After Effects Tutorial - Progress Bar Percentage

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After Effects Tutorial – Progress Bar Percentage


After uploading the Simple Loading Screen tutorial, a viewer asked me if it was possible to create a display based on the percentage of elapsed time. The answer is yes, and here’s a tutorial showing you how to create a Slider Control and feed the data into a Text layer to produce a simple percentage display.
No plug-ins required.

The CS5 project file created in this tutorial can be downloaded from here.

After Effects Tutorial – Digital Music Player


So here’s the tutorial that goes with this project file. Here, I’ll show you how you can easily create a slightly retro-looking MP3 Player LCD display, complete with scrolling text, time counter and audio-reactive digital waveform. As usual, no plug-ins are required, you can do all of this with the standard toolkit in After Effects CS3 or later. (NOTE – the project file is CS5.)

After Effects Project File – Digital Music Player (MP3 LCD)

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AE Project File – Valentine’s Day Heart Title

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, here’s a free After Effects Project file for you to download and customise. No plug-ins required – it uses the standard toolkit in After Effects CS5. No restrictions on its use in personal or commercial projects, but you may not redistribute or sell this file.

And as always, if you use it – tell people where you got it :)

Download the project file (CS5-only) from here.

After Effects Tutorial – Simple Loading Screen


Here’s how to use the standard toolkit in After Effects to create a very simple loading screen. It uses a simple combination of layer effects to create a glassy-looking progress bar from a straight line (drawn using the shape tool), then a Track Matte to maintain the rounded shape during the position change. The CS5 project file for this can be downloaded from here.