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Summary: Tips for loading files into After Effects. The 3-D mode offers a variety of special video effects. Learn working with three-dimensional files using Adobe After Effects software in this free video editing tutorial from a film production professor.
John Carstarphen is an experienced independent filmmaker, screenwriter, animator and teacher. His work as a writer/director has been seen in international film festivals including...read more
"The first thing I'm going to do is just drop in a few 2D images and bear in mind that when you're working in after effects in 3D mode, what you're really doing is you are, you're looking at flat 2D images, but you're actually moving through these 2D images in 3D space, and when you begin lighting and working in 3D essentially all you're doing is lighting a flat surface. However, used in combination with the powerful layering functions of after effects you can get some pretty cool effects. So let's see we added an antennae. Let's add a building. Ok so we have three items so far. We have a building. We have some spooky looking trees and we have antennae."