Creating a Collage Trail Effect in After Effects | Sports Graphics

[@citorivera221]

The production of this tutorial is insane, please keep making more!

[@D0pey200]

I've never seen a better produced and well edited tutorial. Concise, informative, entertaining and approachable. Extremely well done!

[@miloowyn]

This tutorial is made in such high-quality!!! Thank you for this, can't wait to see more content from you Mr. Garrow!

[@seumulhana21]

at 3:23, it might be easier to use "Keyframe assistant - sequence layers" first to see which frames you'd want to keep in before committing to parenting each layer while on the specific timeline

[@emevlk]

That or committing to doing this on 4s or so from the get go and rotoscope only those frames and save even more time

[@lucaspacheco618]

there is also a super helpful script for that called "rift", it has some more feautures then the regular keyframe assistant

[@midnitespecial_music]

this is great, i've found lately for this type of cascade building in the timeline, do the old trick of making all the layers one frame and then right click and auto arranging them all to offset by one, then go to the end of the timeline, select all and Ctrl+], then to quickly move down them all for parenting, it's Ctrl down and then just press "i" to go to the input of that layer before parenting, probably only saves a little time but a few times i've had that trio of Ctrl key in a cycle to go through and it becomes really tedious so that removes just a few keystrokes for you on each step

[@QaisarYegimbayev]

@tobygarrow great video, there is a much faster way to arrange the frames in the timeline 1. select all layers ctrl+shift+d and cut all layers at 1st frame on the timeline 2. delete everything but the 1 frame long layers 3. animation>keyframe assistant>sequence layers 4. extend all layers to the end of the timeline

[@usimortis1940]

I believe you can actually create a simple script that does the whole process.

[@gfatsad2696]

Right, bro. You said what I wanted to say

[@Shykun]

Wait what? How are you still 122 subs only? I thought I was watching some +100k sub content! This is amazing 🤩

[@spookybalamains]

lmao right

[@Itz_TOG]

He's almost at 9k now, don't worry. 😄

[@NRGvideoproduction]

Saying hi at 250k 😂

[@clarkeflippo9004]

This was great man. The quick summary of the process was refreshing. I learned a new technique without having to sit through a 17min tutorial. More like these would be awesome.

[@MuhammadHaseeb-s7s]

This tutorial is just sooooooo great man. Why did you stop making tutorials? It could be a big help for humanity

[@demcny8941]

Fantastic tutorial 👌 great breakdown and visualisation of the methods used. Instant sub! More of these, bro!

[@digalz]

Hah, hello. ESPN One App video editor here. I'm glad to see that one around the world. Nice tutorial man.

[@tobygarrow]

Dude I've watched all of those videos like 20 times at least, you guys are magicians!! Thanks for putting out such awesome work into the world

[@jirehla-ab1671]

​@@tobygarrowdid u take any creative courses?

[@danielcamargopolo8940]

For a quick way to do it, instead of going through the whole PNG process, you could try using the Echo effect with the rotoscoped layer. This won't allow all the control and the nice touch you gave it at the end of course. Great tutorial, by the way! Loved the titles!

[@willrushton5579]

Echo doesn’t freeze time, simply delays it. If you do a super short delay of 1 frame with lots of echos it will create the illusion of freezing but the trail is moving. Now if you add a greater delay between echos you will see that your trails will have motion to them rather than frozen if that makes sense.

[@claraelia]

We need more of this magic Toby !!!

[@damkiii]

I LOVE HOW U MAKE THE TUTORIAL MORE INTERESTING WITH THOSE DESIGN STYLE OF YOURS!!!!!!!!!!!

[@EnxhioKotoni]

The quality of this tutorial is amazing. Keep it up

[@aadiinmotion]

composition, design and effects of the tutorial itself are great!

[@RedPandaGamer]

This is such a great video, I appreciate that it's more a guide to get started vs step by step super dry just staring at your After Effect screen.

[@NorsePunk]

You speak very clear and coherent, a much needed quality for tutorial/educational content. Please, keep it up! Subscribed.

[@avkitsis]

One of the best video tutorials I've seen, please don't change this style! Keep it up it looks great! (1 more after me and you have 1000 subscribers!)

[@ryanhoelscher5429]

This is made super well, one of the best tutorial videos I've seen, and I've seen a lot. Keep it going, you'll catch fire,

[@PanewsONE]

Great breakdown, mate! I loved the remainder expression with the slider to guarantee a flexible result. Nice work man

[@pipb00y]

my guy, you are underated, this is insane, hope you reach 10,0000 subs ❤❤

[@sanatagraha272]

the tutorial is an art itself

[@hinakausar7471]

Oh my God Bro ur channel is underrated, quality stuff I'm impressed. Hoping for more tutorials from you

[@littleshih88888]

The most beautiful AE tutorial EVER!!! THANKS

[@Nkpower21]

Wow this tutorial is high quality. Thanks for uploading! It helped a ton!

[@PGANANDHAKRISHNAN]

brother the effort you taking my god you are awesome

[@vorval96]

Great tutorial! That expression is crazy!

[@devon.dulaney]

dangggg! This helps so much! Can't wait for more! (take your time through bro you've got this)

[@paulreed07]

thanks for the video!! you might be able to save some time by just offsetting each layer automatically within the Keyframe Assistent, then instead of pick whipping use the dropdown and it's always the very close first layer. Seems like saving microseconds, but in total you might save quite some time in the end.

[@paulreed07]

yeah just saw, that this was already mentioned here before, sorry about that :))

[@imanolbourdoncle3466]

Really great tutorial man, i'm surprised you don't have much subs, keep up !

[@likhith7302]

i love the way you teach!!!!! excited for upcoming videos

[@Kevinlenslife]

wow! your tutorial is a new level

[@drewdronesfpv]

How have i never seen you on YT - I just subbed, this was super well done!

[@adellisnostalgic]

I'll have to try this when I dive back into AE. Thanks for the tutorial.

[@XenFoxy]

You deserve so much more recognition! Verry good video !

[@samhuf6694]

Great tutorial man! Loved the little opacity script

[@tobygarrow]

Thanks Sam!

[@iamnovinov]

BRO YOU ARE A BEAST!!! Respect.

[@befouriv7842]

This is such a great tutorial! Hope you do more again sometime !

[@zamangwanezikhali1052]

This was so well done and made so its easy to understand and follow. Thank you!

[@dixieechann]

this is an awesome tutorial, have always wanted to experiment with this after this effect was featured in the "Godfathers of Harlem" opener

we need tutorial for this tutorial too 😅amazing work, keep going!

[@tobygarrow]

Thanks so much! Any particular part you'd like to see explained?

[@FabiolaFranyutti]

How do you finish the effect so its doesn´t stay still, like you do on min 6:20, where the rotoscope layers go inward. Please help, GREAT tutorial, almsot have everything but that last bit. Mine looks weird. Thanks

[@selimelino]

i subbed immediately this tutorial is so well made!

[@RustamBainazarov]

Great tutorial, thank you. Aside from the Keyframe assistant part, I didn't really get the tracking one: shouldn't it be easier if you'd exported the rotoscoping results with the source frame size? As I see it, that'd allow to skip the tracking part since all frames would retain the source proportion and size - so all layers can be perfectly aligned with the video just by aligning them to the composition's center.

[@woodstockcarrie]

amazing content im so happy I found your channel

[@lukem5798]

This tutorial is awesome .. so much quLITY ! Wow thanks

[@InvisiblefilmmakerBlogspot94]

I found this extremely inspirational for a lyric video!!!

[@dannyjuarez1969]

Bro posted a banger and dipped

[@NRGvideoproduction]

I didn’t see how you make tracking data layer. I tried to copy into null, but my expression won’t work. Is saying layer named ‘trackingData’ is missing or does that exist 😭

[@lucasatulli7077]

Man this is crazy, thank you so much

[@rickardbengtsson]

Great quality work , look forward to seeing what else you post here

[@aaliyan2]

Amazing videos!

[@overdigitize]

Fantastic high quality tutorial! Looking forward to the next one

[@PiginaCage]

You didn't need to sequence the layers one by one. you could've used Animation > Keyframe assistant > Sequence Layers. and you could've parented all of them to the tracking data layer at once by selecting all and then using that small spiral button next to the parenting box and dragging it onto the tracking data layer. Thank you for the tutorial.

[@Rand1er]

You couldn't parent them all at once, otherwise they'd all be out of position when they appear. They need to be parented from their appearance position.

[@jakebaine]

Dude this is fire. Thank you!

[@Cocubin]

thanks men. havnt done this yet might give it a try

[@K1_void]

my exprexion doenst work to hide or show the layers, i dont know why f = thisComp.layer("TrackingData").effect("Framerate")("Slider"); i = index if (i%f==0) { 100; }else{ 0; }

[@dixieechann]

I have this problem too

[@grupodeltamotors]

Did you solve that? :(

[@K1_void]

@@grupodeltamotors I ended up choosing the layers by hand, the expression didn't work for me...

[@YasmineAbdulrahman]

this is a great tutorial! but I can't get that expression to work for the life of me, I am copying it exactly as shown, does anyone have any suggestions?? please

[@JonnyGrace-u1p]

Excellent Toby!

[@soulist8224]

How do you do the "alpha matte"? And did you render it with the settings by sequence? Was the posterize wiggle a built in effect? Also how do you ad the michael jordan and white paper frame to it?

[@MuhammadHaseeb-s7s]

This tutorial is just sooooooo great man. Why did you stop

[@RodriAp]

good making off for this tutorial, is so amazing. congrats and thanks!

[@tristanstallenberg]

Toby this was amazing

[@ItsKuruk]

definitely gonna try this out

[@amritgurung2522]

Quality content 🔥

[@jadonhartman1605]

Okay now can we get a tutorial for the tutorial, great work btw

[@CPCasey]

@tobygarrow this is a dumb question but how are you copying and pasting the tracking data in like that cause when i try to copy and paste it its giving completely different keyframes and data

[@brianbetz7753]

Thanks 🙏🏻 Doing a project where I’m taking Chinese Martial Arts moves and animating with Blander. This works great as can export as png image sequence. Your vid has countless applications for what I’m doing!

[@sebastianhincapie9472]

Great tutorial, I followed step by step, but I can't get the opacity expression to work. I still see the entire png sequence when I try it.

[@hotchd1]

I'm having the same issue. Can't get the opacity expression to work either. Did you get it to work?

[@deckard977]

Great tut, very inspiring!

[@hujinom]

Hello I followed the tutorial everything work perfectly except the expression part in my file the images are not disappearing and followed the steps you described could you help me out? it appears to be that the slider is not working regardless of having the same name in the codeout?

[@arnaudsimon3265]

That is brilliant, thanks a lot !

[@STUDIOSTEPS_motion]

TOBY that was great!

[@tobygarrow]

Thanks Jason!

[@manopaz2295]

if my footage is just panning and tracking the position for the "trackingdata" what should i be tracking? the moving subject or a background object?

[@ArmanGole]

Am I mistaken or instead of going down and one frame over cant u select all the images, go one frame over (cmd shift D) delete the fluff, parent them en mass, and then use the layer organizer thing from the top it’s like animation something, I’m forgetting rn, and have these automatically reordered? And this is a really cool tutorial thanks for the break down!

[@Pheoo]

Im from Vietnam, it is great 🎉🎉🎉

[@dange8rge]

such a cool effect!!

[@simonebailey1407]

Please keep the technical information. I enjoy all of the details.

[@matsvmm]

Fantastic tutorial! Kudos! Keep it up :)

[@stuffbymaria]

Very cool tutorial, thank you!

[@theopats2660]

This is a very well made tutorial

[@createdaley]

Great tutorial and even better use of gfx to show how this magic comes to life! Liked and subscribed!

[@tobygarrow]

Thanks so much!

[@jordanhuang5892]

Loved this, thanks!

[@ehliogomme]

this video is GOLD

[@NBA_TOPS]

great work keep going 🔥

[@Cineinsaner]

Awesome tutorial keep going.

[@eevee7457]

bro, well, you understand)) please make a video with such cool effects taken on camera. you are very cool. insta subscription

[@mozgo_shmigi]

what you do is brilliant

[@dhaloh]

Make more tutorials please. Wonderful quality!

[@LoveStrokeRadio]

Great video

[@abdelrahmanshebl7]

Wow!! That's a Premium Tutorial!

[@AuthorMx]

Quick bit, you should be able to shave off one of the keystrokes in the tracking data section by using the "keyframe assistant" to sequence the layers

[@T2Exile]

dope tutorial. im curious on that expression you used....like can u use that expression for anything? im not a coder, but just want to know a few more in-dept details about it! looks like it would be mad useful

[@HesamSimin]

ive been looking for this

[@tegarfaisal62]

Keep going, i need more tutorial

[@marksummers666]

great job on this

[@NRGvideoproduction]

I keep getting error saying tracking data layer missing or does not exist. Maybe because I put tracking data in Null layer?

[@theartofpi]

Great tutorial. Subscribed

[@garyhighsnobiety6869]

perfect tut!!