SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Been looking for more compositing tuts thanx!

Nice
i watched the movie yesterday..really great.

Please NO MORE BEGINNERS TUTORIALS !!!!!

PLEASE !!!!

I’ve seen quite many (big budget) movies the last years where they didn’t manage to make realistic compositing…

if you want to see this tut go to video copilot and look at the set extention tut

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love compositing tutorials!

Good Tut Youssef !

Contrary to Vag I would say it’s good to watch tuts in wich the author make mistakes, search why and find the solution. Beginners can see that it is never easy

Just two points :

1 : I think you should add a mask to the adjustment layer on the part where there is a tree (upper right part of the picture) because it is in shadow not under the light

2 : Maybe you should make a null object with a different position of the anchor point to parent your lens flare easier

Good job and continue to share what you know ; )

ae.tutsplus.com’s new site slogan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3IQTjOMewg

Sorry couldn’t resist. Funny….and sorta true.

Actually, in and of itself, this tutorial isn’t bad. Very basic, yet again, but OK. However, nothing presented isn’t covered in much more depth by Andrew Kramer in a number of tutorials. The audio is very good though the clarity is horrific when blown up full screen. I’m sure the downloaded tutorial is better…but who needs 400 megs of basic AE tutorial sitting on your hard drive?

If you are going to do a compositing tutorial…..downloadable project files are a must. People who want to do this tutorial (beginners) probably don’t have files to use.

this one is looking cool man..

Would be great to see more compositing tutorials !

this a poor tutorial, its needs edting and practice the comp before you post.

sorry this really could have been edited down to 5 minutes.

Its sorta funny…I should go through and count up all the negative comments on all the tutorials since August 1st. I seem to get all the blame for being the most negative….but there are SOOO many negative comments in about 90% of the tutorials over really the last 2 or 3 months, but especially since around the first of August. Hmmmm………strange……

Awesome..
Although, I did see it was a lil jaggedy and not to the video at some points.

Hi there, great tutorial i always love to see how people have different compositing tips

Can you please upload sound effects files on some free share webs service??

Sorry, very poor. As far as the comparison with a TV channel. Sometimes less is more…

Creative. Mimicking effects in movies is a must. I agree could have used a bit of editing but still good.

Wow Billy, you must be an AE GOD, just bitching around on each and every tutorial.

PLEASE, PLEASE show as your AMAZING and OUT OF THIS EARTH work!!! YOU ARE SOOOO ADVANCED!!!!!!

Billy..You can criticize any tutorial irrespective of it’s status(free/commercial). Infact, you should! I honestly like reading your honest comments and ofcourse look up to people’s opinions. But all I have to say be a little bit more patient especially sometimes the authors are just busy with their projects and making tutorials is very difficult.

Huesped….and I’ll continue to comment on just about every tutorial and will do so on their merits. You don’t like it? I find it hard to express how little I care. Get that through your thick skull. I….don’t….care.

Satya….I understand and appreciate your point. Basic tutorials are easy to crank out….the more advanced ones take more time. However, outside of calling this basic (and I’m not the only one to point that out) I actually said this was an OK tutorial. Youssef did a pretty good job. My comments in this thread are not directed at Youssef but at the editors. And I believe that Adam is simply putting out the tutorials he has. I think you understand my sentiments.

Replay!!!…

stock files+ Tracked + color corrected+ lens flare= done.
pretty decent tutorial on compositing but could have done some more.
looking at this i feel you got ideas so in the future come up with something nice. all the best!!

Hahaha, and of course I don’t care if you don’t care either. That’s ok with me, I just find laughable someone who bitches so much and does nothing for the rest. If you are so good maybe you could write a tutorial, what do you think?

Love

kinda bad tracking. sorry i’ve just seen better. the ship moves to much. tripods are essential.

were did you get the space ship ?

Nice work Youssef. Some tough critics on this board. This tutorial isn’t the most complex, but the end result is nice and it’s a good example of a start to finish effect utilizing a few different techniques (motion tracking, color correction, effect plugins, etc.) Not to mention it was made by a graphic design student.

Maybe as the tutorial pool grows we will see tutorials grouped by beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Until then, keep up the good work!

Vamos Billy deja de ser racista y acepta las humildes aportaciones de los demas.
No al racismo amigo, grabatelo en la cabezota

basic tutorial, good for beginners, bad for advanced… good job, hope to see some advanced ones soon

Why dont you two Billy & Abojung make a collab work next time? I WOULD PAY to watch if you guys could do.
we are well aware of that you guys have almighty skills so you guys should make tuts, it’s gonna be dope!! fo sho! pretty please???????

In a forum like this it is very simple-

Keep the emphasis on learning and inspiration. Thanks for the tutorial Youssef Sarhan!

he just copied it from this exact tut: http://tinyurl.com/2w4apm !!

So far, i’m just ignoring all the other negative comments. I just wanna know what the name of the short song in the preview is called lol

Hi, Youssef

Could you please tell me the name of the song of the preview?

Regards,
Daniël

You know what would be a great advanced compositing tutorial? I tutorial on compositing a plane crash! That would be awesome!!!!

@2mnyshp: I cracked when i opened the link XD

Reading the comments on this site has become an almost regular form of entertainment for me… Unfortunately.

I would, however, take a good tutorial over a good critique any day.

it looks like there is a frame mixup on the cg and the real footage, the cg footage is to fast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpAhLjMIvSg
the vidéo is in french ^^
thanks for your tutorial

Complaining about free tutorials is like complaining about the free soup at a homeless shelter.

…Thanks for the soup, Youseff

this is noob

This was awesome! I want to try this so badly but I can’t find a picture of the d9 ship anywhere! I cant afford Photoshop either =( Youssef do you think you can send me a picture of the ship you used to KevinStiller@ymail.com? It would be SWEET.

bad work

could have just parented the ship to the null

tbh, i got really annoyed when you did the same things over and over. but it was a nice tutorial overall. thanks.

WOW! Excelente! Gracias!!!!!!

Sorry but i’m 100% sure that AE’s built-in tracker could have handled that A LOT better.

And there’s absolutely no need to use PFHoe or any other matchmoving software like you mentioned, with a stationary camera all you need is a 2d tracker – a pixel tracker or a planar tracker.

And why don’t you just parent the spaceship to the null, why the expression and changing anchor points? If you’ve tracked rotation also, the composite wouldn’t have worked at all if you changed the anchor point.

As for the lens flares, you should have added another null to the comp, moved it to the place where the lens flare should end up, parent it to the tracker null and link the position of the lens flare to the new nulls position.

And last but not least, if you mess something up (which is totally normal), you could have edited it out from the final tutorial, what’s the point of showing that you added the flare to an adjustment layer, then added another adjustment layer, then deleted them both, added a new solid and added the flare to that?

i’m not bitching at all, just my 2 cents

Well, kinda nice, but why didnt you exclude your messed up steps from the final tut-video? often this is really annoying.

parenting everything to the null would also be a better and easier way…

i know, its not easy at all – so good job – but 200 bucks for that? i dont know…

To those so free with their criticisms:
1. Why do you put up where you mouth is and make these fabulous and complex tutorials for the rest of us?
2. The sites teaches techniques. You have to bring your own creativity. And judging by the large number of VCP knock offs I see, I suspect that many people are just looking for ways to copy from others than actually apply the techniques. Andrew Cramer had to learn by doing, reading the manual etc. – you can too. I think this site is turning some of you into uncreative lazy whiners.

Could you give a link to project files?

i think it should be required for the authors to watch their own tutorial before posting it and see if it needs to be re-edited. showing mistakes you might encounter is one thing, but we do not need to see multiple takes of those mistakes. Or maybe the editor for AE tuts should tell the author to clean it up before sending it out. especially if the author is being paid for this.

Can you link us to the picture of the space ship?

awwww its the best …..

Yep…a link to that ship would be great….very hard to find at the moment!

Okay…now I feel a bit stupid. Just looked at the ship in the tutorial again and I can see that he’s photoshopped it a fair bit. He’s rounded off the top, etc. So anyone can use the existing pics (of which there are a lot of high res ones) that are on Google.

Billy (not to clever professor) I lecture and crit but believe you should always back up your agrs with some of your own examples.

PS: maybe a change of team on the football scene?? – you may feel more positive

good tutorial – - – dont know why ppl are complaining – im a beginner so therefore i learnt and benefited from this tut… thanks

guys better take the pic of the ship from the wallpaper of district 9 and crop the space ship image in photoshop.. thats the best idea how i did and, its works pretty gud. if not if u r a 3D animator better model a ship and composite to AE….

Wow… this was a really long tutorial about basic techniques done poorly. Clouds should not be tracked if there are better SOLID contrast points (which there were) and the rotation should be tracked with handheld camera footage, as it usually rotates (which it does here). Hence why the track looks like it’s slipping. Creating atmosphere on a solid ship is not done by drawing a feathered alpha mask. Additionally, the color correction between plates was barely addressed and didn’t even match when the author moved on. Not good for even beginners trying to learn the techniques. Then I got bored watching about 10 minutes of pointless lens flare expressions.

Sorry, I just hate when people are teaching bad form, and others are learning the wrong way to do things. Granted, there are many ways to do things in AE. But if you’re wanting to learn compositing skills, these techniques shown here are not even close.

That being said, I agree that the audio was clear. Nice change from many other tutorials having poor audio quality.

Good stuff, I’m quite new to after effects.
One question though, after pickwhipping the light source to the postion of the null, I added the code like you said:

thisComp.layer(“Track Null”).transform.position-65

but what if i want to move it along the y axis as well? I can’t suss it out. SOMEBODY HELP PLEASE!!!!

i like the film look… but camera tracking is really poor

hey guys i’ve cropped the mother ship image in PNG and PSD format..
here is the download link.

go to http://www.slingfile.com

username=moreimage
password=player

then go to >> myfiles

http://www.slingfile.com/members/myfiles=1
download ufo.png or ufo.psd

Words to the complainers and big talkers, this is a FREE tutorial.

Exit is that way, take it or leave it.

DISTRICT 9 SUCKED!

that is all…

hey everybody,,,, anybody help me file music in tut here? plz

Okay, back to the topic. I like the idea of compositing the aircraft with the scene and adding the appropriate lighting for more realism, really beautiful if I may say. Except as I was watching the preview, I couldn’t help to notice that the aircraft was moving ahead, maybe two frames faster than the camera, resulting in poor match-moving. In my opinion, I would have used high-end tracking systems such as Boujou, PFTrack, or even the new tracking system added into AE CS4 (Mocha). Other then that, I enjoyed the tutorial! Thank you for adding this to the list as we need more compositing tutorials.

Billy’s comments are very useful i find, I dont always agree with em,
but someone said something about ‘Raising the bar’ and i think Billy is that motivation for members/people to try and do just that.

PS: All tuts are awesome

Very interesting, I’d say… it certainly becomes tough to insert elements in outdoor settings, and this one here is a neat example of doing it right…combined with the right music, it can truly become the next big thing…

The tut is available only in low res??

Great tutorial, great tips.

Here’s my output (I ripped some of your audio, I hope you don’t mind, ha)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm1QP0LIURw&hd=1

I don’t know about the AE tuts?
I think nothing can compare to Video Copilot.
net tuts are great ,I don’t like when people are after money and they try to take over everything they can.You should do the one thing you are great in. Video Copilot is the best for AE tutorials.Net Tuts is one of the best for web but this kind of building an empire makes me see it from another prospective.
If Jeffry starts he’s own project ,I will never visit net tuts.

Hi, i’m a beginner, this is my D-9 i would like to use after effects and i try to do something like your.i like your tut.. OK ! I know ! I have a long way to do…HAHAHA !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuKYzJq0MgM

Hi, great tutorial!

I wonder where i can download your last sound the man who “sing”, “scream” THX.

and maybe a couple files like that.

Sorry, but I don’t see the picture mother ship in http://www.slingfile.com/members/myfiles=1 …. where is it???

please Mother ship png

Nice. U have a great future.

can someone put up the picture?

i’m just learning after effects. it would really help if tutorials were accompanied by project files. project files anyone, author??

Hi !

He just took the spaceship of the poster (here for example : http://www.nuffnang.com.my/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/poster.jpg )
And cut it out, I tried myself and I get that : http://i14.servimg.com/u/f14/11/74/29/55/spaces10.png

See ya’

This tutorial is completely useless if you don’t show how to color correct the space station. You basically just dragged in the image and it looked OK. You didn’t teach us anything at all.

402mb for a crappy quality video, no better than mobile phone size quality!!

ship png http://www.keyframekid.com/dump/ship1.png

sound http://www.keyframekid.com/dump/district9sounds.zip

Thank you very much for your tutorial an effort, it helps a lot a many of us to learn more.