Skip to Content
The After Effects Illusionist
book

The After Effects Illusionist

by Chad Perkins
September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
15h 18m
English
Focal Press
Content preview from The After Effects Illusionist

19

THE TIME EFFECTS

The effects in the Time category all fiddle with time. Some of them, such as Echo and Time Displacement, can create some really interesting visual effects using time tricks. Time Difference is a huge help for visual effects and color correction.

The powerhouse effect in this category is of course Timewarp. Timewarp allows you to speed up and slow down time, to control the quality of the end result, and to apply motion blur to footage that has already been rendered.

The Echo Effect

The Echo effect creates copies (echoes) of a layer by adding duplicates from different places in time.

In the Echo.aep project, you'll find in the Chapter 19 folder of the exercise files. In Fig. 19.1, we see the original video clip without the ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

The After Effects Illusionist, 2nd Edition

The After Effects Illusionist, 2nd Edition

Chad Perkins
After Effects Apprentice

After Effects Apprentice

Chris Trish Meyer
After Effects On the Spot

After Effects On the Spot

Richard Harrington

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780240811451