Today you will create the following scene using mask, blending modes, layers, and keyframes.

You will need at least two video clips and at minimum of one other stock footage (can be an effect)

Setting up a scene - walking towards the mountains

Another Great tool is the Roto brush and the refine edge

In this After Effects tutorial, you will learn how to use the Roto Brush tool to quickly and effectively rotoscope nearly anything in After Effects. The Roto Brush makes the rather tedious task of manual rotoscoping and makes it pretty easy. Most of the time this tool does a pretty good job and here I’ll attempt to tackle a pretty complex head of hair to place text “behind” the subject in this video and the rotoscoped video with mask out the subject and place her above the text.

Next, learn how seamless it is to add a layered photoshop file into aftereffects and be able to animate each layer of the file.

IMPORTING ELEMENT INTO A PROJECT http://video.tv.adobe.com/v/3732/

Finally, we will learn how to create an animated title that would be appropriate for a show, school play....

CREATING A TITLE SEQUENCE EXAMPLE - https://vimeo.com/94950372

If you have time, explore any of the following tutorial at this link -

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If you are having trouble with the interface, please review the following.

SETTING UP A PROJECT - setting preferences,

ORGANIZING A PROJECT - tips on organizing files