Learn how to use Fractal Noise to create a textured fade on a layer in After Effects. Then add some more effects and elements to finish up the title effect.

In this tutorial, Levi Borland shows you a cool way to make it appear as though your character teleports out of the way of a speeding vehicle.

Create "dynamic sparkles" which adhere to the highlight features of an element...

The project is driven by two basic compositions - one contains the image to be wiped on and the other contains a very basic gradient to control the direction of the wipe.

The Difference Matte effect creates a transparency a mask or a matte by comparing the pixels in a source layer with the pixel in a defined difference layer, and then keying out (eliminating) pixels in the source layer that match both the position and color in the difference layer.

This brief tutorial covers the compositing technique of light wrapping.

This plugin creates a vignette around your footage quickly and easily.

This plugin will create mattes that are attached to objects in 3D renders by using a PPass

YY_MagicKey is a very powerful keying plugin, minus the complicated settings. It was designed specifically with the keying-out of premultiplied stock elements (explosions, blood, muzzle flares, etc) in mind, and never takes a long time to set up.

Compositing fog elements seems like a pretty straightforward thing to do in After Effects. Shoot or render your fog element against black, and then Add or Screen it on top of your footage, right? Wrong. This method is incorrect. Let's go over why.