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Caleb Ward (00:11): Hey, what's up. This is Caleb ward with school of motion. And in this after effects tutorial, I'm going to show you how to use five free tools and aftereffects. Now all of these tools are fantastic resources for any after-effects artists, but at the end of the day, these tools were created by a developer. So if you're feeling generous, even though they're free, you know, feel free to donate some money towards their causes, they are doing fantastic work and they definitely deserve it. So let's get started with the very first free tool. Now, like all the tutorials here at school of motion, the project files are completely free. All you have to do is just click the download link. You'll find a link in the description of this video. So the first tool that I want to talk to you about is a well, I got to admit, it's kind of a funny name it's called, but Kapur.
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Caleb Ward (01:50): This is not ideal. So the best thing that you can do is download this free tool called bud capper. And it's up here in the top, right panel here. So do you use, but capper, all you have to do is select your shape layer. And then you can just go to window and run the butt capper script there, and we'll pop up this little panel. And so you can just select, uh, you know, whichever but style you like the best. All right. So let's move on to the next tool. So the next free tool that I want to talk about is the redefiner free script set. So this is actually 51 different scripts for after effects and every single one of them are free. Now, obviously I'm not going to show you how to use all 51, but I wanted to show you just a few of the different scripts in that pack.
Caleb Ward (03:23): It's a, it's annoying, but you know, it gets the job done. But the problem is, if you want to adjust a pre copy, can't do it. You have to then go back in and adjust the duration of all your compositions inside of your composition. And it can be a real pain. So comps that are actually fixes this. So what we can do is we can just go to file scripts and we're going to run our comp set our script here, and we will make sure the width and height is set to 1920, by 10 80. All of these other parameters here will just remain at default unless you change them. And then the duration we're going to change to, we can do 15 seconds and make sure seconds is selected right there. All these other settings are fine and we will go ahead and hit apply.
Caleb Ward (06:13): Let's say five. And there you go. We're already starting to get a pretty cool design. And it all started with a solid layer instead of a shape layer. So this is a really powerful tool if you do a lot of design in after effects. So let's say you're working late on a project. You're getting kind of sleepy and you notice something that needs to be changed, but you don't have time to get to it right now. Well, wouldn't it be helpful if you could just add a quick note in after effects that will tell you what you need to do whenever you hop back on the computer next time, or wouldn't it be super cool. If you could like leave notes for other people, if they get into your after effects project, it would be cool. I'm going to go ahead and answer that question for you. Uh, and you can do that with another cool script in the redefiner script set called notation. So if you just go to file scripts and then we can find notation here, you can see that we can go in and we can add notes
Caleb Ward (16:03): So let's say you wanted to save a screenshot and send it off to a client. How would you do that? Well, typically you would have to save a frame, right? So you'd go to composition, say frame as file. You'd export it as a JPEG or a PNG, and then send it to your client. It's fine, but it's kind of annoying, right? But with the effects console, you can actually take screenshots directly in after effects without having to go to the render queue at all. It's super, super cool. So all you have to do is hit this little screenshot button here and it will take a screenshot. And then all you have to do is click on the open gallery button to view all of your screenshots. So this is really useful for a number of different things. So the first is exactly what I was saying.
Caleb Ward (21:57): All right. And that's about it. If you want to download these freebies, go check out the PDF over on our website, we have a list of all of the freebies and a link directly to the download. And then we also have an entire article that gets into even more detail about how to use each one of these tools. And again, if you want to learn more about after effects, go check out the other tutorials over at school of motion. And if you're interested in getting into character animation, animation design, go check out the bootcamps over at school of motion. They're a fantastic resource for anyone looking to up their motion design skills. This has been Kayla board. We'll see you next time. 041b061a72