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Hey everybody, I'm Nathaniel Dodson from tutvid.com. Welcome right into this
Adobe After Effects tutorial where we're going to create this really cool video zooming
through text type transition it's really cool for like an intro or something. Check it out!
Moscow. Russia. 1986. (dramatic voice)
Ahh, I just love it. It's actually pretty easy to do, I think you will have some fun with
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in the past, present, or future. Let's jump into After Effects and get this thing started right now.
Alright, so here we are in Adobe After Effects and the plan is to just have some text zoom
way in and shoot through the text and see this video that's going to be playing behind it.
I have this beautiful shot of Moscow Russia and this is what we're going to use. So the
first thing we'll do is we'll right-click over here on our layers area. By the way, I have
the video and I've got sort of the sound hitter double tab "L" to bring up the
wave-form there. You can see that there's that big slamming audio sound and then the
voice-over just words kinda Russia Moscow or Moscow Russia, whatever, however it went.
So I've got all that stuff down there, you can use whatever underlying video.
I got this video from video blocks.com you can use whatever video and audio you like.
Just go out there and find stuff that works for you. I would share this if I could, but it's
all stock stuff, so I can't really. I'm sorry about that. Let's go ahead and right click
and choose new and I'm going to choose solid here. I'm going to name this layer,
ummm, I'm going to name it cover up. Something like that. And the color is going
to be black and 2560 by 1440, that's the size of my document. So that's why it is
2560 by 1440. Hit ok. You can see it is covering up our video with black. Now we need to cut a
hole in this using some text. What I'll do is I will grab the text tool and I will click once out here and I'm
going to type the word Russia and I am going to grab my selection tool and probably what I want
to do first and foremost is move the anchor point to the middle of the word Russia. So
I'm going to hold down CMD and OPT that would be CTRL and ALT on the PC and I'm
going to double tap the pan behind tool or the anchor point tool. And it's going to just
reset that anchor point to the middle just like that. Before we do anything else, let's
go align. Make sure we align this number one to the composition, and then align
horizontally and vertically. Just get it right in place. Then before I come to character
and start playing with the font and all of that, I'm going to go to paragraph and just
make sure that I have it align center. Now when I start changing size and stuff like that
in my character panel, I don't lose any information. Or not so much lose information as knock this whole
thing out of alignment. So what I'm going to do; I'm going to go with the font that I have right here
Portico, and I'm going with the font style ruff oobleck and it's kind of this cool texture looking font. You can
really use anything you like. I just, something that's big and bold and thick and fat, umm it will probably
work better for this type of effect. But this is what I'm going with and I'm going to set the size here to
350 pixels so you can see it's quite large and it still knocked us out of alignment so I was wrong about
that before. Let's just make sure we realign this whole thing. And just because I can, I'm
going to change the fill color to white, because I kind of just prefer that, that kind of white over black
the stark contrast looks really nice. And that's kind of nice and cool. Just honestly as it is. but,
we're not finished yet because what I want to do is I want to essentially use this as a clipping mask
of sorts to punch a hole in the black coverup and the video beneath. How are we going to do that?
Well, down here at the bottom of the layers pannel, oops, not Fire fox. Down here at the bottom of the
layers panel we have toggle switches slash modes. We're going to hit that button. And one of the things
that happens when we hit the button is we have this track matte option that shows up. What we'll do here
on the coverup layer, use the track matte drop down and choose to alpha matte Russia, but watch what happens.
When we do this, you can see that it just makes the Russia letters turn black and it hides everything else. This isn't really
what we want, is it? We actually the alpha inverted matte Russia. You can see, all the
black remains but the text is working like a cookie cutter and is punching an hole in the
middle of our black coverup. If I sort of scrub through this, we can see all that stuff going on
behind the black cover-up layer. Next what I want to do is right click and choose new and
choose a new camera. and here I'm going to go with the 50mm preset. It's kind of a cool looking
dialogue box but don't worry. It's not too overly complicated. We're going to hit ok. And I get a
warning here in After Effects saying look, camera and lights, they don't affect 2D layers. Select a layer
and choose a layer 3D. Okay, that's fine. We'll get on that in a moment. After Effects, don't worry about that.
What I want to do here, is come over here to the one view and choose the two view horizontal layout.
So what we've got over here is, I can zoom in just a little bit more than this. Let's go to... I'm on the active
camera. I don't want that. Actually, I like that being at 50%. Let's go to the top view. Instead of 6.25%
let's bring that also, not 50% actually. Let's go back to like 25%. I still want to see the camera. So there's
the camera and maybe I should bring it back a little further. Maybe 6.25, Maybe I had a,
I had a point. Here I've got the camera and we can see this little white box. That's the camera
and the field of view is this whole triangle where it is pointing from the top down at the
very top of these Russia letters if you can envision that being in 3D space. And what
we want to do is zoom in on the words Russia so I can grab the little blue arrow. See how my
mouse says Z, the Z-axis pushes the camera in or out. I can zoom in but watch what happens.
When I zoom this camera in, absolutely nothing happens. That's because if you recall a moment ago when After
Effects said, Hey look, you need some 3D layers. It's because we don't have our Russia text set to a 3D layer. So let's
come back down to the toggle switches slash modes, select that. And we can come here on the Russia layer and just tick on this
cheque box underneath this 3D cube. That's going to make this a 3D layer, 3D capable layer. And now as i zoom the camera in
you can see how our text zooms in as well, right? As the camera gets closer, that sort of red line there,
that's the top edge if you will of the text. So I'm just going to undo my camera movement because
we want to animate this to make this effect really work. So what we'll do is we'll come there to our camera and
I'm going to hit the little twirly down arrow and I'm going twirl down the camera options and what I'm
going to do here is hit the letter P to bring up positioning. The position I'm most interested in
is not the x or the y but rather the third option or the third parameter here, third input I should say
The z axis. I am going to set this to negative 17,000. So very small. We're way-way back I can probably go
to 3% maybe I can see. There's the camera, way far away from the text. You can see how small the text looks.
That's perfect. I'm now going to drop a keyframe by hitting the little stopwatch. It's going to toggle on the animation and
it's going to drop that little diamond, that little keyframe. What I want to do, I want the text to finally end up
exploding through the screen and showing all of the video at the same time that our sound hitter is really exploding.
So I'll select bad hit here. Doubble tap L and we can see right here, right around 1 second is when the
sound really peaks for us. So I'm going to take the Z position, I'm going to change it
from 17,000 and bring it all the way down to like negative 5. you can see how it's
moving it way in past our video. And now as I zoom back out I can see the movement
of the camera. Now just a quick tip. As you're doing this, you're camera might end up flipping
and inverting triangle and be like pointing back the wrong way. If that happens, it's a really quick
fix. Right click on camera one and you would go transform choose auto orient and just make
sure auto orient is set to off. We don't want that on. Normally it's like orient towards point of interest.
Just shut it off if you're having that problem and it will go away. Next I'll select both of these keyframes
by holding down shift and selecting both of them. I'm just going to simply hit F9 to give this like an
easy ease which is just going to make it a little smoother and we can go back here and just go
to one view again so we can just watch our single view. And I think at this point we can go ahead and
try previewing this, see what it looks like and how it sounds and all of that. So I'm going to hit up here in the preview
menu I have it set to go full screen when I hit spacebar. So I'm going to hit spacebar here and we will preview this.
And I think that looks pretty good. All the timing lines up pretty nicely. I kind of dig it. One little thing that I might
want to do is here right where everything begins there's still the word Russia right there. So let's just kind of fade
that up from 0% opacity. I'm going to collapse my layers here. I'm going to open up the Russia text. In fact I will just
select the Russia text and hit the letter T which is going to bring me to my opacity transformation.
And I'm going to click on the stopwatch to toggle animation. I'll come out, actually, no I'm going to
go like three frames or something. So I'm going to hold down CMD or CTRL and hit my left, right arrow
key excuse me one two three times lets say. And we're going to drop another keyframe by hitting the little
diamond there. Now we'll hit the previous keyframe button right here. That's going to take me back to that first keyframe.
On the first keyframe we'll reduce the opacity to 0%. So what we'll have now is that text fade up from nothing
and then zoom through and explode into the scene just like that.
Moscow, Russia, 1986.
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