Tutorial Barcode Generator plugin for After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express & Motion

http://www.yanobox.com/Barcode/

Yanobox Barcode is a FREE generator that simulates the European Article Number aka EAN-13 barcode used on everyday products across the world. This tutorial will show you how it can be used.

Barcode provides some unusual features like custom color modes and random digits, transforming the classical barcode to an eye-catching Motion Graphic element.

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in this tutorial I'd like to show you
barcode
barcode is a freebie plugin from yeah no
box that allows you to generate the
standard barcode
and manipulate it in extreme ways
my
I mean after affects but this generator
works in Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Express and motion as well bar
code is located in a yellow box folder
in a fax gonna start typing the name in
the text field
and it will appear I'm going to right
click on my campus
in shoes new solids I'll drop the
barcode generator on the solid and it
will take over
here's our generic barcode let's take a
look at some love the presets
see you can get the gist of what this
generator can do as you can see
bar code gives you complete control of
all the elements have the bar code
itself
the numbers colors and bars lets choose
the classic white preset
bar code does have transparency as
you'll see in a minute
my background color this composition is
black I'm going to rename this layer to
barcode down on the time line so I don't
get confused later when I start
compositing it with other layers
if we look at the parameters we can see
all the control we have
master completion draws the whole bar
code from left to right
but I also have control love completion
of the bars and the number separately
I'd like to animate them independently
first I'll
animate the bars completion parameter
from 0 to 1
over the first second at the clip 0
click the keyframe but next to the
parameter
which drops a key freemen are zero point
on the time line
other down to the layer on the time line
and use my favorite after affects
short-cut the letter you
which shows me only the attributes that
are key framed her animated
allowed my second key frame at one
second and set the value to 1
goods so now the generator draws the
bars across the screen
Nextel fade on the digits a little later
and more slowly by animating the font
opacity setting
I'll
I'll show you some love the other
parameters we have control over
fonts in color or font style
book the numbers at the bar code itself
and the height
and of set up the bars I'm going to
stick with white for my animation
but I have to show you the color mode
setting because it's so cool ins
now as I select the different options in
my color mode
drop down menu you'll see generate
complementary colors
a triad 360
which is a loop around the color wheel
starting at your first color
for shade which assigns different shades
based on your selected color
as always a click on the barcode help
icon in the affect
will give you in-depth info on all of
these parameters
the last thing I'll do is go to my
digits input dropdown and shoes
random by scrub the clip you can see it
will generate random numbers constantly
I'll so where do you put a bar code in
your video
I wanted to create a cool effect with
the racing clip my house I'll pull into
clips
a video over race car rounding a bend
and in image called
clean plate which is the road with no
race card
more on this in a minute K I'll turn my
bar code into a 3d lehrer
so I can alter its XY and z. rotations
and position it like it's sitting right
on the road
I thought of this because the bar code
bars looks sort of like a crosswalk
all adjust the opacity so it looks like
it's painted on the road
now for the fun bit opposition my race
car clip on the top layer
with the bar code in the middle and the
clean plate on the bottom
I'll drop a difference Matt on the race
car clip
and then choose the clean plate image in
the difference layer
dropped out all this is doing is looking
at the race car clip
and keying anything that's different
from the clean plate
if I turn off the clean plate where you
can see
only the race car now I'll scrub until
the race cars over my barcode
and I'll tweak the Keen settings in the
difference matter fact until the race
car looks as realistic as a cam
it doesn't have to be perfect because it
moves so fast now I have a race car
driving over an animated barcode
those painted on the road lastly opry
compose these layers as their own
composition
we call is nesting in Final Cut Pro and
drop the vintage TV affect on the
resulting comp
and there's are cool racing from do
barcode is a very cool in very specific
special effects plugin Bestival it's a
freebie
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