How do you add animation to a video in After Effects?

[greeneggs]

I want to add some light sabers to a video, similar to those in Star Wars. How could I do it besides using the bea plugin and editing it frame by frame?

 

[GemNEye]

The only way I have seen it done is with the lightning effect (no branches). I don't know if you could use the motion tracker or not.<br>
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The orginal video was shot with two white colored sticks. The lightning effect was then added. Though not every frame was a key frame, many of them are.<br>
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I don't have your solution, Sorry.

 

[Guest_imported]

I used the beam effect to make the light sabers. it isn't a plugin, but it comes with after efects. You do have to set a lot of keyframs, but it is pretty easy and looks realy cool! It's probubly not what you really wanted, but it works for me!!!

good luck

 

[starla]

Check out the After Effects FreeMart

http://www.aefreemart.com.

There are a couple of different tutorials on creating the lightsaber effect. I think one may even have a project you can download.

 

[Guest_imported]

What i want to do is to &quot;apply&quot; a layer
to a path, so the layer will move without the need of make its path at the moment. AE's HELP did not help me . Do you know if that operation is possible? Thanks.