Digital Tutors: Integrating Titles with Footage in After Effects (2010/English)

In this series of lessons we'll learn how to composite a text title into background footage. This is a common task for show openers or to add extra information into your shot.
We'll begin this project by importing our background plate and creating the text we'll integrate. Then we'll track the background plate and attach our text to the track. We'll then learn about the uses of pre-composing and how to combine various effects to make our text look more three dimensional. We'll then learn how to take elements from our background and layer them into our text to create the illusion that the text is in the scene. We'll finish by doing a quick color correction and render out our finished shot!

Lessons:
1. Introduction and project overview
2. Importing and setting up our background plate
3. Tracking our plate movement and applying it to a null layer
4. Creating appealing 3D text effects using multiple bevels
5. Duplicating our text precomp to create shadowed text
6. Using a Luma Key to isolate our plate shadows for layering
7. Creating static shadows using our tracker and masks
8. Rotoscoping our moving shadow using multiple masks
9. Rotoing our body's shadows to finish our shadows
10. Correctly track matting our text layers with our cutout alpha
11. Color correcting our background for increased contrast

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