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Another day, another tutorial, another new
thing to learn. In this occasion, I want to
show you how to make some advanced shape transition,
which is great to use both with image and
video footage. So, today we'll be creating
this:
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In this tutorial will be using the EZ Tools
script, which is free to download. You can
also download the template of the animation
you have seen in the example. Both links are
in the description. So let's start.
After you have imported your footage in After
Effects, create a new composition and name
it: shape transitions. I'm using a FULL HD
1080 pixels preset, with 30 frames per second,
and 6 seconds long for this tutorial, but
you can make it as long as you need.
Inside your composition, create a new black
solid, and apply the fill effect to it.
Change the fill color to a beautiful color
which suits your project.
Click here and activate the proportional grid.
Select your shape layer,
grab the Pen Tool,
and start drawing a shape like this one.
It is not so difficult, you just have to follow
the grid points.
Close your shape, by placing the last point
over the first one you have created.
Open your solid layer options, click on masks,
mask 1, move to 10 frames, and create a keyframe
on "mask path".
Move 10 more frames, grab this point and drag
it here.
This one here.
The middle one drag it only a little.
And, as you can guess, these other two points
here,
and here.
Move another 10 frames forward,
grab this point and drag it to the left corner,
this one in the middle,
and this one to the right corner.
Now, move to the first frame, and drag all
these 4 points outside of your solid, as linear
as you can in the vertical axis.
You can turn off the proportional grid now.
Check out your shape animation.
Select your solid layer, and duplicate it.
On the newly created, change the fill color
to a different color that works with your
project.
Bring your first image or video into your
shape transitions composition.
Select the mask 1 from your bottom layer,
copy it, and paste it on your image layer.
Make sure that your playhead is at the beginning
of your timeline when you do this.
Move 2 frames forward,
select the image layer, and the top solid
layer, and drag them to the right like this.
Move 2 more frames, and offset only the image
layer.
As you can see, the transition is ready. If
you want to use it multiple times, select
these 3 layers, duplicate them,
Bring the new ones at the top of your composition,
Make them start from the time you need,
then, select the top image layer, hold the
alt button pressed, and drag the new image
or video over it.
Repeat these actions as many times as you
need. it is not so hard, isn't it?
Now, let's check the final result.
Wow, amazing! You can always create your own
custom shapes for this transition, just be
creative! If you do it, please upload the
video to youtube and let me see your results.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial on how to
create advanced shape transitions in After
Effects.
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