
Brad wrote:There is absolutely nothing wrong with Video Copilot. His tutorials and methods are extremely helpful and educational for new VFX and motion graphics artists, and people that hate on him are actually hating on the wrong thing. The thing they actually hate is what the vast majority of people that go through those tutorials use them for, which is, to copy. I can't tell you how many demo reels I've seen that have straight-up Video Copilot tutorial stuff all over it. The tutorials are meant to show you how to use the tools available in After Effects and other things. He uses these tools to create a specific look or shot, because he wants to show how those methods COULD be used in a practical setting. If he just went through the tools but never made anything that looked cool, it would be very difficult to actually get the idea of what those tools were doing.
So, while I can't say in all honesty that I've seen a bunch of this happening in AMVs, I'm sure it does. And yeah, it's kind of lame. Do those tutorials and then use your new knowledge of the software to create your own ideas.
ZephyrStar wrote:like lens flare.
irriadin wrote:Brad wrote:There is absolutely nothing wrong with Video Copilot. His tutorials and methods are extremely helpful and educational for new VFX and motion graphics artists, and people that hate on him are actually hating on the wrong thing. The thing they actually hate is what the vast majority of people that go through those tutorials use them for, which is, to copy. I can't tell you how many demo reels I've seen that have straight-up Video Copilot tutorial stuff all over it. The tutorials are meant to show you how to use the tools available in After Effects and other things. He uses these tools to create a specific look or shot, because he wants to show how those methods COULD be used in a practical setting. If he just went through the tools but never made anything that looked cool, it would be very difficult to actually get the idea of what those tools were doing.
So, while I can't say in all honesty that I've seen a bunch of this happening in AMVs, I'm sure it does. And yeah, it's kind of lame. Do those tutorials and then use your new knowledge of the software to create your own ideas.
Ok, that's kinda what I figured. I just bought Twitch and was hoping using it wouldn't turn me into a pariahI'd never use just a vanilla preset because then my video would be just like thousands of other videos doing the same thing!
And I do agree that the tutorials are very helpful in showing what After Effects can do. AE was a very mystifying program to me, and the tutorials + site have helped me immensely in understanding how it works.


Niotex wrote:If you don't want your video to look like thousands of other videos. Then don't use presets in general.
Brad wrote:There is absolutely nothing wrong with Video Copilot. His tutorials and methods are extremely helpful and educational for new VFX and motion graphics artists, and people that hate on him are actually hating on the wrong thing. The thing they actually hate is what the vast majority of people that go through those tutorials use them for, which is, to copy. I can't tell you how many demo reels I've seen that have straight-up Video Copilot tutorial stuff all over it. The tutorials are meant to show you how to use the tools available in After Effects and other things. He uses these tools to create a specific look or shot, because he wants to show how those methods COULD be used in a practical setting. If he just went through the tools but never made anything that looked cool, it would be very difficult to actually get the idea of what those tools were doing.
So, while I can't say in all honesty that I've seen a bunch of this happening in AMVs, I'm sure it does. And yeah, it's kind of lame. Do those tutorials and then use your new knowledge of the software to create your own ideas.
And as far as Twitch goes, it's the same story. It's a plug-in. It comes with presets to give you an idea of what it's capable of. The problem comes when people just slap the presets on there and don't change a thing. It's SUPER obvious to anybody that's used them (that chromatic aberration jitter thing has just gotten crazy). So, find new and unique uses for the plug-in that suit what you're going for. If it doesn't suit it, don't use it.

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