Create Mind-Bending Effects with this Hidden Effect in After Effects!

In this tutorial, we'll unleash an effect so out-of-the-box, Adobe decided to leave it out of the effects menu - CC Time Blend FX. Using a very simple premise (the ability to loop other effects), we'll quickly turn effects like Turbulent Displace and Offset into unpredictable swirling transitions and organic smoke effects. To "activate" CC Time Blend Effects, download the preset from Cycore FX below....

2024 Update! I posted the project file for free here:

Time Blend FX Preset:
Download the zip file near the bottom of the page (CC Time Blend Plug-ins FFX)

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[BenMarriott]

This is brilliant! Amazing tutorial. I had no idea :O

[JakeInMotion]

I can honestly say I've never been so blown away by an AE tutorial. You're a wizard, Brady.

[sheldondrake]

ages ago at the NYC AE users group meeting, Brian Maffitt showed this effect setup, and absolutely floored the room. Using the adjustment layers is a brilliant upgrade, and thanks for resurrecting it!

[slay.lawson]

This is one of the greatest tutorials I’ve ever watched 😂 I’m so serious. I appreciate the comprehensive breakdown.

[davidp]

This is one of the most feature-packed, well explained AE tutorials I have ever seen. Thanks for the pre-tutorial explanation of the bouncing balls bit, and how you demonstrate the overall effect using 3 layers. Simply brilliant!

[ImTerasHD]

How did you even find this 😳 I love that you've started to do more vfx videos, your skills are so diverse that your channel has become the go to for anything design related! Thanks for your awesome tutorials dude.

[UnDo]

As a 25 years Ae user, im impress, I means... a lot! It's a iteration, a fractal! Bravo!

[Korwasan]

This channel keeps blowing my mind, truly. I discovered it back when the Text Bleed effect video came out and I was obsessed with trying to replicate it in After Effect and didn't find anything that would allow for things to work like "actions" and just continually re-apply the same effect incrementally. Ben Marriot tried to and I worked well but now how I envisioned it, and here we are and you guys come up with this unused effect to figure it out.

I've been watching tutorials for more than a decade and this is the only channel that comes up with really innovative things. This channel could easily become the Video Copilot for motion and graphic designers once it gets even more eyes on it.

Thank you so much for the work and I'm going to put my next paycheck to work by supporting this channel on Pateron

[omerbarel]

This might be the best tutorial I have ever seen for anything ever. If this was on IMDB I'd give it 11 stars. This is a masterpiece.

[spires]

Can you believe this guy? Best tutorial channel ever.

[MorphingShapes]

Incredible, I'm almost speachless. The amount of details in your explanation, how well you put things together making them easy to grasp and the nice touches like combining this tutorial with Jimi Hendrix are just a delight for my brain. Just great stuff, thanks so much for sharing your knowledge! 🙏

[cielarte]

This tutorial has helped me finally realize that building my own effects is not only possible, but infinitely better than downloading mediocre effects from random websites. I’ve been using downloads as a crutch for too many years and need to up my game. Thank you for this, I am excited about edits for the first time in a few years.

[rdjavi]

Brady, fantastic tutorial as always, you are true inspiration, thank you.

For everyone who has a glitchy preview and render problem, here is the solution ( I made same setup as in tutorial ):

After Effects Settings:

• In Composition>Preview, be sure to uncheck Cache Frames When Idle
• In Preferences>Memory & Performance, turn off Multi-Frame Rendering

Preview and Render:

• Move the time indicator to the beginning of the timeline, then turn off all adjustments layers above text layer (COPY, EFFECTS, PASTE), then turn on PASTE adjustment layer, and use Edit>Purge All Memory and Disk Cache and start a Preview.

• Repeat for the EFFECTS and COPY adjustment layers to get all 3 adjustment layers in RAM memory.

Thats it, preview should be smooth now.

I made a test render and everything was fine.

Good luck

[KyleDailyMedia]

Dude, this is next level AE. You were already putting me to shame in PS, but now you're busting out deprecated artifacts and "Calculations!?" Amazing

[merlinoner]

In your own unique and new way, you're the new Andrew Kramer.
Thanks a lot.

[DanielleGlick]

I went from being fairly new in AfterEffects to smoking out my logo within a few hours thanks to watching this tutorial over and over and tweaking the smoke to get it to move the way I wanted. Really appreciated the explanations of what settings actually do!

[MagnusHertzberg]

I'm still pinching my arm and wondering whether or not I didn't just dream up this tutorials existence. This is unreal <3 <3 <3

[nishantsharma]

I was literally at 3:54 mins and the way you explained the effect I hit the subscribe button. After a long time a person who understands the craft enough to teach and ease it down to make others understand as well. Not just some guy telling you how to do it.

[felone]

Man, I've done this effect before but without the time blending, which took way more time to get decent looking and not close to as organic as this. This is a game changer for smoke effects in AE!
Thanks for these great videos! Keep 'em coming!

[dopemotions]

Amazing Tutorial, this was new for me!