How to add Popups in After Effects
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27 Feb 2011, 14:58
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Tutorials
After a lot of requests and questions about how to add popups manually in after effects, I made this tutorial :)
1st Step:
Import the footage into After Effects by just draging it into the Timeline at the bottom.
2nd Step:
Go to the point where the "You killed xxx" text pops up, you can increase the scale of the timebar by adjusting the Controller at the bottom (circled red, moving to left-> timebar scale gets bigger, moving to right -> timebar scale gets smaller)
3rd Step:
Take the Text tool (circled red on the left side), you can change the size/font color on the right side, and write the text you want to see (xxx was killed by xxx's weapon [for example]), and move it to the place you want it by draging it with holding left Mouse button.
4th Step:
Adjust the red timebar to the point where the "You killed xxx" text pops up, you also can do that by holding left Mouse button, IMPORTANT: you have to click on the beginning of the red timebar, otherwise you will just move the timebar.
5th Step:
If you have more than one frag in that clip, push ctrl + d to duplicate the text. You also can use the text tool to do a second text, doesnt really matter :)
6th Step:
Change the text as you want, normally you just should change the player name that got killed, and maybe the weapon name as well. Open the Position Rider by clicking on the Text layer and push "P". You now just have to adjust the y-coordinate, just change it to a number you like, if you like to have much space between the popus, change it to a high number and vica versa. For a "standard" space between the popups (or at least almost), increase the y-coordinate of the first layer (second frag) by 29. Now repeat step 4.
You can continue like this as far as you want. If you want to stop the text showing up, just adjust the end of the red timebar to the point you desire.
If you still have questions, want to add smth or just want to thank me (:>) write a comment in this Tutorial, send me a pm, or join #wrapped-productions.
1st Step:
Import the footage into After Effects by just draging it into the Timeline at the bottom.
2nd Step:
Go to the point where the "You killed xxx" text pops up, you can increase the scale of the timebar by adjusting the Controller at the bottom (circled red, moving to left-> timebar scale gets bigger, moving to right -> timebar scale gets smaller)
3rd Step:
Take the Text tool (circled red on the left side), you can change the size/font color on the right side, and write the text you want to see (xxx was killed by xxx's weapon [for example]), and move it to the place you want it by draging it with holding left Mouse button.
4th Step:
Adjust the red timebar to the point where the "You killed xxx" text pops up, you also can do that by holding left Mouse button, IMPORTANT: you have to click on the beginning of the red timebar, otherwise you will just move the timebar.
5th Step:
If you have more than one frag in that clip, push ctrl + d to duplicate the text. You also can use the text tool to do a second text, doesnt really matter :)
6th Step:
Change the text as you want, normally you just should change the player name that got killed, and maybe the weapon name as well. Open the Position Rider by clicking on the Text layer and push "P". You now just have to adjust the y-coordinate, just change it to a number you like, if you like to have much space between the popus, change it to a high number and vica versa. For a "standard" space between the popups (or at least almost), increase the y-coordinate of the first layer (second frag) by 29. Now repeat step 4.
You can continue like this as far as you want. If you want to stop the text showing up, just adjust the end of the red timebar to the point you desire.
If you still have questions, want to add smth or just want to thank me (:>) write a comment in this Tutorial, send me a pm, or join #wrapped-productions.
Although I pref greenmod :P
I'm (and a lot of other moviemakers as well I think), do it like this:
Adding sound FX and Bcakground music in vegas. Putting frags in it / sync frags with BGmusic. Editing it a bit with some Magic Bullet effects and rendering it in Vegas.
Importing the footage into After effects, edit it there a bit, putting in intro/outro and text's. Render in After Effects and encode, e.g. with megui.
But there are also some movies (e.g. cavalcade by fredd) that has just been edited with after effects, but this requires a lot of experience.. Same goes for Vegas, but these movies are mostly made by beginners and are not that good since Vegas doesnt have as much plug-ins and effects as After effect does :)
as a noob on ae :D
ps: nice tutorial but an easier way is to put your own popup as .pk3 in etmain :p
i use like 5 progs for moviemaking so i dont mind :D
2) easier to play with colours @ popups in photoshop
3) easier to sync in vegas
noone (i think, its obvious) wants to see whole white popups, u havent mentioned it
2) theres no difference between photoshop and after effects in that point
3) its fucking easy to sync that in aae? :D
yea nobody wants that ofc, but what has this do to with this tutorial? :p
yeh, better write 1-2 mins popups instead of ctrl+c and ctrl+v. waste of time in bigger projects
You should read it properly before flaming :>
and no, writing blabla was killed by blabla's Thompson doesnt take me 1-2 mins :)
anyways, im not flaming just telling that condump is faster than yours way and prove me wrong
waste of time just like grzesiek said.