Intro to after effects

Hello and welcome to my little blog on the basics of after effects. In this blog i will be going through greenscreening, motion tracking, lens flare and muzzle flash. i hope this will help you in some way, enjoy!

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Muzzle flash

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Muzzle flash is  a little bit harder to lens flare and green screening as there are more steps to do. First off you find the frame you want the flash to happen. I want it to be on this frame.  So to remind me that the frame is in a certain place i use a marker, so i go to the layer tab at the top and click add marker.  Then you to the layer tab again and click "new" then "solid". then a tab will come up, rename the solid "flash" and click okay.  After the marker is on the time line i search in the effects tab on the right for "Fractal noise" This is a television static effect that will become our lens flash.  After searching for the effect you click and drag it over the screen. You will then see something that looks like a TV static on the screen.  On your timeline you should see a line above your clip, this is the fractal noise.  On the left of the time line you will see this.  The one that says "flash...
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