Harry Potter Opening In After Effects

So I’m working on my next live action video which, as you might have been able to guess, deals with Harry Potter. I’ve been trying to find a good tutorial on how to get the opening and I finally found one after forever of searching! lol

I looked at some other random After Effects tutorials but I guess it’s because I”m a newbie but they are kinda hard!  I couldn’t really understand them. I wasn’t sure if people were using CS5 but I know Photoshop CS5 isn’t that different then Photoshop CS4 so I guess if its the same deal with After Effects, it wouldn’t really matter that much if they were using CS5 or CS4 (I have CS4). Yet I still couldn’t follow completely. When I followed this Harry Potter tutorial, however, I was able to learn some things that were in previous tutorials but I was too much of a newbie to figure out what was happening! haha

But I think the biggest thing that threw me off most of the tutorials was the fact that they used downloaded plugins and Idk, I’m just not very much into downloading plugins. Whenever a Photoshop tutorial useing plugins or downloaded brushses, I’m usually able to improvise but since I know little to nothing about After Effects, I had to resort to giving up lol

OMG, After Effects is such a WONDERFUL program though! There’s so much potential for awesome videos! I’m so excited about having it and I really want to learn more! But one problem…

WHY DO AFTER EFFECTS TUTORIALS HAVE TO BE SO BORING?!?!?!

No offense to anyone who made any After Effects tutorials, I don’t think it’s the way people make the tutorials, I think I just zone out when people talk about film type stuff like camera sizes or…idk lol I took a film english class once and I fell alseep almost whenever my teacher started to talk lol maybe he’s to blame for my lack of ability to pay attention because he was rather boring…but I think it’s mostly there’s just something about talking about films that just bore me haha which SUCKS because I love the art of film!!

I’m not sure if I made ANY sense just now lol but I’ll end it here and with the video tutorial I was able to follow for the Harry Potter Opening! lol Enjoy!

Harry Potter Opening Tutorial