Echo & Onion Skinning + Auto Smears | Effects of After Effects

In this quick tutorial, I explain how to use the Echo effect in Adobe After Effects. I'll also show you how to use it to view an onion skin version of your timeline, as well as a simple rig for generating speed smears.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:07 Echo
02:20 Onion Skin View
03:51 Speed Smears
09:10 Thanks for watching!

[TestimentBlue]

I couldn't get this to work for the life of me; mostly because I'm completely new to After Effects, but I figured out what you missed to point out to make this work. If you look at time code 0:22 in the checked boxes you have the "For Comp Layer: Collapse Transformations; for vector layer: Continuously rasterize" box checked. The icon looks like a star burst. You have to have that box checked to make this effect work at all. I played around for nearly 2 hours trying to figure out what I was missing and then dissected your exact settings from visual keys and noticed this. AGAIN, I'm a complete novice so missing this one key aspect really threw me for a loop. Thanks for showing me the amazingness of this tool :) Will be stopping by often!

[maxdoes_]

I know it's not feasible to have this in depth of a video for every effect, but this was super informative and easy to follow!

[Drazcmd]

That expression hack at ~5:50 to display the speed is one of the coolest things I've seen in AE. Great tutorial!

[steveaway]

Your AE effects series is truly treasure, very in-dept and easy to understand. Luv it!

[iamYork_]

Came here for a brush up on Echo and left with some new Expression knowledge... this tut = value*1000

[ValHalasi]

Dude ! I finally understand how to control the echo effect. Been struggling with this for years. Thanks so much!

[SAbdullah]

these extra bits of information like use of expressions along with particular effects make tuts worthwhile.
PS could you please make a tut on effect named image sample or sample image, there's also an expression by that name.

[shivendrapawar]

Best after effects channel on the youtube!

[moabbaly]

I am falling in love back again with after effect. All thanks to Jake! God bless you sir!

[Agustinibarlucia]

Woah, I loved this one. I already feel that I'll be using this effect and this tips all the time. Thanks, Jake!

[zohaibmalik]

This is a really great tip and explained very well about the uses of these. It was the best tutorial I have watched on echo effect. 👍

[carlostolosa]

im always typing "anime teleportation effect" when i actually wants to happen is this exact effect. Atlast, the search is over.

[the_greck]

Whenever I write expressions like this in AE (although this one, and “.speed” were both completely new to me, so cheers for that) I’ve always declared a variable at the beginning, then changed the value inside the if/then statement and called the variable at the end. Aside from learning a bunch of stuff about the Echo effect, it made me realize I was making things hard on myself and writing 2 extra lines every time.

[paulvansommeren]

Nice to see these effects in action. I made an echo smear preset based on a shutter angle control and tween samples instead of the somewhat unintuitive controls of Echo for this purpose. Lmk if someone wants to see that

[lusenator]

We’ve needed a series like this for so long you’re a Saint

[TheSfelex]

That was very nicely explained, i mean i watched a video with expressions! and i stood around and understood it, thank you :D

[acastilloize]

Jake thanks much for the work you are doing. I'm watching all of your videos. I've learn a lot. Your explanations are very good. Thanks again!!!

[David-eblh]

Thanks for your tutorial. I think it would be nice to add a linear or ease expression to make this responsive to other speed values as well.

[Totorus]

This is an excellent explanation for Echo effect, thanks for sharing!... Greetings.

[spicy_burrito]

I thought I knew how to use Echo effect- before seeing this. Thanks as always.