How to Stabilize Footage
This after effects tutorial teaches how to stabilize and then reverse the footage. In this example they show you how to track a flower waving in the breeze so that you can composite a bug on top of it.
Write On Effect Tutorial
Tutorial on how to create a very nice elegant handwriting write-on effect including an animated ink bleed.
Fire and Embers Tutorial
This After Effects tutorial teaches you how to create fire and glowing embers using only the plugins that come with after effects.
Sparkly Shiny Metal Reflection Tutorial
This tutorial shows a technique to create a traveling specular sparkle, based on the brightness of the text texture
Add snow to your video
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Turn a summer scene into a winter scene complete with falling snow using after effects. Another option is to add digital snow overlays.
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Rotating Globe Video
If you have the time but not the cash to buy stock video clips of earth rotating, this tutorial shows a clever technique to create the motion graphics artist's best friend, the spinning globe, in 3d using only the cc sphere plugin which is included with After Effects.

