How to add a visualizer to your piano (After Effects Tutorial)

Here's a step-by-step tutorial where I explain how to add a visualizer screen on a piano using After Effects!

I learned everything that I know about After Effects from YouTube tutorials and Google searches throughout many years. Without a doubt, there's a better way to achieve this effect, but I still want to share what I learned with all of you.

In this tutorial I only covered the basic steps that you need. There are more things you can add on to it to make it look better, like:
- Adding a blur to the visualizer using Camera Lens Blur and Gradient Ramp
- Manually masking when the Difference Matte doesn't work perfectly
- Adding glow and gradient color changes to the visualizer
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Tools that I used:
MIDI visualizer: https://github.com/kosua20/MIDIVisualizer
Saber Plugin by Video Copilot: https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2016/03/new-plug-in-saber-now-available-100-free/
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Other useful tutorials that you can learn from:
Difference Matte: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciX-roxC4oQ
More keying techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcrKBOg8apA
Power Pin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeUrbL0oadc
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:40 Overview
1:12 Creating the visualizer
2:37 After Effects Layer Setup
4:13 Visualizer Layer
5:30 Saber Layer
7:35 Combining visualizer with camera footage
10:01 Sync timing
12:02 Hands Layer and Difference Matte
15:00 Refine Matte
16:17 Thanks for watching!
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bilibili mirror: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1nm4y1u75K/

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