June 22, 2011 by Zola | 14,390 views | Comments (14)
Guest host James Zwadlo continues the After Effects: Effects A-Z series, demonstrating After Effects’ Card Wipe effect. Watch Tip (flv) | Watch Tip (mp4)
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14 Responses to this post
June 26, 2011 at 5:44 am |
Great tutorial! thanks!
cheers,
Matt
July 2, 2011 at 12:00 pm |
john i like soooo much the new look of the website …. awesome choice
great tut James Zwadlo btw
July 4, 2011 at 7:26 am |
Nice tutorial!
August 8, 2011 at 11:14 am |
Hello! very nice examples. Did I miss how to use a precomp as a transition matte?
How do you tell the plugin to use for example the gradient precomp as a matte for the transition?
August 8, 2011 at 11:15 am |
this message is just to use the “notify me of followup” option… I forgot to select it on me previous post
August 11, 2011 at 3:43 am |
Hi A3,
In the plugin there is a ‘Gradient’ option where you can select your pre-comp which you should have already made (hopefully!) Make sure to move all attributes to new comp when you pre-compose, do not leave them in the same comp. Hope this helps!
May 16, 2013 at 7:29 am |
Thanks James, I was selecting the layer but wasn’t selecting the layer option on the Flip Order drop menu.
August 10, 2011 at 7:01 pm |
great work
October 9, 2012 at 7:22 am |
hola me gusto
October 16, 2012 at 10:30 pm |
A bit new to Ae, Love the tutorial, however, I’m having trouble understanding how to set up the checker board precomp.How did you get the 10 little 48 x 48 squares? Are they 10 individual 48×48 solids/pictures?
October 17, 2012 at 6:07 am |
Hi Kirk,
There is a Checkerboard effect – Effects > Generate > Checkerboard.
Best wishes, John.
October 17, 2012 at 9:37 am |
Wow, works perfectly!! Again, excellent tutorial! But, that checkerboard was a really important part of the tut and should have been mentioned-especially for us newcomers. Anyway, thanks for the quick response.
May 16, 2013 at 1:25 am |
I tried following this tutorial and I can’t make the card wipe transition followed the gradient layer. Can you please explain more. Thanks. I love this site!!!
May 16, 2013 at 7:31 am |
Hi Dennis, I was also having trouble with that. I had to pause the tutorial at the point where he selects the layer that has the card wipe plugin applied. You need to select “Gradient” on the “flip order” drop menu. It’s set “left to right” by default. Then on the “Gradient layer” option, select the layer that has the gradient applied. That layer has to be a Comp in which inside is the layer with the gradient.
Hope this helps.
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