Tilt Shift (Miniature Effect) Tutorial in After Effects

This is an intermediate level tutorial in After Effects that goes over the process of taking footage and post-processing it into a tilt shift effect (miniature effect).

This tutorial will cover...

- Tilt-shift effect workflow (Footage Preparation/Importing)
- Time Warping (Speeding Up) Footage Techniques
- Masking Layers & Blur Techniques
- Compositing footage


The footage and helper files to follow along are located here...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3313337/TiltShiftTutorial.zip


Leave some comments (preferably nice ones :) or questions in the comments, and I'll get to them ASAP.

Apologies for the voice sound quality: my microphone line was messed up, and it was recorded using the built-in iMac mic (which sounded kind of "meh").

Cheers!
-Gibby

P.S.
Don't forget to "Like" it and click the sponsored links to I can afford a better mic!

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• Til
• Tilt-shift Photography
• Tutorial
• Adobe After Effects
• Foster the People
• Foster The People
• miniature
• miniature effect

[GibbyJoe]

@southwestking08 Yup. There's a million ways to do the same thing with AE, but using the same blur effect (in this case the camera blur) adds just a hint more authenticity, and gives you more control over the effect, mostly with the feathering on the masks. I think for this project and others I worked on, this provided the best results.

[southwestking08]

wouldn't making more then one adjustment layer do the same effect (blur gradient )

[GibbyJoe]

@xavierfrazier1 Thanks! It may be the "alt" key, but "nose symbol" is far more entertaining. nose + clover + g = interpret footage.

[xavierfrazier1]

Great Stuff Gib. Btw that "nose" symbol on a mac is the alt button.