How to Stop Time with 3D Water in the Air - After Effects CS6 - Time Freeze After Effects Tutorial

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Hope you enjoyed this tutorial on how to do a time freeze effect in adobe after effects CS6. I had a hard time figuring out what to call it. After Effects CS6 Time freeze tutorial? Time-freeze After Effects CS6 tutorial? How to stop time in Adobe After Effects CS6? How to freeze time in adobe after effects CS6? It was REALLY hard to figure out what to title it. XD

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Closed Caption:

hey whats up guys today I'm going to
teach you how to do a really awesome
time freeze effect with some water
splashing up in the air from like a due
to the party like splashing has come
around me an idiot anyway I got the idea
from watching this video
whistle while i work it shows in the
beginning i'll try and point to it like
the first clip
ok right here okay see that and then
also right here
I wanted to do that effect and teach you
guys how to do it and it's it's a little
bit complicated understand but it
shouldn't be hard for you to just follow
along
all right now you're going to need
action essentials to for this arm but
i'm going to assume a lot of you don't
have it so i took the time to make some
pictures for you like this because we're
really just gonna need a still frame of
water in the air
so yes like if you if you buy action
essentials - you'll have Clips like this
that will go blaming the water charges
or whatever they're called water blast
ok and you could take that right click
time freeze frame all right that's the
right way to do it but assuming you
don't have that I made some pictures for
you - because you know anyway so
ok ok I i I've got you can use my
footage if you want of me
here we go so there's a link to the
download in the description or you can
film your own if you're filming your own
you want to shoot with a low ISO because
you have high iso it'll be grainy and
green is sort of a mess up the effect
anyway
okay so yeah shoot your own if you want
or use mine and also sorry shoot at a
high frame rate like 60 frames per
second is good and then you slow it down
to twenty three point nine seven or you
can
and you know even shoot it you know 200
or whatever but most people don't have a
camera that can do that so in a known
obviously your actors should just stand
there and pretend they're frozen in time
because it actually works and people
actually you know will fall for it huh
ok especially after all these effects
alright so I've been talking for two
minutes
let's get into this ok so if you have
action essentials drag on some water
blast footage after after you've
obviously dragged in your you know
normal footage that you're using
ok so so here's here's water boss
footage so the right way to do this
would be to you know take this year
go right click time freeze frame and
then just use that
alright so just if you have actually if
you have an action essentials
just leave it like that use that if you
don't have action essentials i'm going
to show you how you can do it without so
just grab one of these pictures that i
am giving you like that
ok and what we're going to do is we're
going to click the drop down here and
set it to a diff for some reason you
don't have this button click toggle
switches and it will give you that
button
so okay I got this and now we're going
to do is we're going to click the pan
behind tool right here and drag that
down to the point that the water is
coming out of
ok now we are going to click
toggle switches make it a 3d layer by
clicking this and we need to we can
check this offer sec
we're gonna need to track this footage
and that usually takes a while but how
you do that is on let me show you
another example let's footage ok so this
is you just dragging it in no effect on
writing you click
you have to have after effects cs6 or
won't be there cs5 doesn't have it
CS 5.5 doesn't have it and you click
just track camera and it will do it but
it will take like five minutes or
something for to finish and I don't want
to make you just stare at this
yeah you know y la well that's analyzing
its two percent down or whatever okay so
we're just gonna get rid of that
I've already tracked it ok so this is
what's going to happen once it finishes
gets two hundred percent this is what
you'll have random points everywhere
right
so I put your cursor somewhere like here
on the side of the cup looks because
that's going to be a good point probably
we're going to right click create know
and camera
ok and now we're just going to we can
duplicate this layer ctrl d
I shut this one off which has the
tracking and this one also has tracking
we're going to get just get rid of the
tracking because we don't need that
you know trying to remember where all
those dots go in the background okay so
now we can click on this null and if we
sort of scrub through here
we'll see it's staying attached to the
inside of the cup
pretty much you know it's not perfect
but it's pretty close
ok so now we're going to take this thing
here and we're going to hit
p and yeah it's normal that disappear
just because of the you know camera here
and there was going to pee on the null
we're going to click the position on the
null copy that control C click the
position on this thingy and hit control
V and paste it and let me see where it
is up with this is checked you don't
want that checked ctrl-v to paste it
there we go
ok now do you see its way down here
alright so we're going to hit s because
we want to scale it up make it bigger
like that
ok and now if we look through here it's
not looking right quite right but you
will see the it is that is at least
sticking somewhat to the cup not
perfectly alright so what we're going to
do you don't want to move the z-position
or we'll miss everything up
so let me get to a good spot here and
skill I don't know what would happen to
that I must click somewhere button
it's not supposed to wouldn't want to be
framed
all right so you can move the X&Y but
not the Z and just make sure i would
recommend you know switching it over to
make sure you didn't screw anything up
ok and hit w which is the rotate tool
because they weren't you know our is a
not 3d rotation so if they they made
whoa Tate and I was stupid but yes
alright so we can turn the Z a little
bit like that and let's see if it's
still staying on here
i think i'm going to focus mainly on
getting this to look good here to about
here because that's really all i need to
do to teach you
ok so let's look at this
all right that's it that is that is the
end of the two no I'm kidding
okay so we need to add a little bit more
here and fix some stuff so we're going
to click on here and we're going to AA
add a mask such double click on this and
click the pen tool click up here and
make sort of a thingy like this so like
that I'm gonna need to fix that know if
you click and then by the way hold you
can make a little curve thing and then
click on here
all right don't move this up move that
up
all right close that and i click em so
you can see everything here and click
this button again so you can you can see
your mask zoom in here and turn off now
you see how this is a sort of a sharp
line right here where this kills it cuts
it off
we want to feather it a little bit here
yeah something like that it's a little
bit better okay
and also we're probably going to want to
move the whole thing just more into the
cup
alright so just push it down a bit
and down all right
ok so that's pretty good for right there
but it's not gonna stay perfectly how we
want it
so now we're just going to sort of do
the same thing with a little bit more
this but instead of having it all
we're going to want to i'll just show
you what I mean it's a bit hard to
explain
alright so i think is this one that I
used so now we're going to use this one
drag that in here and we're also going
to want that one
ok so we're going to hit
p actually listed on the know again copy
the position
select these two things that p taste the
position based position and then we're
going to need scale so scale
why are they out oh I'm sorry i forgot i
got to move the thingy down where is it
here is anger . down
that one's done and now this one
all right and also well just a sec okay
now we can do the positions
alrighty are so we can out
that's it that's what i'm doing i'm
sorry i'm not making a 3d layer again
that starts the problem is doing this
before
3 be done
ok click position paste click position
paste
there we go I'm sorry I'm an idiot guys
all right now click toggle switches
we're going to do
add and add all right turn that one off
temporarily take this hit scale up
that's the one turned off there we go
scale ok
find something that looks good there
this one its scale
boom find something that looks good ok
now these are all notice these things
well that was not but these they're all
pretty much facing the camera and we
don't want everything facing directly at
the camera we want a little bit varied
so we just hit w and rotate it a little
bit One Direction kinda like that and
then hit this one
and rotated little bit maybe like that
so this way it will probably give us a
little bit of parallax I don't want
parallax is right where I think it is
when we're moving through
so let's turn off the top one and just
work it on this one so we can turn off
the bottom
ok so this thing we got to get this
matched up in here so let's move the x
over and move it down hit w rotate the Z
a little bit and then that it up here
something like that looks about good now
slide thru make sure it worked
kind of
ok that worked pretty well now we're
just going to do the same thing with
this one
out that I accidentally keyframe
something hit you
yes I did none of these should have
those things
none of these should have those and that
and that shouldn't either
ok sorry guys my brain is not quite
working today
all right uh that is looking all right
ish let's see still got that sharp edge
slide it down ok and then we're going to
do the same thing with masking this like
we did with the other one position is
not okay
basically this is all we need
this is what we're trying to do is just
sort of feather off that little bit and
then connect those all right now and
click back over here and you see the
sharp edge of course i'm going to click
mmm there we go
should the feather and feather it out
like that
good just do the same thing on all these
all right and now go here click
m and now you can't even see much here
oh wait sorry it's the wrong one this
one right
something like that ok
I and mrs. that all of them did we get
this one
yes
all right ok now we should be able to
just turn all of these on and let's see
how it looks obviously we could do some
color correction but let's see how it
looks
having some problems there
see it's it's looking like one of them
is sliding up and check all these you
okay
stop that there these should not be
keyframed
p
starts messing up over here
all right arm ok so that's pretty good
but it's not perfect obviously I'm
trying to do this sort of fast not make
it perfect and a problem i'm not sure if
this is looking realistic enough like
maybe you'd want you know make them
bigger make them whatever but I'm just
sort of trying to get the basic idea and
over here where you sort of have some
stuff spilling out that would not really
be spilling out what you can do is just
gonna take a second duplicate this move
it to the top
it's not quite the top arm
way to go there you go ok take this and
then just hit T in the opacity down arm
just you can see and then click the pen
tool and just find the edge of this cup
right there
nothing should be coming out of that and
then we can just click to finish that up
like this
and then mm and set it
well let me let me check this t stop it
t
there you go turn it all the way on and
boom we can see that it's sort of fixed
that
so now we're gonna hit mmm math mask
path is already got the stopwatch clicks
you gotta make sure it's not just
clicked and we just need to set a couple
points so you know go click here
boom boom boom page down and page up or
just a sort of us slower way of moving
frame by frame are so that's what I was
doing
nope I move in the hole
like the mask want to move this point
down down got out that the pit down here
outweigh the past it okay that's as far
as I need to go
got it I'm so now we might want you
it's probably fine here but I'm just
gonna just for the heck of it because
I'm used to it i'm gonna blend the edges
by 5c
and let me take the expansion
all righty that probably looks fine and
now let's just look at it
sorry put the back on the screens you
can actually see
and i will click elsewhere
so yeah that is pretty much how i would
do that kind of effect
obviously the slower the cameras moving
maybe a different . would have been a
better one to pick
I lot a lot of things can be factors on
how well it will turn out
i'm also the color of of this might not
be quite right like you know maybe we
could the the water is not looking quite
the right color
I you know so maybe we could make some
changes to that you know but I'm not
gonna get into all that just because a
long tutorial already and I want to make
it longer so I'm yeah okay
that is I think I think I guess I'm
gonna say this is done this is close
enough for now
I and hopefully you can figure it out
yourself
and obviously you could use this for a
ton of things you could you know you
could
it doesn't have to just be water you
could just be standing there and you
could have I don't know a 3d model of a
bullet that you may be you know do with
element or something and you can just
have a bullet you know in the air and
the camera could move and see the bullet
it's flying by or you could do the same
thing we're doing here only with fire
and freeze some fire in place or you
know whatever you want but this is
basically how you do it so once you get
this down you can do most slow motion
things the only thing that might be a
little bit difficult to do would be like
hair or something because i don't think
there's any easy way to do that and
after effects at least that I figured
out yet but if I figured out i will let
you know
all right guys hope you enjoyed the
tutorial if you want some free pre keyed
video effects and stuff like that
just browse to my channel because i have
a bunch of stuff like that I'm just give
away for free and it's freaky just like
action essentials stuff so you can just
drag it on your footage like this and
boom it will be you can see you can see
it well but yeah freaky like this you
can just drag it on and you don't have
to keep out of green or black background
it's just done for you already
alright guys i'm going to get out of
here i hope you like this tutorial and I
really hope that helped you out so I was
having those issues and that this
definitely not one of my clients
tutorials all right bye