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How to do the Lightsaber Effect with Adobe After Effects CS3

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Uploaded by on Jan 25, 2008

This tutorial will guide you through the simple steps on how to make your Star Wars fan films excellent!

Using Adobe After Effects CS3 (MAC Based)

Any questions please E-mail me at my MACMAD13 youtube account. I don't always check my video comments.

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  • Hi! I've been doing a test video and it works. But I'm not so good in after effects. I'm more used to Photoshop. I can't find any video that shows me how to simply make the saber disappear in the middle of the video. I can't find a way to stop the saber effect. I want to make a video of the saber coming out of the handle/grip and then back in to the handle/grip. How do I do that? Or am I just stupid?

  • That was the most simple and effective lightsaber tutorial I've come across.

    Thanks

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  • @theverminator93 Not even close adobe costs over 800 dollars for its creative suite or known as CS, so CS4 is now CS5 and ya just after effects which is useless alone is 400 bucks

  • i need a download link to this software for free please

  • How do you do 2 sabers at once? Do you have to only make one at at a time, save the video then add the other?

  • is after effects free?

  • where can i download after effects cs3 for mac please help

  • 240p we meet again

  • good :-) 

  • @edvine20123 No you're not stupid lol,I took forever to figure out too. What you do is go to the mask opacity settings by clicking the mask arrow for the options and then you can press the stopwatch button right next to it. then you just keyframe it so when you need it gone you just set the mask opacity to 0% then when you need it set it to 100%. As for the extending you would just go to mask path and go frame by frame and extend it. Hope it helps!

    Thumbs up so other people can see?

  • Thanks!!

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