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.

If you have an AE project with so many Compositions, which have so many layers in them, and you have used Generate->Fill Effect for some or many layers of your project.

Blue Flash creates a pulsing blue light behind your text

A great way to take modern footage and turn it into vintage looking aged film, using particles.

It shouldn't matter what rotation methods and parenting the original camera has, as it translates all of that into a free camera with only position, rotation, and zoom parameters.

In this After Effects tutorial Quba HQ will show you how to create your own highly customizable LED screen effect, ready to convert any text or image into pixelated goodness.

Paint splat using Particular and CC Glass. [A resurrected project from trapcode-people.net]

Use this plugin to generate a solid color rounded rect or sample footage to easily add rounded corners to your footage.

SplatterType is a preset that will allow you to create amazing ink and paint splatter animations with just a few clicks. Based on a special font type.

Create an awesome Tilt Shift effect using a linear focus area.