Glad you appreciate the work! This one was probably it for me in terms of the _____ in the style of Endgame credits videos. That's why I put together the tutorial, so that hopefully it inspires the next round of people to make their own versions. But I'm always on the lookout for the next type of project to try!
Reposting this from a reply I did to someone else: See if this will work for you. I was on After Effects CS5.5, so if you have a newer version it should update it. The media will all show as offline because you're missing the files, but it should preserve all the keyframes and whatnot. drive.google.com/open?id=1p2VUYWzsuGrj-SunGyq3jWMu4-ARAbM0
Glad you enjoyed the videos! I mean, to be fair, this and the credit sequence are the first real videos I've posted, so the fact that I have any subscribers is new to me. I'm trying to figure out where to go next with my channel, especially during this whole COVID shutdown, so we'll see if I can come up with something else to justify having more subscribers! 😉
Between each character is just opacity keyframes to fade in and out for the background footage. Everything else - adjustment layer with CC radial fast blur, smoke, bokeh, text (which has its own opacity and rotation keyframes) stays put.
I did a Google search for the actual autographs of the actors, then I inserted those as .psd files into the project and used the stroke effect to do a reveal of the signature using path points to move in a way that logically followed the movement of the signature. (No clue how the actors ACTUALLY sign their names, but it gives the appearance of them signing.) You can then change the speed of the reveal by moving the keyframes closer or further apart to have it move slower and faster for different parts of the name. The tutorial I got the technique from is listed in the description.
One of the best After Effects tutorials I've seen in a LONG time. Felt inspired to make my own! I do have a few quick questions regarding the smoke effect. Which video file did you use for it? And for the masks? do you typically want to grab the background of the scene alongside the character in question or does it really come down to personal preference? I'm struggling to avoid having the borders of my clips show
Hey there! Glad you liked the tutorial! Let's see if I can answer some questions for you: For the smoke, Mitch Martinez offers these for free on his channel: th-cam.com/video/7l_WwS7AnJ4/w-d-xo.html For the masks, I do include a little bit of the background around the character. If you look at the Endgame credits, they have a little bit of the background around each character, but not really the entire frame. So it ends up kind of looking like an amoeba shape. Then once you add the feathering, you can move those mask path points in a bit until the hard line at the edge of the background frame isn't visible. That may mean you have to choose a different clip where the character isn't too close to the edge, or you might have to scale up the background footage a bit so those edges are out of the frame. But, ultimately it does come down to personal preference. I liked choosing shots that had bright spots in them, as that generated the best light streaks from the blur effect - lightsabers, R2's lights, Force lightning, etc. I also slowed down all the background footage to make it a little more dramatic. Don't overdo it, but even a 65-75% would probably help out. Any other questions, feel free to ask! I try to check in pretty regularly just in case.
@@daveweisser Got it! It really does look like the masks come down to personal preference from all the examples I've seen, including your own. Thanks for the response! Maybe I'll send my video your way for critique when I finish up.
Question: Is it possible to have two footages running at the same time (1 on the left and one on the right tilting towards each other)? And can you potentially animate the footage so it moves and rotates?
Yes, you could have both clips, and angle them inwards. The key would be making sure they don't cut each other off in 3D space. In other words essentially this /\ as opposed to this X. You could do that by masking off the inside edges so one image doesn't hide the other, or just space them further apart. In terms of animating the footage - also yes. In this case you'd probably want to pre-compose all of the elements you want to rotate together, then use keyframe animations on the qualities you want to change - i.e. rotation. You could also animate the position of the camera itself to achieve the appearance of rotation without moving the background elements.
Well, it would be a variation on something like this tutorial I found on a quick search. You might need to change some of the effects a bit to tailor the look you're after, but this should give you a start. th-cam.com/video/33WWRQKuUiQ/w-d-xo.html
See if this will work for you. I was on After Effects CS5.5, so if you have a newer version it should update it. The media will all show as offline because you're missing the files, but it should preserve all the keyframes and whatnot. drive.google.com/open?id=1p2VUYWzsuGrj-SunGyq3jWMu4-ARAbM0
Go for it! The good news is, once you get all the layers in place for one character, you can do a lot of copy and paste to set up each subsequent character, and then tweak as needed! It will take some time, but you'll learn a lot along the way! If you come across questions, feel free to ask!
I rewatched your Star Wars credits and I would really encourage to add a tutorial on the part at the end with the signatures, especially the shading you got on the characters. NM
The signature tutorial I used is in the description. The characters are from the Battlefront 2 selection screens, with a minor amount of adjustment to brightness and contrast.
And how I can to make the final? You know, that part when appear an imagen of the hero, after the signature and then the name. I was searrching for a tutorial about that but I can´t find any.
At some point I may record a second tutorial since I get a lot of questions about that, but right now I don't have the free time to do so. That said, here's my response to someone else who just asked the same, see if this gets you moving in the right direction: "The text is basically the same process as the first section of text, just with different scale keyframes (start big, get small). The backgrounds are the same with the Adjustment Layer having the CC Radial Fast Blur for light streaks. The signature tutorial I used is linked in the description if you opted to include those. So the only piece I didn't really cover in some capacity is the silhouettes. Many people just use a Photoshopped image with a transparent background because that's what's readily available. I used actual footage from the Battlefront character selection screens so that the characters had a subtle movement to them and did some rotoscoping to remove them from the background. However that's probably not a viable option for all franchises, and if you're doing real people instead of characters you'd need to go completely custom. You could always shoot footage of your subjects, just try to match that super dramatic backlit look and have them slowly turn like they're on a rotating platform. Or just snap pics and do like I described above."
Great work Dave! I am trying my best to replicate but am having a hard time with the footage. Is there any way you would be able to zip a folder with a template file and stock footage? Thank you, that would mean the world!
Best I can do is this: drive.google.com/file/d/1p2VUYWzsuGrj-SunGyq3jWMu4-ARAbM0/view?usp=share_link I uploaded that a few years back when someone asked about a project file to see how it all worked. Honestly, I wouldn't even know where to look for the original project files at this point, so hopefully this helps!
@@daveweisser Thanks Dave! It’s going great, down to my final few- I am wondering if you had any project file of the “final six” characters? Even without files but for keynotes? Figured I’d ask, approaching that point! You rock!!!
@@gavineberlinUnfortunately I never did a project file for those because the techniques were pretty much a rehash of the others covered. There's a slight difference in the name text "flying in" using some zoom keyframes, and the signatures are their own thing (tutorial I followed linked in the description). Whether you opt to use footage or Photoshopped images for your silhouettes it's just a matter of scale and opacity keyframes to bring them in.
It won't let me change the blending mode. The option is grayed out and I can't click it. Why is this happening? I can only change the blend mode if the 3D is not activated
Thanks! It's my TARCADIS - it opens to have a MAME arcade inside. There used to be just a plain old closet there, and I wanted to jazz it up a bit. It even has the requisite round things on the walls!
Hi, can I ask for help? When I track my word, it doesnt start spreading from the middle instead, it pushes the other letters to the right side of the first letter of the word. How can I put it on the middle?
Probably need to move your anchor point. It's the thing that looks like a little crosshair. Right now my guess is it's located near the left side of the word instead of the middle. See if that helps!
I didn't choose to do the flickering film effect coming into it, but I would think something like this could be refined to accomplish a similar look: th-cam.com/video/4rzZwMteSqI/w-d-xo.html
How do you do the effects that they used for the main 6 avengers at the end of the credits?? (Note: Please reply, I'm making a video like this for a friend!) :)
The text is similar to the animations mentioned in this tutorial, just slightly different settings to get the look to match. There's a tutorial on how to to the signature effect using the Stroke effect in the description. For the silhouettes, I opted to use some footage for mine and rotoscoped out the characters. You could accomplish something similar with green screen footage, and others have kept it even simpler and used Photoshopped still frames. Then it's just a matter of keyframing them for scale, position, and opacity to match the look you're after. Hope that helps point you in the right direction - good luck on the video for your friend!
Here's the tutorial I found that helped me figure out the signature: th-cam.com/video/rUyTt2d3MIA/w-d-xo.html You basically need a transparent background image file of the signature, and then apply a Stroke effect where you reveal the graphic using path points and keyframes to mimic the actor signing their name. In After Effects, as long as the signature and the image both have transparent backgrounds and are on the tracks above the video footage, you'll have the look you're after.
The signatures are their actual autographs. I just google searched for their signatures, if they had a .png with a transparent background I chose that, otherwise I had to remove the background in Photoshop.
I haven't looked into trying to accomplish something like this on a phone or tablet, so couldn't help you there, but my recommendation would be to get the footage onto a computer and go with at least a full-fledged editor, if not a compositor.
@@daveweisser Actually I mean to say that can you please share the star wars after effect project file that you made so that I can easily edit and make credits for my custom movie please can you share the link please?
@@keichinakagawa8761 Well, that project file will give you the basic structure that you could copy and modify for additional characters. In terms of the full project file - I wouldn't even know where it is these days, not to mention with all of the media needed it wouldn't be of much use to you.
@@daveweisser I understand but still can you please share me the full project file of star wars you made cause I want to understand the project point by point and don't worry I will not share the project anywhere online for money, I just use it personally for learning purpose and making my own custom credits so please can you trust me and share the project file???
@@keichinakagawa8761 I assure you, it's not about trust. I made that project like 3 years ago, and don't know that I HAVE the original project file to share. What I do have is the file I shared, which has the layer structure all set up and ready to go, you just need to plug in your footage, change the text, and copy/paste to your project's needs. Sadly that and this tutorial video are the best I have for you right now!
Yeah, I'm not sure how it would be done on mobile, sorry! Maybe search up the app you're using and see if you can find any sort of light streaking effect and build off of that?
I can say that Premiere CS5.5 couldn't handle that, but I haven't had a chance to dig into CC yet to see if they've integrated any of those features. The trick is, rendering all the layered elements - smoke, bokeh, light streaks, 3D text animation, etc. - requires a compositor rather than an editor. That being said, After Effects is more system taxing than Premiere, and a project like this will certainly slow things down. If your system is struggling, try breaking it into smaller chunks - do each character individually, generate a movie file from the compositions, and drop those into Premiere as opposed to rendering the whole credit sequence in one go. If you include the transitions at the end of each character, you can overlap the clips in your edits. I did my project in basically 5 chunks - new sequel characters, prequel characters, OG characters, special recognition characters, and the final 5. See if that helps!
@@daveweisser I haven't understood the whole comment, because i'm french but, i have done the credits, but just for one character, i have use the text of your after effect files, i have made the video in background with an other tutorial because that was not easy for me (1st time I use After Effects) and for the signature, I have do with the tutorial in your description but it doesn't work for me, so i just pass the opacity from 0 to 100 on premiere when I made the final. But Thanks for the help !
It was some stock footage I found at the link included in the video description, however, it would seem that video is now listed as Private, so is no longer available. Really any number of stock smoke effects should work, you just want something to break things up and give it kind of a hazy look.
@@daveweisser Oh and i have another request, how do you avoid the double blur, since a layer applies to all the elements under it ? cause for now, I have a big strange blur during the transition between 2 videos :/ Thanks !
@@User-uj9bt6bw6i Not 100% sure on your specific circumstance, but if you pre-comp each character as its own composition, the blur effect in each one shouldn't affect the ones underneath. If you're doing all the characters on a single comp, then yes, you will get cascading layers of blur, which will give some non-desirable results.
Wow! Talk about talent! Fantastic tutorial. I love your videos and I can’t believe you’ve never had any kind of formal/academic education for graphics! I’m some what new to After Effects (also Premiere Pro, although I’m not using that for this) but I’m starting to get the hang of the basics and some of the more complex features of After Effects. I’m trying to create Avengers-style end credits for my favorite TV program, but I’m having a lot of trouble with the light bursts. Whenever I use the effect, the light bursts continue drastically to the edges of the clip, pretty much destroying the look I’m going for (blurred background with limited light streaks). I can shorten the light bursts (which looks bad), but cannot decrease the number of them. I dunno if I made any sense, but do you have suggestions? Thank you! And, again, great tutorial and amazing videos. You’re graphic skills are amazing!
Thanks! Glad you found the video useful. I never would have gotten to where I'm at today as a self-taught media specialist without tutorials like this one, so it was my way of giving back to where I came from - that and teaching high school film students. 😉 So, without having your exact save file to look at, I'm just guessing here. - First thing to check, make sure you're doing the "sandwich" with a top copy of your footage set to screen/overlay mode above the adjustment layer. I cover this at around the 8:45 mark of my video. When you don't have that top layer set, the bottom layer looks extremely streaky and blurry. The footage layer above the Adjustment Layer adds back in the detail and tones down some of the streaks a bit. If that doesn't take care of it, also: - Make sure the amount isn't set too high for CC Radial Fast Blur. If you go full 100% it will get to be a bit much. - Your clip may be too bright. Clips with bright backgrounds, brightly lit characters, etc. will get washed out because the plugin basically amplifies the bright parts of the image. Too much bright = too many light streaks. I ended up having to either chose alternate shots with darker surrounding areas, or masking down most of the background to cut down on bright areas. See if that helps, and if you have any other questions, feel free to ask!
Pretty sure this one was it for me in terms of "____ in the style of Endgame Credits", but the whole reason for the tutorial was so everyone can do their own version for whatever franchise they want! Give it a shot, and feel free to ask questions if you have them!
Hi Dave! I am planning on doing some of these style of credits for a documentary I am making and your video has been extremely helpful, but I can't figure out one part and believe it or not I have seen pretty much nothing except this and one other video about it. How would you do the final 6 characters? For Endgame that was Black Widow, Hawkeye, Hulk, Thor, Captain America and of course Iron Man. Now that I'm watching it with more of an editing eye, the whole finale sequence looks like a behemoth to make on it's own, with text animations, silhouettes of each of the 6 characters and signatures. I'm not planning on doing signatures but I was hoping you might be able to help me out with those final 6.
Not sure I'll have time to put together a final 6 tutorial anytime soon, but here's a rundown I gave someone else that might at least get you going the right direction, then you can ask specific questions if you hit snags. The text is basically the same process as the first section of text, just with different scale keyframes (start big, get small). The backgrounds are the same with the Adjustment Layer having the CC Radial Fast Blur for light streaks. The signature tutorial I used is linked in the description if you opted to include those. So the only piece I didn't really cover in some capacity is the silhouettes. Many people just use a Photoshopped image with a transparent background because that's what's readily available. I used actual footage from the Battlefront character selection screens so that the characters had a subtle movement to them and did some rotoscoping to remove them from the background. However that's probably not a viable option for all franchises, and if you're doing real people instead of characters you'd need to go completely custom. You could always shoot footage of your subjects, just try to match that super dramatic backlit look and have them slowly turn like they're on a rotating platform. Or just snap pics and do like I described above. Hope that helps get you started, and good luck with the project!
@@daveweisser One other thing, as I'm actually almost done with my credits as a whole, I noticed at the very end Marvel does like a camera focus out from the text and silhouette to the iron man helmet, how exactly would I recreate that?
@@Rymann_23 That's easy enough. You can do it using the Camera Lens Blur effect. For the front layer (i.e. the cutout) set a keyframe on the Blur Radius amount for 0, then shift it on the second keyframe to however much blur you want - something in the 20s range will probably do it. Then for the background element the focus doesn't really shift much, but you could start it with a little bit of a blur at the start - say 10 or less - and then on the second keyframe shift it to 0. Should give just enough push to direct the audience's focus similar to the Marvel version.
@@daveweisser Thank you so much for your help!! I wouldn’t have been able to make these credits the way I envisioned them if not for your video and helpful tips!
Hey Dave, I’m not very familiar nor do I even have after effects, but I wanna make some endgame style credits for my and my buddy’s. Could you make them for me? I’ll pay for it.
Sadly my schedule doesn't allow for freelance projects, but you might be able to find someone on Fiver with AE experience that could put one together for you!
It's pretty much the same as the other section, just with different keyframe values - so the text animation is still there with the y-axis rotating, but now they also animate on scale and position to get them to be outside of the frame and then fly into position. The only things not included are the signatures - which I simply found copies of their autographs and followed the animated signature tutorial I linked in the description - and the silhouettes. For those you could Photoshop out a still image like most people do, or in my case I rotoscoped moving images out of the Battlefront menus.
Can you do a tutorial of how you did the signatures if you haven’t already. I’d really love to see a tutorial where you show how you did the signatures.
Actually, I posted the one I followed in the description, since it does a great job of walking through that process. th-cam.com/video/rUyTt2d3MIA/w-d-xo.html
I suppose it's possible, but unlikely. The editing could be done easy enough, but the effects work and compositing to get the "look" of the Endgame credits requires something more substantial. That being said, phones have come a long way, so maybe there's some new app/hardware combo I'm not familiar with!
Well, I haven't tried it, but probably not to this level. You could get an approximation of the look using the built in Keyframe animations to do some of the text scaling, etc. The biggest issue would be things like the light streaks emitting from the background footage or the bokeh lights in the background, which you might be able to approximate if you had a stock bokeh or light streak elements that you just screened over the other footage. So, it's possible to get something in this vein, but not sure you'd be able to get this exact of a look without an actual compositor.
@@daveweisser Thank you :) Thanks to your video, I managed to make something as close as I can through the limited resources I have :) th-cam.com/video/eaBisi5fgjo/w-d-xo.html&t Thanks again buddy :D
There's always time to learn! Software like HitFilm Express is free (legally), and has some awesome tutorials to start dipping your toes into the world of compositing and VFX. My first dabble in VFX was maybe 10 years ago, and it was rough, but over time you'll get the hang of it!
I haven't used Filmora myself, so wouldn't know. In most cases people are able to replicate something similar in other software, but the biggest sticking point seems to be replicating the light flare effect.
I did a standard 1920x1080, with 24fps to give it a more "cinematic" quality. Normally I'd say your limiting factor is whatever footage you choose to incorporate into your project, but with the footage being in the background and pretty significantly distorted due to the adjustment layer effects and overlays that won't be as noticeable this go round.
@@FANIMATOR For the smoke, I grabbed a free asset from Mitch Martinez (link in the description). To make it last the entire duration of the project, it's mostly a matter of overlapping your two layers and keyframing one to fade out as the other fades in without it looking too "smokey" if both are overly visible during the transition. I don't recall how many times I had to loop the effect, it's a little under 45-seconds of footage, so for a 3+ minute video, it would have been around 4-5 times. You can even streamline that on your timeline by putting all of the smoke layers into a pre-comp so they only show as a single line on your final comp.
@@FANIMATOR I don't know that I have the original project file anymore, but can walk you through the basic layers. Basically it would look like this: Name Text Signature Silhouette Cutout Smoke Effect Background Footage (in Screen Mode) Radial Fast Blur Adjustment Layer Background Footage Bokeh Effect Light In terms of what's happening with the animations: - The signature is using a Stroke effect (tutorial in the description) - The silhouette is just using standard opacity and scale keyframes - The Name Text is doing the text animations covered in the tutorial, plus some scale keyframes to get it to "fly" into view Let me know if that's what you're after, or if you need more specific details on any one element.
So for my project I started by gathering all the clips I wanted - and many were scenes from the movies, so much longer than I actually needed. I then dropped all of those full clips into an editor, and made a sequence with just the 5-10 seconds of footage I actually wanted to use for each character. I exported that as one video file and that's what I brought into the compositor. You could bring in all the full clips to your compositor, but the more media you have linked, the slower your load times, so only bringing in what you need will help speed things up all around.
So, for the silhouettes I opted to use some footage of the character selection screen from Battlefront 2. So I used rotoscoping to cut them out, but you could accomplish the same thing with Photoshop and still photos. Once you have them cut out, you can adjust the lighting using brightness/contrast or levels to get the look you're after. In this case, the Battlefront menus already had lighting close to what I was after - which is part of the reason I chose them (along with the subtle movement of the characters.) To make them zoom you use keyframes on scale.
There are different ways you could do it, but basically - make a blue solid, put a smoke/fog asset with a blur on the layer above it, set that layer to screen or overlay mode, pre-comp it with the blue layer, and then keyframe the opacity to come up and then drop off a few frames later to cover the transition between the two clips.
Probably just going to leave it with the front end stuff - although I wasn't planning to do this much originally, so never say never! That being said the text is basically the same process as the first section of text, just with different scale keyframes (start big, get small). The backgrounds are the same with the Adjustment Layer having the CC Radial Fast Blur for light streaks. The signature tutorial I used is linked in the description. So the only piece I didn't really cover in some capacity is the silhouettes. Many people just use a Photoshopped image with a transparent background because that's what's readily available. I used actual footage from Battlefront and did some rotoscoping to remove them from the background, but that's probably not a viable option for all franchises. If there's a specific piece you're not sure on, feel free to ask!
Dave Weisser thanks so much! I actually do have one specific question about the text, I tried scaling it (from big to small) but the speed didn’t seem to match up. Do you have any advice for this part (so sorry for all the questions!)?
No need to apologize for asking questions, I'm a high school film teacher, I'm used to it! To match the speed exactly, you could try importing a copy of the original Endgame credit video in and basically keyframe your text to match the size over the duration of the move. The other thing that can help is to add some easing using the Keyframe Assistant (right click, Keyframe Assist > ease in/out/easy ease). This makes it a more gradual transition in/out/both for each keyframe. In addition, if you go into the line graph for your text layer, you can add additional rounding to the keyframes to smooth that even more to your liking.
I'd really love to see a tutorial on the last six as well. Not just the signature (I saw the tutorial for that), but also the shading on the photos and such.
Haha, sadly I don't do that kind of freelance work, so can't be of much help. However HitFilm Express is a legally free piece of editing/compositing software that I recommend to my students. I don't know if it has an equivalent to the light streaks effect, but everything else should be doable in that completely free piece of software if you want to give it a try!
@@daveweisser Well, you said in one comment that "Between each character is just opacity keyframes to fade in and out for the background footage. Everything else - adjustment layer with CC radial fast blur, smoke, bokeh, text (which has its own opacity and rotation keyframes) stays put. ". Apparently, when I try to transition with the opacity keyframes, a black screen shows up partially. Could you show a screenshot in your Star Wars endgame credits file of the exact place when the opacity keyframes crossed over to avoid a black screen? And do I make a new adjustment layer (CC Radial Fast Blur) for every single clip? Adobe After Effects doesn't let you put seperate clips inside one layer, so I don't want to be so cumbersome and inefficient with manually doing every single clip with tons of layers making it lag.
@@redleader4876 I don't have that save file readily available these days, so would only be able to speculate on this particular case. You can use the same adjustment layer throughout, the only thing is if you want the light streaks to go a different direction, you'll either have to get real fancy with some quick keyframe adjustments, or use a different adjustment layer when you want the light to change directions. So I often used one adjustment layer for several characters, and then used another layer when the background shifted to a different side. And you can precompose multiple layers together to affect them as a group, but shouldn't need to do that for the individual background layers. I'm not sure exactly why you're getting the black screen popping up in there, unless your composition isn't actually black and somehow that layer is creating a shadow effect maybe? Could also have something to do with the camera and the 3D settings. Some of the light settings get a little wonky if they're off a bit. Here's a sample project file I created for someone else a while back, see if this is of any help: drive.google.com/file/d/1p2VUYWzsuGrj-SunGyq3jWMu4-ARAbM0/view?usp=sharing
@@daveweisser Well, the background is black in my composition. When I do transitions, I get the black background for a split second. Any way to solve this? Or timing for opacity transitions and keyframes?
@@redleader4876 Okay, next thought - make sure your footage layers are overlapping a bit. If the cuts line up so that one layer ends right before the other begins, you'll end up with a split second of pitch black because there's a moment where both pieces of footage are at 0% opacity - aka pure black. If you overlap the clips so that as one is fading out the other is fading in, you'll get something more like as one clip is faded out to 25%, the other is faded in by 25%, and by the time the first hits 0% the second is at 50%, so you'll never have completely black. This is basically what a cross dissolve transition does in Premiere, it overlaps the clips a bit so the percentages shift without both ever hitting 0% at the same time.
Honestly, not sure! It's less an issue of the hardware, and more whether or not it has any sort of compositing software. But if the iPhone 11 Pro Max can run a compositor like After Effects, I'd say you're good to go! You could also look at a free editor/compositor like HitFilm Express if you have a computer to run it, the trick would just be finding an equivalent to the CC Radial Fast Blur effect.
Have you tried HitFilm Express? That's what I usually recommend to my students. There's also Davinci Resolve, but I haven't used that one personally, so wouldn't be able to offer much assistance there.
No. I filmed this in some other person's basement. They were a bit confused, but once I explained what it was for, they decided to not press charges for trespassing. 😂
I'd encourage you to check out HitFilmExpress - that's what I recommend to my students. It's a legally free editor/compositor with some pretty powerful functions built right in. I don't know off the top of my head what all the direct animation equivalents would be for each of the effects, but you should be able to do a close approximation with a little extra elbow grease to make it work!
I'm not familiar with Videopad, but it looks like it's more of an editor than a compositor. To really get an effects sequence like this, you need to composite all the elements together. Have you looked into HitFilm Express? It's also free but functions as both an editor and a compositor. It's what I recommend to my students as they're starting out. I'm not sure what the equivalent of the CC Radial Fast Blur effect is on HitFilm, but if you can figure that out, the rest should be pretty much the same.
Yeah, not sure I'm going to be able to help you there - it was rough squeezing this tutorial into my schedule, and I already knew After Effects. My recommendation would be to check out if there are any forums where others discuss this particular software and ask if anyone knows how to create those light streak effects. If you can figure out that piece, then the rest should be similar to what I showed here. Best of luck!
@@giovannigiovanni.7220 Congrats on getting AE, and yes, it does still work! I just got CC myself finally, so I can confirm that. The light streak effect is CC Radial Fast Blur, everything else is the same as it was in the tutorial. Good luck!
If you mean the tutorial - yes! If you mean After Effects - sadly no. You could accomplish something similar with HitFilm Express, which IS free, but I'm not sure what the equivalent of the CC Fast Blur would be in that software.
Puedo hacer subtítulos, pero tendré que ejecutarlos a través del Traductor de Google, por lo que pueden no ser perfectos. Pero llevará algún tiempo ... hablo mucho. 😂
How was the signature done? Is that also from After Effect?
Thanks for doing this!
It is in After Effects - here's the tutorial I followed, and it's pretty straight forward:
th-cam.com/video/rUyTt2d3MIA/w-d-xo.html
Nice video man!!! I love the endgame end credits, it is so beautiful to see!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Not all heroes wear capes.
Mostly just the DC ones. 😉
@@daveweisser ha
Thanks so much!! This really helped me!!
You're welcome! Glad it helped!
Could you please do more of these because I think you are the only one who understands how to make these
Glad you appreciate the work! This one was probably it for me in terms of the _____ in the style of Endgame credits videos. That's why I put together the tutorial, so that hopefully it inspires the next round of people to make their own versions. But I'm always on the lookout for the next type of project to try!
This very cool guide sir. Do you have a project file for this ? and what after effect type for this projects
Reposting this from a reply I did to someone else:
See if this will work for you. I was on After Effects CS5.5, so if you have a newer version it should update it. The media will all show as offline because you're missing the files, but it should preserve all the keyframes and whatnot.
drive.google.com/open?id=1p2VUYWzsuGrj-SunGyq3jWMu4-ARAbM0
Thanks for the tutorial! I might do one soon, but with Super Smash Bros.
Glad I could help! And Super Smash Bros would totally work for a theme - nice choice!
Sir it is a sin that I have more subscribers than you, you are so much more talented!
Glad you enjoyed the videos! I mean, to be fair, this and the credit sequence are the first real videos I've posted, so the fact that I have any subscribers is new to me. I'm trying to figure out where to go next with my channel, especially during this whole COVID shutdown, so we'll see if I can come up with something else to justify having more subscribers! 😉
Hi, just one quick question: how did you do the transitions between each video? (Sorry if I just didn’t hear)
Between each character is just opacity keyframes to fade in and out for the background footage. Everything else - adjustment layer with CC radial fast blur, smoke, bokeh, text (which has its own opacity and rotation keyframes) stays put.
Dave Weisser Got it. Thanks!
Always happy to help!
THANK YOU FOR THIS!
Happy to help!
How did you made that signature so rough and realistic.
I did a Google search for the actual autographs of the actors, then I inserted those as .psd files into the project and used the stroke effect to do a reveal of the signature using path points to move in a way that logically followed the movement of the signature. (No clue how the actors ACTUALLY sign their names, but it gives the appearance of them signing.) You can then change the speed of the reveal by moving the keyframes closer or further apart to have it move slower and faster for different parts of the name. The tutorial I got the technique from is listed in the description.
@@daveweisser Thanks Man, Saved Me!!!
Happy I could help!
Very good, bro!
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
One of the best After Effects tutorials I've seen in a LONG time. Felt inspired to make my own! I do have a few quick questions regarding the smoke effect. Which video file did you use for it? And for the masks? do you typically want to grab the background of the scene alongside the character in question or does it really come down to personal preference? I'm struggling to avoid having the borders of my clips show
Hey there! Glad you liked the tutorial! Let's see if I can answer some questions for you:
For the smoke, Mitch Martinez offers these for free on his channel: th-cam.com/video/7l_WwS7AnJ4/w-d-xo.html
For the masks, I do include a little bit of the background around the character. If you look at the Endgame credits, they have a little bit of the background around each character, but not really the entire frame. So it ends up kind of looking like an amoeba shape. Then once you add the feathering, you can move those mask path points in a bit until the hard line at the edge of the background frame isn't visible. That may mean you have to choose a different clip where the character isn't too close to the edge, or you might have to scale up the background footage a bit so those edges are out of the frame.
But, ultimately it does come down to personal preference. I liked choosing shots that had bright spots in them, as that generated the best light streaks from the blur effect - lightsabers, R2's lights, Force lightning, etc. I also slowed down all the background footage to make it a little more dramatic. Don't overdo it, but even a 65-75% would probably help out.
Any other questions, feel free to ask! I try to check in pretty regularly just in case.
@@daveweisser Got it! It really does look like the masks come down to personal preference from all the examples I've seen, including your own. Thanks for the response! Maybe I'll send my video your way for critique when I finish up.
@@daveweisserhow do I do this on the phone
Just what I needed! Thanks!
Anything for you!
Question: Is it possible to have two footages running at the same time (1 on the left and one on the right tilting towards each other)? And can you potentially animate the footage so it moves and rotates?
Yes, you could have both clips, and angle them inwards. The key would be making sure they don't cut each other off in 3D space. In other words essentially this /\ as opposed to this X. You could do that by masking off the inside edges so one image doesn't hide the other, or just space them further apart.
In terms of animating the footage - also yes. In this case you'd probably want to pre-compose all of the elements you want to rotate together, then use keyframe animations on the qualities you want to change - i.e. rotation. You could also animate the position of the camera itself to achieve the appearance of rotation without moving the background elements.
@@daveweisser Thanks! :D
Edit: can hyou also make a tutorial for transitions and the final six?
how to make that television screen error effect...just at the start ...similar as in endgame just before the start of video when war machine shows up
Well, it would be a variation on something like this tutorial I found on a quick search. You might need to change some of the effects a bit to tailor the look you're after, but this should give you a start.
th-cam.com/video/33WWRQKuUiQ/w-d-xo.html
The is an amazing guide. Do you have a example project file you could share ?
See if this will work for you. I was on After Effects CS5.5, so if you have a newer version it should update it. The media will all show as offline because you're missing the files, but it should preserve all the keyframes and whatnot.
drive.google.com/open?id=1p2VUYWzsuGrj-SunGyq3jWMu4-ARAbM0
OMG! You are an amazing person!
I will try how to make it for Star Wars the clone wars. But it will be take Long time!
Go for it! The good news is, once you get all the layers in place for one character, you can do a lot of copy and paste to set up each subsequent character, and then tweak as needed! It will take some time, but you'll learn a lot along the way! If you come across questions, feel free to ask!
What name app for endgame style?
I rewatched your Star Wars credits and I would really encourage to add a tutorial on the part at the end with the signatures, especially the shading you got on the characters. NM
The signature tutorial I used is in the description. The characters are from the Battlefront 2 selection screens, with a minor amount of adjustment to brightness and contrast.
And how I can to make the final? You know, that part when appear an imagen of the hero, after the signature and then the name. I was searrching for a tutorial about that but I can´t find any.
At some point I may record a second tutorial since I get a lot of questions about that, but right now I don't have the free time to do so. That said, here's my response to someone else who just asked the same, see if this gets you moving in the right direction:
"The text is basically the same process as the first section of text, just with different scale keyframes (start big, get small).
The backgrounds are the same with the Adjustment Layer having the CC Radial Fast Blur for light streaks.
The signature tutorial I used is linked in the description if you opted to include those.
So the only piece I didn't really cover in some capacity is the silhouettes. Many people just use a Photoshopped image with a transparent background because that's what's readily available. I used actual footage from the Battlefront character selection screens so that the characters had a subtle movement to them and did some rotoscoping to remove them from the background. However that's probably not a viable option for all franchises, and if you're doing real people instead of characters you'd need to go completely custom. You could always shoot footage of your subjects, just try to match that super dramatic backlit look and have them slowly turn like they're on a rotating platform. Or just snap pics and do like I described above."
Great work Dave! I am trying my best to replicate but am having a hard time with the footage. Is there any way you would be able to zip a folder with a template file and stock footage? Thank you, that would mean the world!
Best I can do is this:
drive.google.com/file/d/1p2VUYWzsuGrj-SunGyq3jWMu4-ARAbM0/view?usp=share_link
I uploaded that a few years back when someone asked about a project file to see how it all worked. Honestly, I wouldn't even know where to look for the original project files at this point, so hopefully this helps!
@@daveweisser Thank you! I found the comment and have been working with that file. HUGE help!
@@gavineberlin Glad it's helping you out! Good luck on the project!
@@daveweisser Thanks Dave! It’s going great, down to my final few- I am wondering if you had any project file of the “final six” characters? Even without files but for keynotes? Figured I’d ask, approaching that point!
You rock!!!
@@gavineberlinUnfortunately I never did a project file for those because the techniques were pretty much a rehash of the others covered. There's a slight difference in the name text "flying in" using some zoom keyframes, and the signatures are their own thing (tutorial I followed linked in the description). Whether you opt to use footage or Photoshopped images for your silhouettes it's just a matter of scale and opacity keyframes to bring them in.
It won't let me change the blending mode. The option is grayed out and I can't click it. Why is this happening? I can only change the blend mode if the 3D is not activated
Not sure what you mean by "blending mode". Where specifically are you seeing it? Screenshot would be helpful if you could share that.
@@daveweisser Nevermind I got it
@@r520jr8 Good to hear!
Holy shit, that Tardis in the background is beautiful....
Thanks! It's my TARCADIS - it opens to have a MAME arcade inside. There used to be just a plain old closet there, and I wanted to jazz it up a bit. It even has the requisite round things on the walls!
@@daveweisser Ah, i love the round things!
Hi, can I ask for help? When I track my word, it doesnt start spreading from the middle instead, it pushes the other letters to the right side of the first letter of the word. How can I put it on the middle?
Probably need to move your anchor point. It's the thing that looks like a little crosshair. Right now my guess is it's located near the left side of the word instead of the middle. See if that helps!
How do you make the flip effect at the very beginning of the sequence?
I didn't choose to do the flickering film effect coming into it, but I would think something like this could be refined to accomplish a similar look:
th-cam.com/video/4rzZwMteSqI/w-d-xo.html
How do you do the effects that they used for the main 6 avengers at the end of the credits?? (Note: Please reply, I'm making a video like this for a friend!) :)
The text is similar to the animations mentioned in this tutorial, just slightly different settings to get the look to match.
There's a tutorial on how to to the signature effect using the Stroke effect in the description.
For the silhouettes, I opted to use some footage for mine and rotoscoped out the characters. You could accomplish something similar with green screen footage, and others have kept it even simpler and used Photoshopped still frames. Then it's just a matter of keyframing them for scale, position, and opacity to match the look you're after.
Hope that helps point you in the right direction - good luck on the video for your friend!
How did you create the signature animation, and have the image and text over the video?
Here's the tutorial I found that helped me figure out the signature:
th-cam.com/video/rUyTt2d3MIA/w-d-xo.html
You basically need a transparent background image file of the signature, and then apply a Stroke effect where you reveal the graphic using path points and keyframes to mimic the actor signing their name.
In After Effects, as long as the signature and the image both have transparent backgrounds and are on the tracks above the video footage, you'll have the look you're after.
Thanks, also what font did you use for the signatures?
The signatures are their actual autographs. I just google searched for their signatures, if they had a .png with a transparent background I chose that, otherwise I had to remove the background in Photoshop.
what if my chanel is in cellfone or in tablet
I haven't looked into trying to accomplish something like this on a phone or tablet, so couldn't help you there, but my recommendation would be to get the footage onto a computer and go with at least a full-fledged editor, if not a compositor.
From which app
Can you please share the project template please?
Here's an .aep file I shared a while back. See if that helps.
drive.google.com/file/d/1p2VUYWzsuGrj-SunGyq3jWMu4-ARAbM0/view?usp=sharing
@@daveweisser Actually I mean to say that can you please share the star wars after effect project file that you made so that I can easily edit and make credits for my custom movie please can you share the link please?
@@keichinakagawa8761 Well, that project file will give you the basic structure that you could copy and modify for additional characters. In terms of the full project file - I wouldn't even know where it is these days, not to mention with all of the media needed it wouldn't be of much use to you.
@@daveweisser I understand but still can you please share me the full project file of star wars you made cause I want to understand the project point by point and don't worry I will not share the project anywhere online for money, I just use it personally for learning purpose and making my own custom credits so please can you trust me and share the project file???
@@keichinakagawa8761 I assure you, it's not about trust. I made that project like 3 years ago, and don't know that I HAVE the original project file to share. What I do have is the file I shared, which has the layer structure all set up and ready to go, you just need to plug in your footage, change the text, and copy/paste to your project's needs. Sadly that and this tutorial video are the best I have for you right now!
I'm gonna have to try this out sometime, I want to do a Borderlands Endgame Credits.
Nice! Feel free to ask questions if you have any!
Tryna do this on mobile and I can't find that blur effect
Yeah, I'm not sure how it would be done on mobile, sorry! Maybe search up the app you're using and see if you can find any sort of light streaking effect and build off of that?
@@daveweisser yeah. I'm sure I'll find a way. I got everything down except for the light effect
Hey. I'm planning to make a version of the end credits about my favorite movie directors ever
Cool idea!
@@daveweisser I might add footage from some of their movies if I ever learn to do it
Can we do that in Premiere Pro ? Because i took one hour for saving in after effect..
I can say that Premiere CS5.5 couldn't handle that, but I haven't had a chance to dig into CC yet to see if they've integrated any of those features. The trick is, rendering all the layered elements - smoke, bokeh, light streaks, 3D text animation, etc. - requires a compositor rather than an editor. That being said, After Effects is more system taxing than Premiere, and a project like this will certainly slow things down. If your system is struggling, try breaking it into smaller chunks - do each character individually, generate a movie file from the compositions, and drop those into Premiere as opposed to rendering the whole credit sequence in one go. If you include the transitions at the end of each character, you can overlap the clips in your edits. I did my project in basically 5 chunks - new sequel characters, prequel characters, OG characters, special recognition characters, and the final 5. See if that helps!
@@daveweisser I haven't understood the whole comment, because i'm french but, i have done the credits, but just for one character, i have use the text of your after effect files, i have made the video in background with an other tutorial because that was not easy for me (1st time I use After Effects) and for the signature, I have do with the tutorial in your description but it doesn't work for me, so i just pass the opacity from 0 to 100 on premiere when I made the final.
But Thanks for the help !
Mine has too much black around the edges, and the video gets cut out or it looks too boxy. Is there anyway I could contact you for help?
I'm happy to answer questions here, feel free to post them and I'll see what I can do. Do you have a direct link to your version you can post?
@@daveweisser Yeah here it is th-cam.com/video/S3G9_FSjadE/w-d-xo.html
What is the smoke screen element you added ? It's something on AE, or did you find it somewhere else ?
It was some stock footage I found at the link included in the video description, however, it would seem that video is now listed as Private, so is no longer available.
Really any number of stock smoke effects should work, you just want something to break things up and give it kind of a hazy look.
@@daveweisser Okay thank you !
@@daveweisser Oh and i have another request, how do you avoid the double blur, since a layer applies to all the elements under it ? cause for now, I have a big strange blur during the transition between 2 videos :/
Thanks !
@@User-uj9bt6bw6i Not 100% sure on your specific circumstance, but if you pre-comp each character as its own composition, the blur effect in each one shouldn't affect the ones underneath. If you're doing all the characters on a single comp, then yes, you will get cascading layers of blur, which will give some non-desirable results.
@@daveweisser Ok so there's still a lot of work to do... thank you very much anyway !
Wow! Talk about talent! Fantastic tutorial. I love your videos and I can’t believe you’ve never had any kind of formal/academic education for graphics! I’m some what new to After Effects (also Premiere Pro, although I’m not using that for this) but I’m starting to get the hang of the basics and some of the more complex features of After Effects. I’m trying to create Avengers-style end credits for my favorite TV program, but I’m having a lot of trouble with the light bursts. Whenever I use the effect, the light bursts continue drastically to the edges of the clip, pretty much destroying the look I’m going for (blurred background with limited light streaks). I can shorten the light bursts (which looks bad), but cannot decrease the number of them. I dunno if I made any sense, but do you have suggestions? Thank you! And, again, great tutorial and amazing videos. You’re graphic skills are amazing!
Thanks! Glad you found the video useful. I never would have gotten to where I'm at today as a self-taught media specialist without tutorials like this one, so it was my way of giving back to where I came from - that and teaching high school film students. 😉
So, without having your exact save file to look at, I'm just guessing here.
- First thing to check, make sure you're doing the "sandwich" with a top copy of your footage set to screen/overlay mode above the adjustment layer. I cover this at around the 8:45 mark of my video. When you don't have that top layer set, the bottom layer looks extremely streaky and blurry. The footage layer above the Adjustment Layer adds back in the detail and tones down some of the streaks a bit.
If that doesn't take care of it, also:
- Make sure the amount isn't set too high for CC Radial Fast Blur. If you go full 100% it will get to be a bit much.
- Your clip may be too bright. Clips with bright backgrounds, brightly lit characters, etc. will get washed out because the plugin basically amplifies the bright parts of the image. Too much bright = too many light streaks. I ended up having to either chose alternate shots with darker surrounding areas, or masking down most of the background to cut down on bright areas.
See if that helps, and if you have any other questions, feel free to ask!
Very Nice
Thanks!
Can you please do one of these for Jurassic park/Jurassic World or the fast and furious franchise
Pretty sure this one was it for me in terms of "____ in the style of Endgame Credits", but the whole reason for the tutorial was so everyone can do their own version for whatever franchise they want! Give it a shot, and feel free to ask questions if you have them!
Hi Dave! I am planning on doing some of these style of credits for a documentary I am making and your video has been extremely helpful, but I can't figure out one part and believe it or not I have seen pretty much nothing except this and one other video about it. How would you do the final 6 characters? For Endgame that was Black Widow, Hawkeye, Hulk, Thor, Captain America and of course Iron Man. Now that I'm watching it with more of an editing eye, the whole finale sequence looks like a behemoth to make on it's own, with text animations, silhouettes of each of the 6 characters and signatures. I'm not planning on doing signatures but I was hoping you might be able to help me out with those final 6.
Not sure I'll have time to put together a final 6 tutorial anytime soon, but here's a rundown I gave someone else that might at least get you going the right direction, then you can ask specific questions if you hit snags.
The text is basically the same process as the first section of text, just with different scale keyframes (start big, get small).
The backgrounds are the same with the Adjustment Layer having the CC Radial Fast Blur for light streaks.
The signature tutorial I used is linked in the description if you opted to include those.
So the only piece I didn't really cover in some capacity is the silhouettes. Many people just use a Photoshopped image with a transparent background because that's what's readily available. I used actual footage from the Battlefront character selection screens so that the characters had a subtle movement to them and did some rotoscoping to remove them from the background. However that's probably not a viable option for all franchises, and if you're doing real people instead of characters you'd need to go completely custom. You could always shoot footage of your subjects, just try to match that super dramatic backlit look and have them slowly turn like they're on a rotating platform. Or just snap pics and do like I described above.
Hope that helps get you started, and good luck with the project!
@@daveweisser Ah, I see what you mean. Thanks for the tip!
@@daveweisser One other thing, as I'm actually almost done with my credits as a whole, I noticed at the very end Marvel does like a camera focus out from the text and silhouette to the iron man helmet, how exactly would I recreate that?
@@Rymann_23 That's easy enough. You can do it using the Camera Lens Blur effect. For the front layer (i.e. the cutout) set a keyframe on the Blur Radius amount for 0, then shift it on the second keyframe to however much blur you want - something in the 20s range will probably do it.
Then for the background element the focus doesn't really shift much, but you could start it with a little bit of a blur at the start - say 10 or less - and then on the second keyframe shift it to 0. Should give just enough push to direct the audience's focus similar to the Marvel version.
@@daveweisser Thank you so much for your help!! I wouldn’t have been able to make these credits the way I envisioned them if not for your video and helpful tips!
Hey Dave, I’m not very familiar nor do I even have after effects, but I wanna make some endgame style credits for my and my buddy’s. Could you make them for me? I’ll pay for it.
Sadly my schedule doesn't allow for freelance projects, but you might be able to find someone on Fiver with AE experience that could put one together for you!
Increíble que tenga subtitulos en español
De nada!
How do you do the part where the body zooms out and there names come in? The final part of the credits? That's not here
It's pretty much the same as the other section, just with different keyframe values - so the text animation is still there with the y-axis rotating, but now they also animate on scale and position to get them to be outside of the frame and then fly into position.
The only things not included are the signatures - which I simply found copies of their autographs and followed the animated signature tutorial I linked in the description - and the silhouettes. For those you could Photoshop out a still image like most people do, or in my case I rotoscoped moving images out of the Battlefront menus.
Can you do a tutorial of how you did the signatures if you haven’t already. I’d really love to see a tutorial where you show how you did the signatures.
Actually, I posted the one I followed in the description, since it does a great job of walking through that process.
th-cam.com/video/rUyTt2d3MIA/w-d-xo.html
Great video,
Can this be done on a cell phone?
I suppose it's possible, but unlikely. The editing could be done easy enough, but the effects work and compositing to get the "look" of the Endgame credits requires something more substantial. That being said, phones have come a long way, so maybe there's some new app/hardware combo I'm not familiar with!
Is it possible to do it with premiere pro?
Well, I haven't tried it, but probably not to this level. You could get an approximation of the look using the built in Keyframe animations to do some of the text scaling, etc. The biggest issue would be things like the light streaks emitting from the background footage or the bokeh lights in the background, which you might be able to approximate if you had a stock bokeh or light streak elements that you just screened over the other footage.
So, it's possible to get something in this vein, but not sure you'd be able to get this exact of a look without an actual compositor.
@@daveweisser Thanks for the info :D I am gonna give it a shot! Cheers m8
You can do it! Feel free to ask questions if you have them. Can't guarantee I'll have the answer, but I can try!
@@daveweisser Thank you :) Thanks to your video, I managed to make something as close as I can through the limited resources I have :)
th-cam.com/video/eaBisi5fgjo/w-d-xo.html&t
Thanks again buddy :D
Technology really has left me for dead.
There's always time to learn! Software like HitFilm Express is free (legally), and has some awesome tutorials to start dipping your toes into the world of compositing and VFX. My first dabble in VFX was maybe 10 years ago, and it was rough, but over time you'll get the hang of it!
Nice
Thanks!
Do you know if all this can be done on Filmora?
I haven't used Filmora myself, so wouldn't know. In most cases people are able to replicate something similar in other software, but the biggest sticking point seems to be replicating the light flare effect.
What specifications did you use (frame rate, composition size, etc.)?
I did a standard 1920x1080, with 24fps to give it a more "cinematic" quality. Normally I'd say your limiting factor is whatever footage you choose to incorporate into your project, but with the footage being in the background and pretty significantly distorted due to the adjustment layer effects and overlays that won't be as noticeable this go round.
@@daveweisser Thanks! Also, how did you do the smoke effect so that it continuously went with the rest of the compositions?
@@FANIMATOR For the smoke, I grabbed a free asset from Mitch Martinez (link in the description). To make it last the entire duration of the project, it's mostly a matter of overlapping your two layers and keyframing one to fade out as the other fades in without it looking too "smokey" if both are overly visible during the transition. I don't recall how many times I had to loop the effect, it's a little under 45-seconds of footage, so for a 3+ minute video, it would have been around 4-5 times. You can even streamline that on your timeline by putting all of the smoke layers into a pre-comp so they only show as a single line on your final comp.
@@daveweisser Can I also see an example of the comps you used for either Mark Hamill or Harrison Ford (one of the final 5)?
@@FANIMATOR I don't know that I have the original project file anymore, but can walk you through the basic layers. Basically it would look like this:
Name Text
Signature
Silhouette Cutout
Smoke Effect
Background Footage (in Screen Mode)
Radial Fast Blur Adjustment Layer
Background Footage
Bokeh Effect
Light
In terms of what's happening with the animations:
- The signature is using a Stroke effect (tutorial in the description)
- The silhouette is just using standard opacity and scale keyframes
- The Name Text is doing the text animations covered in the tutorial, plus some scale keyframes to get it to "fly" into view
Let me know if that's what you're after, or if you need more specific details on any one element.
Hi, one question, I have full clips for the project so do I need to crop them for the project or can I just crop them within the application?
So for my project I started by gathering all the clips I wanted - and many were scenes from the movies, so much longer than I actually needed. I then dropped all of those full clips into an editor, and made a sequence with just the 5-10 seconds of footage I actually wanted to use for each character. I exported that as one video file and that's what I brought into the compositor. You could bring in all the full clips to your compositor, but the more media you have linked, the slower your load times, so only bringing in what you need will help speed things up all around.
How did you do the character zoom in?
...and darken their images?
So, for the silhouettes I opted to use some footage of the character selection screen from Battlefront 2. So I used rotoscoping to cut them out, but you could accomplish the same thing with Photoshop and still photos. Once you have them cut out, you can adjust the lighting using brightness/contrast or levels to get the look you're after. In this case, the Battlefront menus already had lighting close to what I was after - which is part of the reason I chose them (along with the subtle movement of the characters.) To make them zoom you use keyframes on scale.
Dave Weisser thanks! How about the blue transition from Alec Guinness to Billy Dee Williams? How did you achieve that?
There are different ways you could do it, but basically - make a blue solid, put a smoke/fog asset with a blur on the layer above it, set that layer to screen or overlay mode, pre-comp it with the blue layer, and then keyframe the opacity to come up and then drop off a few frames later to cover the transition between the two clips.
Dave Weisser thanks. If you used 155 for the text font for regular, what size did you use for “with” and “ and” and “as”
Thanks, great video! Will you ever do a tutorial on how to do the last six part?
Probably just going to leave it with the front end stuff - although I wasn't planning to do this much originally, so never say never! That being said the text is basically the same process as the first section of text, just with different scale keyframes (start big, get small). The backgrounds are the same with the Adjustment Layer having the CC Radial Fast Blur for light streaks. The signature tutorial I used is linked in the description. So the only piece I didn't really cover in some capacity is the silhouettes. Many people just use a Photoshopped image with a transparent background because that's what's readily available. I used actual footage from Battlefront and did some rotoscoping to remove them from the background, but that's probably not a viable option for all franchises. If there's a specific piece you're not sure on, feel free to ask!
Dave Weisser thanks so much! I actually do have one specific question about the text, I tried scaling it (from big to small) but the speed didn’t seem to match up. Do you have any advice for this part (so sorry for all the questions!)?
No need to apologize for asking questions, I'm a high school film teacher, I'm used to it! To match the speed exactly, you could try importing a copy of the original Endgame credit video in and basically keyframe your text to match the size over the duration of the move. The other thing that can help is to add some easing using the Keyframe Assistant (right click, Keyframe Assist > ease in/out/easy ease). This makes it a more gradual transition in/out/both for each keyframe. In addition, if you go into the line graph for your text layer, you can add additional rounding to the keyframes to smooth that even more to your liking.
Dave Weisser Thanks so much for the help! I’ll try it again later today!
I'd really love to see a tutorial on the last six as well. Not just the signature (I saw the tutorial for that), but also the shading on the photos and such.
Am I able to just pay you for this? I don’t have that software or know of anyone providing this
Haha, sadly I don't do that kind of freelance work, so can't be of much help. However HitFilm Express is a legally free piece of editing/compositing software that I recommend to my students. I don't know if it has an equivalent to the light streaks effect, but everything else should be doable in that completely free piece of software if you want to give it a try!
how can I get the smoke effect? is it stock footage or is it from after effects itself?
Mitch Martinez offers some great free smoke assets here:
th-cam.com/video/7l_WwS7AnJ4/w-d-xo.html
Hey, how did you do the transitions exactly?
Not sure which transitions you mean. The text transitions are pretty much covered, the background footage is mostly just cross dissolves between them.
@@daveweisser Well, you said in one comment that "Between each character is just opacity keyframes to fade in and out for the background footage. Everything else - adjustment layer with CC radial fast blur, smoke, bokeh, text (which has its own opacity and rotation keyframes) stays put.
". Apparently, when I try to transition with the opacity keyframes, a black screen shows up partially. Could you show a screenshot in your Star Wars endgame credits file of the exact place when the opacity keyframes crossed over to avoid a black screen? And do I make a new adjustment layer (CC Radial Fast Blur) for every single clip? Adobe After Effects doesn't let you put seperate clips inside one layer, so I don't want to be so cumbersome and inefficient with manually doing every single clip with tons of layers making it lag.
@@redleader4876 I don't have that save file readily available these days, so would only be able to speculate on this particular case. You can use the same adjustment layer throughout, the only thing is if you want the light streaks to go a different direction, you'll either have to get real fancy with some quick keyframe adjustments, or use a different adjustment layer when you want the light to change directions. So I often used one adjustment layer for several characters, and then used another layer when the background shifted to a different side.
And you can precompose multiple layers together to affect them as a group, but shouldn't need to do that for the individual background layers.
I'm not sure exactly why you're getting the black screen popping up in there, unless your composition isn't actually black and somehow that layer is creating a shadow effect maybe? Could also have something to do with the camera and the 3D settings. Some of the light settings get a little wonky if they're off a bit.
Here's a sample project file I created for someone else a while back, see if this is of any help:
drive.google.com/file/d/1p2VUYWzsuGrj-SunGyq3jWMu4-ARAbM0/view?usp=sharing
@@daveweisser Well, the background is black in my composition. When I do transitions, I get the black background for a split second. Any way to solve this? Or timing for opacity transitions and keyframes?
@@redleader4876 Okay, next thought - make sure your footage layers are overlapping a bit. If the cuts line up so that one layer ends right before the other begins, you'll end up with a split second of pitch black because there's a moment where both pieces of footage are at 0% opacity - aka pure black.
If you overlap the clips so that as one is fading out the other is fading in, you'll get something more like as one clip is faded out to 25%, the other is faded in by 25%, and by the time the first hits 0% the second is at 50%, so you'll never have completely black. This is basically what a cross dissolve transition does in Premiere, it overlaps the clips a bit so the percentages shift without both ever hitting 0% at the same time.
Can you make a end Credit of Tintin
One certainly could! Give it a shot!
how you do the sign
Here's the tutorial I followed:
th-cam.com/video/rUyTt2d3MIA/w-d-xo.html
Can I do this on an iPhone 11 Pro Max ?
Honestly, not sure! It's less an issue of the hardware, and more whether or not it has any sort of compositing software. But if the iPhone 11 Pro Max can run a compositor like After Effects, I'd say you're good to go! You could also look at a free editor/compositor like HitFilm Express if you have a computer to run it, the trick would just be finding an equivalent to the CC Radial Fast Blur effect.
Which software did you use?
I did this on After Effects CS5.5
Does anyone know any good free editing software which I could do this on?
Have you tried HitFilm Express? That's what I usually recommend to my students. There's also Davinci Resolve, but I haven't used that one personally, so wouldn't be able to offer much assistance there.
@@pacoreyes663 New link.
From which app
I used Adobe After Effects.
what website did you use for this
If you mean software, I used Adobe After Effects.
Wow, Mr. Weisser is that your house?
No. I filmed this in some other person's basement. They were a bit confused, but once I explained what it was for, they decided to not press charges for trespassing. 😂
@@daveweisser -_- I meant it as a compliment, my house is a mess
Another video I made using this tutorial: th-cam.com/video/cUeJ_ehRo8U/w-d-xo.html
Only one problem:
IM FOURTEEN YEARS OLD AND I DONT HAVE MONEY OR ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS
I'd encourage you to check out HitFilmExpress - that's what I recommend to my students. It's a legally free editor/compositor with some pretty powerful functions built right in. I don't know off the top of my head what all the direct animation equivalents would be for each of the effects, but you should be able to do a close approximation with a little extra elbow grease to make it work!
Nice but I wish someone would make a Videopad version of this video.
I'm not familiar with Videopad, but it looks like it's more of an editor than a compositor. To really get an effects sequence like this, you need to composite all the elements together. Have you looked into HitFilm Express? It's also free but functions as both an editor and a compositor. It's what I recommend to my students as they're starting out. I'm not sure what the equivalent of the CC Radial Fast Blur effect is on HitFilm, but if you can figure that out, the rest should be pretty much the same.
@@daveweisser I know it's asking to much but I was wondering could you download it figure out the effects and then make a tutorial.
Yeah, not sure I'm going to be able to help you there - it was rough squeezing this tutorial into my schedule, and I already knew After Effects. My recommendation would be to check out if there are any forums where others discuss this particular software and ask if anyone knows how to create those light streak effects. If you can figure out that piece, then the rest should be similar to what I showed here. Best of luck!
@@daveweisser I was finally able to get After Effects. Now, would this work on the lasted version.
@@giovannigiovanni.7220 Congrats on getting AE, and yes, it does still work! I just got CC myself finally, so I can confirm that. The light streak effect is CC Radial Fast Blur, everything else is the same as it was in the tutorial. Good luck!
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That's my Tarcadis! (Tardis on the outside, MAME arcade on the inside!)
@@daveweisser okay! :D noice
Is this for free?
If you mean the tutorial - yes! If you mean After Effects - sadly no. You could accomplish something similar with HitFilm Express, which IS free, but I'm not sure what the equivalent of the CC Fast Blur would be in that software.
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aunque no entienda bien el inglés xD igual gracias !!! Veré como lo hago para entenderlo 🙏🙏👌👌
¡Quizás pueda descubrir cómo hacer algunos subtítulos en español!
Puedo hacer subtítulos, pero tendré que ejecutarlos a través del Traductor de Google, por lo que pueden no ser perfectos. Pero llevará algún tiempo ... hablo mucho. 😂
@@daveweisser sii cuesta entender en los subtitulos xD si hablaras en español sería lo máximo jajaja 😂 pero que buen video
Bueno, sueno un poco como un hombre de las cavernas cuando hablo español, por lo que los subtítulos tendrán que funcionar. ¡Y ahora están listos!
Jajaja descuida ! Espero aplicar con lo que pueda entender 👌
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Cool Bruh
Thanks, Bruh!
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