Tutorial: Creating a Moving Timelapse Effect in Adobe After Effects CC
This tutorial will demonstrate an advanced method of adding a slider or jib effect to timelapse footage in Adobe After Effects CC 2014.
Adding an Adjustment Layer
Now, you could stop here and export the video, but I'm going to add a few more things since we're already in After Effects.
While I like what we've done with this, I want to make the video stand out a bit more since this footage is fairly flat. We'll start by navigating to Layer > New > Adjustment Layer (Figure 10, below). Check out my tutorial on adjustment layers to see how handy these can be with your video projects.
Figure 10. Adding an Adjustment Layer
Now, with our adjustment layer selected, we can navigate to Effect > Color Correction > Brightness & Contrast (Figure 11, below).
Figure 11. Choosing the Brightness & Contrast effect
Dragging to the right on this value in the Effect Controls panel will increase the contrast to our video. We can also go back to Effect > Color Correction, and this time, choose Vibrance. Here, we can add some more color to our video by, again, dragging to the Vibrance value to the right.
You can continue to add effects or filters to your liking, but you can see how we can quickly enhance our videos with After Effects. You can see a RAM preview of what everything looks like at the 4:09 mark of the tutorial video below.
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