After Effects Tutorial - Quick HUD element / Sci Fi Doohickey

A couple of you asked how to create the little spinning scifi doohickey in the bottom of the example video in the De-rezzing series, so I thought I'd show you how to create one of your own.
Great for sci-fi heads up displays, video comms, military look and feel, computer readouts etc.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• after effects
• ae
• cs3
• cs4
• cs5
• no plug-ins
• expression
• wiggle
• keyframe
• heads-up-display
• hud
• on-screen
• video
• tutorial
• tute
• tut
• science fiction
• screen

[Play671]

And how i save this to a video? For example i whant to convert this to Windows Media Player, i need for a work, what i do?

Or better is not exactly to windows media, but is to Camtasia studios?

Thank you, nice tutorial.

[shortformvideos]

@Play671 Like every project in AE, you export to a movie by adding it to the render queue (CTRL+SHIFT+/ or CTRL+M), picking the output module you want to use and hitting Render. AE doesn't have a predefined Windows Media profile, so you'll need to create one by clicking on the output module link and selecting Windows Media from the Format drop-down menu.

[romanhorol]

ACCEPT THE VIDEO RESPON I MADE THANKS TO YOU , I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH YOU ARE AMAZING FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE, IF YOU CAN MAKE A VIDEO TUTORIAL ON HOW TO USE PLEXUS PLUGIN THAT WILL BE GREAT, IAM ONLY ASKING COZ I CAN'T FIND ANYTHING TUCHING THAT SUBJECT

[shortformvideos]

@romanhorol Thanks for the feedback - I don't have the plexus plug-in (but it looks awesome).

[xIcyFire]

7:12 i cant get the white part on top of the black part, it goes behind it, i tried movin the layer like u siad in the beginning but it wouldnt work. Help?

[shortformvideos]

@xIcyFire The only thing that overrides the layer order in terms of visibility would be 3D positioning (when the X-axis value dictates where the layer sits). If this is the case, then try moving it on the X-axis by changing the third value in the Position values.

[wowgabber123]

tanks bro

[Noogazig]

yay i love sci-fi doohickeys!

[Play671]

Tutorial useful thank you ^_^

[x5vampire5x]

Awesome, thanks!

[XxBlazingModsxX]

thankyou for accepting my video response :)

[codesignofficial]

great tutorial men!!!

luv it ; )

[VTLDragoonAce]

Nice

[rotandroll666]

thanks for the tut.!

[MrNguyen117]

This is awesome thank you very much!

[TheCyanKat]

I quiet enjoy your tutorials very useful, easy to understand and follow. Towards the end of the video you copy and pasted all the keyframes throughout the entire video, an easier way to do this is an expression on the keyframes that is something like loopOut("cycle") that should make the keyframes loop until the end of the clip. Just trying to help :)

[ActiveClipMaker]

uum...I've been experiencing a few problems...like, when I have to scale elipse 3 inside the black elipse...it disappears...Its like the black elipse covers the 3rd one...any ideas?

[helpingdesign]

very nice tutorial :) thx man !

[nieron80]

I made some of this but I use photoshop for the shape and now with your tutorial it will be easier tnx for d vid!

[cyborlite]

Thank you. That clear, simple and easy to follow.

[infinitypark003]

Thanks for the Tutorial.

[shortformvideos]

@xThaBadCompany Typically, the shortcuts on a Mac and PC are the same, you just use the Mac's command key instead of the PC's CTRL key.

[shortformvideos]

@maraizon Yep - thanks for sharing that (you're not the first to do so!)

[maraizon]

Thanks, your tutorials are really useful. You could use a simple loopOut(cycle) expression instead of copying and pasting keyframes.