5 Compositing Tricks in After Effects

5 Tips and Tricks to make your compositions look more realistic within After Effects (tutorial)

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00:00 Intro
00:55 Envato Elements
02:35 What is Compositing?
03:00 01 Finding the right perspective
05:20 02 Matching Black Levels
08:40 03a Depth Compositing
09:40 03b Depth of Field
11:00 04a Merging Foreground and Background
12:24 04b Color Temperature
13:08 Camera FX
13:16 Lens Texture
13:28 Vignette
13:38 Optics Compensation / Lens distortion
13:50 Lens Flares / Light Streaks
14:14 Letterboxes / Crop
14:40 Chromatic Aberration
15:30 Grain / Filmgrain
16:16 Winner announcement

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In this easy to follow tutorial by flomotion you will learn 5 really cool steps of compositing in after effects. They will be time saving as well as improvements for workflow and realism of your compositions!
Perfect for absolute beginners as well as trained professionals!

In part one I am going to explain to you all you need to know about perspective, vanishing points and finding the horizon. As well as some tricks for matching perspective and how to shrink yourself and make yourself a giant!
Part 2 focuses on black levels and gamma. How to match the black level of two images with an easy trick within the levels effect

In part 3 you will learn about depth in general, as well as depth compositing and setting up depth of field with the camera lens blur and a blur map.

Part 4 covers color matching in After Effect. How to fake color spill! You will learn how to create an average color of the Background and how to blend that color onto your Foreground elements. And you will also learn about the lumetri color effect and about color temperature of day time shots and night time shots.

And the last part is the coolest: You will learn how to create camera effects to make your shot look like it was shot with a real camera!
We are adding lens effects, like a dirt texture, a chromatic aberration, a vignette, lens distortion as well as lens flares from anamorphic lenses and letterboxes, meaning the black bars on top and bottom of your video and we do that with the crop effect.

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