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Janeen Bahrke

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Aug 4, 2024, 7:18:52 PM8/4/24
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HiI'm new with after effects and all I want is to make face replacement (static meme faces) on videos of my friends to share on our soccer Whatsapp group. There is no need to be professional at all (quite contrary) the only requirement is to be funny lol

Check the online help on basics like layer transform animation and basic 2D tracking or if you need even face tracking. No need for any plug-ins. The file size thing requires understanding how compression works and which settings affect what. No simple way to learn this based on textbook knowledge. You have to experiment around. Contrrary to your impression, though, there is no reason why some of the presets should only produce large files and outside that every aspect of the encoders can be tweaked, which just like learning the other things is merely a matter of actually reading the help and looking up a bit of generic info/ tutorials on the Internet to work up an understanding of data rates, different MPEG sub-sets and encoding levels and so on. Also merely reducing the dimensions will have a huge impact on this. I don't think you would ever want to actually share 4k video via WhatsApp or similar...


Use Track Motion in the Tracker panel while the video with the face that you want to track is selected and then use Edit Target... in the Tracker panel to select the Layer that is the replacement as the Motion Target.


While there's nothing WhatsApp specific, the Facebook setting should work fine. Basically, you want to Export from After Effects by adding your Comp to the Adobe Media Encoder Queue (Composition > Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue...) and the exporting to Format: H264 and Setting: Match Source - High Bitrate.


If you want full control over your installations, this guide has details for installing each type of tool. However, if you just want your tools installed quickly and want to get things working with as little effort as possible, check out the aescripts + aeplugins manager app. Not only will it take care of installing your tools purchased from aescripts.com, but it will also take care of the licensing.


CEP Extensions first became available for After Effects in version CC 2014. CEP extensions give you all the benefits as Script UI panels, however they also allow for much more complex and user-friendly interfaces.


To install an extension, it is simplest to use an installer. Adobe has their own installer, however it limits your Extensions to what is available on Adobe's own platform. A much simpler and open option is to use the ZXP Installer from aescripts.com. It is available for free for both Mac and Windows.


Once you've downloaded and installed the ZXP Installer, simply open the .zxp extension in the installer. The ZXP Installer will take care of the rest. Once the extension has been installed, you can see basic information about the extension, such as its version and compatible software.


Plugins for After Effects are very simple to install. Some plugins even include an installer that takes care of everything for you, but if you have a plugin that is just a .aex file, it must be installed manually. To do this, simply copy the .aex file into the After Effects Plug-ins folder:


If you would like, you can create your own folders within the 'Plug-ins' folder in order to organize your files, however these folders will have no effect on how After Effects organizes your plug-ins within the program, it would only be for your own organizational needs on your file system.


Once the .aex file is somewhere in within your Plug-ins folder, start up After Effects and your plugin will be available. If it is an effect, it will be under the 'Effects' menu, however, not all plug-ins are effects, so it may appear elsewhere.


Scripts come in two different formats. There is the .jsx and .jsxbin. Both of these formats are installed and run the same way. The difference is that .jsx files are able to be opened and edited, while .jsxbin files have beed converted to a proprietary binary format in order to prevent users from editing or copying the code of the script.


The only downside to running scripts this way is that if you are constantly navigating your file system to find the script you need, you'll be constantly wasting time. Although After Effects does have the 'Recently Used Scripts' section, there is a slightly better method for running your commonly used scripts. In order to work a little more efficiently, you can simply save the script into the 'Scripts' folder and have it show up directly in the list.


Within the 'Scripts' folder you will see a list of default scripts as well as a few folders. For basic scripts, simply copy it into the scripts folder. Then when you restart After Effects, it will show up right in the list under:


Script UI Panels are probably the most common type of scripts you will use if you're downloading tools from the internet. They are scripts with a user interface which makes them easy to modify and customize. They can also be docked like regular panels in After Effects so you can add them neatly to your workspace.


To take advantage of the dockable panel, you must install them in the correct location and must open them from the 'Window' menu. Otherwise, you can run them like a normal script, but the panel that is shown cannot be docked.


Now, restart After Effects. At the very bottom of the 'Window' menu, you will see a list of your script ui panels. Once again, if you want the Script UI Panel to be dockable, it must be opened from the 'Window' menu. If you open it from the 'Scripts' menu, it will run perfectly and still show the interface, however it will not be dockable.


Also within the scripts folder, there are two additional folders: Startup and Shutdown. Any scripts placed in these folders will be automatically run by After Effects. As you can probably guess, startup scripts will be run when After Effects is started, and shutdown scripts will be run just before After Effects exits. Scripts in these folders are usually utility scripts. For instance, they could create a project folder structure each time you start After Effects. They should not be Script UI panels.


Presets and Pseudo Effects both have a .ffx file extension, and in fact, a Pseudo Effect is just a Preset with a custom control interface. To install them, simply move them in to the User Presets folder.


Within this folder, you can also create sub folders to keep presets organized. Within the After Effects 'Effects and Presets' panel, any organizational folders you set up WILL be imported as well, so creating folders can help you stay organized on the file system as well as within After Effects.


Once you have copied your presets into its folder, you have a couple options for getting your preset to load. If After Effects has not yet been started, it will automatically be loaded upon startup. If After Effects is already open, you can simply go to the fly-out menu for the 'Effects and Presets' panel and choose 'Refresh List'. Your newly added presets will then show up under the '*Animation Presets > User Presets' section.


AE Face Tools is set of tools with hundreds of variations customizable face or for Adobe After Effects. Tools and presets for footage side faces in After Effects. Library Face Tools includes hundreds of pre-installed ready to use. AE Face Tools will detect your face masks and face tracking (which is a standard option in After Effects). Then, in the panel Motion Bro, choose any preset and add it in one click.


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Face aftereffects are widely studied on the assumption that they provide a useful tool for investigating face-space coding of identity. However, a long-standing issue concerns the extent to which face aftereffects originate in face-level processes as opposed to earlier stages of visual processing. For example, some recent studies failed to find atypical face aftereffects in individuals with clinically poor face recognition. We show that in individuals within the normal range of face recognition abilities, there is an association between face memory ability and a figural face aftereffect that is argued to reflect the steepness of broadband-opponent neural response functions in underlying face-space. We further show that this correlation arises from face-level processing, by reporting results of tests of nonface memory and nonface aftereffects. We conclude that face aftereffects can tap high-level face-space, and that face-space coding differs in quality between individuals and contributes to face recognition ability.


Filmmaking often comes down to problem-solving, though not that every task we face is necessarily problematic. I think we arrive at many solutions by way of new, situation-specific techniques that are built by a combination of the techniques we already know. When it comes to digital effects, it can help to possess a variety of techniques in our experiential arsenal. Who knows, perhaps having learned a basic tool within a software will help time-budget an effect, or maybe even save some money? In this vein, we're happy to bring you this After Effects tutorial from AE.Tuts+ -- in it, Axel Sorenson explains how to reshape one subject's face into another, without the use of (paid) third party plug-ins. His example uses stills, but remember, in AE, anything you can think, you can track!

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