Here’s a quick tutorial to animate strokes of a shape layer in After Effects. The goal is to animate the stroke, duplicate it out, and alter the copy for a cool effect. First, we’ll click the arrow ...

One way to animate text to appear in After Effects is to create a flicker-on effect. With your text layer selected, choose the Animate button by your text property and select Opacity. Set a keyframe ...

One of the handiest little tricks to know about Vegas is that if you double-click on the slider, on pretty much any slider, any control, and any plug-in in Vegas, it will revert back to whatever the ...

As you are probably aware by now, we’re going to go through our book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects 5th Edition (“CMG5” for short) and pulling out a few “hidden gems” from each chapter.

In this first installment of our series of tutorials on using the new features in Sony Vegas Pro 11, we're going to talk about an improvement that Sony has made to many of the video plug-in effects ...