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hey what's up in today's video i'm going to show you how to create a social media ar
effect in adobe after effects it's going to be a lot of fun where you can show off
your work in a very unique way so without further ado let's open up adobe after effects and get
started alright so here we are in adobe after effects and what i have prepared for this tutorial
is this green screen file which i have already keyed out and then just replaced with a simple
green solid so it's easier to key on your end and also easier to send instead of with an alpha
so if you would like to go ahead and download this video file you can do so with the link in
the description below apart from that i found this background image on pixels.com and then i
also went to my instagram page and just took a few print screens of nice frames of videos that
i had standing there and another thing that we will use in this video is from studio plugins and
that's the ae studio here it allows you to browse motion presets text presets transitions graphics
and effects and sound effects all within after effects so once you're logged in you can just
literally browse in here click on something and then you would have sound effects or if you would
like to go and have some transitions here or if you would like to have something very specific
in a graphic um effect for example you want some backgrounds you go over here and you'll find a
bunch of backgrounds so a really cool plugin for adobe after effects which we will be using
to add a little bit of detail so you don't really need it if you don't have it to follow along
but it's an amazing tool that i just wanted to cover in this video and they also are today's
video sponsor all right so now that we're in after effects let's get started i'm going to
drag in my green screen into a new composition right here so what i will do is go to effects
and then keying apply the key light effect and just grab the color in the background
then i'm going to bring in the pixels photo and i'm also going to press f4 on the keyboard
until i see these options right here and i'm going to turn these two layers into 3d layers
then i'm going to click on my pixels and i'm going to press p on the keyboard to reveal its position
attributes and i'm going to press here on the z position and write in 5 000 so i push it further
back into the space then i'm going to click here in the corners hold shift and then just drag it
out so i get this to match the height of my scene and now all i have done is i have myself
here in 3d space or 2.5 d space together with my background that is a little bit farther into space
so now when we're going to push in or move our camera we're going to see a lot of parallax
for example if i go now to my camera and i would move you would see some parallax in
the background and it's not like it's just a static image behind me and that's exactly what
we want so i'm going to undo that and then right click create a new camera and i'm going to make
this camera into a 35 millimeter camera and then click ok so now we see that it changed the view
a little bit so what we can do to compensate this is just bring the background a little bit closer
because in the end it's indoors and it shouldn't be that far into the background uh if you want you
can also just bring the camera closer so what i'll do now is right click new and create a new null
object and turn this also into a 3d layer and then click on my camera and parent that to the null
then rename the little to camera control and then press p on the keyboard to click on the stopwatch
here for creating a keyframe for a position attributes at the beginning of your timeline
then i'm going to move all the way till the end of my track and here i'm just going to push it in
and push it up we have a soft subtle camera movement uh pushing in and if you want you can
also reverse this animation by just selecting the two uh keyframes right click keyframe assistance
and time reverse so there we go so now we have something zooming out maybe that's a better idea
when you're trying to reveal stuff around you and now what we want to do is start adding in
all our things so what i will do is first open up my instagram images folder and just bring
all my images in here and then i'm going to turn them into a 3d layer and i'm also going to
press s on the keyboard and just put them like a 30 because they're quite big then i'm going to
select my first one and i'm just going to click on the rectangle tool here and i'm just going to mask
out whatever i want to see so maybe i just want to see my work and then the bottom part right here
and there we go and i'm just doing this roughly but obviously if you want this to be perfect go in
photoshop make sure that you have nice images with a nice border around of it or something like that
that's going to be completely up to you obviously this is just a proof of concept
so i'm going to copy my mask by hitting ctrl c and then selecting all of these images and
because i've just uh taken all these images at the same aspect ratio i can just paste them
and normally that would just add a mask on all these images correctly maybe i'm off a little
bit with the scroll but that doesn't matter too much for my video so now that i have this um i'm
looking around of me so what i want to want to do is press p on the keyboard for all of these images
and also make sure that they're 3d and then click on an image and all i want to do now is press v
on the keyboard and then just push it and place it into position so maybe i push it a little bit
closer towards the camera and then i'm also going to rotate it so it looks like it's all always
facing me at all times so we have to kind of think of where is it in the space well it's closer to us
so i'm going to pull back uh this one is going to be further away so i'm going to push it away by
just increasing the z here and you can actually see that it's already behind of me uh but just
to keep things logical because sometimes after effects dares to glitch with this i'm also going
to put it behind my green screen and if you want to make sure which is your footage you can always
change this to a yellow color so now you can easily see where is your footage in your timeline
so once you're satisfied with this look what you can do now is
select all of these and then press p on the keyboard
and click on stopwatch and then go back
wherever they should be appearing so like right here i'm unlocking my phone so i'm taking it out
opening it so maybe starting from here i'm going to right click on the position and then reset it
and so now they're all back into the center and then i'm going to select these last keyframes and
a little bit later i'm just going to make sure they pop up over like one second time so that's
around 30 frames and i'm also going to press s or hold shift and press s so we also reveal the
scale property and then click on stopwatch for the scale move the scale all the way till the
end and then right here we're going to set it to zero so now we have a scale up and a position up
uh into position right here we're also going to select all of these and just trim them
to the moment they appear so that way we can just visually see things a little bit easier
so now we have this animation of all these things appearing if you want you can always
offset these and that's going to turn everything organic so that's going to make it a lot better
we can select all of the last keyframes from all of these layers and then we're
going to right click keyframe assistance and easy ease we're going into the graph editor
and zoom in a little bit and then take one of these arcs
and just push them in a little bit so we get a nice slow stop
so maybe i should have verified the position for each because they're actually starting up here
but we want them to start from the position of the phone so you'll have to reposition them you should
have done that before offsetting them that would have been a lot easier you can do that together
but yeah we can do that pretty quickly
all right so now that we have this and this is also something you could do with 3d camera tracked
footage and that could make it look really dynamic all you would have to do here if you want to place
it behind you is rotoscope yourself out but now that we have our photos and everything going on we
want to add a little bit more detail really spice it up make it look like augmented reality social
media holograms so to do that you will need to add in some likes or some follows and everything that
has to do with social media and what's really cool is that studio plugins actually has this
in their studio app so you can actually browse all their presets and use these for this effect
if you want you can also download the studio app with link in the description below i would highly
encourage you to check it out it works both for after effects and premiere pro so right here in
after effects we will go to window extensions and add in the ae studio and right here we can now see
an entire library of things that they provide with an after effects which is really convenient so
what we're going to concentrate on is the graphics effects so i'm going to open up the social media
so i'm going to open up the shape elements and then go into the social media folder
i'm going to use these hearts so i'm going to add these to my scene by clicking and adding them i'm
also going to add in uh the lights and everything in here and i'm also going to select just a
regular like and add that into my scene and we can also add in for example hashtag instagram why not
if you want you can even add in text messages or weather balloons which is also really cool
for the augmented reality stuff and you can even animate it with some really cool lines to add in
a little bit more spice for example so let's try that out and so like this you can see how easy
it is to bring in things from ae studio into after effects with a click of a button and boom you have
it in your system uh so what you want to do here is just solo one for example and also i'm going to
toggle the switches turn these all into 3d layers and so now we can for example reposition this a
little bit closer to the camera uh maybe press s on the keyboard and lower the scale quite a bit
uh this case we can unsolo it so we can see where we want to place it maybe we want to
make it look like this is the interaction of this photo so we're going to bring it over a little bit
and then i'm going to double click on it so we can go into the controls and we can change the green
here to red and the pink to a more reddish pink so we have a little bit of variation
but like this you can also change the colors of all their elements so everything that you
import you can also modify it which is super useful then you can duplicate this if you want
offset it and then go all the way over here maybe push it even closer to the camera why not
and like this we will get some variation over the time so the more
different elements you bring in the more time variation you add the more randomization you're
going to make or add the more organic it's going to look obviously you don't have to exaggerate
these things uh but yeah you get the idea then let's concentrate on this one this is really cool
we have a pop-up here with all the followers so what i want to do here is also scale it down to 50
so i can see what i am doing or even 20 and then push it really close to the camera there we go
and then we're going to rotate it towards myself so it's actually
looking like it's interacting with me and i'm going to push it a little bit like this
okay and then we can also jump back into social media and this time we can or well
actually social icons can bring in some twitter instagram and youtube for example and why not what
uh oh what's that because i like the color difference here um and then we're also going
to turn these into 3d layers and also push these pretty close to the camera and find us a nice
spot so maybe right here it's a little bit empty we can move them over here place them over here
you can add in these film damages which are also really cool for example i'm
just going to show it on one of these i'm going to add in this effect on top of it
we can just toggle the switches and set this to a luma inverted matte and now you can see that
if we're going to play this and i'm just going to solo this one so we can concentrate on that one
we can see some holographic glitch so now if we also turn this into 3d layer press p on the
keyboard for the whatsapp um image or like the instagram image press hold shift for the r and
then copy these values and paste them to the glitch make sure that you delete the keyframes
but now you will get it uh like it's actually sticking on there
and you will get in some glitch effects so that's also a really cool thing you could even uh say
that you want to rotate this horizontally so it looks more like a hologram and there we go cool
so these are some tricks uh that you can apply then after that i'm going to select all of these
uh files or all these layers press f on the keyboard and just make sure that we
remove the camera the camera option here and also our green screen and for the rest
also our background set everything to screen so this is just a test if you don't want it you can
remove that but it just adds a little bit more of a hologram feeling and then we can also press t
on the keyboard and set the opacity for all our layers to 85. and like that we're going to get
a little bit more of a see-through effect and that's going to make it look
even more holographic so now what we need to do is add a adjustment layer on top of it all
this is going to be a little bit of a grade and here we're going to apply a curves to it and also
a tint and also perfect glow perfect glow is a free preset that you can download on our website
um but it gives you a nice glow to everything so i'm going to just uncheck that for now
so now i'm going to also uncheck the tint i'm first going to add a little bit of an
s-curve make sure that i don't go too dark and brighten up my highlights a
little bit like that add in some tint for 30 something like that and then
we're going to add perfect glow perfect glow i'm going to set the threshold to 85 so it's
only going to look at the highlights and i'm also going to increase the radius to something like 50.
we can also play around a little bit with the intensity here until we find something that works
if you want very specific things to be glowy you can always go to those things and what i
like to do here is add a solid composite effect to that and make sure that you have a black
background now you can apply a perfect glow and you will see that it's going to look a lot better
and then what you can also do is on the background i'm going to add a camera lens blur
set this to something like 15 so we got a little bit more depth of field in the background and also
darken it just a little bit and then for the camera i'm going to press a twice and
enable the depth of field and set the aperture to something like 50 or 100 see what works and make
sure that the focus distance is correctly set at the depth of yourself so you don't appear blurry
but everything around you does according to depth of your scene and then once once you're satisfied
with your entire animation you can actually do sound effects as well just straight out
from uh the ae studio so if you go over to sound effects you can find transitions here
so i'm going to add in this and this and i'm also going to select these two right click time
time stretch and stretch them to 250. so they're slower
and then i'm going to just offset them a little bit so we get some variations and obviously you
have to press l on the keyboard and lower the volume to something like -25 so it's very subtle
or minus 20. you can also add a low pass filter
set it to low copy this and paste it to all of your sound effects then you have a little bit
more of a base year touch to it alright and there we have it that brings us to this final result
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