I recently (as in yesterday) just downloaded this plug-in for After Effects called Animation Composer by Mister Horse and it actually saved me a ton of time animating my text while still giving me quality animations so I wanted to share this with y'all. You can download the plug-in here: https://misterhorse.com/animation-composer It comes with a bunch of 2D animation presets, 3D animation presets, Text Transition animations, and even some text and 2D effects like wiggling. I wouldn't recommend using all of their presets thought tbh, some of the more crazy animations can come off corny, but the more simple slide-in + fade-in animations that would take me a bunch of clicks to create can now be done in 2 clicks now and they're still clean. Just be sure when you use it to extend the length of the in & out starting points so that the animation has more time to complete, thus looking smoother and more clean.

I've been experimenting with After Effects to make some pretty complex animations recently, and I wanted to share this one valuable tip that's helped me make my animations much quicker. That tip is to Pre-comp your layers before you add the animation 🔑 Pre-comping in After Effects is essentially the same thing as nesting your clips in Premiere Pro. The reason you do this is best explained by showing you this example. Below is a link to an example animation I created for an upcoming video I'm editing for my YouTube channel, and in this animation I want you to pay attention to the layers animating like the thumbnails & the text. 🚨 Watch The Animation Here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jdqe9oKudAsg7UyYc9vPHnC6B03fi4QE/view?usp=drive_link For these thumbnail & text layers, what I did to make it much easier was I scaled them and positioned them exactly where I wanted them to end up, and once I had the layout set, I pre-comped (nested) each layer individually. Then for the thumbnails, I created a smooth slide-in animation one time, and because we pre-comped, I can now copy those keyframes and just paste them onto the bottom thumbnail layer without having to adjust the position because I pre-comped them. Then I just move over the keyframes a bit so it comes in a bit after. Simple. Now for the text, I pre-comped each text layer... Created one fade-in / slide-down animation... And then copied & pasted onto the other two text layers. Then I moved the keyframes a bit for each layer of text, and boom I was done. Instead of having to animate the slide in for each layer manually because all the positions and scales would have been different... I could do it once and then copy & paste since we pre-comped. 🚨 BONUS TIP: When creating smooth animations like in the example shown, to get it to be that smooth you need to adjust the keyframe speed graph to look like a steep halfpipe ramp (Check the image attached to this post below)

In my videos I edit for Ireland Boys Productions, there’s always some sort of challenge they go through that leads to an ultimate climactic moment. And as that moment leads up, as the editor, I want to be sure I’m adding tension before the big moment so viewers keep watching and the moment feels epic when it arrives. So here’s one easy, quick tip on what I do to add that tension and make the moment feel more grand. I start by choosing an epic / suspenseful music track that adds tension and leads up to a climactic moment. I sync up the climactic moment with the moment right before the winner of a challenge is revealed. This creates a moment of suspense where the audience is just waiting to hear who won. Now that the climax of the track is synced up with the moment right before the reveal, I take the current reactions of each contestant’s face and show them all before the answer is revealed. This instills curiosity into the mind and makes it more tense as the energy grows in the moment. This may be hard to understand over a post, but to better understand, I did this exact tip I’m referring to in this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QQdYeA1r_E You can find two moments like this that I’m referring to at: 1. 25:24 2. 34:24 I edited this video and just finished it yesterday actually 😂 But as you can see, both moments I flashed different angles and the faces of each contestant before they won in sync with the music that leads to a climax. This created tension and a feeling of grandiosity, making the moment feel epic which is exactly what I was going for. Now answer these questions for me… was this post helpful? How can you apply this tip to your edits? Comment below your thoughts and answers 🙏

This is an edit for my first client, i'm thinking of adding some animation when he mentions the announcement at the end. Any other retention tips for the intro? (the export is bad, video will not look like this)

What’s up y’all One of the benefits on being in this community is you get to see content I create before everyone else does a lot of the time, and this is one of those times. Here’s an IG reel I just made: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u0CUD0H9sFuoAT4ZbE4ra08uUseZngI7/view?usp=drivesdk Let me know if you want to see some sort of breakdown on this video or a quick video explaining how I achieved some effects. Quick tip for y’all to get some extra value too, download Animation Composer for After effects, it came in real clutch and saved me a ton of time animating the text in this video 🙏 Definitely a plug in I will continue to use, and it’s free!