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so on every project that i work on i
have a handful of effects that i can
apply to help enhance my projects so in
this after effects video
i want to talk about my top 10 favorite
effects of this year
hey what's going on internet this is
josh noel from sun duck film welcome to
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button so it seems like every single
year i have a handful of
new effects that i like using for that
year and these 10 effects are the ones
that i've been using
this year so i promise if you watch this
entire video you're going to be able to
produce
better work and if you produce better
work that means that's going to work out
great for your career
long term so let's go ahead and jump
into our list and let's get started on
our top 10 effects
in after effects all right and starting
off our list the first effect we have
is under distort and it's called cc lens
and what this effects allows us to do is
kind of just distort the image
and ball it up so how this effects works
is simple and if you want you can add a
keyframe for size and you can move
forward in time
and you can undistort your image and
what this will do
is just create a nice little curved warp
look on your image and i
love this effect it's a good effect to
reveal onto your scene and it's just fun
to see if this effect
will help enhance your comp alright
moving on is the glow effect and i don't
mean just any basic little effect i'm
talking about an
advanced but easy glow effect that's
gonna make your work look professional
so
what we'll do is go to a perspective and
we'll add a drop shadow yes
drop shadow we'll set it to any color
you want your glow to be
then set your softness up to 20 then
duplicate the drop shadow effect set it
to 80
then go to effect stylize and we'll grab
glow
alright from here where it says glow
color set this to a and b colors
and then set color looping to saw
solitude be greater than a set your
color a to your
drop shadow color then what we do is set
the glow intensity to 2.5
and we can duplicate the glow effect and
we'll set the glow radius
up to 100 for this layer then we'll
duplicate the glow effect one more time
and click on reset and now we have a
really cool glow effect in here and if
you want you can always stop watch for
the first
glow intensity and you can type in
wiggle
two comma five and now we have a really
cool glow effect
in here so my next favorite effect i
like using is shift channels which can
be used for creating glitch effects rgb
effects but i like using it
to create a very subtle color variation
so
when all your work is done what you can
do is go to effects
channel and you grab shift channels and
you come here to the green channel set
the full off come here the blue channel
set the full off
take your all your work duplicate it and
you can come here turn off the red
channel
come here to the green channel turn that
back to green and duplicate your work
one more time come here to greeting i'll
turn that off go
to the blue channel set it back to blue
grab your two top layers and set the
blend mode to screen
all right now what we can do is appear
on keyboard for one of the layers
and we can slightly offset it by a few
points
and you're going to create a very subtle
look onto your work
right and then we grab another layer we
can offset it by
just a point or so and what we can do is
all click the stopwatch and type in
wiggle
and we do like two comma 3 closed
parenthesis something
very subtle so with this effect put
together you get a very subtle rgb
effect and i really like it so another
one of my favorite effects i've been
using for a very long time
is called optics compensation and it's
just like cc lens but
it creates another unique look that i
think works a lot better in almost every
situation so
you have the effect in here in an
adjustment layer and we can increase
our field of view all the way up to like
120 and we check on reverse lens
distortion
and maybe you can bring it down by a
little bit and what this is going to do
is pull the scene
a lot closer to you and i absolutely
love using
this effect and as things get closer to
the edge of the composition it's just
going to be
kind of pulled to the edges and it's
just a very creative and fun effect to
use
to quickly just provide a creative look
to your project
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all right so this is a blur effect
specifically the camera lens blur effect
what allows us to do is take a very
sharp composition and
naturally blur it out as if it was shot
by a camera so
create an adjustment layer and go to
effect blur sharpen and add
camera lens blur and we'll set the blur
radius up to 11 you don't need to go
crazy with this and you're going to get
this very beautiful
blur effect on your composition however
you know in this situation this looks
great but maybe for you you want to cut
this out a little bit more specifically
so i'm going to grab the pen tool and
what i'm going to do here is create a
very nice mask in here to create
somewhat of a depth of field and when
i'm asking here i'm going to set it to
subtract and hit f of my keyboard for
mass feather and set it up to 200 pixels
and with our masking here you see
somewhat more of a in focus look
here on our composition and as it moves
closer to the size
of our comp things seem to get more out
of focus and that's why i love the
camera
lens blur effect so this is probably my
most used effect i think i use it on
every single project and that is the
noise effect and i don't think i get
taken too
seriously with this effect but honestly
it's amazing
just try it so you go to effect noise
and grain and you add noise it's very
basic
and you can set it up to like five to
twelve percent and uncheck use color
noise
and this just looks amazing and when you
relate this to video it has
noise when you film video but when you
do motion graphics in after effects you
don't have
any noise and this seems to just make
work a little bit more cinematic and i
don't like using that term but it just
looks awesome so give it a try all right
the echo effect i love using this with
very basic
animation with titles so this will
create
variations of your animation so when you
have an animation
in here what you just go to effect time
and grab the echo effect and you want to
keep this
very subtle so you can come here and
just set the number echoes
up to say nine and you can come here to
echoes per second
and just slightly lower down the time if
you want and this will create a very
nice multi-layered animation
that just looks really cool an effect i
always find myself using whether i'm
working on
video clips or titles is motion tile
and what it does is allow you to create
seamless backgrounds or seamless
transitions so for example if you want
to create a seamless title
what you could do is pre-compose that
title and you can just
shorten down the composition to be
around the title like i have here
and then what you do is you take that
composition and then you go to effect
stylize and grab motion tile and
all you do is come to output with you
can increase that and output height and
you can increase that as well and then
you can add a keyframe for tile center
and you can move forward and you can
just animate one of the values here or
both of them and now you can get a
repeatable title or a video clip by
using the motion tile effect all right
next on the list is creating a very
easy and quick glitch effect so we'll go
to effect a store and that effect is
going to be called
wave warp okay what we do is come here
to the wave type
set it to noise and we'll come here to
the wave with and we can set this up to
like 7
000 all right and then you're gonna get
some glitches in here
go to the pinning and click on all edges
and you're gonna get a very subtle
glitch effect with the waveform that's
very easy
to manage and you can use it just for
titles for your entire compositions
or just whatever you want to add a
little bit of glitch it's for you
okay the last effect we're going to talk
about is something that is super simple
but it's gradient ramp and before you
dislike this video
for just a very simple and easy effect i
love using gradient ramp for creating
amazing title designs for example
everything in our 200 title pack
basically has a gradient to it and by
using a gradient you're going to be able
to create a very slight variation to it
and it's almost an art to use a gradient
ramp on a title let me show you
how we can do this so we'll come here to
generate and we'll grab
gradient ramp so to use the color
gradient it's a little bit of an art so
we'll grab our sort of color and we can
select any color that we want so
any light color at the top will do you
want to do a light color at the top and
a darker color at the bottom but once
you have your light color
on the top what you do is you grab end
of color select that same exact color
and then go to the color stop and you
just select something a little bit
darker here click ok then what you want
to do is grab start a ramp
bring down the y value until it's kind
of there at the top
then grab the end of color and slightly
bring this up just
below the title then you can select end
of color again
and maybe move it over to a more
saturated version
of the color and you're going to create
a very nice
gradient for your title and this is
generally in the same
color palette just slightly contrasted
from the top to the bottom and looks
great
so that's my top 10 effects here inside
of after effects you're not going to be
able to use all 10 of these on every
project but you might be able to use one
or two on pretty much every project and
just experiment with several of them to
see if
they work or not for what you're trying
to do but i hope you enjoyed
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