With Steve Holmes, Aharon Rabinowitz, Brian Maffit, Eran Stern and Angie Taylor

guide you through 22 tutorials on incorporating artbeats footage in your video projects using After Effects.

In the Eye of the Storm: Creating 3D Rain
Learn secrets of movie special effects as Steve takes you through turning a beautiful Artbeats HD aerial clip into a cold nighttime storm with torrential rain and lightning. Learn how to color adjust clips with a handful of effects for maximum control, then use cool techniques to turn two-dimensional rain clips into truly 3D rain.

There's No Fire Without Smoke: Creating Smoke Effects
Enhance a 3D scene, previously animated in episode 9 with fire and lighting effects. Learn how to use some very cool tricks and expressions to create a realistic, volumetric 3D smoke effect using a single HD clip of swirling smoke from Artbeats.

There's No Smoke Without Fire: Masking & Lighting Techniques
See how to enhance a basic 3D scene in After Effects with a single HD fire clip from Artbeats, some neat masking techniques, and some very unique lighting effects with expressions, setting a hallway alight with flames, flickering lights and shadows.

Type In Distress: Using Transparency & Distortion
Use several high-definition clips from the Artbeats library to both affect transparency and frantically distort typography, for an HD show promo. Set over the top of a truly stunning clip shot on the RED One camera, the finished piece is both haunting and beautiful.

Slasher Movie Week: Using Layer Effects
Create a truly unique and stunning promo for a slasher movie week using high-definition clips from Artbeats Ultra Motion and Mayhem collections. With time-remapping, layer blending and keying techniques, along with some truly remarkable Layer Effects usage, the finished result really does grab your attention!

Ten Pin Explosion: Using Slow Motion
Use high-definition clips from Artbeats Ultra Motion and ReelFire collections to make this incredible title sequence. Mixing 3D, keying and brilliant time-remapping techniques, learn how these clips can change the entire look and energy of a motion graphics piece!

Smokin' Titles: Using Smoke Effects
Learn how to enhance a movie title with a single cool and unique HD smoke clip from Artbeats' Reel Fire 3 HD collection. See how to key out the smoke for further compositing, and learn how to use the smoke itself to blur focus on the type over which it passes.

Shadowvision: Create a 3D Scene
Discover how to add incredibly realistic and moving shadows to a 3D scene in After Effects, using an Artbeats Ultra Water clip as an organic shadow caster. What starts out as a simple scene evolves into a truly realistic and moody environment in which to animate.

A Time to Reflect: Working with Displacement Maps
Create a stylized and subtle rippling reflection effect of clean typography, for a television title sequence. Learn the ins and outs of Displacement Map effects, made to the highest quality and with ultimate flexibility, thanks to high-definition Ultra Motion clips from Artbeats.

 A Perfect Time to Bloom: Animate with Controlled Timing
See how to key out clip backgrounds and enhance transparency, and learn very interesting ways to use Time Remapping and Layer Sequencing to perfectly time the whole animation.

Illuminate the Game: Creating an HD interstitial
Creating a HD interstitial by using various masking and layering techniques in After Effects.

 

Urbanicity: Environmental Impact
Step through time with this innovative look at the evolution of energy. Use 3D animation, layering, colorization and more to create this incredibly unique opener.

Organic Fruit & Textables
In this scenario of creating a commercial for the British Organic Health Agency, Artbeats royalty-free stock clips form the perfect background and motion for a truly memorable advertisement. Combine beautiful video with incredible 3D motion tracked text and playful animation techniques.

Fire & Water
In this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you tips and techniques for creating interesting fire and water-based effects with your Artbeats footage. Topics covered include: Nesting and Pre-composing, Displacement Maps, Mattes, Transition Effects, Looping Footage, Adjustment Layers, and Text Treatments.

Come Rain or Shine
In this scenario of motion graphics design for a television channel's weather program, finding the right sky, clouds, or rainy background is quick and easy when presented with the wide selection of stock footage clips from Artbeats. But what about "adding" weather? Making it snow or rain over the top of 3D composited footage? See just how this seemingly impossible task becomes reality, and learn some new tricks in After Effects along the way!

"Eight" Movie Title Effects
Join the power of Adobe After Effects with the quality, variety and flexibility of Artbeats stock footage to create an amazingly detailed and textured movie title sequence!

"Earthfire" Television Intro
Learn cool real-world techniques to mask, color and control Artbeats stock footage to add depth and detail to this incredible TV intro.

"Inside the Machines" DVD Menus
Discover how to create cool, unique and highly flexible motion menu graphics for DVDs, with just a minimal investment in an Artbeats high-definition clip!

Doom Island
In this tutorial, Eran Stern takes you through the steps of creating a dark, eerie opener for a Reality TV show. Designed entirely of stock footage clips, this piece employs masking and layering techniques to help add an exotic flair.

Seattle 3007 - Creative Compositing
Veteran trainer Brian Maffitt shows you how to stretch your creative potential using Artbeats footage. Replace a typically gloomy Seattle sky with a brilliant tropical sunset, while leaving the buildings in place to reflect the vibrant colors of the fading sun. Then learn techniques that will turn the skyline into a glowing space city, translucent and glowing with the energy of a nearby quasar. You'll see how easy it is to create the effects of your dreams!

Blooming Marvellous
Angie Taylor takes you through the steps to build an opening title sequence for a TV show using Artbeats footage to create 3D flowers growing within After Effects 3D world. This lesson also provides you with the experience of using scripts within After Effects.

Film Effects
Follow Shane Ross as he shows you how film effects like light leaks and film damage can be incorporated into your video footage to give them a more convincing film look.