What Keeps Me Busy: Studying Adobe After Effects

Being so much fascinated of multimedia arts, from photo editing using different software to creating simple GIF(those animated pictures) using GIF animator software, my curiosity has now reached to learn video editing. As I was browsing youtube the other day, there was this video which really caught my attention. It was actually a video of an avid video editor who was able to edit his own video and added some special effects on it. I was really amazed how he edited the video and came up with some extra-ordinary powers by adding special effects on it. All  the effects were actually detailed as if it appears to be really entertaining to watch. And after seeing this video, I searched for some video editing tutorial sites for me to also learn this amazing graphics design skill. Actually, this was not my first time to have an interest in learning video editing. Few months ago, I already searched the software which was normally used for video editing and I found it to be Adobe After Effects. I was able to download it through the net and installed it here in my laptop but then, as I was starting to explore its features, I got lost on it because I don't really have any idea on how to use it. And that made me somehow not to be interested about using this software anymore, not until I watched that video the other day which brought back the curiosity for learning video editing.

So for me to start learning video editing, I downloaded first a tutorial from torrent about the fundamentals of using Adobe After Effects. Nice thing that the tutorial that I was able to download actually includes video tutorials  that really made learning for this software much easier. So far, I'm still on the level of learning to add some special effects to a image as well as animating those special effects, and I even enjoyed learning these things. By the way, I also want to share my first ever project using this software and here it is. (Basically, the original format of this was in .avi format or should I say in a video format. I just converted it to GIF so that I can post it here in my blog without uploading it in youtube.)