Make Sequential Animations using the Repeater - Adobe After Effects tutorial

[@kfiish]

Thank you for not screwing around and not explaining every little action you do.This would have been a 30 minute tutorial if it were done by anyone else.

[@quancavevideo232]

Really sick man! I took a break from your tutorials because my mac was too slow. But i'm getting some Ram delivered soon, and I'm just re-prepping for my learning! Thanks again for your knowledge/sharing abilities!! God bless, brotha!

[@Traxick]

Man i love this guy. I have learned so much from him even though it's all on a mac.

[@USeeIt]

I studied English only in school and own it with the help of a dictionary, but when I watch tutorials by this author, I get the impression that I know the English language all my life

[@rafaelzh]

Mate, your videos are amazing. You're very good at this. Thanks for sharing and being cool.

[@kaioarena4885]

Hi Evan.. first of all just want to congratulate and also say thank you for the awesome tutorials.. It help us a lot! And if you could answer me something that would be awesome too. Is there any expression to apply on the anchor point of a shape layer (not the layer anchor point, but the anchor point of the shape), so I can parent it to a controller and move the anchor point axis separately? What I wanna do is to have a controller that will move only the Y axis of the shape anchor point. If I just parent it to a controller, both axis are moved and if I'm using a repeater (which I am), they kinda rotate. If you could help somehow. Thanks!

[@ECAbrams]

Hey. You can put an expression on any property. Just hold alt and click on the stop watch. Then you need to just use the pickwhip to link that line to another effect or input of some kind. That input could be a "slider control" effect, it could be a "point control" effect. Then you can change properties of that controller and you should be all good.

[@kaioarena4885]

ECAbrams Thanks man! The thing is that I wanted to move only one axis with the parented control layer, but I was using a slider control to do it, which made the layer move in both axis. But with the point control I can move them separately! Thanks for you time! You are awesome

[@Austronauto]

You are really good at teaching

[@savinomarinelliblock]

wonderfull! long time no see, great tutorial as always. keep it up

[@aboshooshoo]

your tutorials r really useful and funny :D,good work

[@LeoBodelle]

Great tutorial! Thanks a lot! How can you apply this to a composition? Let's say I have a flying bird (with moving wings) and I would like to repeat it, how I can I do this?

[@ECAbrams]

so you have a composition and you want to essentially tile it or have many birds on screen at once? Is that the short end of it?

[@chill579]

You used keyboard shortcuts to add the scale and rotate that control the overall elipse. How did you do that?

[@vipulmehra5120]

is there a simpler way you could bring a shape and it repeated copies to paticular position in sequence? for eg 9 squares simply dropping from top to bottom, but one after other using repeater?

[@MrStelric]

Great tut! Are these shapes posible to be used as masks and be used as a transition effect?

[@ECAbrams]

Well not "masks" because those are something very specific. You can use them as transitions by making them the track matte of another layer if you want. Give it a try.

[@MrStelric]

ECAbrams Worked fine! Thanks!

[@boogy81869]

Glad your back buddy!

[@anukhandelwal9419]

How did you made the red transition in the beginning of the video. The vertical rectangles type.

[@filmschoolcomments]

0:05 - lol, I love this guy. You joker you

[@bawfin]

such amazing and insightful tutorials.

[@Kanjas19]

If you had an issue with getting the rotation to work in the repeater, instead of dragging in the stage to create the circle, double click in the circle or rectangle to create one. This creates a circle with the anchor point centered at 0,0. If you center your anchor point to your created circle and then align it to the composition, your anchor point will not be at 0,0 inside the shape layer, which means it will screw up your rotation with the repeater. Hope it helps someone, It took me a few hours to find the solution.

[@iLCaponeSniper1]

Amazing tutorial!

[@rrss57]

Hi would you please more shapes tutorials AE?

[@peterw217]

Thank you, this was great!

[@julianbeaver]

Thanks so much, nice tips will be using this in the future

[@zdf1000]

Why do we see the slice as a cutout rather than an add-on when we drag Path1 under EllipsePath1 @2:20?

[@sirus3002]

another awesome tutorial.thank you

[@aqlee1224]

Thanks alot for your tutorial, I would like to ask if it is possible to use the repeater method to create a triangle pattern with small triangle, thanks !!!!

[@ECAbrams]

yes that would be a classic use of the repeater

[@aqlee1224]

would you mind give me some tips...as I learn from your tutorial, I could create square and circle pattern with repeater... but still can not find the way for the triangle one. thanks!

[@ECAbrams]

AQ Lee what is so different with the triangle pattern you're trying to make that the methods you used for circle and square based patterns did not work? From where I'm sitting it's all the same idea isn't it?

[@aqlee1224]

sorry.. I am not good in english. may be I express in wrong way, what i mean is Triangle shape pattern, like this " driverlayer.com/showimg?v=g&img=mkalty.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/triangles-1.gif&org=mkalty.org/triangle-shapes/&ti=Triangle%20shapes&hos=mkalty.org " thanks.

[@ECAbrams]

AQ Lee thankfully this is not a problem of language but one of maths. You will need to do maths to make this work for you. Assuming you are working with equilateral triangle you will want to make one row using the repeater, then repeat that row and offset it. up and over. THEN you will want to repeat that unit of two rows. You follow?

[@unanosininvierno1783]

Hey Evan! I've been looking for a tutorial that will allow me to create something I have in my mind. I need individual paths to merge with each other but it would be cool to be able to do this with the repeater. It's 4 triangles overlapped biting from on another in their intersections. I couldn't find anyone doing what I intend so I thought it might be interesting. I have images to better express my point. Hope you read this, thank you.

[@ECAbrams]

+Un año sin invierno maybe it requires a use of the merge paths modifier as well?

[@unanosininvierno1783]

Well, that sounds like it could be what I was missing, had never heard for that. Will research and let you know how it goes.. any links or tutorials to make my life easier? :)

[@CrHayzeyStuff]

Hey I sent you a tweet about this too (@CrazeyHayzey) I'm having trouble with a composition. I have finished editing my video that has multiple Video, text, audio and picture layers but when I went Composition > Add to Render Queue and selected my desktop as where the finished video (.AVI) should be sent and when it was all done I opened the video on my desktop and played it but all my text layers and everything else were missing! As if just the video layers had been in the render queue. All my other layers are all still in my composition and all showing up in the RAM Preview and still all on my timeline but they're just not in the exported video!? I need help Urgently I searched online but had no help. You replied to me yesterday with a question I had in another video do you remember me? XD

[@bokreykim2348]

Hello sir . Questions in the relay process. Catapult repeater. One does not return to the repeater. Only to return to the center . Reports Andoeneyo video in the same way. But even she won a set position (0) and anneyo return . Why is that ?????? Tell us ... ㅠㅠ Use the Korea translation . I can read a translated reply ~ ^^ Too good-looking movie , you learn . Thank you ~ ^^

[@NikolaosKarzis]

Ty very nice and useful !!

[@sonerabis12]

Great:: tutorial as you are :))

[@crisisbliss2462]

had something funny happen. I'm using CS5.5 After merging the paths, when I added the repeater and set the position to zero and adjusted the rotation the point of the triangle that was in the center of the circle moved off center. I did it a couple of times and the same thing happened. I got around it by applying the repeater first then adding the merge path. then it stayed center. Strange little anomaly or maybe I just did something wrong.

[@throbbingG]

I'm having the exact same problem

[@workshopmotion2807]

@@throbbingG same problem here - did anyone get around it?

[@cerdos01]

Excelente video me ayudo mucho

[@IridiumMusi]

At 3:38, how did you get those lines to disappear?

[@ECAbrams]

I selected the path and edited it moving the centre point directly to the centre.

[@IridiumMusi]

ECAbrams Thanks!

[@WWEMinecraftwwelife]

Thanks you are the inspiration.!!!!!!

[@benyowaty]

Good sense of humour "Cowboy" haha. Regards

[@MrDemonz101]

Hey i need a huge favor i downloaded after effects but its broke could you please render an intro for me

[@ECAbrams]

Have you contacted Adobe Support? They can usually fix up install issues. Also send me an email about these thing.

[@MrDemonz101]

ok

[@alifarah3665]

Thank you

[@learngraphicsinurdu9994]

Dear Sir, you are explaining things pretty well but the properties that you are using, not easy to read their name on screen. Can you please do something about it? - via YouPak(.com)

[@ECAbrams]

+Nadeem Butt like what?

[@hvaranhvaran]

doubleckick to fullscreen

[@abielmuren]

Hehehe, I enjoyed seeing your video.

[@darrenzg]

thanks :)

[@ootrip40]

is that a canadian accent?

[@ECAbrams]

I am a Canadian so maybe?

[@imanorangmelayu]

you sound like seth rogen

[@richashukla4808]

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[@DanielRedding]

Great tutorial, Thanks!