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Hi, I am daspacepony!

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Welcome to Easy Peasy PMVs!

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a quote on quote “shoow” that’ll help you make, well, PMVs

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If you’re not here to make PMVs, well then you’re still welcome to watch,

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just ignore the term PMV and some various pony references here and there

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and you’re good to go. c:

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First up, some information that you must know.

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This “show” largely focuses on Adobe After Effects,

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so I probably won’t touch on other video editing software

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such as Sony Vegas or Final Cut Pro X.

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I’ll try my best for these tutorials to work on any version of After Effects,

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as long as it's fairly recent.

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PMVs are Pony Music Videos,

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which means there are ponies,

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in this video,

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with music.

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Lastly, I have absolutely zero experience in teaching video editing,

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and this is my first ever video editing tutorial.

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All of this is done with my own personal experience with the software.

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For this first video, I’ll be covering some of the basics of After Effects

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if you are entirely new to this thing

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Alright

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You can do whatever you want with it. It’s as easy as that.

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And it can store up to as many layers as you want.

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Speaking of layers,

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You can stack them one on top of another and rearrange them.

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So whatever’s on the top, appears on the front,

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and those below it, appear behind.

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A layer can be anything from an image, a shape, piece of text, an adjustment to layers behind it etc.

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and they all have their own type of layers.

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After Effects has lots of them:

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blurs, distortions, generations, styles etc.

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and all of them are customisable.

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So let’s start a new project and create a new composition.

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Here we have the composition settings.

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I’ll only cover the more important settings like…

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Width and Height!

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Things like how big the composition is measured in pixels

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usually I would recommend setting it to 720p HD or 1080p HD

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that’s the usual video size you normally find on video streaming sites like Youtube.

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Then you have the frame rate

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this basically describes how many frames come into the video per second.

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Set a too low frame rate and animations become choppy and unrealistic.

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And there’s no point setting it too high if your eyes can’t discern the frames

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or your computer can’t handle the number of frames coming in one second.

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The frame rate of a video largely depends on what kind of video you are making.

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But the standard is either 24 or 30 frames per second.

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Almost all computer monitors and video streaming sites can handle up to 60 frames per second.

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Then you have resolution.

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This affects the resolution of the preview during editing.

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For example, if you set your composition to be of 1920 by 1080, and set resolution to half,

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After Effects will only render half the number of pixels on the width and half the number pixels on the height,

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so it will render only a 960 by 540.

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This will not affect the final render,

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but it will definitely speed up rendering when you’re editing.

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Oh and you can change this later on while editing

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Set a duration for the comp[osition].

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This right here is timecode.

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Kinda like a digital clock

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but it measures from hours: minutes: seconds: and down to frames.

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Set a name for your comp and background color you’re done!

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You’ve got blank canvas for you to make *almost* anything you want!

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Let’s get started by dragging and dropping a video or image into the Library,

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or double-clicking it will do the job as well.

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This is called importing.

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Then drag it into the timeline or onto the preview.

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The video should appear in the preview window.

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Now let’s add some effects to this video clip.

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Go to the Effects tab and choose an effect,

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I’ll go with Tint.

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Don’t worry, I’ll cover other effects in another video, for now.

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what Tint does is mapping or “replacing” Black or White parts of the video with whatever color you put.

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You can add another effect on top of the Tint effect,

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let’s get something cool like LENS FLARES.

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Adjust the position of the flare by moving this little notch across the preview.

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Now let’s add text to the video.

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Just click on the Text tool at the top of the After Effects interface

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and click at where you want the text to be.

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Type whatever you want,

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I’ll just type “PMV”.

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Choose a font, color, size, etc in the Character Panel.

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btw, these things are called Panels.

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Don’t worry we’ll go through the rest of everything in later videos

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(if i ever get to doing another one)

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Let’s preview our work!

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Scrub the playhead to the beginning and watch your-

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amazing video play.

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You might notice a green bar go across the top part of the timeline.

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The green area shows which parts of the video have already been rendered into preview by your computer.

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As you start playing, the green bar gets going.

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Like how Youtube load its videos.

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Okay, back to previewing,

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Looks pretty good!

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Let’s start officially rendering the video so we could upload it!

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There’s quite a bit you can do here.

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Most importantly is where you wanna save this video to.

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Just this link and find a place where you wanna save this.

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You don’t really wanna tinker with the rest yet,

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but you might wanna change the output module to H.264,

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this may help reduce the file size of the video, so it doesn’t take up too much space on your computer.

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Once you’re done, render!

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And after the bar completes,

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you can find your file and show the world what you’ve made!

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So yeah. You’ve done it! That’s about it…

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Hmmm…

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If this video receives well, I might do another one.

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Now how about that? ;)

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*le credits play*