Comments on: After Effects: CC Time Blend FX with Brian Maffitt

By: Mike Abbott

Mike Abbott — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:27:09 +0000

Fantastic stuff – and have those title sequences ever been bettered in the world of AE training? I doubt it
It makes me want to dive into those dusty boxes in the back of the cupboard and see if I still have my copy of ‘Total Training for AE’ on VHS, that shipped free – with AE3 – I think.

This tutorial is seriously good stuff even now. More from Mr. Maffitt – please!

By: Paul Liptrott

Paul Liptrott — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:34:37 +0000

this is great. I will have to get on ebay and look for this collection. I have thought about making some retro style stuff. Wouldn’t it be cool to get the computer and software too. This effect is useful by the way

By: Alex Brazil

Alex Brazil — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:56:45 +0000

Greattttttttt!!!! thank’s….demaissssssssssss.

By: Claudiu

Claudiu — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:56:11 +0000

wow great! i was just playing around with some time remapping and due to extensive time stretch animation started to get blocky! this was the perfect fix and i knew i saw it somewhere on this website! really good stuff! thank you

By: ali

ali — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:51:10 +0000

thank

By: John Dickinson

John Dickinson — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:23:34 +0000

That’s great to hear Colin. Perhaps you can show us the finished spot?

By: Colin@movecraft

Colin@movecraft — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:45:50 +0000

I’m building a chalkboard animation and needed recursive smudging as each new chalk frame instance created itself. This is a perfect use of this technique and I was bending over backwards trying to create it with particles and other nonsense. Thanks! Also killer to see some AE bad-assery version … 3?

By: John Dickinson

John Dickinson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:27:15 +0000

Thanks Jaikumar, glad this fitted your needs! Best, John.

By: Jaikumar

Jaikumar — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:50:20 +0000

Hey John,

This is so cool i have been searching for this quit a long.
You pick the right Tuts and Motionworks always work for me.

Thanks

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:21:50 +0000

Thanks so much for offering that up John & Brian, that was fantastic, truly! I for one would love to see every single one of Brian’s tutes. If they’re presented at this level and even at AE’s early evolutionary stage (which I love by the way) I’d certainly pay for them. I know how an engine works but when someone who knows what they’re talking about pulls the injection apart and explains how I can modify and change the output of an engine to suit, I’m listening, and that’s what this was. For me, a relatively unknown (and completely ignored) filter is now a massively useful tool.

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By: John Dickinson

John Dickinson — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:34:56 +0000

Hi abhay sharma, Brian is a true master for sure. Best wishes, John.

By: abhay sharma

abhay sharma — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:17:26 +0000

After a long time my brain’s processors heats up!
thanks for this great tutorial.
It really helps to understand the weird work flow of Time Blend Fx. I have used Time Blend Fx in some of my pojects but I completely unknown by the actual
workflow of Time Blend Fx that you have shown.
Thanks.

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By: Brian Maffitt

Brian Maffitt — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:15:10 +0000

Space Coaster! I forgot all about the Space Coaster, that’s another classic lesson I should put online somewhere… thanks for the reminder!

Brian

By: david bogie

david bogie — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:24:13 +0000

Hiya Brian and thanks, both of you, for putting this video up where people can find it.
I’ve still got my original Studio Effects and Final Effects tapes.
Wish I had kept my original Atomic tapes because they included, like, 3 hours all about Shatter.
And I’ve still got my AE 5 tapes because of the Space Coaster section.
Total Training roacks.

bogiesan

By: Orhan

Orhan — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:15:27 +0000

Ah yes, but I was referring to other effects, such as displacement map.

By: Andres

Andres — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:57:10 +0000

Hi Orhan,
Yes it does work read all the comments and you will find out how.

Have fun with AE,
Andres

By: Orhan

Orhan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:29:54 +0000

It seems like an incredibly useful and informative tutorial, props to Brian Maffitt.

It’s just too bad that this technique just simply does not work in CS4.
Unless I missed something?

By: John Ghadimi

John Ghadimi — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:04:40 +0000

Thanks for providing this bit of “history”. I actually found it to be extremely informative and timeless.

By: Brian Maffitt

Brian Maffitt — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:52:03 +0000

Hi Andres,
When AE added the capability for layers to grow beyond the edges of their borders, it broke the buffer behavior that Time Blend and Time Blend FX depend on. So if you are applying a filter that grows a layer (most blurs) it won’t work… unless, as you discovered, you switch on “repeat edge pixels”. This confines the effect to the layer, and the buffer becomes available to Time Blend FX.
Have fun,
Brian

By: John Dickinson

John Dickinson — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:12:09 +0000

Hi Andres, thanks for the tip. Best, John.

By: Andres

Andres — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:40:12 +0000

Amazing Tut…!!!
I have something funky happening here. I’m using AE CS4 and if I do not apply repeat Edge pixels when I set the Fast blur to 2 does not leave a path…

By: John Dickinson

John Dickinson — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:22:27 +0000

Hi Boreale, yes it’s amazing how much After Effects has changed since Brian recorded that tutorial, and even more amazing that the content is still relevant! All the best, John.