Want to turn a daytime shot into night in After Effects? In this tutorial, I’m doing a quick day to night conversion as part of the VFX series where I’m creating a burning building scene. This is a fairly straightforward example because the original footage was filmed...
Having issues with EZ Corridor Key on Apple Silicon? This might help. This tutorial is a follow-up to my previous video testing EZ Corridor Key. I was getting really strange results from the generated matte, the alpha hint looked great, but the final output was way...
In this tutorial, I show how I add damage elements to a shot to create the appearance of smashed windows in After Effects. This is part of the series where I’m turning a clean shot into a burning building scene. In this step, we’re focusing on breaking the windows,...
I tested Corridor Digital’s AI keyer… and honestly, the results are kind of insane. In this tutorial, I try out the Corridor Key AI model via the Baskl.ai plugin inside After Effects to see how it handles real-world footage, including some pretty rough test shots that...
Struggling to get clean results with Roto Brush in After Effects? This simple trick makes a huge difference. In this quick tutorial, I show how I prep footage before using Roto Brush to get cleaner edges, less chatter, and better overall results. By removing grain,...
This tutorial breaks down a practical way to animate numbers in After Effects, covering common real-world needs like commas for thousands, decimal places, percentage signs, and currency symbols. Animated numbers come up all the time in explainer videos, stats-driven...