His, I had a similar problem once when I rendered 25fps from a 30fps project. ... View more

Hi, you could try masking out the spots so they become "holes" in the footage, feather the masks slightly, then add another layer of the footage underneath and reposition it a few pixels so that the spots disappear. Depending on the movement in the shot you may have to keyframe the position of the lower layer but only if neccessary. ... View more

Hi. Precompose the turning page, then use the Effect on the Precomposition in your main composition. It's a bit tricky to get the right final position but the page will remain in view. ... View more

Hi. This might give you a starting point. VIDEO COPILOT | After Effects Tutorials, Plug-ins and Stock Footage for Post Production Professionals ... View more

Sorry Dan, I'm on an old version. I did note that there were some tutorials on the newer versions when I Googled. ... View more

Hi Dan. What you are looking for is a "Track Matte", there are a ton of tuturials. At its simplest: place your text layer above the video. In the comp panel under the TrkMat heading at the top select the video's "None" and change it to "Alpha Matte ". If you can't see the TrkMat heading press the 'Toggle Switches/Modes' button at the bottom of your screen. ... View more

Hi. Have you put your text layer into Custom Layers? ... View more

Hi Ryan. Select the composition in the Project Panel - upper left of screen - then CTRL + D to duplicate it. Rename the new composition and open it. I presume that's what you are wanting. ... View more

Hi. First select the text layer, then change the font in the Character Panel. ... View more

Could very well be, rather than scale. ... View more

Hi. To fade in look up "Text Animators", when fully faded up decrease the scale slightly. For the  glint/glow moving across the letters us the CC Light Sweep effect. In the Effects panel Animation Presets*/Text/Animate In/Fade Up Words should give you a starting point to understanding how animators work. ... View more

Hi they are under "*Animation Presets" in the Effects and Presets Panel - not the Text Effects. ... View more

Hi Omar, you have the bend set at 50 so it's doing what it is supposed to do. Set it to 0 and it should straighten out. ... View more

Hi. Sorry I don't know the book but I think your composition is not using square pixels (this is in the Composition Settings when you start a new composition as Pixel Aspect Ratio -PAR for short). To correct this you will see an icon at the bottom of the viewing screen - on the right of the  "1 View" dropdown, hover your mouse and it should say "Toggle Pixel Aspect Ratio", select it and the composition should no longer look stretched. ... View more

Hi. Try keyframing the Linear Wipe Transition. ... View more

Hi, the term you are looking for is "compositing". As Mylenium says it depends on the shot, but if you look up some basic compositing tutorials that shouldd give you the general ideas. ... View more

Hi. The simplest way: add a copy of the logo file as the top layer and then use opacity to fade it out. ... View more

Hi. There are several ways from manually drawing masks however After Effects also comes with a program called Mocha AE. This might give you the idea: Intro to Mocha AE CC - Adobe After Effects tutorial - YouTube ... View more

Hi, this might help: Wingding and Font Characters in After Effects - YouTube ... View more

Hi. I'm a bit confused, are you saying when you select the layer and toggle it open there are no co-ordinates? They won't be in the Effects panel unless it is an Effect. ... View more

Hi. Depends on the actual footage but you might be able to do a simple, rough mask of both eyes on a copy of the original as the top layer. ... View more

Hi. A way to do it: Draw a line through the last line of text - set the stroke width to cover the text (and make it the colour of your final text). De-select that shape layer. Draw a line through the next line of text/ de-select and work your way up to the top. Select all the shape layers and precompose them. In the Precomposition add the Roughen Edges to each shape layer. Move your time indicator to when you want the fade in to start. Keyframe your top layer's Border to 350 - or whatever makes it dissapear. Move to when it want it revealed and set the Border to 0. Go through each layer using the same settings when you want the lines to appear. In your main comp put the precomp under your text layer. Set the precomp's Track Matte to Luma. That should do it. ... View more

Hi Lee, have a look at the Colorama effect - you might need to look up some tutorials. ... View more

Hi. Select the actual layer in the timeline, not the Layer menu. ... View more

Hi. Select the layer and in its dropdown go Contents/Polystar 1/Polystar Path 1/Points. ... View more

Hi, sorry I can't open your file (I'm on an older version). The general idea is to duplicate your text/cylinder layer the number of times you need (CTRL+ D). Then keyframe Rotation X and/or Z on each layer. ... View more