes that loop at the end of animations using the LoopOut Expression in Adobe After Effects CC 2025.

January 22, 2025/AI Era

Loop Out Expression + Keyframe Control in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how control the number of keyframes that loop at the end of animations using the LoopOut Expression in Adobe After Effects CC 2025.

January 15, 2025/AI Era

Line Boil Animation Using Turbulent Noise & Displacement Map in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to create a Line Boil Jittery Animation using Turbulent Noise & Displacement Map Effects in Adobe After Effects CC 2025.

January 8, 2025/AI Era

How To Create Animated Dust & Specks From Paper Textures in After Effects + Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to create a Animated Dust and Specks From Scanned Paper in Adobe Photoshop & After Effects CC 2025.

January 1, 2025/AI Era

Looping Sky & Clouds Background Animation in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to create a seamlessly looping sky & clouds background animation using the Offset Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2025.

December 25, 2024/Archive

Dropdown Menu Expression Control in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the Dropdown Menu Control Effect to create simple menus with multiple choice options to control various aspects of your animations in Adobe After Effects CC 2025

December 18, 2024/Archive

How to Use Displacement Map Effect in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the Displacement Effect to distort or shift pixels horizontally or vertically in Adobe After Effects CC 2025.

December 11, 2024/Archive

How to Prepare & Animate Amazon Textures in Photoshop & After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to scan, process & animate Amazon packaging textures in Adobe Photoshop & After Effects CC 2025.

December 4, 2024/Archive

How To Animate Crumpled Paper Textures in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to create an authentic crumpled paper texture animation in Adobe After Effects CC 2025 for a stop-motion or hand-drawn look.

November 27, 2024/Archive

Shape Layer Types in After Effects

This tutorial is everything you need to know about the 3 different Shape Layer Types in Adobe After Effects CC 2025.

November 20, 2024/Archive

How To Animate Anchor Point Property in After Effects

This tutorial will show you animate the Anchor Point transform property in Adobe After Effects CC 2025 to create a 3D Camera Style Pan & Zoom animation.

November 13, 2024/Archive

How To Use Audio Spectrum Effect in After Effects

This tutorial will show you How To Use Audio Spectrum Effects in Adobe After Effects CC 2025 to create a visual effect that syncs to audio layers.

October 30, 2024/Archive

How To Scale Shape Layers Strokes in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to scale Shape Layer Strokes in Adobe After Effects CC 2025 that maintain stroke width.

October 23, 2024/Archive

How To Create Mixed Media Style Animation in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to create a hand-drawn Mixed Media Style Animation in Adobe After Effects CC 2025 to speed up workflow when working with Text.

October 17, 2024/Archive

Hidden Type Tool Menu in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to access the ‘hidden’ contextual Type Tool Menu in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to speed up workflow when working with Text.

October 9, 2024/Archive

How To Add Motion Blur in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to add Motion Blur to create a realistic and smooth animation in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

October 2, 2024/Archive

How To Use Grid Effect To Create Floors in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the Grid Effect to create floors or ground planes in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

September 25, 2024/Archive

How to Combine Multiple After Effects Projects into One Master File

This tutorial will show you how to How to Combine Multiple After Effects Projects into One Master File in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

September 18, 2024/Archive

How To Add Audio Effects & Sound Presets in After

This tutorial will show you how to add Audio Effects & Sound Animation Presets to create a helicopter & telephone sound effects in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

September 11, 2024/Archive

How To Edit Audio from After Effects in Audition

This tutorial will show you how two ‘round-trip audio workflows’ to send audio layers from After Effects to edit in Adobe Audition and then back to Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

August 28, 2024/Archive

How To Use Set Matte Effect + Textures in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the Set Matte Effect to use the Channel Info of the Matte Layer to control the visibility of other layers in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

August 21, 2024/Archive

How To Use Pick Whips in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use three different types of Pick Whips in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to create Parent & Child Relationships between Layers, Properties & Expressions.

August 14, 2024/Archive

Frame Animated Texture in Photoshop To After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to create a frame by frame animation in Photoshop and then import into After Effects to extend the duration.

July 24, 2024/Archive

How To Render Work Area Only in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to render the Work Area Only in the Render Queue & Adobe Media Encoder in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

July 10, 2024/Archive

How To Add Expression Comments in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to add Expression Comments/Notes in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

July 3, 2024/Archive

How To ‘Show Post-Expression Graph’ in Adobe After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the Show Post-Expression Graph to display the values of expressions in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

June 20, 2024/Archive

How To Add valueAtTime Expression (Position) in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to add the valueAtTime Expression to the Rotation Property in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to reference the value of rotation property of another layer at a specified time on the animation. This will also work on Scale & Opacity Properties

June 18, 2024/Archive

valueAtTime Expression (Rotation) in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to add the valueAtTime Expression to the Rotation Property in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to reference the value of rotation property of another layer at a specified time on the animation. This will also work on Scale & Opacity Properties.

June 12, 2024/Archive

How To Add Layer Styles To Track Mattes In After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to add Layer Styles + Effects on Track Mattes in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

June 4, 2024/Archive

How To PreCompose & Leave All Attributes In After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to PreCompose a layer and ‘Leave All Attributes In’ so all effects and attributes will remain in main composition in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

May 28, 2024/Archive

How To Save Frames As JPEGs in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to save individual frames and export as Jpegs, Pngs, Tiffs, PSD files and more in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

May 21, 2024/Archive

How To Choose Photoshop Layers To Import in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to import one Photoshop Layer at a time in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

May 16, 2024/Archive

How To Use Inertial Bounce Expression in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the Inertial Bounce Expression to add bouncing motion to any property from one keyframe to the next based on velocity Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

May 14, 2024/Archive

How To Reverse Paste Keyframes in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how Reverse Paste Keyframes to reverse play an animation in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

May 8, 2024/Archive

How To Create Video Groups in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to create Video Groups to combine multiple clips on to one track in Adobe Photoshop CC 2024.

May 3, 2024/Archive

How To Create Number Counters with Decimals, Symbols & Commas in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to create a number counter and control decimal places, add symbols and commas in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

April 30, 2024/Archive

How to Use loopIn Expression in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the loopIn Expression in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to loop or repeat an animation that stops as soon as the CTI reaches the last keyframe.

April 25, 2024/Archive

How To Add Exponential Scale in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to add Exponential Scale to smooth out Scale Property Animations in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

April 23, 2024/Archive

How To Use ValueAtTime Expression To Loop Mask & Shape Paths in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the ValueAtTime Expression to loop Mask & Shape Paths in After Effects as a workaround or substitute for the loopOut Expression.

April 19, 2024/Archive

How To Export PNG Sequences in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to export compositions as PNG or JPEG Image Sequences in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to generate image files for each frame in an animation.

April 17, 2024/Archive

How To Create Seamless Fractal Noise Loops in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to create seamless looping animations on the Evolution Property of the Fractal Noise Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

April 11, 2024/Archive

How To Create Shape Layer Masks in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to create Masks on Shape Layers in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 using the Tool Creates Mask option in the Toolbar.

April 9, 2024/Archive

How To Use CC Ball Action in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the CC Ball Action in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to create patterns of circles or ‘balls’ or to create 3D Displacement Effects and much more.

April 5, 2024/Archive

How To Use CC Glass Effect in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the CC Glass Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to make objects look like ‘glass or porcelain’, ‘stretchy electrical tap’, ‘shaggy rug’ and more!

April 3, 2024/Archive

How To Use CC Plastic Effect in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the CC Plastic Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to plastic looking effect on shapes, textured/grunge on text and graphics, and line art effects.

March 28, 2024/Archive

How To Rove Across Time in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to create Roving Keyframes to Rove Across Time in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to create smooth animations across multiple keyframes.

March 19, 2024/Archive

How To Run Scale Composition Script in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to run the Scale Composition Script in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to scale up or scale down the size of an entire Composition and maintain the original aspect ratio.

March 14, 2024/Archive

How To Find & Replace Source Text in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the Find & Replace Text Script in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to search for Source Text and Replace with different text.

March 7, 2024/Archive

How To Install Lottie Files Plugin For After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to install the Lottie Files Plugin for Adobe After Effects CC 2024 via Adobe Exchange to preview, test & export your After Effects animations as Lottie Files.

March 5, 2024/Archive

How To Import SVG Files Into After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to import SVG (Scaleable Vector Graphic) Files into Adobe After Effects CC 2024 via Adobe Illustrator.

February 29, 2024/Archive

How To Add Audio Spectrum Effect on Masks in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to apply the audio spectrum effect to Masks to create visual effects that react to the beats of an audio layer in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

February 22, 2024/Archive

How To Use CC Jaws Effect in Adobe After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the CC Jaws Effect to create wipe transitions in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

February 15, 2024/Archive

Create Backgrounds Using CC HexTile Effect in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the CC HexTile Effect to generate interesting backgrounds in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

February 13, 2024/Archive

Creating Psychedelic Backgrounds with CC Kaleida in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the CC Kaleida Effect to generate looping psychedelic backgrounds in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

February 8, 2024/Archive

How To Preserve Frame Rate & Resolution in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to preserve the Frame Rate and/or Resolution in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 when nesting Compositions or adding to the Render Queue.

February 6, 2024/Archive

How To Combine Multiple Masks in After Effects (Photoshop + Illustrator)

This tutorial will show you how you can combine multiple Masks in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 with a little help from either Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.

February 1, 2024/Archive

How To Animate Crumpled Paper Textures in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to create an authentic crumpled paper texture animation in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 for a stop-motion or hand-drawn look.

January 30, 2024/Archive

Inside & Outside Shape Layer Strokes in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to change the stroke on shape layers to the inside and outside of the shape layer paths in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

January 25, 2024/Archive

How To Change Composition Label Colors in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to change the color label swatch next the name of open Compositions in the timeline of Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

January 23, 2024/Archive

How To Resize Layer Dimensions in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to resize the layer scale dimension in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to the exact width and height you want.

January 18, 2024/Archive

How To Use Align Panel in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the Align Panel in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to align and distribute layers evenly.

January 16, 2024/Archive

Sketch Motion Puppet Pin Animations in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the Puppet Position Pin Tool in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to capture or record Sketch Motion Animations.

January 9, 2024/Archive

Faux Paper Crumple Using Puppet Pin Tool in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the Puppet Position Pin Tool in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to create a ‘faux’ stop-motion paper crumple animation.

January 4, 2024/Archive

How To Use Spin-Loop Animation Preset in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the Spin-Loop Animation Preset in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to create a seamless, looping rotation animation.

January 2, 2024/Archive

How To Use Tumble-In Animation Preset in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the Tumble-In Animation Preset in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to animate logos, texts, shapes, etc..

December 14, 2023/Archive

How to Use Rotation Tool (W) in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the Rotation Tool in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to free transform the rotation property of any layer(s), including 3D Layers.

December 12, 2023/Archive

How to Reopen Closed Paths in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to reopen closed paths or shapes in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to continue drawing the path using the Pen Tool.

December 5, 2023/Archive

How to Set Poster Frame in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to change the Composition Poster Frame in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 and toggle the Transparency Thumbnail grid on and off.

November 30, 2023/Archive

How to Use LoopOut Offset Expression in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the LoopOut Offset Expression in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to continue the animation after the last keyframe and it is useful as you can control the speed with the 2 original keyframes.

November 28, 2023/Archive

How to Use LoopOut + Wiggle Expression in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use both the loopOut + Wiggle Expression on the same transform property in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

November 23, 2023/Archive

How To Add PingPong Expression In After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to add the PingPong Expression + Modifiers in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 which will create an endless loop between the first and last keyframes.

November 21, 2023/Archive

How To Duplicate PreComps In After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to duplicate PreComps As Unique Copies in Adobe After Effects CC 2024, which is helpful to create different versions of a PreComp but keep the same effects, etc.

November 16, 2023/Archive

How To Use Auto-Orient In After Effects

November 14, 2023/Archive

How To Use Gradient Ramp In After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the Gradient Ramp Effect in Adobe After Effects to add some design ‘interest’ to solid backgrounds and text.

October 17, 2023/Archive

How To Import Photoshop Animations In After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to Export Photoshop Animations and then import into Adobe After Effects CC 2023. This works for Video Timeline & Frame Animations in Photoshop.

October 12, 2023/Archive

How To Fix Smart Object Error (Photoshop To After Effects)

This tutorial will show you how to fix a Smart Object Error Message when importing a Photoshop Document to Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

October 5, 2023/Archive

Fix: Line Boil Turbulent Displace Stopping

This tutorial will show you how to fix the issue of a Line Boil animation using Turbulent Displace Effect stopping after a certain amount of time when using using the Time Expression on the Evolutions Property Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

October 3, 2023/Archive

Fix: Hand-Drawn Effect Stopping At 22 Seconds (After Effects)

This tutorial will show you how to fix the issue of the animation stopping after a certain amount of time when using using the Time Expression + Turbulent Displace in Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

September 28, 2023/Archive

Fix Color Mismatch in Photoshop + After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to fix color mismatches between Adobe Photoshop CC 2024 & Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

September 12, 2023/Archive

How To Use Paint Bucket Effect in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the the Paint Bucket Fill to color specific areas of graphics and footage in Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

September 7, 2023/Archive

CC RepeTile For Backgrounds in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the CC RepeTile Effect to create animated backgrounds in Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

September 5, 2023/Archive

Responsive Design-Time (Protected Regions) in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use Responsive Design-Time to create protective regions for nested Comps & Mogrts/Templates in Adobe After Effects CC 2023

August 31, 2023/Archive

Increment & Save Version Numbers in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use Increment & Save in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 to quickly and easily save Project Files with version numbers automatically.

August 29, 2023/Archive

How To Use Tritone Effect in Adobe After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the Tritone Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 to change the colors of the Highlights, Mid Tones & Shadows and create a vintage or creative look.

August 24, 2023/Archive

How To Edit Photoshop Text in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to convert text created in Photoshop to editable text in Adobe After Effects CC 2023. You will also learn the steps to import a Photoshop .psd file into After Effects.

August 22, 2023/Archive

Textures Using Fractal Noise + Emboss in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to create fast and easy textures such as canvas in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 using Fractal Noise & Emboss Effects.

August 17, 2023/Archive

CC Cylinder Effect in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the CC Cylinder Effect in After Effects CC 2023 to wrap and animate text around graphics such as a logo.

August 15, 2023/Archive

How To Save Comps As Photoshop Layers in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to export an After Effects Composition as a Photoshop .PSD File that you can modify and add designs in Photoshop and them import the Photoshop File as a New Composition in After Effects CC 2023.

August 10, 2023/Archive

How To Use CC Sphere in After Effects (Spinning Globe)

This tutorial will show you how to use the CC Sphere Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 to create a spinning globe or graphic such as a Logo Pattern.

August 8, 2023/Archive

How To Change Highlight Color in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to change the Default UI Highlight Color in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 from the Default Blue Color to any color you want. The Highlight color is the stroke color you see when you click on any panels and the color used when selecting Tools or the interface text color.

August 3, 2023/Archive

How To Add New Comp Viewers in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to add New Composition Viewers in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 to help speed up your workflow by enabling you to view multiple comps/pre-comps in different viewers.

August 1, 2023/Archive

How To Animate Textures Using Motion Tile in After Effects

This tutorial will show you a fast and easy way to animate a single texture layer using the Motion Tile Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2023. This technique works particularly well for grungy and collage-style texture animations.

July 27, 2023/Archive

Offset Effect: Vertical Filmstrip Transition in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the Offset Effect to create a repeating vertical filmstrip transition in Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

July 25, 2023/Archive

How To Use Wigglerama Effect in After Effects

This tutorial will show you use The Wigglerama Effect to add random movements to an entire Composition or Pre-Comp in Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

July 20, 2023/Archive

How To Use Wiggler in After Effects

This tutorial will show you use the Wiggler Panel to add random movements to Layer Properties such as Position & Rotation in Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

July 13, 2023/Archive

Pen Tool Tips: Tracing Text in After Effects

This tutorial will show you some tips and tricks for using the Pen Tool to trace letters in Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

July 11, 2023/Archive

How To Scan Images Into Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to scan images from your scanner directly into Adobe Photoshop CC 2023

July 6, 2023/Archive

Text Animator: Position (After Effects)

This tutorial will show you how to add the Text Animator Color Fill to create a position property animation in After Effects CC 2023.

July 4, 2023/Archive

Text Animator: Fill Color RGB (After Effects)

This tutorial will show you how to add the Text Animator Color Fill to create a simple RGB color fill text animation in After Effects CC 2023.

June 29, 2023/Archive

Text Fill & Stroke (Properties Panel) in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to manage Text Stroke & Fill in the new Properties Panel in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 using Time Stretch.

June 27, 2023/Archive

Time Stretch To Change Speed in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to slow down or speed up layers on the Timeline in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 using Time Stretch.

June 20, 2023/Archive

How To Use CC Composite in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the CC Composite Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 which makes it possible for you to add effects onto a layer and them bring back a duplicate of the original all on the same layer. CC Composite works on shapes, text, images, graphics, videos, etc.

June 16, 2023/Archive

Mask Mode Keyboard Shortcuts in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to quickly cycle through mask modes using keyboard shortcuts in Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

June 6, 2023/Archive

After Effects: Move Position Animation Layers

This tutorial will show you how to move the position of animation layers in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 so the keyframes and animations are not altered.

May 30, 2023/Archive

Copy Expressions Only in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to Copy Expressions Only in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 so you can copy an expression from one layer and paste onto one or multiple other layers.

May 18, 2023/Archive

How To Use The Properties Panel in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use the new Properties Panel in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 to speed up making animations by cutting down on the ’twirl time’ of opening layers to access properties and settings.

May 16, 2023/Archive

After Effects: How To Use Effect Manager

This tutorial will show you how to use the new Effect Manage in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 to identify effects that cause After Effects to trash and to enable and disable effects.

May 11, 2023/Archive

After Effects: How To Swap Out Layer Footage

This tutorial will show you how to swap out or replace footage from the Project Panel to the Layers Panel while retaining the Layer attributes in Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

May 9, 2023/Archive

After Effects: Transform Effect

This tutorial will show you how to use the Transform Effect to control the transform properties for multiple layers in Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

May 4, 2023/Archive

How To Use Angle Control in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to apply and use the Angle Control Expression Control in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 which controls the rotation of a layer/object.

May 2, 2023/Archive

How To Create Freeze Frames in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to create freeze frames to ‘freeze time’ in Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

April 27, 2023/Archive

How To Use Non-Rendering Guide Layers in Adobe After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use non-rendering Guide Layers in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 which can be helpful for mockups and layouts.

April 25, 2023/Archive

After Effects: How To Use System Color Picker

This tutorial will show you how to change the default Color Picker to the System (computer) Color Picker instead of using the default color picker in Adobe After Effects CC 2023. One advantage of using the System Color Picker is to save custom colors making it easy to access frequently used colors.

April 20, 2023/Archive

After Effects: Alpha From Lightness (Unmult Effect)

This tutorial will show you how to use the Alpha From Lightness (Unmult) Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 to remove the black background from textures.

April 6, 2023/Archive

Separate Position Dimensions in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to separate the dimensions of the Position Property for layers in Adobe After Effects CC 2023. This also works with 3D Layers.

April 4, 2023/Archive

After Effects: Color Expression Controls

This tutorial will show you how to use Color Expression Controls in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 so you can control the color properties of individual or multiple layers all at the same time.

March 30, 2023/Archive

After Effects: Lock The Effect Controls Panel

This tutorial will show you how to lock the Effects Control Panel in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 so you can make any layer’s effects always visible even when clicking on another layer.

March 14, 2023/Archive

Adobe Audition: Randomize Multi-Track Colors

This tutorial will show you how to enable & disable Randomize Track Colors in the Multitrack of Adobe Audition CC 2023.

March 9, 2023/Archive

Create Twist Animation in Adobe After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to create a Twist Animation in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 using only a Shape Layer (Line) created by the Pen Tool.

March 7, 2023/Archive

Auto-Trace + Scribble in After Effects

Adobe After Effects CC 2023: Auto-Trace + Scribble Hand-Drawn Animation This tutorial will show you how to Auto-Trace a Shape Layer and add the Scribble Effect to create a hand-drawn style animation in Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

February 23, 2023/Archive

After Effects: How To Add 3D Extrusion Depth

This tutorial will show you how to add Extrusion Depth to 3D Layers in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 so the object appears to be three-dimensional.

February 16, 2023/Archive

After Effects: Create Nulls From Paths (Trace Paths)

This tutorial will show you how to Trace Paths using the Create Nulls From Paths script in Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

February 14, 2023/Archive

🍩 How To Merge Paths To Make A Donut in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to Merge Paths to cut out shapes using other shapes in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 to make shapes like a donut.

February 9, 2023/Archive

How To Animate Source Text in After Effects

This tutorial will show you how to animate the Source Text Property in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 to change the Text without have to add additional Text Layers.

February 7, 2023/Archive

After Effects: Time Remapping + LoopOut Expression

This tutorial will show you how to extend looping layers using Time Remapping + loopOut and how to fix the ‘Empty Frame’ issue on Pre-Comps in Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

February 2, 2023/Archive

After Effects: How To Use The Type Tool

After Effects CC 2023: How To Use The Type ToolAfter Effects CC 2023: How To Use The Type ToolThis tutorial will show you how to use the Type Tool to add horizontal or vertical text in Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

January 26, 2023/Archive

After Effects: Date & Time (Numbers Effect)

This tutorial will show you how to add the Numbers Effect to insert the real-time Date & Time Adobe After Effects CC 2023

January 24, 2023/Archive

After Effects: Text Around Circle

This tutorial will show you create and animate text around a Circle or any path in Adobe After Effects CC 2023

January 19, 2023/Archive

After Effects: Hand-Drawn Effect

This tutorial will show you the fast and easy way to create a ‘Hand-Drawn Effect’ in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 that works on text layers, graphics, shapes, and more and also has automatic animation built-in.

January 12, 2023/Archive

After Effects: Export Transparency Using Render Queue

This tutorial will show you the fast and easy way to export animations with transparency (no background) using the Render Queue in Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

January 5, 2023/Archive

After Effects: How To Use RotoBrush 2 Tool

This tutorial will show you how to use the RotoBrush 2 Tool in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 to remove or separate objects from the background

December 29, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Use Cartoon Effect

This tutorial will show you how to use the Cartoon Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 to create a comic book/cartoon effect or a line art illustration/find edges styled look.

December 27, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Use Content-Aware Fill

This tutorial will show you how to use Content-Aware Adobe After Effects CC 2023 to remove unwanted objects in your footage.

December 15, 2022/Archive

After Effects: Grid Effect (How To Use)

This tutorial will show you how to use the Grid in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 to make a background for animations such as cut-out or stop-motion styles. You will learn how to change the background color, grid lines, add animation and texture.

December 13, 2022/Archive

After Effects: Puppet Position Pin Tool

This tutorial will show you how to use the Puppet Pin Tool in Adobe After Effects CC 2023. This tool works by adding ‘pins’ to animate or deform any object (shapes, graphics, text, etc).

December 8, 2022/Archive

After Effects: Highlighter Animation (Stroke Effect)

This tutorial will show you how to create a Text Highlighter Animation Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2023. This is a fun and popular effect often used to highlight text in a book or magazine, etc.

December 6, 2022/Archive

After Effects: Navigate Keyframes on Selected Layers & Properties

This tutorial will show you the keyboard shortcuts to navigate (jump to) keyframes on all layers or only on selected layers or properties in Adobe After Effects CC 2023.

November 17, 2022/Archive

After Effects 2023: How To Use Track Mattes

This tutorial will show you how to use the new and improved Track Mattes in Adobe After Effects CC 2023. Track Mattes can be used to place or ‘clip’ objects inside of another layer such as shapes, text, videos, etc.

November 15, 2022/Archive

After Effects 2023: Sunburst Animation Effect

This tutorial will show you how to use the Sunburst Animation Preset new in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 which can be used as a background or accent graphic animation.

November 3, 2022/Archive

After Effects CC 2023: Burst Pop Effect

This tutorial will show you how to add the Burst Pop Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 which is a great way to add some interest and accent graphic animations to any Composition.

November 1, 2022/Archive

After Effects 2023: Blinking Cursor Typewriter Console Effect

This tutorial will show you how to add and customize the Blinking Cursor Typewriter Console Effect to Text Layers in Adobe After Effects CC 2023. This effect has a blinking cursor that follows the text as it animates on the screen.

October 27, 2022/Archive

After Effects 2023: How To Add Composition Borders

This tutorial will show you how to add a colored Composition Border in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 that can be animated and will resize automatically if the Comp Size changes.

October 25, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Restore Missing Animation User Presets Folder

This tutorial will show you how to locate and restore missing animation user presets in the Effects & Presets panel of Adobe After Effects CC 2023 after upgrading from AE 2022 to AE 2023.

October 20, 2022/Archive

After Effects CC 2023: Composition Presets (New!)

This tutorial will show you how to access the new Composition Presets in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 to make it easier to find the most commonly used presets and new sizes for social media.

October 18, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Create A Countdown Timer

This tutorial will show you how to create a Countdown Timer (from 10 to 0) in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 using a text layer and a Slider Control. You will also learn how to remove the decimals and round down the number and center the numbers in the center of the Composition.

September 22, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Use the Mini Composition Flowchart

This tutorial will show you how to use the Mini Composition Flowchart in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 to make it easy to see the Comps & Pre-Comps in hierarchal order.

September 8, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Skew or Slant Text

This tutorial will show you how to skew or slant text and other others in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 using the Transform Effect.

September 6, 2022/Archive

After Effects: Fake EQ or Audio Spectrum Effect (Text + Wiggly)

This tutorial will show you how to create a faux audio spectrum or equalizer animation in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 using only a text layer and the Wiggly Selector

September 1, 2022/Archive

After Effects: Keyframe Color Labels

This tutorial will show you how to create and add keyframe color labels and select groups in Adobe After Effects CC 2022. This is helpful for keeping timelines organized.

August 30, 2022/Archive

After Effects: Fake 3D Text Extrusion Effect

This tutorial will show you how to create a Faux or Fake 3D Text Extrusion Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2022.

August 25, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How to Use Shift Channels Effect

This tutorial is will show you how to use the Shift Channels Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 to produce an RGB Split or Chromatic Aberration/Distortion that is commonly seen in vintage footage.

August 23, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Reset Preferences

This tutorial is will show you how to reset the default preferences in Adobe After Effects CC 2022. This can sometimes help with troubleshooting if After Effects is not behaving as expected.

August 18, 2022/Archive

After Effects: Solids Folder

This tutorial is about the Solids Folder in the Project Panel of Adobe After Effects CC 2022. You will learn how to rename the Solids Folder, how to assign any folder as the Solids Folder, and how to change the default name for the Solids Folder.

August 16, 2022/Archive

After Effects: New Project Templates

This tutorial will show you how to set up and use New Project Templates in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 that automatically load folders and assets in the Project Panel when launching a new After Effects Project. The first step is to set up a folder structure in the Project Panel and the next step is to Save As a Template that is loaded automatically whenever a new project is created.

August 11, 2022/Archive

After Effects CC 2022: How To Use Essential Properties

This tutorial will show you how to use Essential Properties and the Essential Properties Panel in Adobe After Effects CC 2022. The benefit of using Essential Properties is to make it easy to change properties of a Pre-Comp or Nested Comp without ever leaving the Main Comp.

August 9, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Add Multiple Strokes

This tutorial will show you how to add multiple stroke effects on Shape Layers in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 to create a ‘digital sticker’ look. In this tutorial, add a text layer and convert it to shapes and then apply 3 different Stroke properties.

August 5, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Generate Project Reports

This tutorial will show you how to generate project text file reports in Adobe After Effects CC 2022. Project text file reports include all of the details of an Adobe After Effects project including source file names and drive location, Comp & Pre-comp names, Effects and Fonts used. Reports could be very useful to share with team members or collaborators or for students to learn how a project is made.

August 4, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Collect Files

This tutorial will show you how to Collect Files in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 to gather all imported assets and files into one Footage Folder. This is particularly useful for collaborating or working on a project to someone else or for archiving and organizing projects. By placing all footage in one Footage folder saved in the main project folder, this makes sure After Effects will not generate errors when the project is opened as it knows the location of the imported files and folders.

August 2, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Remove Unused Footage

This tutorial will show you how to remove unused footage in Adobe After Effects CC 2022. Unused Footage is any file or asset imported into the Project Panel and not being used in any Composition or Pre-Comp.

July 28, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Place Videos in Shape Layers Using Alpha Mattes

This tutorial will show you how to use Alpha Mattes in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 to place videos or animations in shape layers or text.

July 26, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Convert Audio To Keyframes (Audio React)

This tutorial will show you how to convert audio layers to keyframes in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 and how to make layers such as graphics or text react to the beats of the audio layer.

July 21, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Use CC Twister Effect

This tutorial will show you how to use the CC Twister Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 which is a fun effect that twists objects from the front to the backside. The front may be a text layer and you can twist to reveal a different backside.

July 14, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Use Texturize Effect​

This tutorial will show you how to use the Texturize Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 to add textures to individual layers or to the entire Composition. The Texturize Effect is under the ‘Stylize’ Effects Category.

July 12, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Use the Invert Effect

This tutorial will show you how to use the Invert Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 which inverts or flips the color values of an image. For example, if you have a black background with white specks and you apply the Invert Effect you will get a white background with black specks.

June 28, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Save Composition Presets

This tutorial will show you how to save custom Composition Presets in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 so you can quickly create a new Composition with the settings you previously saved by selecting a Preset from a drop-down menu.

June 23, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Reveal Comps & Layers in Project Bin

This tutorial will show you how to reveal or show where Compositions & Layers are located in the Project Bin in Adobe After Effects CC 2022. This is useful to identify the original source or to Rename Comps & Layers in the Project Panel.

June 21, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Add In & Out Points

This tutorial will show you how to Preview Footage and set In & Out Points in the Comp Window in order to add smaller clips of a longer video to the Composition in Adobe After Effects CC 2022.

June 16, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Save Frame As (PSD, JPEG, PNG)

This tutorial will show you how to Save A Frame of the Composition in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 as Photoshop Layers (PSD File) or Jpeg or PNG that can be exported as a file and then re-imported into the project.

June 9, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Create Shapes From Text

This tutorial will show you how to convert text layers to shape layers to add animation and effects to individual characters.

May 19, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Use Composition Flowchart

This tutorial will show you how to use the Composition Flowchart in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 to get the big picture overview of your projects so you can see all pre-comps, layers, solids, and effects in a flowchart.

May 17, 2022/Archive

After Effects: Show & Hide Audio Levels & Waveforms (Keyboard Shortcuts)

This tutorial will show you the keyboard shortcuts to show and hide the Audio Levels property and Waveforms for all layers that contain audio in Adobe After Effects CC 2022. You will also learn how to search and isolate all audio layers in a Composition.

May 12, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Add Slider Controls for Wiggle Expression

This tutorial will show you how to add Slider Controls for the Wiggle Expression in Adobe After Effects CC 2022. This makes it very easy to control the Frequency & Amplitude settings of the Wiggle Expression.

May 10, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Create Line Boil Text Effect

This tutorial will show you how to create a line boil or ‘jiggle’ effect on Text Layers (or other graphics)l in Adobe After Effects CC 2022.

April 28, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Use Venetian Blinds Effect

After Effects CC 2022: How To Use Venetian Blinds Effect This tutorial will show you how to add and use the Venetian Blinds Effect in Adobe After Effects CC 2022. This effect can be used as a transition to reveal layers underneath or as a standalone effect on a graphic such as a logo or a shape. The Venetian Blinds is versatile and can be used in a variety of creative ways, so keep this one in your motion toolbox.

April 26, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Doodle on Videos Using Brush Tool

After Effects CC 2022: How To Doodle on Videos Using Brush Tool This tutorial will show you how to draw or doodle on video clips using the Brush Tool in the Paint Panel in Adobe After Effects CC 2022.

April 14, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Use Interpret Footage

This tutorial will show you how to use Interpret Footage to extend the duration of imported footage in Adobe After Effects CC 2022.

April 12, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Use Compositing Options for Effects

This tutorial will show you how to use Interpret Footage to extend the duration of imported footage in Adobe After Effects CC 2022.

March 31, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Create Looping Texture Animations

This tutorial will show you how to create a looping paper texture animation in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 that you can use as a background or overlay over graphics and change the blend mode to add some grit and movement.

March 29, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Add Mood Lighting (Amorphous Effect)

This tutorial will show you how to add the Mood Lighting-Amorphous Effect to give your footage some subtle ambient light effects in Adobe After Effects CC 2022. This effect works great to add some movement and lighting to still images or to create a Cinemegraph effect (still image with one part moving)

March 24, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Measure Duration Between Two Keyframes

This tutorial will show you how to figure out the time duration or number of frames between two keyframes on the Timeline in Adobe After Effects CC 2022. This is useful if you are trying to keep the distance between sets of keyframes the same and you want to make sure they are the same distance apart.

March 22, 2022/Archive

After Effects: How To Create Paper Cut-Out Look

This tutorial will show you how to create a Paper Cut-Out look in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 to give your animations a ‘Hand-drawn, Stop-Motion’ look and feel.

August 1, 2020/Archive

After Effects: Anchor Point 101

How To Center the Anchor Point in Adobe After Effects CC 2020 After Effects CC: How To Center Anchor Point TThis tutorial is about how to move and center the Anchor Point in Adobe After Effects CC 2020. What is an anchor point? The anchor point is what a layer uses as a reference point to […]

March 19, 2020/Archive

After Effects CC: How To Center & Move Anchor Point

This tutorial will show you how to use the Anchor Point in Adobe After Effects CC 2020