NEW Plug-In: SABER Now Available 100% Free!

March 6th, 2016

New MacOS Catalina Support
Install latest version of Mac plugin!

Our sweet new energy plug-in is available right now for free! Check out the tutorial and start downloading! Staying up for two days straight is not ideal but happy to haveit up!

Key Uses:

Create Energy Beams,Lightsabers,Lasers,Portals,Neon Lights,Electric,Haze & more

Features:

Create High quality energy & lights beams
Realistic Glow falloff
Advanced Core Settings
Built-in Distortion

50 Presets (View Gallery)
Dynamic Text and Mask Outlines
Stackable FX with Add mode

DOWNLOAD PLUG-IN: For After Effects!

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Andrew Kramer

POSTED:

9 years ago

1155 Comments

david

5 years ago

after install plug in saber what should i do after install it

rafi

5 years ago

Why is the Copilot video folder empty, there are no effects files, and when I searched the After Effects there were no Saber presets

Gavin

5 years ago

hey i had and have used saber for quite a while but then i went to go edit a video and saber showed up on effects tab under missing and not under video copilot. i edit on the most recent after effects ive tried restarting and uninstalling

5 years ago

Thank you so much????????❤

christian

5 years ago

why the plugin always disappearing after i installed it?
i need help here.

Ilya

5 years ago

I want to do a render, but in the end, instead of a video, there is a red background with Saber-created effects
How do I make a render so that there is also a video?

RIFDI AZIM RAZIF

5 years ago

Thank you so much! i really appreciate your team.

Pantufa

5 years ago

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AntDX316

5 years ago

To anyone saying it doesn't work on AE 2020, you need to use the custom plug-in path at installation. I didn't do the default so this is probably why all of you are having problems.

Andres David Loaiza Zamudio

5 years ago

amazing content!!

Sef

5 years ago

I am really grateful that until today this site is working. I've been learning and using your tools when I was in high school. Now I am in college and I can say that it will always be valuable.

Carlo

5 years ago

Does anybody know how to install this plugin in AE 2020, mine doesn't work

Abraham pintenelly

5 years ago

Muchas Gracias

Scott

5 years ago

It would be great if you could make negative Start and End Offsets. If you use the motion tracker to track targets on your tip and hilt, you'll likely see a little bit of marker peek out from under the glow. If you could extend the saber beyond the start and end points, you'd be able to cover them.

jefry

5 years ago

thanks

Huzaim Abbas

5 years ago

Thank You So Much!
May God Give You More Success.

Jan Luca

5 years ago

Hey,when i try to install the plugin an click on 17.0 it install at the wrong after effects and when i click on Custom and Custom path,it comes an error please help me btw i have after effects 2019

zakaria ghazal

5 years ago

i need this Saber Plug-in in System 32 bit please

Jayden

5 years ago

I did everything correctly but when I open After Effects it doesn't show. It's After Effects CC 2018 if that means anything.

SALY

5 years ago

I'm going through the same

Hardlan

5 years ago

guys can you help me? after i close AE the plug in is missing, how can i fix that?

ronzo

5 years ago

I've installed the plugin in AE 2020, but it's listed as "MISSING"... ? I see it in the AE2020 support files/Plug-ins/Effects

rohith

5 years ago

bro move your after effects file from C drive to D drive then install saber plugin in plugins folder of after effects it will install

Tuto

5 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QVgWQkaTtI

mani

5 years ago

thanks for sharing plugin and I hope very happy to visit the web site, I believe that it web site can us

Iszzyblog

5 years ago

I love your videos. Thanks for the plugin.. I will practice and become perfect in After Effect

WnKevn

5 years ago

Would it be a copyright to use the saber effect for the YouTube video?

Julin

5 years ago

Hi! For some reason when I extract plugin into my AE plugin folder, it always opens with premier pro?
Even when I right click to open with AE, it says file unsupported, anybody knows why?

Adam Mendas

5 years ago

Thanks for Sharing, This plugin will be very helpful for my website.

Neo

5 years ago

Hi, I've been having problems downloading this plugin on Windows. After the download finished, the plugin disappears from the folder and if I redownload it, it'll just download an empty folder. I use After Effects CC 2019 if that makes a difference. Does anyone know how to fix this or what might be the problem?

deandre

5 years ago

i have the same issue

Pulima

5 years ago

Great thanks

Dio

5 years ago

Hey there. Is there any way to add expressions to a saber shape. Like when you have a shape and you can add a twist, repeater, wiggle etc.. Is there any way to use those expressions with saber?

Thanks!

teebs

5 years ago

it simply worked for me

Gabe

5 years ago

Did anyone get it to work on AE 2020?

Ashton

5 years ago

It installs into my After Effects, and I can apply the effect. But the moment I switch the blending mode to Screen, the two little dots that would allow me to change the angles of the light completely disappear?? What am I missing?

Katz

5 years ago

I don't suppose this works for AE CS6, does it?

Rod Peterson

5 years ago

I get an error using CS6 as well. Error:After Effects error: File "Saber.aex" is not a valid file type for import. Before the Upgrade to CC starts.This is not an affordable option.

Halen

5 years ago

Does this plugin work on Imovie?

ddd

5 years ago

no it is only for adobe after affects

5 years ago

It is an awesome tutorial, but 'Saber' doesn't work with AE 2020. I get an error "Invalid Filter" 25::3 Any suggestions?

taek kyu park

5 years ago

Although the plugin is already installed.
Not in After Effects.
There are many people who don't even work on comments.
Is there a problem with the program ??
Please teach me how.

Kason Martin

5 years ago

The same thing is happening to me, did you ever figure it out?

Luan Kunze

5 years ago

yes i have the same Problem

Rob Sauer

5 years ago

I may have figure this out. Try reinstalling but when it gets to the select which version screen uncheck the 17 and steer it towards the right path on your computer.

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2020\Support Files\Presets

After that, I reloaded After Effects and there it was. Hope this helps.

SSR

5 years ago

It's not working with the lastest update of AE 2020

Younes Ait Dabachi

5 years ago

youre the best man tnx a lot

JR Dims

5 years ago

I already installed the Plugins.
However, it seems that it doesn't work.

Flash

5 years ago

very awesome plugin thx man

osama osama

5 years ago

Very nice thank you

Durgesh Deore

5 years ago

Thank you so much for providing plugins

murat

5 years ago

thank u man!!

Redbro

5 years ago

Thanks so much..

Mahesh

5 years ago

awesome plug-in great effort......... thanks

hasan

5 years ago

Thank you very much for this amazing plugin!

awad

5 years ago

awesome plug-in great effort......... thanks

Chakir EL

5 years ago

Thank you

spectr1701

5 years ago

I was able to get it installed fine. It looks for v17 which is CC 2020.

Don Engel

5 years ago

Hi there! I am wondering if there is a way I could attach an item to the end of the saber (not motion tracking). I my instance, I am attaching a small orb to the front end of a saber effect; the effect uses the offsets to create a "light beam" along OTHER saber masks...think Tron objects, and then sometimes "overcharges" pulse along the glowing lines of the object).

I did it manually by keyframes, but it would be very useful if there was a way to tie the position of an object (in this case, just a small orb made in illustrator) and the tip of the saber.

Any ideas?

Emilio Renduain

5 years ago

Saber Installer doesn't detect the latest version of AfterEffects for me.

David Henderson

5 years ago

Comps with saber make AE 2020 crash, just by clicking them. I can't even open the comps anymore.

Neil

5 years ago

does this work with aftereffects CS6?

Guilly

5 years ago

hi im usign aecs6 but sad to say saber plug in did not run can u help me pls

jeremy spence

5 years ago

I just downloaded the latest version of AE and i cant run the installer for the plugin, error code:40, any fix?

Tanner

5 years ago

Wondering if there's a way to make a perfect loop with some of the presets. Like the Arc Reactor preset

ollie

5 years ago

how to i get this in hitfilm express 13???

Adam

5 years ago

You can only get in Hitfilm Pro 14

R.S.Awasare

5 years ago

Andrew,You are GOD.

ADHIR T SOOKRAJ

5 years ago

you are a VFX Guru

Zeck

6 years ago

I installed it but I can't find it on my computer. What do I do?

Shivam Kumar Gupta

6 years ago

Thank you, guys! This is a very nice effect plug-in! I love it. Thanks

Juan

6 years ago

Hello, I'd like to have more information about the SABER plug-in license, terms and conditions. Thanks!

Pavel

6 years ago

I installed the Saber plugin into After Effects, but I am having trouble getting After Effects compositions into my Premiere Pro projects. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Krairerk

6 years ago

please, update for catalina and af cc 16.1.3

RODERICK

6 years ago

I open Saber all I see is 2 red lines what do I need too do?

Barkin

6 years ago

its not compatiable with catalina :S

zyzy

6 years ago

Hi, when I opened this plug-in at the after effect cc2019, there's an error in it, Mac. How can i fix it?

Kyle Nolan

6 years ago

All of a sudden my plugin is no longer working, im not sure what happened, any suggestions

Andre

6 years ago

Does not install in Adobe After Effects CC 2019, error code 40. Please help, i really need this.

Textbooks

6 years ago

Sir it shows error when i open this plugin in after effect cc 2019. How can i fix it?

Matchstick

6 years ago

All you need to do if go to your Device Manager (Windows) Select Display Adapters and then Update the Driver that is under that. Then just close and restart AE. That worked for me.

Peter

6 years ago

Hi, very nice. But what exactly happened at 19:16 ? Did you have the traced logo that comes visible or what?

Jaffet Haris

6 years ago

thanks for help. You are lucky people.

rebecca

6 years ago

i cant install help pls

Naresh

6 years ago

Sir, i am unable to download the plugin how to create a cinematic video, Thanks

Nicholas Denison

6 years ago

Do you guys have this for FCPX or Apple Motion?

bandar togel online villabetting

6 years ago

Do you have any plugins like portal in Doctor Strange for Adobe effect ??

Gerard Venema

6 years ago

Search on Youtube. There are tutorials for the effect using this plug-in.

Mehmet can Ã–zgÃ¼mÃ¼ÅŸ

6 years ago

Hi I installed AfterEffect cc 2019 yesterday but I could not make the effect please help. Thank you in advance.

Mehmet can Ã–zgÃ¼mÃ¼ÅŸ

6 years ago

Plugin after effect was working in cs6 but yesterday I installed cc2019 but I could not make a kind of effect can you give me information about how to do. have a nice day.

Oscar DAniel

6 years ago

Thank You Very much, Works, in After Effects CC 2019 is necesary to path in the option an this work correctly.

Trixie

5 years ago

Did you set the path to somewhere specific? I'm having trouble installing it.

Startup

6 years ago

such a Amazing plug-in !

Davence

6 years ago

Hi i am having issues trying to use your amazing saber plugin in davinci resolve. I have installed it in the proper folders, but it does not show up in my effects library , any ideas as to what i am doing wrong on my pc?

hitartha

6 years ago

its does not install why?

davence

6 years ago

Has anyone got this plugin to work in fushion16 yet?

hitartha

6 years ago

its fails to install and shows error 40
now what to do plzz help...

chinmin yang

6 years ago

hey sir,
this is so crazy!!!
thanks for sharing

vinay

6 years ago

hello sir,

I just download this plugin n installed current i am using after effect cc 2019 but this plugin is show me error
plzz help

ayaya

6 years ago

Hi sir...
Thank you for the plugin, it's so easy..
Good work! Have a nice day

Peter

6 years ago

sir pls update a saber 32 bit pls

Lobo Estepario Films

6 years ago

Thank you so much Master!

Allan

6 years ago

This works great. I recently started using AE I had it up and running in minutes!

Fahad

6 years ago

Dear sir
I am using adobe after effect cs4. My PC is 32bit operating system, I need to download saber effect please explaine How I download it.....

Blurrypuzzle VFX

6 years ago

This effect is only for 64bit operating system
and stop using old aftereffect. CS4 is above 10 year old software. upgrade your PC and start using ADOBE CC

C.Dsch

6 years ago

I am trying to explore this plug ins but its like it didn't work on ae 2019, when i'm trying to use it this message shows up "incorect filter 25 3"

shamar

6 years ago

I downloaded the file but after effects says I can't import it . What did I do wrong

G.Vamsi

6 years ago

thanks for this plug in

Ricardo

6 years ago

thank you so so much for this.

Hamod

6 years ago

Hey i 32bit i need this effect can you give this effect but 32bit pls

C. Computer

6 years ago

Wow... Thanks ???? ???? ???? so much for this ???? plug in ????

Zeph

6 years ago

Would this Plug-in work in Divinci resolve? Thanks

Dylan Feim

6 years ago

So I'm trying to animate 2 lightabers with video copilot's saber plugin, however one saber's colored glow always masks the other one's white surface. I was wondering if there was a way to prevent that.

Michael Olson

6 years ago

If you created the sabers on two separate solid layers then the one on top would mask over the one on the bottom. I don't know if you can make two sabers on the same solid layer but that might take care of it. Or you could, and this is a painfully long process, manual track over the layer and use the alpha invert matte to unmask the bottom later

Matt Delahoussaye

6 years ago

Hi guys, I hope that someone monitors these comments, I just wanted to point out an issue I am having with the download for windows. Everytime I download the file, it fails, and then winzip is unable to open the file and says it is damaged. I have tried this on two windows pc's, the only way I got around it was to download the windows version on my mac, unzip it, and send the file to my pc.

Just thought you should know

Vray

6 years ago

Thank you for the free plugin. Was following your tute on YT. love it

Hendricksson

6 years ago

is this free or is it crack?

Rajesh

6 years ago

its Free

Abhijeet Jakhar

6 years ago

lol... this is their official website.. Why would they offer crack here

Andre Larc

6 years ago

Guys, my After Effects keeps crashing on me every time I try to render or preview this effect in the project.
Can anyone please give me any clue on what's going on?
Really appreciate any direction...

Claire

6 years ago

Hi Andre, I'm having the same problem. Did you ever figure it out? I'm completely lost here, no one seems to have an answer.

Dan

6 years ago

I have 32gb ram, only have 2 layers of saber and trying to render 30 seconds of video but its taking approx 1 hour.

Anyone notice rendering saber takes ages?

Michael

6 years ago

Yes, it takes ages when you make the saber yourself with a white solid layer too, just kind of the way these effects work

Saurabh Bhansali

6 years ago

Can I use this plugin for commercial use and support will be available?

macro

6 years ago

You are a great artist, I am looking forward to the plugin element 3d continue to optimize the upgrade and create a miracle

Maha

6 years ago

Great workk .. thank u sooo much <3

gÃ¼venlik kamera sistemleri

6 years ago

Hi. Is there training video related to the application.

Amol

6 years ago

Can I use this plugin for commercial use??

Leo

6 years ago

This plugin seems to be crashing my render only nodes. Is this a known problem?

6 years ago

I keep getting this message every time I try to download the plugin.

"BfaVLA3O.zip.part could not be saved, because the source file could not be read.
Try again later, or contact the server administrator."

I'm not sure if anyone else is running into this problem. Any ideas on how to fix it?

quakebox

6 years ago

Helping others succeed makes them support you and your products coming back to buy time after time, thumbs up for your amazing work.

Jordan

6 years ago

I can't seem to get the plugin to install onto my pc, I have used the addon before but it is not working now.

robi raw

6 years ago

now showing up in my effects panel after installation on my mac using 2014 after effect, goes through instillation but no where to be found. Please help..

fafuniâ€¬â€

6 years ago

aye is there a 32bit version because it tells me that i cant use that because its 64bit

FTB_M0HG4M3Z

6 years ago

Hello Im an Editor for a clan and for some reason the saber plug in effect won't work on my 2010 MacBook Pro on Adobe After Affects CC 2015 is there something wrong with my device or with my application please let me know and if you know the answer for my problem I would appreciate it if you would email it to :
moh.alhussien2016@gmail.com With a Video
Thanks

Spaceodg

6 years ago

Try 2019

Enioluwa D Adebisi

6 years ago

So basicaly, I had to import it on a windows computer because the file was unidentified source, run it so it gives me the actual file (that is not what you download) and then import it through google drive.

Nitesh Soni

6 years ago

I want this plugins

Glen

6 years ago

If there were such thing as awards given out each year for generosity for helping people with free amazing plugins to be creative, who otherwise would find it impossible to afford otherwise; then you and your organisation would win it consistently year after year! Thank you very much!!

Randy bolante

6 years ago

Great Job, thank you so much keep up the good work.

Raquel

8 years ago

Wow, excellent

thank you very much

edub

8 years ago

for some reason when i try to add the saber to a text it just shows up as all blacked out...

George

6 years ago

you gotta autotrace your text layer by going to the Layer Tab and all the way below hit Auto Trace and adjust the values.

John

8 years ago

Love your passion for what you do. Thanks for all the hard work and sharing you do to help others further their own passion. Please keep up the good work.

Deekshith Sadashiva

8 years ago

Awesome plugin. Downloading it right away.

Basel Mousa

8 years ago

Awesome gift from The Andrew Cramer himself, does it support After Effects CC 2017?

Avi

8 years ago

this win file is damaged

yassar mansour

8 years ago

hi, i want ask about the background when you change transfer or blending mode to screen and it appear from where you add it and how .

pcmate

8 years ago

great news for me

yassar mansour

8 years ago

hello , hope you fine , can you tell me when he started in the tutorial there was an open composition and there was a background on it , how did he add it , i am new in this

Juliano Backer

8 years ago

Thats awesome! Thanks so mutch!
And congrats on the participation on the Force Awakens! \o/

sirley rodrigues do amaral

8 years ago

muito bom, da pra fazer uns efeitos maravilhoso.Obrigado.

Ù¾Ø±ÙˆØ±Ø´ Ù‚Ø§Ø±Ú†

8 years ago

very nice,
gooooooood.

zaid

8 years ago

thanks alooot

Rodrigo Montiel L

8 years ago

Exelente Plug-in
Gracias por hacer mas facil nuestros trabajos.

Khuong Tang

8 years ago

I can't install the plug-in. It said "SaberInstaller_1.0.39_Win_2017.exe has stopped working". I can't find a solution on internet

Marcelo

8 years ago

Nice Andrew!!!!
Thank you!!!!

Zephir

8 years ago

Hello,
Thanks for the plugin!
How can add a saber effect to a tracked text? I have done it with a tracked object but I can't figure out how to do it with a text...
Thanks in advance!

Michael

8 years ago

You have everything explained in the video, just fallow steps.

Abhishek Dhyani

8 years ago

thanx guys

Guylherme

8 years ago

Plzz, make 32 Bits version!! I need this plugin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JoÃ£o Moura

8 years ago

thank you

8 years ago

Hi ! Amazing plugin. I'm having a lot of fun (and thank your SO much because it's free !)
Is it possible to explain how you make the saber effect stick to the 3D texte in Element 3D ?

Mozart

8 years ago

Thank you, guys! This is a very nice effect plug-in!

Rekha

8 years ago

How do I download this plugin?

Jake

8 years ago

Dude, i have Ae Cs6 but when i go to render my clip with the saber it has an error and says something is wrong and to go to video copilot support but i can't fix it someone help please!?!

mido

8 years ago

Please make a 32 bit cs4 version

Soban Badar

8 years ago

Your work is awesome i am new to this software plz help me i want to learn this software completely becz i have much interest in it

dinopaoloFX

8 years ago

Thank you! O god of visual effects! We are eternally grateful for these blessings that you bestow upon us mere mortals. May you continue being amazing and magnanimous!

Amen.

CatArtz

8 years ago

Please make a 32 bit cs4 version , plzzzz i really like the plug-in and i want to make some stuff with it

Djevo1

8 years ago

Is it at all possible to get a feature added to this plugin. It would be very cool if it supported getting the opacity from masks in after effects.

Pian

8 years ago

Need 32 bit Please ????????????

hung

8 years ago

Hi. I cannot install for My PC. Every time i make a double click on Saber installer, a windows message appears: saberinstaller has stopped working. Please tell me how to fix this error and install Saber correctly. Thank you very much

sokha

8 years ago

thank you very mach pro for plugin after effect

Pete Sparks

8 years ago

Do I need element 3d for this to work?

Azer

8 years ago

No, its a stand alone plug in, enjoy!

roman

8 years ago

it keeps saying cant run on pc.. i use a windows 8 whats wrong?

ritesh

8 years ago

I have Windows PC..the Saber pluginn is not been installed in windows...it says to close the program all the time...

Michael

8 years ago

I am having trouble getting it into after effects. someone please help

Habib

8 years ago

Excellent Plag-in Thanks a Lot

Muhsin

8 years ago

Thank you for your free plug ins .I will very usefully to the video copilot site

Sanjay

8 years ago

Great plugin !! Thank you

SlowyFX

9 years ago

I WANT FOR AE CS4!!!! I WAANTTTTTT!!!

JoÃ£o vitor

9 years ago

32 bits ???

VÃctor

9 years ago

Thanks a lot for the Plugin! Keep making videos, you're good.

9 years ago

thanks a lot for that

joaquin

9 years ago

Does it work with older versions of Element 3D??? Cuz I don't have the last one....

Ben

9 years ago

does this work with hitfilm

Dodok

9 years ago

Amazing, the best! Thans!!!

kannan

9 years ago

thans guy

Priyanshu

9 years ago

I need 32 bit version of saber please

Denis

9 years ago

Best of the best!

Munziri

9 years ago

Thanks guy

growlight

9 years ago

Only says THANKS!!!

eving

9 years ago

it stopped working after 2017 CC
Hopefully, it gets an update
This plugin is just too awesome ~!

James Alickolli

9 years ago

I just used it a couple of days ago for 2017 it works fine

Jay

9 years ago

Doesnt work with new AE update

John Trabelsi

9 years ago

Hey guys, are you planning to support AE CC 2017 soon?

alex bogli

9 years ago

You can do it manually : Install > custom > adobe after effects > presets

Nicholas S Andrews

9 years ago

If you go into the into your program files/adobe/adobe after effects cc/support files/plug-ins and copy the Video Copilot folder and paste it into the Adobe After Effects Plug-ins folder (not the Adobepsl plug-ins) it will show up for 2017 version

John

9 years ago

Worked!! Thank you guys!

Randal Johnson

9 years ago

DO NOT UPDATE TO 2017!
I just installed the Creative Cloud 2017 update, and it seems Saber does not work. I tried reinstalling, since it said it was deleting the old files, but it still does not show up. Until this is confirmed and/or fixed, please DO NOT UPDATE TO 2017.

Laurence M

9 years ago

Is it possible to create sharp ends of a line with this? i know you can change start and end softness to give a rounded effect but how could i go about making for example an arrow?

Owen Prescott

9 years ago

Great plugin. Does anyone know of a quick method or tracing lines/paths with the glow? I want to replace the line art from my sketches with neon glows.

abeHere

9 years ago

i can send a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbmL-OM9HGI
Basically it's anime, but you can do it with whatever you want!

Matt S

9 years ago

Windows installer is corrupt. I can download the zip file with no problem but when i extract the zip i get "Cannot open file 'SaberInstaller_1.0.39_Win.Zip'. It does not appear to be a valid archive." Can anyone please help? I really would like to use this plug in on the project that i am working on. Thanks.

Ritesh

8 years ago

i am also facing Same Problem..

EvaanArtz

9 years ago

This Plugin is Much Best!, Good Job Video Capilot

SAOOD HASAN

9 years ago

SIR YOU ARE REALY ROCK I M YOUR FAN PLEASE ACCEPT ME AS YOUR PUPIL. PLEASE

Orlando

9 years ago

32 avaliable?

rowliv

9 years ago

If only I could get in your mind and see the ideas in the making! Wow

Marcin

9 years ago

This plugin rulezz! It is very easy to use, its very important. THX!

etefe

9 years ago

Thanks copilot thanks a lord...........

malli chaya

9 years ago

I lke this seber

Gabriel Lodron

9 years ago

criete one for sony vegas plese !! ???

chandu

9 years ago

IT IS NOT INSTALLING

Pam

9 years ago

Can anyone help me with an issue today? Its kinda urgent I fix this. I have a background and some ART letters on top of background, I need to have EACH art letter have fire around it. I Masked each art letter (not text) and then drag SABER effects on only one letter at a time, I select mask, and fire and it looks cool. but a BOUNDING box is around the letter and I can't get rid of it, the foreground has 9 letters and 9 bounding boxes that show (ugly) I only want the fire around the actual LETTER graphics not putting it in a box too. Can anyone tell me how to select an ART letter (or anything actually) that has been masked close around it, then have the fire on it and the background of that item be transparent - something is filling in the bounding box each time. I can send screen shot, this is really important for me to figure out, can you help?

Gabriel

9 years ago

Hey! had you resolved the problem?

Marcin

9 years ago

amazing plugin,thx bro this is what i looking for

Divakar Singh

9 years ago

Sir i have been using your plugins . they are awesome. but saber plugin when applied to a layer didn't make the background transparent. so when i put something behind it , it cut the graphics which is behind . is there any way to resolve this issue. please do help. thank you so much for the plugins and the tutorials.

Pam

9 years ago

I think I have this same problem, did you ever figure out how to resolve it? See my posting today.

Enenon

9 years ago

32 bits plzzz

Conner Adams

9 years ago

Why can I not install this? I keep getting error code 40. Does anyone know a fix?

ks0017h

9 years ago

I have a problem. After saber plug-in installation process AfterFX.exe does not shut down in the Window 7 Task Manager.

Deiu

9 years ago

i can`t even install the damn thing. it crashes when i double click it, any solutions ?? Windows 7

Nirakar

9 years ago

I was going through the plugin . But its not downloading. any idea ?

Tokemaro

9 years ago

sorry, but plugin don't work for AE cc 2015.3 Win 10

Michael

9 years ago

Yes it does. You need to manually place the saber plug-in file into the after effects 'effects' folder.

MHb

9 years ago

I had to install it twice on win 10 by closing all application(s). Then it starts working great

edson

9 years ago

guy put a version for Windows 10 many people suffer from it I found that the video copilot brings news even for users who have computers with Windows 10 please help us in Windows 10 does not install

Alexis

9 years ago

i launched installer twice and it's working on two computers on windows 10.

Dark

9 years ago

o Meu Não Funciona!

kishlay

9 years ago

its not working in cs3. can u tell me how to correctly intall it in cs3 version

said

9 years ago

muchas gracias para Usted ANDREW

Gubran Baddour

9 years ago

thank uuuu ANDREW that was nice of u.. amazing plugin

Tony

9 years ago

Where you can buy the blade of the prop they are using? I like the idea of the light being already present so you don't have to add it in.

alireza

9 years ago

i grew up with your tutorials

mbsaky

9 years ago

Thanks copilot thanks a lord...........

alilou

9 years ago

Thanks for all...My respects...!

Francis Stevens

9 years ago

I don't get it... You give this away but not something like models for element? We could just model them in c4d and import them... Thanks though cause this shit is the BOMB

Midhun

9 years ago

Oh Andrew... 10 years and counting...

Cheers!!

Tabbetz

9 years ago

Is it possible to track the smoke to background?

sam

9 years ago

I have i3 with 1 GB AMD graphic card + 8 GB ram. what is the system configuration you are using Or any other ideal configuration for Adobe after effect ?

JKoenen

9 years ago

LOVE IT

Mee

9 years ago

Thank You Sir <3

Han

9 years ago

Thank you very much!

festus

9 years ago

hi how can i access my copilot scene setup.. i have already downloaded it free and installed it freely

John

9 years ago

Can anyone upload the files in mediafire to download it doesn't open my installer just install and upload the plugin files

JMIAHONLINE

9 years ago

I have Element 3D 1.6, but still havent upgraded to 2.2 yet... will this saber plug-in work on it? or only I upgrade?

Jose Rangel

9 years ago

Thank you guys!

lmfao

9 years ago

why yall still on 32bit lmao

DAVID

9 years ago

I LOVE YOU ANDREW

Ankit Goel

9 years ago

its not working

HarishMahendra

9 years ago

Your simply awesome dude...Thumps up

Anup Mishra

9 years ago

I need this plugin for After Effects Cs6

Leigh-Rhys James

9 years ago

legend as always , total legend.

Chromatic

9 years ago

32 BITS Please :'(

KSM CREATER

9 years ago

Thank u for free sabar

skpkhun

9 years ago

I really like this affect.

Ascus Apparel

9 years ago

Cool, thanks dude, u're awesome

Craazy

9 years ago

Pleaseee 32 Bits :/

Eriavsanuz

9 years ago

ive got W x32 ...so, i´d love to have that effect but i cant so...i will try to upgrade my computer just to get THAT... makes me insane, I WANT IT...

JUAUM

9 years ago

Man Please 32 Bits

Cristian

9 years ago

Hi! I need this plug-in for 32bit please!

Children

9 years ago

I DONT KNOW WHY SOMEONE STILL ASK FOR 32BITS...WHY DONT UPDATE YOUR AE OR YOUR COMPUTER?

lmfao

9 years ago

100% agree

Stompy

9 years ago

32BITS PLEASE !!!!! AND AFTER EFFECTS CS4!!!!!!!! PLEASE

RaaHH

9 years ago

32bits pls !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i need this plugins in cs4

Stasy

9 years ago

Thank you so much for this awesome plugin!!!!!

kÂ´

9 years ago

for 32 bits please.

JUNIOR XD

9 years ago

HOLA AMIGOS SOY JUNIOR XD

shahid abbas

9 years ago

I am so happy to find this free plugins today. Thanks Sir!

Braiden

9 years ago

I don't really understand why this won't download for me. Running AE 2015 on a $5k pc and it's coming up as a threat/virus through Norton. Makes me hesitant to drop cash for future purchases with even a free download giving issues.

AungThura

9 years ago

Thanks for all

lucas

9 years ago

For 32bits, please

Antonio

9 years ago

For 32Bit x32 / x86 Pleaseeee

The Plugin is Perfect, but I No have 64 bit

Anie Greatman

9 years ago

and why are they saying that my licence is invalid

Anie Greatman

9 years ago

Pls my element 3d is behaving somehow, when i open it my 3d objects are flat and white ....pls this's urgent what should i do

Bruno

9 years ago

Hi, I would like to know how to add a plugin in my after effects cs6, is that I am new and do not know much about such things: P

Jatin Narul

9 years ago

Hey can you provide the project file used in this tutorial?

Faizan

9 years ago

Hi..!!!

Thank you for this Plugin Free

Frank Obediah Waka

9 years ago

what is the best way in using the Saber?

Eme

9 years ago

This plugin is absolutely amazing! And giving it away for free? You're awesome man! (:

Olga

9 years ago

I can not pass by without leaving a comment! Huge thanks to the author for such a generous gift! Everything works, the plugin installed without problems on the After Effects2015. I'm so excited!

Larry

9 years ago

Does anybody know how to get the energy part of the saber (the light), onto a transparent background to use for composite images? I can only seem to have it on black background, probably easy but I always choose the hardest way first lol, cheers guys.

emil

9 years ago

Just what I'm trying to figure out, please let me know if you find a way. And also please leave me you're mail so I can contact you too if I find a way.
emilcupic@gmail.com

Johann

9 years ago

the set up installation doesn't work on windows 7. Impossible to launch

Marlon

9 years ago

For 32bit pls!

Chris

9 years ago

Hi, i have After Effects cs4 and x32 or x86 sistem, can the plugin update to 32 and 64 bits? thanks, exelent plugin !

Hitmaxx

9 years ago

I am trying to get the glow to be black, to create a sort of smokey effect with the Saber plugin. However it just turns white.
I correct the problem with Color Correction->Levels, but I was wondering if it's just that the properties of a glow simply cannot exist as black?

The plugin is great otherwise, thank you.

IllumiFX

9 years ago

Hello, I have a problem with the installer. When I'm installing it, it crashes. Plz fix it.

Phoenix

9 years ago

Dude you're giving this away for FREE? Truly a god among men.

Sam

9 years ago

Absolutely love the ease of iterating looks with this. Spent a lazy Saturday learning to use it for different effects and came out with this hot pink mess.

https://vimeo.com/173270078

Burhan Khawaja

9 years ago

thanks for this awesome plugin.

theChamp

9 years ago

Really awesome plugin!! BUT I'm having some problems with it.

Everytime I'm creating a mask (after having added the saber effect to a solid and selecting 'layer mask' from core type) the saber doesn't line up with my mask. If I'm drawing my mask path at the bottom right corner, the saber appears in the upper left corner. Any help would be great

Praveen

9 years ago

Many thanks for this free plugin!

adrian

9 years ago

hEy guys i have a quiestion maybe you can figure it out. how can i track the starting point and end point of the saber. thanks!

Radcraig

9 years ago

Looks like folks at Sony Pictures Japan went a little crazy with your plugin for their Ghostbusters video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is31GGfhz8o

Kuki

9 years ago

Many thanks for this free plugin! Happy 10th anniversary and we look forward to subscribing to your awesome talent that you share with us! It means a great deal to us aspirants to one day become your level. More power to you and the whole VC team!

Enrique Garcia

9 years ago

This doesn't work with AE CC 2015.3

Oxygenium

9 years ago

For me works well

. You must select "Custom" in installation and find folder with After Effects plugins.

Bocomo Fu

9 years ago

AE CC 2015 can works well, Thanks for the saber plug, it's very good and useful

GiannisFX

9 years ago

I have a problem.When i open the installer it doesn't open to install and it crashes.Please help. Stuff:After fx CC 2014 Amd FX 6350 Palit GTX 960 8GB RAM

Email:giannisgamer123@yahoo.gr

Oxygenium

9 years ago

In installation select "Custom" and find folder with After Effects plugins. Then install it.

IllumiFX

9 years ago

pata to custom 3

Meissa cisse

9 years ago

thank s Andrew
and video copilot

Jason

9 years ago

Dude, Andrew and team, quality plugin! Thank you AGAIN for another Great free product. You really know how to make customer base loyal Video Copilot users!! Super Satisfied!

Dean

9 years ago

Forget my last post I sorted by navigating to the plugin folder via the "custom" option in the wizard.

D

Rodrigo

9 years ago

Doesn´t works on adobe cs6 on mac

Horst

9 years ago

Hey,

Your Plug In doesn't works on After Effects CC 2015.3

maxraphy

9 years ago

had the same issue after updating, you have to install it manually go get the saber.aex file in the cc2015 and copy it in the 2015.3 cc plug in folder

Horst

9 years ago

Okay, today's lesson was to learn how to manually install the plug in XD

9 years ago

Andrew,

Thank you so much! That was a great plug-in!
However, i found a promblem with using saber that keying frame in core end ,which is using the preset"Tractor Beam",the glow core will become so big which is too bright, i don't know what's wrong with it

Pedro

9 years ago

ANDREW KRAMER thanks for everything, Video copilot is changing my learning for the better. Even still learning how to use After Effects CC I think Video Copilot indispensable in any job.

[PT-BR]
Obrigado !

SpaceCowboy

9 years ago

Awesome job Andrew! thank you!! it ROCKS!!!!!!!!!! greetings from the Dominican Republic

Vistasp Edulji

9 years ago

The installer won't start. Is the plugin really working or you are kidding us here. Fix the issue

Uttu

9 years ago

Can't install..!!!

Bocomo fu

9 years ago

you may use 32 bit PC

Vistasp Edulji

9 years ago

One question I have is what are the minimum system requirements for this plug in. Don't want to download and feel dejected, instead of excited.

puk

9 years ago

I used it for an animated logo reveal. Works super on my mac. Thanks a lot Andrew.

Allan

9 years ago

SaberInstaller has stopped working, cant get it to work?

Jordan

9 years ago

Run it as an admin, that's how I got it to work.

James Twyman

9 years ago

This is a great idea for a plugin but is almost 100% unstable.

On a brand new top spec 5k iMac its crashing After Effects and just closing it without reason or warning.

It means I can't continue working on my feature film. Could you please address this

Shelby

9 years ago

Hy i have a problem i rendered out my Overlay with this effect but when i did this i had a transparent background but when i wanted to use the animated overlay there was a black background there some one help ( Quick Time + RGB+Alapha , but i didnt pre-composed the effect maybe thats the problem? )

Zayizhi

9 years ago

What you gave us is much better than candies!! Thank you!! You are the man!

Ryzwan

9 years ago

Thanks a lot andrew kramer

Risu

9 years ago

Hi all, let us assume one shot a live action footage plate in their garden, where the scene is the camera looking straight ahead at a tree for example and then the camera operator walks from left to right with the camera still looking ahead. That plate is then brought into AE and the 2D tracker is applied. What if one then creates a solid circle shape in AE as shown by 'A' in the picture below. The question is, as the camera moves from left to right, would that solid cicle shape gradually change from a full circle to an elliptical type shape as shown in 'B'? I ask because if one were to place a Hula hoop (which is circular as we know) on a 4 feet stand and stuck the stand on the ground, if one were to move left or right while looking at the hoop, our vision combined with optical physics changes or bends the shape of the full circle and then transforms the hoop into more of an ellipse/oval.

I just wanted to know if AE will treat the digital 2D circle shape in the same way when footage is brought into AE and 2D camera tracked.

http://postimg.org/image/gt5140caj/

Jonas Lawes

9 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etm2b4ZxR-0

Did they use your saber plugin for this?! Anyway its a cool video.
And thanks for the plugin.

Thomas

9 years ago

I get Error Code 40 when trying to install it; any tips?

iGabriDzn

9 years ago

I'need this plugin for computer's of 32 bits, you can do this please, i'need much this plugin.
I Thanks since
already.
~SOU BRASILEIRO~
~I'AM BRAZILIAM~

ptc

9 years ago

Amazing effect but can you please create an alpha channel for it. Without alpha we cannot export transparent renders. PLEASE add an alpha channel to this.

PLEASE USE ALPHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nico

9 years ago

How about pre-compose the layer and then make blending mode to "screen"?

Deepak

9 years ago

Hi
PTC
Please check in render setting of SABER Plugin there
Composite Setting - Transparent option

Thanks

Deepak

9 years ago

Hi
PTC
Please check in render setting of SABER Plugin there
Composite Setting - Transparent option

Thanks

deepak

9 years ago

plz go to render setting (SABER PLUGIN) composite setting
option Transparent

Thanks

Abhishek

9 years ago

Sir, i am unable to download the plugin how to create a cinematic video, Thanks for your hard and superb knowledge

ser humano

9 years ago

FUNCiONA NO CS4 32 BiTS?

Kaykay

9 years ago

No 32 bit version? Can someone please tell me where's the 32 bit version?

Damien

9 years ago

Actually this plug in works only on 64 bit system. u should update your system

Matthew Abaya

9 years ago

Wow this would be great to use but like a few others on older operating systems, its doesn't seem to open on Mac 10.7.5 Any other way to install?

Miimii

9 years ago

Não tem para 32 bits? ;-;

Marcin

9 years ago

plugin is so cool

please see my work with it and let me know what you think .... thank you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

wBSKoVM1Hc

Rob

9 years ago

Just wanted to say a big thank you for creating and giving away this plug-in for free. You released it just in time for me to finish my Star Wars Alphabet animation in time for May 4th! Check out the liberal use of Saber (ironically no lightsabers) here:
https://youtu.be/PZdxAGDxyaM

Vaughn

9 years ago

Hey there. I'm working with Mousetrappe on a high profile project that uses Saber. We have found that rendering in After Effects 2015.2 via Deadline 7.2 on Windows 7, Saber causes the render task to hang when completed and never progress to the next batch of frames. Is anyone else seeing this? When we run the job on render nodes with Windows 10 it seems to work fine.

anon

9 years ago

Hi could you please add a feature to give the core a center size? It has start and end size but when I put both to zero the saber disappears. It would be really good for planets, I've been using saber to make some great looking planets but to feather off the atmosphere on the dark side I've been using a linear wipe. It does the trick but it looks way better fading the edges with a 0 start and end size. For the moment I've been working around it by using two saber layers. One going from 0 to 25% offset with 0% start size and the other 25% to 50% offset and 0% end size, it looks better than the linear wipe but has a weird staggered blending of the two glows in the center. I think a center width property (which should probably be an optional setting) would fix that because there would only be one glow spanning the width of the saber. If you could please add that to the next version of saber that would be amazing

Love you guys!!!

Kyle

9 years ago

Is there a way to simply freeze the effect for bullet time?

Steve

9 years ago

Wait, you worked on the titles for The Force Awakens? Does that include the crawl? Because the timing was a little off on the crawl. "Episode VII" appeared about half a second too soon. There's a particular note that it should appear on. Also, there should have been no CAPITALISED words (never mind more than one) as it's an odd-numbered film and only the even-numbered films were supposed to have them, though I'm guessing that was a creative decision higher up the food chain.

Michael

9 years ago

Hi All,

im somewhat of a novice so hopefully this is an easy question:

ive downloaded and installed the file, but when i go to open "Saber" (AEX File) it opens Ae but says the following:

After Effects error: Cant import file "Saber.aex": unsupported filetype or extension.. (0 :: 1)

is there a way around this issue?
thanks!

Thomas

9 years ago

Great plug-in! It's very much a huge game changer for all of us in VFX. I noticed that it can primarily take advantage of an AfterEffects layer's alpha channel (i.e., a text layer) or an applied path shape or mask. Will there ever be a version of this plug-in which can use a luma matte layer being applied to the solid layer that the plug-in has been applied towards? For example, the luma mattes that can come out of C4D in the form of object buffer .MOV files?

Bart

9 years ago

Great plugin. I've done an opening title in a style of a latino soap opera. Check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAZBNqRkfP0

Connor

9 years ago

Looks great!

Wendel

9 years ago

Thanks Videocopilot this Plugin I've been waiting for this a long time ago, because before to me it was exausting make a light saber on AE! Thank much, and sorry for some mistakes on grammar but English, isn't my native language is Portuguese.

Kyle Head

9 years ago

Love this plug-in! I used it with some drone footage I shot to make this wormhole portal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t25WMPHuGQ

Kevin Sancen

9 years ago

Hey guys. Hope you like my Saber test! https://youtu.be/lkxutKLxvTw

Ami

9 years ago

14:31 I didn't get that how to make it?
How to make the wave line and let the effect on it

did anyone can teach me? Thanks

Czo

9 years ago

Nice glow feature! Would love a 32b glow and bloom pluging for 3D renders as well, I often find myself using waay yo much time trying to make natural glow and glares on renders with the default AE tools =/

djevo1

9 years ago

Is there any plan of adding mask opacity support so the sabers will disappear when the mask disappears?

mahesh kumar

9 years ago

help me plz

mahesh kumar

9 years ago

helooooo

eihab

9 years ago

No freaking way... THIS IS AMAZING! thank you so much!!!!!

James

9 years ago

Andrew,

Thank you so much! First for the wonderful Lightsaber effect, and also for all the wonderful tutorials and products. You have been an inspiration to me as well as a mentor.

Thanks again,
James

mustafa

9 years ago

Thank you so much Andrew

mahesh kumar

9 years ago

hey help me ...........
i download the video copilot saber plugin for AE cs6 but its not working,
if i am going to run the setup my system is atomically restarting

outerbongolia

9 years ago

Hi Mahesh, I couldn't see a version for CS6 when I downloaded. Only CS2014 & CS2015.

Sriman Biswajit

9 years ago

God bless you dear..

Chandan Dutta

9 years ago

I got a question about optimum specs for a laptop which I can use for Adobe Aftereffect CC version, especially with : 1)Machine memory 2)VIDEO card memory 3)Processor speed?
Thanks,

Joey Danger

9 years ago

Thanks! I used it to create the laser rings in my new music video along with the element boombox https://youtu.be/4-hss_yWGJs

Lynn Rainwater

9 years ago

Amazing! Thank you so much Andrew!

Jacob

9 years ago

After effects crash when I apply Saber Plugin to a text... HELP PLEASE!!!!

templar

9 years ago

Don't apply it directly to the text layer. Apply it to a solid, and in the option you select Core Type > Text layer" then select the layer in the drop-down menu just below.

kharab

9 years ago

Could you tell us how you did the little smoke around the title in the Saber trailer?

Mondi

9 years ago

This is awesome! Just what I was looking for!
Thank you!

Brett

9 years ago

Love the plug-in and your tutorials, but I'm having a strange issue. After I export my movie, the section containing any "Saber" effects renders out as a solid white screen. After the section passes by, the movie resumes as normal. Imagine the timeline as: 1-7 seconds in (looks great), 8-12 seconds in with saber effects (blank screen), 13-20 seconds (looks great again). Any idea on why plugin is rendering out funky? I can't seem to find any answers anywhere. Thanks. Note: Using a Windows computer with After Effects CC 2015 if that makes a difference.

Brett

9 years ago

Update: I rebooted the machine entirely and suddenly everything is hunky-dory. Feel free to disregard my post.

Patrick

9 years ago

I used saber to help create the hot pokers in S05e16 of GRIMM. This plugin is awesome

JB Z

9 years ago

Amazing plugin! Is there a way to get the effect similar to :25 with a ring of fire but have it rotated laying on a ground plane so that the flames are rising up from the ground plane?

iorn_B

9 years ago

Amazing! This Plug-In can use anywhere freely? Even a commercial use ?
Even though it's true, I can't believe it ...
It's true?

eilon hay

9 years ago

working like charm love u and your work been waiting all this time and I knew u wont let down u are awesome and I thank u

Pako

9 years ago

Star...what???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rUTeu2TMy8

9 years ago

The trailer gave me goose bumps ALL OVER my body.

Anil

9 years ago

YOU ARE AWESOME

matavia

9 years ago

Oh.My.Goodness. You are sent from the heavens!!! Thank you

Steffen

9 years ago

uninstall Apple Quicktime

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/14/uninstall_quicktime_for_windows/

Lucas

9 years ago

This is absolutely incredible! You and the team are beyond generous! Thank you so much!! I see limitless possibilities for this amazing FREE plugin. Groovy two shoes!

Martin

9 years ago

Thank you very much Andrew

SABER is sooo coooooooollll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDJqvj9GTUY

Alexis Bacler

9 years ago

You plugin is amazing....really...really i liket it.... I send you greetings from Merida Yucatan Mexico.... sorry for my english but when you'll travel to merida, yucatan, mexico, I and my team, we will wait you, we will have special access to much pleaces just for you and your team. hahaha the places are cultural and archaeological

chiya

9 years ago

hi Andrew why cant render Alpha?

any way to get render Alpha?

deepak

9 years ago

plz go to render setting (SABER PLUGIN) composite setting
option Transparent

Thanks

Trunks

9 years ago

i'm usind win7....when i start install .....it crash and stoped working....can't insatll saber plugin....Pls help me....

Zelalem

9 years ago

Thank you very much Andrew for all the tutorials and freebies you have been giving away for the last 10 years! You are amazing person and I don't even know how to express my appreciation.

Mark Jones

9 years ago

Hey Andrew NEED your help. First of all HUGE FAN. Im having a small issue that I cant figure out.I have been unable to apple a mask to the saber layers. What am I doing wrong? PLEASE ADVISE!!!

Chandana

9 years ago

An excellent plugin for free? many thanks andrew and the videocopilot team. appreciate your hard work.

DELBEKE Martin

9 years ago

Thanks Andrew ! Still a Great tutorial !

Todd McMiniment

9 years ago

Anybody having horizontal line issue? I'm getting black horizontal lines / bars across my comp. They are appearing for a frame or two or three in varying degrees of thickness and duration. Pretty sure it's a bug but any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Actually trying to use this on a quick production shot I'm doing. May have to ditch it though. FWIW using - CC2014
A few screenshots:
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1690/26226818031_bb60c6c5c0_b.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1717/26200651762_1aa2f1e189_b.jpg

Todd McMiniment

9 years ago

Ooops, posted the same one twice.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1717/26200651762_1aa2f1e189_b.jpg

Damian Alpizar

9 years ago

So, I'm the guy who spent HOURS creating a beam for the HSN's Batman V Superman spoof when lo and behold VCP drops SABER! I was able to take my 20 something layers and reduce them to just a few. Even used it to make molten metal edges.

Check out the results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LH9sG0B8yg

Thank you for the plugin!

mike

9 years ago

Wow, free plugin ? Are you that awesome ? Of course you are, your personality and kindness knows no boundries...although all work should be payd and rewarded in my opinion.

Hero

9 years ago

I need Saber Plugin for 32 bit .

Vinhnq

9 years ago

Amazing..........
How search name "Backgound_stage"?
I want to find it, please!

digiphic.com

9 years ago

It is one of your great plugins!

Thanks for your excellent plugins dear Andrew.

James Scott

9 years ago

Thanks Andrew and Sam,

You are truly an inspiration. I hope you have many more years of success as you deserve it.

Cheers

Alec

9 years ago

Okay, I've used the installer, and I've tried installing the plugin many times, but it doesn't work, it just won't appear in after effects. It's in my \Support Files\Plug-ins but it doesn't work, any help?

Valentino Kemper

9 years ago

Go to the saber installer, open the pack and copy 'Resources pack' to After Effects/Plug-Ins. Than restart AE and enjoy!

Ospry

9 years ago

I tried to install this plug-in but I get a message stating version not compatible with my version of windows (Win7 Ultimate 32-bit). I'm guessing this download is 64 bit. Is there a 32-bit version? Oh, my AE is CS4

Gali

9 years ago

Hola, no he podido instalarlo empieza y se interrumpe la instalación no sale error nada Me podrían decir mas en detalles tengo cc 2015.
Muchas gracias

Mubeen

9 years ago

Amaizing man u r awsome man this plugin made my life easy........

omid pouyaei

9 years ago

thanks for your kindness it is grate.

RW Digital

9 years ago

Damn, Sam still doing his stuff LOL...! well done guys, thanks for the free plugin, will try it

Zizo

9 years ago

Is there anyway to make the distortion repeatable?
You must have used fractal noise which has evolutions but 3 days I've been working with it now and I'm not sure I found a way to make it loopable.
Nice plugin btw, and it's free... takes it to another level.

Dana A

9 years ago

Help. after I have a saber coming moving out, when it rests, the core size is jumping for 1 frame, its like it is growing twice the size for a second.
Is there any work around. I checked for random keyframes and there are no stragglers.

KJ Campbell

9 years ago

Does anyone know where I can find those portals or energy sources that he has under the circle mask, the object comes into play around 6 minutes into the tutorial.

AndyHuang

9 years ago

hi, can i use matte from comp layer ? thx

Paul C

9 years ago

Hi VCP. Could you please release manual install files, as the Mac installer doesn't run in 10.7.5. Many thanks!

Victor

9 years ago

Hi,
Just to tell you that your plugin is just freaking awsome !
Your work is hudge, and I will never can you enought thank you.
Sorry for my bad english, I'm french

Love and thanks for all
Victor

billy

9 years ago

lol..no jake i was using my new samsung s7 phone and my fingers are too big for this small phone
by the way i was able to install this cool plugin on my macbook..since i have 10.8 on that cpu but the graphic cards sucks ..i wish andrew made a 32 bit version of this plugin for my macpro that has better graphic card

Keyserr

9 years ago

It's only support 64bit version for windows.

Hugo

9 years ago

Hi Guys I'm trying to install the Saber plug in on a MacBook Pro (late 2011) but after opening the installer nothing happens... it keeps the installer software open but doesn't show any window to start the install...

Has anyone had this problem on a Mac?

Thanks

Phil

9 years ago

I'm having this problem too. I'm on a mac running OSX 10.7.5 and After Effects CS6.

Guille

9 years ago

Guys, I double click the .exe, computer thinks for a few seconds, and then nothing happens. Has anyone had this problem? (AE CS6, W7 Professional 64Bits) Thanks

Victor

9 years ago

Happended to me, I just tick the "browse" thing, and select the folder (Programme Files/Adobe/Adobe After Effect/App/Ae/SupportFiles/Plung-ins(by the way I don't remember the correct path, but it's something like this. It's "Support Files" that's important). Then I created a new folder named "saber" and I clicked on it and selected "Select folder"(bot left). And it's worked !
Enjoy and waiting for your feedback,
Victor

BILLY GAILYARD

9 years ago

To bad I can't have ever it is have a older model cpu with a great graphic card but not 64 bit support only 32 bit but I can use this on a laptop that does support it not so great graphics card..lol thanks again andrew

Jake

9 years ago

i have a slight feeling you used google translate

Aaron Wong

9 years ago

Haha.. because not all of AE user good at english (like me)

chris

9 years ago

Can someone tell me how can I add saber to a 3d model in element and have it stick to it?

Sean

9 years ago

You will need to somehow get a Mask from it. Use the Pen Tool and trace out your model. Look at this video for some assistance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aA6lynCYMM

asART.3D and motion graphics

9 years ago

Hi Chris .. You can also take a look at this tutorial.
It's another way to make the saber stick to a 3d model.
In this tutorial you can see how it also works on OBJ sequences. Take a look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04BY2iXEZR4

chris

9 years ago

Thanks so much guys..I'm going to check out the videos as soon as I get home!

Nick Cifarelli

9 years ago

Goddamn it Andrew, you are a legend. Man you did it again. I would give my arm to have you teach me everything you know.

Bless ya mate and keep em coming!

Toby

9 years ago

When I export the saber, it doesn't render the glow

In the previews it's perfect, and playback shows it as having the glow, but everytime I export, it's just the basic 2d shape of the saber - no deep glow or anything that was shown in the preview. Anyone have any ideas as to why it does this/what I need to do to fix it? It's urgent.

Toby

9 years ago

IMPORTANT UPDATE/NOTICE: I was previewing the Saber effect on "Quarter" quality - everything looked fine, but when I changed it to "Full" quality in the preview, it lost it's glow and everything else. Just a note that only the "Full" quality on preview will give you an accurate representation of what the parameters will actually be; anything below will give a false impression of what it will export as.

So i've fixed it now, just had to change the preview to Full and readjust the settings completely.

VinÃcius

9 years ago

video copilot how i install this ?

Auke Valk

9 years ago

Thanks for this amazing free plugin! I've made this : https://youtu.be/zRvWZsXWGv8

Sean

9 years ago

When adding the Saber effect to a Text Layer, you need to add Saber to a Solid first and then select the Text layer from within the Saber UI panel, otherwise AE will crash.

Nio555

9 years ago

Yes same, I am with 750 ti with 4gb of ram and there is a lot of crashing!

Seth

9 years ago

Yes, crash crash crash.

James Twyman

9 years ago

Amazing plugin, really came at the right time. My only issue is that it's crashing After Effects on a brand new High spec 5K iMac with 4GB of video card. After using it for a while, whilst messing with settings AE simply disappears and i lose everything. Is this an issue anyone else is having

Sean

9 years ago

Without knowing what you are doing, but I can guess that you are trying to add the Saber effect directly to a Text Layer, you need to add it to a Layer and then select Text from the Saber UI Panel.

David Bixler

9 years ago

I'm having similar issues but due to processor overload. It's CPU intensive, not GPU.

Ray

9 years ago

Well thanks a lot for this awesome plug-in and its all for free. Thanks bro. Please help me, I am having black installation window. and its doing nothing. Run the exe file and installation black window pops up.

Ray

9 years ago

please help me

abdu mohd. Hassan

9 years ago

Thanks Andrew for this great plug-in which i think it solve & help us to design attractive into & complicate logos

9 years ago

In pre-production for my short film, but this plug-in solved a question I've been asking myself for years when trying to create my logo intro. Thanks again Andrew! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LhDz8xuZS8

David Gomez Anell

9 years ago

I really love your tutorials. I have been following a lot of them and I only can say a big thank you for all the work that you share with us and congratulations for being a master of these techniques.

Dwane

9 years ago

Awesome Plugin... with one problem I can not seem to figure out. Is there a way to rotate a text layer in 3D space with this effect on it? It will not work for me at all.

Dwane

9 years ago

Answered my own question. 3D Precompose script by VC did the trick! http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2014/08/free-script-3d-pre-compose-tutorial/

Sean

9 years ago

Great Tutorial to mix Element 3D with the Saber Plugin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrnKjstUKkg

jkdezigner

9 years ago

any body knows how to do this effect ink to text reveal https://vimeo.com/69233079

Sean

9 years ago

You might try contacting the author "eslam amin" directly by sending him a message on his page. https://vimeo.com/polypic

Lucian

9 years ago

Andrew Kramer, you are a genius. You have inspired me to specialise my freelancing. I was doing any random multimedia work, but now I'm going to pursue motion graphics and VFX; it's all I ever really want to do

Mad respect and love for you <3

hong

9 years ago

thank you guy. And admire your devotion. It is too good plug in.
(my english is not good..but understood?)

Michael

9 years ago

I think I Got a bug! Create ajustment layer with mask on it, and null to move ajustment layer, and effect dont moving by null but masks did.

badstudio

9 years ago

Thanks Andrew, this plug-in is AWESOME!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRtw6zp2SZg

Firdaus Fajar Kurniawan

9 years ago

oh my god, among the all other plugins, this is the most AMAZING plugin! Keep up the good work Andrew! I'm waiting your other tutorials for using this plugin, it really helped me to create any "energy" things for sci-fi effects.

AnD

9 years ago

First of all, thank you so much Andrew and all Video Copilot team for this amazing tools!

So, making some tests, I integrated Saber with a 360° video experiment.
Feel free to share if you liked! Thanks in advance!

https://youtu.be/czudkXZJU3U

Mone8

9 years ago

Thanks for all the hard work VC team. Perfect for two subtle shots in needed. 00:48 and final shot 00:12
https://vimeo.com/160045967

Christopher

9 years ago

Hi, thank you so much for this awesome plugin. I'm having a problem with animating the presets, is there a fix for this? I'm using Adobe After Effects CC 2015.2

Sean

9 years ago

Can you provide some additional details on your specific issue ?

Christpoher

9 years ago

Thank you for replying, I managed to get it working..love and mad respect for u guys!!

Ronaldo Teixeira

9 years ago

100% FREE !! I do not believe !!! you are awesome !!

Eric

9 years ago

1000th Comment!!!!!

Daniel

9 years ago

Thanks Andrew, this plug-in is AWESOME!!

Jack Drafahl

9 years ago

Thanks for the great plug-in. I also love your Elements 3D plug-in. I was working through your Replicator Tutorial, and wondered if you would ever consider doing a Tutorial on using Photoshop layers and the 3D function with the Replicator in Elements 3D. A lot of producers create opening titles using templates that are available or free download. If they could use Photoshop and Elements 3D with the Replicator, they would be creating new and unique titles. Just a suggestion.

Again keep up the good work. I have a feeling that you will have a great impact on how Hollywood does special effects now, and more so in the future.

Richard

9 years ago

Andrew,
I can not figure out how to add SABER to an Element 3D Beveled text. Can you please explain in detail. I am sure it is something simple and I will be embarrassed when you share the solution. Perhaps a sample AE project that can be downloaded. Thanks. You are the Master, I bow to your greatness.

Jim

9 years ago

You are a god among men Andrew, thanks to you and the team ...again!

Marcos

9 years ago

Gracias Andrew, es excelente el plugin, encima gratis, sos un genio!.

spiro

9 years ago

amazing plug-in Andrew...you are truly the best

konglongguo

9 years ago

grateful

abhir

9 years ago

AWWSOME PLUGIN , IT REALLY GOOD

Vladimir

9 years ago

Fanks for you job AHDRIOXA

saravanakumar

9 years ago

super work i like it

Manish bhanushali

9 years ago

Me and my team creating a virtual reality content and we are trying to make something interesting with using video copilot plugins. As its experiment for me so i am looking for the trail version of 2.2 3D element plugins. are this plugins available for trail version?

bala

9 years ago

hi i got a doubt some times you use expressions to get a really a great out put so hear i want to what kind of programming should i learn for expression control
or else you may come out with a new tutorial for expressions

Michael Angelo

9 years ago

Another Saber Video. This time, actually putting it to use for work!
~MAH~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtI1cRor-_I

Hasan Hina

9 years ago

Hey Andrew! Great plugin i love it ! made a lot of things easier! and super duper time saver! much love

here is something i worked on using it :
https://drive.google.com/a/ndproductions-jo.com/file/d/0Bwz_Tk0fehPzRDVuZ2xiT1l3a2M/view?usp=sharing

Aidan

9 years ago

Now THIS is original and really creative (most people seem to copy what they see AK doing). Well done.

Dan H.

9 years ago

I second that. Nice work indeed!

David Bixler

9 years ago

Hi Hasan,

Do not think me critical of your work. I LOVE what you did here.

One thing though... Perhaps instead of the spark where the laser hits the metal.... replace it with some optical flare effect, and maybe combine it with a little Trapcode Particular smoke to add more real feel to it?

3 Love this as it is though. Spectacular work!

danny

9 years ago

verry verry nice!!
looks great!

Mark

9 years ago

Pretty darn good!

Michael Angelo

9 years ago

VERY WELL DONE!!! Bravo!

Sean

9 years ago

NICE! One of the best uses of Saber I've seen so far! Well done.

Ayal

9 years ago

god! plugin!

Kyle Wright

9 years ago

Andrew help please!! Is there any way to add saber to a pre comp of text? I need to make a lyric video for my church and don't want to overcome by multiple solids to attach text layers. I've tried and it has not worked for me.

David Bixler

9 years ago

Did you try converting the text to a path / autotrace? You can then apply Saber right to the autotraced layer.

I noticed this issue when streaming a walkthrough... you can't apply Saber to Text without using a solid as a proxy for the effect, but you can apply it directly to masks/shapes.

Joe

9 years ago

Great plug in, too much fun.
https://youtu.be/qbflw5BrAz4

This is my second attempt at combining Video Copilot's Element 3D and Saber Plug-ins for After Effects. I used two OBJ sequences exported from DAZ Studio. Instead of rotoscoping the saber effect, I made a comp of the saber and mapped them to the blades in Element 3D. the benefit of this is that it shows up in the reflections. More experiments are needed, but it's a promising start.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Joe

9 years ago

More fun with Sabre and Element 3D
https://youtu.be/8VAl55A21TQ

This is a mutation of the previous test. Since the mocap was for a sword and shield, I wanted to see what a light shield might look like.

phillip bauman

9 years ago

made a second test using saber! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV9d_YxiBNE

David Bixler

9 years ago

Is it just me or does this plugin rely on the CPU and not the GPU as typically expected? This is causing issues when rendering.

Andrew

9 years ago

Yes, this will hopefully get patched soon. I use CUDA for everything so my render times using Saber are pretty slow.

Tosha

9 years ago

Thanx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SottoZen

9 years ago

Hey... you are just GREAT! Following you since always. Thanks and greetings from Italy!

Eddie

9 years ago

Created a Star Wars type scene with the new order trooper helmets created in Maya and imported in E3d. check it out https://youtu.be/4lF9DA1C7so

Marcelo

9 years ago

From Argentina ...Amazinng!!! I Love you Andrew!!! I mean Im not Gay... I mean Im Exited too!!! You Back!!!

matty

9 years ago

Hi guys, i am having trouble using saber with text!

When i apply the effect onto my text layer the saber light is offset and cut off where the text layer ends. When the effect is then selected to recognize the text layer it goes completely black and i cannot see my layer at all? Have i encountered a bug?? I've deleted it and reinstalled it with the same results...

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks

olli

9 years ago

You need to keep adding the Saber effects to a solid layer - not the text layer itself. Then choose the specific text layer within the plugin.

oscaryohana

9 years ago

Thnkx alot but while doing this please help us with some other plugins like action essentioals for free please.
God bless you.

srikanth

9 years ago

hey andrew nice come back
one request can we have an into title like Daredevil plzzz
thanku

MichaÅ‚ Zimnowodzki

9 years ago

incredible fun - THANKS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RADwXd62-Cw

felix

9 years ago

Kills the Saber plugin Intercept?

Qim

9 years ago

yeah... a reeeeally exciting plugin alright... you guys are the best!!

Jacob

9 years ago

This probably sounds really stupid but I can't figure out how to install the Plugin. Is there anything I need?

Jacob

9 years ago

I figured out my problem, I was installing it on the wrong hard drive.

djounad

9 years ago

you are N 1;nice work Man

Nate

9 years ago

Does this work with CS4?

Felix

9 years ago

Where is the f***ing Intercept?

Josh

9 years ago

Andrew has a lot of things to do on his palte, he wants to make sure his short film with FREE BTS is perfect.

Phil Q

9 years ago

Whooah..cool compression..and cool plugin

Bec

9 years ago

Awesome as always Andrew!

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9 years ago

Fantastic, brilliant, and mindbending as always. Thank you

Sanjaya Madanayaka

9 years ago

Your the man....
I learn AE from your grate tutorials and i can do lot of AE works in your helps.

thank u very very much for sharing! Useful tutorial.

Good blase to you and your TEAMS...

I'am Nuwan Sanjaya from SRI LANKA

jenny

9 years ago

My jaw dropped open and my eyes went "blink blink" like a cartoon. This is a hands-down stunningly gorgeous plugin. Your tutorial opens the doors to so many possibilities- can't thank you enough!

Aslan

9 years ago

Hi Andrew, as always this is some amazing work. I was wondering if it would be possible to get this effect into a 3D space, like the smoke trail stuff you did with particular here: http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/smoke_trails/

the possibilities would be crazy

Sean

9 years ago

Look at this: http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2014/08/free-script-3d-pre-compose-tutorial/ also https://www.redgiant.com/blog/2009/11/20/knoll-3d-flare/

Guille

9 years ago

Thanks for this Andrew, is it truly amazing, and free! Couldn't ask for more. Man you are a legend and a mentor to all of us humble AF trainees. Keep it up bro!!

Tommy

9 years ago

Awesome new plug in! Having an issue getting the transparency to work??? I saw in the first part of your demo that you change the transfer mode to screen and at the point the transparency took into effect. I do the same and I do not get the effect. Im not using a mask layer but a text layer, not sure if that has play in that or not. Any suggestions?

Tommy

9 years ago

Found the answer, just found the setting in the effects controls, under render settings section/composite settings>drop down menu\transparent... Again, AWESOME PLUG IN and plus its FREE!!!

Yougz

9 years ago

Thank you Andrew, very usefull.

I took my evening to test it, here is my result https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEwv-l8pdWQ&feature=youtu.be

Joe

9 years ago

Thanks for the great plug-in

I tried it with Element 3D: https://youtu.be/hdE04cWRHRo

This is my first attempt at combining Video Copilot's Element 3D and Saber Plug-ins for After Effects. I used a OBJ sequence exported from DAZ Studio. I could't figure out how to connect element 3D and Saber so I rotoscoped the Sabre path (badly),

Does anyone know how to integrate Element 3D and Sabre?

David

9 years ago

How does one sync the Saber effect to the text-shaped mask at 16:33, more specifically, how is the mask applied and lined up with the 3D layer? Is this tracking, rotowork, or some other technique?

Steve

9 years ago

I think we all owe you thanks Mr Kramer. Glad your tuts are still as funny engaging and awesome as ever.

Vinnie K

9 years ago

Hi VC'ers,

I am testing this new Plugin and try to determine how Andrew set up the Saber effect into the Element text (0:22 sec).
It's crystal sharp in the example but when I try to overlay this Text layered Saber effect (made a Precomposed Layer of the text and put it on the exact location in the main comp) it makes this precomposed saber text unsharp/blurry.
Even without DoF it's unsharp.
Has anyone tested it and what might be the solution to create this effect?

Regards,

Vinnie
Dutchland

Eric

9 years ago

So, I'm having a small issue. I want the default saber line to just simply grow longer. When I animate the core end with an easy ease I get a flash as soon as it has reached the end keyframe. The line literally just gets brighter and longer for a second and then goes back to how it should be. Any solutions? There are only 2 keyframes so and I have tried this a few times so I know that there aren't any random hidden keyframes that would be doing this. This is obviously just a bug but want to know if anyone else is having this issue.

Amazing plugin by the way thank you.

Karsten

9 years ago

Yet another great plugin

We had just made the lightsaber effect with "just" the previous version of the lightsaber script from videocopliot - and then this plugin came out

- so then we had to quickly resign this plugin instead - and that was just so incredible much better.

Here it is - https://youtu.be/m6LIXHkGRFI

Willem

9 years ago

Thank you so much Andrew for creating this plugin. And making it FREE! You are awesome.

Ken

9 years ago

Ugh......

David Bixler

9 years ago

Yeeeeessss?

LWAddict

9 years ago

Absolutely worth the wait. You sir, rock!
If this, and all this training, is what you "give away", I canNOT wait to see what it is that you're selling here.

- Customer for Life

SHU

9 years ago

Excellent plug-ing and great details tutorial! Thank you Andrew and your great team.
I'm using it for a test logo, used solid and mask with ae camera. My problem is its not doing any crisp edge all are jagged. Could any one please advice me, Thank you all.

snowy

9 years ago

nice bro thanks alot u r awesome & funny not boring atleast ^ ^ like the others keep going<3

Nicolas

9 years ago

You're amazing man

Cygnux

9 years ago

Thank you! Great plugin. It also works great as Neon Tubing.

Britton R.

9 years ago

Does this plug in work with Hitfilm 2 Ultimate?

Jonny Eklund

9 years ago

Testing Saber with the techniques from this video:
https://youtu.be/xBJIdJ6W7Og

(Thanks to Clipreply) I managed to get the saber to reflect in realtime to the objects within Element 3D.

https://youtu.be/APgJSXAr-xw

Jonny Eklund

9 years ago

https://youtu.be/APgJSXAr-xw

jenny

9 years ago

This is a jaw-droppingly gorgeous plugin! The tutorial shows you techniques to make it even more amazing. Best thing I've seen in a while. Wow.

Asher

9 years ago

Does this plug in only work in after affects?

Jonathan Zuck

9 years ago

Anyone tried this in Premiere yet?

carl

9 years ago

can this be used in premier pro

Roland

9 years ago

Hi Sir Andrew... Why is it when I am installing front the start, it says SaberInstaller_1.038_win.exe has stopped working? Any fix for this... Thanks!

Roland

9 years ago

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: SaberInstaller_1.0.39_Win.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 56dde38c
Fault Module Name: SaberInstaller_1.0.39_Win.exe
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 56dde38c
Exception Code: c000001d
Exception Offset: 000000000008a565
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 9a03
Additional Information 2: 9a03d34e9a3b396c7908c425bb941f96
Additional Information 3: 7ecf
Additional Information 4: 7ecff81b7ff475d4dc8a293661ce3220

asART. 3D and motion graphics

9 years ago

Hi folks ..
Take a look at our short clip created in AE using Element 3D and Saber Plug-In .. Enjoy !

https://vimeo.com/158988962

Sean

9 years ago

Thanks Broo..

Brian H

9 years ago

Saber makes some basic stroke effects easier and nicer to do. I used saber to highlight the edge of the word LEGENDS in the end resolve of a longer animation I'm working on. So helpful thanks Video Copilot.

https://youtu.be/K3nBApn4rAQ

asART.

9 years ago

Hi Brain .. nice work !
Here is what we did .. take a look:
https://vimeo.com/158988962

Micha? Zimnowodzki

9 years ago

incredible fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RADwXd62-Cw

zion

9 years ago

Since the beginning! Im always following your steps bro! You deserve all the credits! keep on doing this great job on the movies and of course...here!

Pulse Film Studios

9 years ago

YESSSS! cant wait to get home so i can play with this thing!!!!!!!, no sleep tonight hahah

Ben

9 years ago

When i download the plug-in and install it theirs an issue because it wont transfer onto my after effects but its my first time installing a plug-in i might be doing it wrong please write back.

lovestarwars

9 years ago

hi,
the saber lugin i in the plugin folder but my AE dont show it and when i search: saber it doesn't find anything
what am i doing wrong??

Fede

9 years ago

We are very thankfull to you mr Andrew, you are the one ... !

Damian

9 years ago

Very nice plugin! However, I have two questions regarding e3D:

Will there ever be added physics to 3D element? At least, that is how the basic Trapcode Particular?

Will they ever added bones in the 3D element that will better animation of 3D models?

Jessy ZoMawi

9 years ago

Thanks. You're the best VideoCopilot.

ALZO FROM A.T CREATIVE

9 years ago

THANKS U SOME MUCH ANDREW, THIS IS JUST AWESOME, THATS EVEN ONE OF THE MOST COOL PLUGIN, THANKS FOR MAKING ME LOVE MO-GRAPHICS

PLEASE CHECK OUT MY PAGE
https://www.facebook.com/creativeAT/

https://www.facebook.com/creativeAT/videos/516703995157404/

9 years ago

CODE 40 ERROR : programm would be installed in my AE CC & my AE CC2014 (you see 2 blues squares when you start). So you must choose JUSTE 1 AE. And it will be installed. It's my case.

Dos

9 years ago

wery nice job

IN-THE-ZONE Productions

9 years ago

Thanks brutha... this is really cool. Been following you since 2006, good to see your success come out of all this.

Yannick

9 years ago

I realy want to thank's you Andrew for your amazing products and job. I just ask my company to by your bundle pack, and i feel everyday like a child playing with my new toys. I am working on a nice and huge project here in France with element 3d and will give you somme news, if you care

Thanks again.
Best regards
Yannick

JimOK

9 years ago

I used the mask option of Saber for engine thrust effects, and the interstage flare on this most recent episode. It's fantastic and simple to use. Thanks for making my production life easier!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJirugUum84

Sean

9 years ago

I did this prior to yours w/o Saber, it didn't exist then, but shows my love of space too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IozGYDEy6XI

phillip bauman

9 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ImRkK5oTQ This is a test I have done using saber, Thanks a lot Andy, its amazing!

Fere

9 years ago

Incredible product! We've got huge fun by using this! Greetings to all VC team!

Toni

9 years ago

Great new plugin Andrew, its awesome for video projection mapping and creating great line tracer effects on objects...thank you!
in future updates it would be great to be able to apply this effect to animated layers and objects with transparency....similar to how the layer style "stroke" works.
i also think it would be nice to have a switch to make the core invisible but retain the glow effects of the core.

Sean

9 years ago

Add Saber to E3D Layer Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aA6lynCYMM

Patrick

9 years ago

Thanks for sharing! Usefull tutorial.

Dan H.

9 years ago

Thank you Sean!

wim

9 years ago

Thanks

riyadhgfx

9 years ago

Many many many thanks to give it away for free

Frank

9 years ago

As always THANK YOU! What and amazing plug in Mr. Kramer! I will be using this one, wait I use everyone! Thanks again

Frank

Thomas

9 years ago

Says incorrect parameters when i try and install

Jack

9 years ago

Hello guys, I have a question...im getting the error code 40 /failed to install on installation? Maybe some pointers on how to fix that? Must say amazing work your doing

Take care Thanks

Shaun

9 years ago

Awesome plugin! One question though: is there a way to attach a wiggle expression to the saber so that we can make our paths more interesting?

Thanks.

K Lynch

9 years ago

My word, Andrew and the team have delivered again!! An awesome new plugin for After Effects, and they've given it away for FREE!! I'm in awe. Of course I HAD to try it out as soon as possible, so I went back to a video I made some time ago to see what SABER could add by means of beam weapon effects. I'm impressed, VERY impressed, and I didn't even spend a lot of time tweaking the core settings, what you see here is more or less one of the pre-sets used 'as is'...

https://youtu.be/7LWZw9EmuLk

Tim Donner

9 years ago

First of all thanks so much for all you do!

I downloaded it, open it, and it just sits in the dock all depressed like. Running Mac. Is there something else I should be doing?

Kartik arora

9 years ago

pls plss pls help

Kartik arora

9 years ago

I just downloaded this plugin, but i don't know why it;s not installing on my pc. Whenever i runs the setup, it always says "It stopped working " and close the program

Hemant

9 years ago

Is it compatibility for win 7 cause its not installing

HAWKS

9 years ago

After Effects crashes when select the textlayer

Dhaval

9 years ago

its me. i cant install this fav unbeilivable nice plugin in my another pc plssssssssssssss give solution for ERROR 40 !!!

Robert

9 years ago

Thank you for saber plugin.

I tried to do same like (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os-qqVrMc-Q) at 0:22 - 0:23, but the mask is not matching the E3D when camera moves.
any advice how can I achive this?!
Thank you

Thomas

9 years ago

That plugin rocks! Cool in combination with Elements 3D. Many thanks to give it away for free. Pure fun.
Great to see you back.

Tom
xspace Munich

yazin

9 years ago

thank you very much for this gift

gunboy

9 years ago

the force with you!!! thanks

Blade

9 years ago

ITs says net work error when I try to download..I go to a new place to download and I put it on a thumb drive to transfer to laptop and it says insert disk..???? have I been transported to another dimension? Help

Blade

9 years ago

HElp....its not downloading...then it says nothing is in the zip file. what have I broken?

Morteza

9 years ago

wow, That was so dense!!

Noah Shriver

9 years ago

I redid my Into using this plugin. Totally cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWGqcJ8_nvI

Lou

9 years ago

I've loaded Saber in both laptop (10.8.5 OSX) and my studio system (10.9.5) and the plugin does not show up in the video copilot effects menu in AE 2015. Is anyone else having issues?

Lou

9 years ago

worked after restart.

PheaturePhill

9 years ago

I found it necessary to use the Custom install option and manually select the plugins folder (or the Videocopilot subfolder if it exists already) of the version of AE you wish to install the plugin.

Simply selecting the version from the options did not work for me either.
Choose 'Custom' - there was no problem.

Hope this helps.

Cindy

9 years ago

Hello,

Thank you for your awsome work, and helpful tutorials. For the plug in Saber:I cant install it in win 7 32 bit.

Lyooby

9 years ago

Great stuff but still lots of bugs.
I get an Debug message every time a try to animate the flow of light.

Lee Masters

9 years ago

To all of you! I have a question! Once a sequence cycles, as in the examples here, how can I loop them seamlessly. So, if the cycle is 3 seconds and I go from 100% evolution to 0% evolution whilst using one of the more aggresive presets, is there a way to make a seamless cycle, which I could loop forever?
Many thanks!
Lee

Kevin Dalton

9 years ago

I would make a cycle and then duplicate it, and move it down the timeline so the start point is a bit before the end point of the previous one. Take the duplicate and rotate it a bit so that it starts glowing a decent amount of frames before the old one ends its path, and about 45 degrees away from the end of the old one. Composite them together so that they blend nicely and then repeat the process. You can send me your project and I'll show you what I mean if you want.

Aidan

9 years ago

Surely there's a way to script this?

Someone

9 years ago

time*120

yosefanan

9 years ago

Hi Andrew..

We support to make your own movie (through writing story and scenario, create working group to works in 3D, create working group in video editing .. group for music and sound fx if we need it, etc ..).

After the making of the Movie and presented in Cinema, earns every one of us on his share of the profits from that work and we can share to create a film production company..
Think about it. We love you and you will find many people around you.
I can write the story.. and video editing..
https://vimeo.com/cinemafx/videos

9 years ago

and i can make 3d

Greg Forest

9 years ago

Hey can I have the casting couch duties?

Batman

9 years ago

It's an awesome plug-in, but for some reason I am unable to install it. I downloaded the setup for windows and I clicked the setup file, the windows cursors turned into the loading cursor for couple of seconds and then turned to generic again, but nothing happened, no installer would start.

Please help!!!

dede

9 years ago

Thank you very much for this great plugin.

Christophe Courty

9 years ago

Hi there,
wanted to thank all videocopilot's team and of course Andrew for the great tools you develop just to make our life easier at work. Also wanted to share with you a lil teaser I did for a musician fully render in AE using Element and Saber.
feel free to share and/or comment.
Thank you again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F0XI0lalng&feature=youtu.be

vincent odhiambo

9 years ago

thanks a lot God bless.......

Dhaval Patel

9 years ago

It installed in one of my PC but not in other one some error 40 was reported. What is the problem what can i do ?

Matthew

9 years ago

You sir are totally the coolest guy in this universe!!!

PheaturePhill

9 years ago

Firstly - let me just say - what a fantastic plugin!
Once again - Videocopliot have delivered another invaluable tool to the visual effects community.

I have only just started to experiment with this powerful plugin, but I was wondering if anybody knew:

Is there is a way to turn off the core visibility and just use the glow effects?

Appreciate any helpful suggestions / tips, and many thanks to AK and the Videocopilot team!

Jason

9 years ago

Yes you can do that! I recommend watching Andrews tut to get a good start with all the features.

Plicha

9 years ago

I'd say its not possible. Glow is calculate based on core size. No core = no glow. Of course there is an option 'mask core' but it is designed for saber mode, no mask or layer. However in this mode it is possible to mask out core but only if you have at elast two masks, and it will cut out core only form one of the masks.

I think it is good opportunity to request from Mr. Kramer a new feature, to hide core totally. It would be then great tool to produce smoke or atmosphere.

Dear Mr. Kramer is there any chance for a new feature to produce smoke via Saber?

(glow + noise)

Mathias Lui

9 years ago

At 12:52 min. he does it. Just watch the whole tutorial. It's very interesting

Aidan

9 years ago

It's in the video tutorial, so, yes, you can definitely do it.

Pheaturehill

9 years ago

Thank you all for your thoughts and comments.

Yes, I have watched the introductory tutorial and was aware of the plugin's feature and ability to use the 'Mask Core' alpha mode under the render settings.

This is certainly a great feature - but not exactly what I'm after.

I think Pilcha got it. I am looking for a way to completely disable the core visibility to do exactly what was Pilcha suggested... use the plugin to create advanced smoke and atmosphere effects, with all the ease and features of controls that saber already provides.

The 'Blend on top' checkbox under the core distortion seems very close the mark I thought - but unfortunately - this still retains the visibility of the distorted core but doesn't seem to allow to hide it completely.

What would be brilliant is to have the ability to use the saber effects of just the glow and noise.

Perhaps this is an easy thing to implement and could be a feature of an update soon Mr Kramer???

Once again - it is an amazing tool, so many thanks for all the the efforts!

Alain d.

9 years ago

Installed the plugin...

Tried it..

And then the doorbell rang...There were those two guys wearing robes...Told me I couldn't use the this without the force !

Courtney

9 years ago

literally the best free plugin I've used since Duik, and definitely the most fun one! Thanks Andrew, this is so awesome!

Creative Force

9 years ago

Another use of "Saber" plugin :
https://youtu.be/IKFDzNDOemc

K Lynch

9 years ago

I liked that!! Nice one!

Neil

9 years ago

Yeah, that's one of the better ones...

Creative Force

9 years ago

Thanks for support

Yaci

9 years ago

Hi,
I would like to know if Saver is completely free.
Can I use it commercially?
And are there any terms for using it commercially?

Best regards,
Y

Noah Shriver

9 years ago

Free is free. You can use however you want.

Brian H

9 years ago

I would assume the following licensing agreement still applies even though it is free.

http://www.videocopilot.net/assets/public/misc/License_Agreement.pdf

Hugo

9 years ago

Andrew Kramer, you're my hero ( or god, don't know which one ).
And you tutorials are better with time.
OMG ! You're amzaing, thank you sooo muuuch and keep up your good work

Alex

9 years ago

AK for President!

Ruben

9 years ago

RIGHT NOW THIS PLUGIN IS THE BEST FOR LIGHTSABER EFFECT.
Thank You VideoCopilot!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CymyiKC1iDI

francis

9 years ago

please please my friends I need that plugins go

free templates ae

9 years ago

Test pluins saber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QPhDXva3io

^_^ Thanks Andrew thanks videocopilot

Dave

9 years ago

in addition to my last comment .. again great plug in .. is there anyway to add the ability to have subtraction masks work for saber based on a mask? for example ... I create a mask path the animates in around an object.. normally I would use a subtraction mask to achieve this .. but with the way saber deals with masks .. it just adds the saber effect around the subtraction mask .. I know this is a free plug in .. but it just lacks this one thing that keeps it from being amazing.. If there is some way to work around this .. I would love to know.

John

9 years ago

Even DONALD TRUMP is using this plugin now:

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/707702633260261377

Steve Green

9 years ago

Euhhhh, kind of puts me off it now

Jason

9 years ago

HAHAHAHA

Shebbe

9 years ago

Oh god why, lol

9 years ago

This plug-in is not supposed to be used for evil!!!

Todd

9 years ago

I love this plug in but I'm having some trouble getting my AI shapes to turn into mask paths. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Charly3

9 years ago

Just copy & past via Clipboard onto saber layer.

fabio

9 years ago

AK could you tell me where is "loop"?

Viesturs

9 years ago

This is something amazing ANDREW KRAMER!

Pierre

9 years ago

Great plugin Andrew ,thank you , looks great with my new Vador saber 3d model

http://www.noelshack.com/2016-10-1457630874-sabre-laser2-nuit.jpg

Yonathan

9 years ago

Amazing! Thank you Andrew and team.

kellywebb

9 years ago

Brilliant, love it! THANK YOU....

Ahmed

9 years ago

Thank you Andrew

https://dribbble.com/shots/2580977-Liquidy

Nick

9 years ago

Home run on this plugin endless possibilities! Thanks for sharing!

Used it on my latest:
https://vimeo.com/158426623

Devin

9 years ago

Animating a bunch of lightsaber like weapons, and this is exactly what I needed. THANK YOU!!!

Paul

9 years ago

Great plugin!!!
Will it work with Element 3d? I've tried but the obj disappears when I add Saber. I tried precomposing too but still NG.

Paul

9 years ago

I see how you used a mask to follow the surface of the Element obj. Did you track it by hand or create a 3d null from E3d and turn the mask layer into a 3d layer and link it to the null?

JosephG

9 years ago

Everything you need to know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aA6lynCYMM

china_panda

9 years ago

if i want use SABER to make glow edge for 3D model, How can I do? How 3D render model alpha translation mask

JayTee

9 years ago

Really great effects! Thanks Andrew and Video Copilot!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ78MYubGcM

Paul Whitehead

9 years ago

Where did you get the street, landscape and car models?

Dave

9 years ago

Awesome plug in!! Does not quite work out for the roto purist (like me)
Problems occur with roto using saber plug in when you try to use subtraction masks .. saber plug in does not care if it is an add mask or subtract.. because is a mask the effect gets applied to both roto saber and subtract masks. If I disable masks using the plug in all masks are disabled including my roto. I tried to create a work around by precompossing the saber roto and do subtracts on precompose .. does not quite work out right due to light fall. Guess when doing sabers I will have to stick to traditional way.

Dylan Counts

9 years ago

Did Donald Trump use this plugin? https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/707702633260261377

Plicha

9 years ago

haha he did! haha...

Florian L

9 years ago

Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the icredible abd amazing plugin! I tried it immediately for some lightsaber footage, but when I worked for about 10-15 minutes AE crashed. It doesn't say why, just that it coudn't work anymore. Anyone else with this problem around?

Charly

9 years ago

Hi Andrew, however a few of us wasn´t asked to join that Star Wars stuff - so could you pls make it more the tutorial way again - with all the detail informations to get it going (or the AE project files to deconstruct?)

I´m specially interrested in that Saber overlay on Element 3d Text. As soon the camera and 3D mode comes in, it´s getting all mixed up over here...

paddy

9 years ago

thanks so much VP! great effect!

Jeffrey

9 years ago

Nice! I love it

mike makki

9 years ago

well done,very effective and free,what else do want..

Maik

9 years ago

Thumbs up for this great plug and big kudos for sharing it FOC !

Ridzmar Sahi

9 years ago

Andrew can you Change this plugin into 32bit and Allow it to After Effects cs4 my Computer is really Sick right now.

Ridzmar Sahi

9 years ago

Andrew please? I really need this plugin for my Works and Videos please?

Sandie

9 years ago

Gear up Boy. Its 2016. Even Adobe CC came on 2013. In which decade you are living up dude.. Just renew your licence to CC ?

richard

9 years ago

Will this work in AE CS4? It's not showing up for me.

Sandie

9 years ago

Gear up Boy. Its 2016. Even Adobe CC came on 2013. In which decade you are living up dude.. Just renew your licence to CC ?

Clint

9 years ago

Thanks for all the free stuff over the years....congrats you've reach the 10 year mark...and also congrats on the Star trek & star wars gigs.....you have been so busy and you have a new born baby so its time for you to take a break dude...go spend some time with you kids....you deserve it!!

P.S. SABER is truly great!!

Harry Santika

9 years ago

Thank you Andrew this plugin is awesome!

Julian

9 years ago

This is just pure awesome. Thank you guys so much for making this, I thought no-one ever would.

billy

9 years ago

i do have a 64 bit macbook and still doesnt install andrew could you help thx

billy

9 years ago

i was really excited about this but when i found out it is a 64bit plugin and it wouldnt install on my 2011 mac my hopes failed..lol....oh well but thx for the plugin...its really a awesome effect

Kaiden

9 years ago

Hello, I am new to After Effects and I am not sure how to install the plug-in. I have Windows 10 and I was wondering if you could help me with the process or point me to a video where I can watch how to do it. Thanks!

pecika

9 years ago

Amazing plug-in, Big Thanks Andrew and VC team.
I enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1BODA3UdQU

Jerry

9 years ago

This is far more exciting than when I finally paid off my 1996 HONDA SABER!!! Can't wait to put it to use!

Jessica

9 years ago

This full armed and operational plug-in looks AMAZING!

Moohi

9 years ago

u r unbelievable ...

William

9 years ago

Dude, this is awesome--glad to see you are not only continuing to deliver amazing work and lending a hand to Padawans and Masters in After Effects, but still got that awesome sense of humor. Rock on man

Gunter Fett

9 years ago

I've downloaded it and installed it four times and it's not showing up at all in my plug-ins or computer files at all.

9 years ago

I got it to work by directing it to instal right into my plugin folder within AE in Applications Folder

Jason

9 years ago

What version of AE are you using?

ErikP

9 years ago

First off its been awesome to watch these tutorials for 10 years! Thanks so much Andrew and team!
In the trailer thumbnail which is also at :27 there is a great reflection on the cylinder.
Is it based off the reflection mode in E3D? Sorry I've tried different modes and also tried making it a custom texture in the reflectivity area but can't seem to figure it out? That reflection gives so much realism I was just hoping I could get some help from someone in the community. Thanks!

Boone

9 years ago

Sam!!!

Marifer

9 years ago

Andrew Where can I send a project file and an image of a bug I found?

Andrew Kramer

9 years ago

Check our support section and email to info or support please!

Plicha

9 years ago

E3D, dynamic reflections, black magic, sss, RTAO and...Saber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYKkMLEyS7w

zulamran

9 years ago

How did you create that reflection effect with E3D & Saber?

Dirk De Block

9 years ago

We should thank YOU, for creating this community. Very well done VC Team!

Noah Shriver

9 years ago

I have it now!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF5jyuX6Gyg

Jason

9 years ago

Awe man, I thought your video was gonna show us some Saber effect!

Noah

9 years ago

Jason. Im working on one. I will link it here when done. Hopefully tonight.

Noah

9 years ago

Here it is! I made an Electrified whip using the Saber Plug-In.

https://youtu.be/Ye_cqgdqCIQ

JSteichen

9 years ago

I love you

Bob Friedstand

9 years ago

Thanks, Andrew, for this great plug-in, and what a great price. I downloaded it last night and already used it today. You have guilted me into buying something from you!!

Elfidel

9 years ago

So powerful plugin and completely free!
Andrew, we love you!

Lasse Bauer

9 years ago

Great, thanks!
..I think it´s also safe to say, we can expect 20-30 new Videohive templates with "sabre" effect now..

Mark

9 years ago

Wonderful plug-in. Been wanting something like this for some time now.

A quick question: In the video, you show using some masks with Element. Were those generated from Element somehow or were they hand made?

Eddie

9 years ago

Hi mark just draw out any mask and choose it and apply sabre????

Maikl

9 years ago

Its so great! Thank you for all your fantastic tutorials and for that powerful free plugin!

Olli

9 years ago

just two words needed...THANK YOU!

Patrick Norman

9 years ago

This plugin is a mic drop! Solid work, Andrew. Many thanks for the effort you and your team put into this.

creation logo

9 years ago

You're are the best N°1 king of After Effect Thank you so much
Merci de la france

David

9 years ago

You're so cool. Thank you so much for this great free plug in

FRANCO

9 years ago

hello Andrew, i just installed saber, you're a legend, thanks
Franco LINKVIDEO

ricardo

9 years ago

Just awesome, I'd hope he made something like this if he was able to work on it, and plus I got the hint with the Lego millennium falcon.

9 years ago

How to use saber plugin in element 3D and reflection

IJones

9 years ago

I've just got to say, thanks for all of your incredible work (and overflowing generosity), it's really encouraging to see your dedication to editing!

g karl

9 years ago

does saver work in cs4

Jboy

9 years ago

i need to know if this plugin is for 32 or 64 bits, and which version of AE does it require.

Doug

9 years ago

I love the plugin, many thanks. Im not able to get it to work with text. I select text and then choose the text layer and Im not able to see it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks again.

Doug

9 years ago

Problem solved. Solid layer was *2 from a previous comp. Thanks

Brook

9 years ago

You did it again, awesome work!

Chris McCorkel

9 years ago

Haven't downloaded yet but am about to!!! First I wanted to just thank you!!!!!! Ur simply awesome and appreciate EVERYTHING VC does!!! Really great work but most of all u guys r the best!!!! Saber looks sick and can't wait to play!!!????????????????????

Felipe de Jesus R. E.

9 years ago

Hi Andrew, VC friends ... Andrew, as I can apply the PLUGIN "you know" Element 3D? ... I can not accommodate the layers ... Can you make a tutorial? Please ... Thank you for the PLUGIN and congratulations on your Baby

Tsuriel

9 years ago

I did, just didnt get the glow that you showed

Maastamynd

9 years ago

I absolutely love this plugin. I need help though. I would love to know step by step how you applied it to the text because i am clearly doing something wrong...Thanks in advance

Sam Pyrtuh

9 years ago

Cool!..Thank you Andrew

Tsuriel

9 years ago

if I make the core type a mask and then try to make another mask to alpha mask the core , it masks the saber but also puts a core around the the mask I want to use as alpha. any way around it?

(I browsed through the comments to see if anyone asked and could not find an answer)

Andrew Kramer

9 years ago

Right now you can do one or the other. If you need to mask the alpha, try using a track matte.

Andrew Kramer

9 years ago

It works in saber mode only since there isn't a way to distinguish between the masks that occlude and the masks that generate light.

DUGG

9 years ago

Hi Andrew, first of all thanks for the plugin is awesome! Could you tell me how you did the little smoke around the title in the Saber trailer?

Mike

9 years ago

Amazing plug-in! Is there a simple way to scale the overall effect? For example, if I apply a preset to a relatively small mask, the desired effect tends to be to extreme / blown out. Is there a way to scale down the intensity, size, distortion, etc. without having to scale down each parameter individually? I guess what I'm looking for is some kind of universal scale option that will make proportional adjustments to all parameters excluding timing factors (ie: wind speed). Similar to "world transform" options you see in other plugins like E3D and trapcode.

Once again, thanks for such an incredible plugin!

Andrew Kramer

9 years ago

I understand what you mean but, it's not really possible because the algorithm is not linear. Creating a glow effect like this is very tricky and the internal values are generated with an intricate formula. Best bet is to play with the glow options and line thickness.

John

9 years ago

Could you just scale up your mask for applying the effect, then precompose and scale the whole thing back down?? Could work for some scenarios, but not all...

Tim

9 years ago

I appreciate you. Thank you.

Ben Revens

9 years ago

I'm literally terrified of the possibilities this plugin creates.. Incredible work!

Phil

9 years ago

ooh ooh ooh. i just got to play with it for a minute and found out that it will work with BAO Mask Avenger, so you CAN have a mask in 3D space. nice. now back to my regularly scheduled schedule

Zac

9 years ago

Did anyone else have After Effects slow down to a crawl a few hours after they downloaded this plugin? it did for me, takes 10 minutes to motion track a 4 second shot now.
Also I had a error message that said Saber had a irrecoverable error.

blast master mike

9 years ago

Was it just a fluke or one time thing or do you still have these issues?

Zac

9 years ago

It's been like that a couple days now.

claudio

9 years ago

Great!!!

Matt Jenkins

9 years ago

Thanks for all your hard work! I just used it for a new promo for the show Life Below Zero on National Geographic!!!

R-CANE

9 years ago

Would be nice if all the free VC plugins get their own spot in the menu on the website so they are easy to find and download.

R-CANE

9 years ago

Yes!!!! you changed it! Thanks!!

Bruce McLaren-Lyall

9 years ago

Hi VC.

When you try scale a text layer with keyframes, Saber does not follow. Is there a trick or way round this

Stephen Lee

9 years ago

Brilliant! Thank you so much!

Alex

9 years ago

Thank you for all you're doing ! your work is so inspirational. No words except, really nice, thank you so much for the time you put into this work that gives us more and more possibilities of creation. The energy you're taking for doing those amazing things, tutorials, plug ins is just awsome ! Take care.

AtA

9 years ago

You guys rocks

Robin Forrest

9 years ago

This is only for After Effects yeah? Will there be a Motion version?

Tim

9 years ago

I can't speak for Andrew of course but i wouldn't think so, at least it would be a premiere, as far as i know, that a vc-plugin works with some app other than adobe.

Beside that, Motion isn't really common anymore, is it?

Andrei

9 years ago

Thank you for such a great plugin. It looks awesome, but I can't install it. I get "SaberInstaller_1.0.39_Win.exe has stopped working."
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

Is there another way to install it?

Steve

9 years ago

I think there has been a mistake. The article says that this plugin is 100% FREE!? Crazy good, AK's back with a Starkiller bang... thank you.

Gasanfar

9 years ago

It´s so amazing, and you give it free! Sir, you are god, my very sincere thanks.
Cheers

Bruce McLaren-Lyall

9 years ago

Hi VC.
Andrew, awesome once again. Have a request, It would be awesome if you could track particle trails in 3D space with this

CRoblex.vfx

9 years ago

Awesome work, guys, congrats.

Andrew, I'm looking forward to spend some hours playing with it as soon as possible, but anyway: I'm concerned about how to combine this with Element mattes.

I'm intended to use (or try at least) Saber in order to make some after-burners in spaceships and stuff like that. I was wondering if I'll need to make all the matte work through roto or maybe there is an easy way to control the matter with Element v2 alone.

It would be great if you can make a quick tut about how to control mattes, z-deph and all using Saber in combination with Element v2.

Thanks a lot and congrats again,

Carlos.

Charlie

9 years ago

I'm wondering if anyone can help me?

Trying to install on Win7, but whenever I open the Installer, I get the error 'SaberInstaller has stopped working", and nothing more.

Andrei

9 years ago

I'm receiving the same error. Please tell me if you solve it.

Tom

9 years ago

Are you guys trying to install it on 32bit system? I guess tt won't work then, this plugin requires 64bit system, I believe.

Andrei

9 years ago

No, I'm trying to install it on 64bit. I installed on my laptop where it worked and I just copied the file to my pc. It works just fine.

Keith

9 years ago

It is because you're trying to open it from inside the ZIP file. You must first extract the ZIP file, then run the installer from the unzipped location, not from inside the ZIP.

Chris

9 years ago

What is the preset of Kylo Ren's light saber?

"Hard Core"?

Henk

9 years ago

Gjeez... some surprise to wake up with..!!

Phill

9 years ago

Hey Andrew, thanks so much for the Saber plugin, I have so many cool uses for this right away and a Dillion ideas for some cool game effects. Perfect timing, thank you.

Redo

9 years ago

Thank you, Andrew.

Karim Gordon

9 years ago

Happy 10 year anniversary, Thank you so much for your support xoxoxo Greetings From EGYPT.

Johan

9 years ago

This. Is. Insane. In the best possible way.

Moley

9 years ago

This is all kinds of off the scale awesome! Thank you. I go make movie now.

philippe

9 years ago

Hello andrew excuse I for asking for it...
I follow you since at the beginning of your site and without you I would know nothing to remit really in you I learnt, spend hours under effect after-party and I progressed but I understand not what you say because I am French and do not speak English, I am thus obliged of tried to understand(include) by copying as good as possible that you made for the screen but if one day you put money French titles(securities), I believe that I am going to progress much more quickly you think one day it arrives?

James Wiltshire

9 years ago

The sign of real talent is when an artist is happy to share everything they know with others - In my experience because they know deep down they'll just come up with another great idea tomorrow ..

I literally cannot believe this is free and another example of just how important this site is to both professionals and those like me who love to twiddle and get amazed

You are , and always will be - a whole bunch of legends

Luca Spreca

9 years ago

thank you

Adam

9 years ago

Awesome new plugin! I like it
https://vimeo.com/158286697

Philippe

9 years ago

Wouah, is it already christmas time? Thanks a lot for this gift Andrew. I can't vote for you as I'l living in France but I would like to!

Brett

9 years ago

I can only say that was lucky enough to stumble on Video Copilot about 9 years ago...you are amazing...and Sam well Sam just rocks...
What is truly awesome is that you genuinely want to help this community (Which you created) to be better and you do it for free...
From all of the creative people that you have helped to push limits of our own abilities, and to have the patience to teach in such a fun way, WE THANK YOU.
Would you consider running for president this year...please. the pick'ns are slim if you know what I mean. you have my vote for sure. Thank you and all of your staff a Video copilot. Happy 10 year anniversary.

Doug

9 years ago

This is BRILLIANT! Thank you so much for releasing it for free. This will be a very useful addition to the other VC plugins and packs. Keep up the amazing work.

Chris

9 years ago

Heh, yea I am that guy Andrew. I used your older lightsaber plugin and it worked very well. The light wrapping would have been a great feature to use! I'm sure this new one will be useful for a lot more than sabers, thank you!!!

Grandy

9 years ago

Andrew if u dont mind, I need a tutorial on c4D and ae.

Grandy

9 years ago

Hi Andrew, we really appreciate your effort towards the plug-in thank you so much Andrew and your team.

Duke Sweden

9 years ago

You, sir, are the cheese.

Rigo

9 years ago

HELP!!! I cant install in windows 10 I try troubleshoot compatibility but after I try coming up this notice issues fund incompatible program help please

Rigo

9 years ago

Now I ready install and I am so happy Thank you Andrew

Rick Baker

9 years ago

Andrew, great to have you back making tutorials, we missed you,but this makes it worth the wait.Thanks you rock!

Nelson Goforth

9 years ago

Thank you for another great tutorial, and a terrific plug-in besides. Your 'afterwards' was wonderful and heartfelt - it is a terrific thing to do what you love, and to enjoy it after so long. I'm glad one of your loves is teaching.

Rodolfo

9 years ago

Amazing! ... It would be extra awesome if it also worked with shape layer!

Drew Lewis

9 years ago

Andrew if u dont mind me asking. The tutorial for this saber plug in......How strong of a computer are u using to make this tutorial? Im just curious how powerful ur computer is nowadays..... And thanks for this tutorial.......Im gonna have alot of fun with this!

WILL

9 years ago

KRAMER YOU ARE FANTASTIC . WORLD OF SPECIAL EFFECTS IS ANOTHER WITH ANDRW KRAMER

wes

9 years ago

Hey Andrew, I think it would be awesome to have a Sabre render competition. It would be cool to see what really can be created within the community here. And a nice cool prize like a Ipad or something.

Cindy

9 years ago

It doesn't see to work for me on CC2015. Im sad

Archer Magnus

9 years ago

I've already commented, but I seriously want to thank you again.

Thank you again!!

Phil

9 years ago

damn your genius

Paul Whitehead

9 years ago

@Andrew Kramer, Can you do some tutorials on how to build some of the scenes you have with element 3d? The one you made in the element v2.2 screen shot, the one you made with saber, ect.. I love element, I just it a lot but I'm not educated on building a scene with the motion design pack because you've never built a tutorial on it! Thanks pal

Gerard

9 years ago

Welcome back Andrew

Brian H

9 years ago

Hey Andrew, I tweeted you this question, but I figured I'd ask here as well. I was looking for a way to seamlessly loop the distortion, kind of like the built fractal noise effect has, but I'm not seeing an option for that, am I missing something? Thanks

Shane

9 years ago

THIS is AWESOME! 10 years! No, WE thank YOU Andrew.

Cheers

Barry

9 years ago

Really Cool. Should have been so easy when my team and I created the original light sabers for IV and V using Rotoscoping, Animation and Optical Printers. I'm retired now but keep active making Special effects films with my Children and Grandchildren.

Andrew Kramer

9 years ago

So cool Barry! This comment is amazing! Cmon!

Jason

9 years ago

Loved those original light sabers Barry!

soggychewtoy

9 years ago

Barry? The late John Barry? Force Ghost?

PickleJones

9 years ago

Quick IMDB lookup reveals a D. Barry working on optical printing at ILM during RotJ. So so cool to be part of this community that represents the past present and future of special effects work. You've done a unique and generous thing Mr. Kramer and I thank you for it.

The Observer

9 years ago

Holy #%&!balls.....this is just fantasic.....Please keep creating amazing tools for us! You're my hero!

9 years ago

Thanks to Videocopilot family and A. Kramer. You are the BEST co-pilot ever.

Beachbum

9 years ago

Another great plug-in. Congrats on your 10-year anniversary at Videocopilot.

Sulaiman Barrie

9 years ago

Thans bro you are the effect king of this century. By the way when will you produce the helicopter and Car packs?. Looking forwardto that.

Yuya

9 years ago

ThankYou!!!Andrew !!!
With Love from Japan of videographers！

Sean

9 years ago

It ROCKS !!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u5F1N8wVjg Thanks Andrew !!!

Melcrafter

9 years ago

Thank you Awesome Plugin!

Eric

9 years ago

Hi Andrew!

First of all thank you for the past 10 years! Awesome plugins and tutorials!

May I just say that this last "little plugin" of yours is saving me time right now! It came out at the perfect time. I will be sure to post something in the forums when my project is done.

Thanks again a million time.

nJoey

9 years ago

Within the tutorial, there are pre-made comps. Are those available for download?

Dreydon

9 years ago

How did he add the smoke in the titles for the promo video at the start really loves it

Andrea

9 years ago

I'm going to ask the silliest, dumbest question...I don't know how to get the light to rotate around the mask. I set the keyframes on the start size, but the light just goes from 100% down to 0% for the duration. I watched that part of the video over and over, but I don't see where I get the light animated to move along the mask edge.

Sorry, I'm new.

Andrea

9 years ago

Nevermind. I figured it out. I was setting keyframes onf the start size, not the start offset. duh.

Andrew Kramer

9 years ago

Try the mask Evolution setting. Just make sure to reduce the size or offset first.

Logan

9 years ago

We should be thanking you, the last 10 years have been nothing short of amazing. I never thought I could make a career doing what I love. And I know that part of my success has come from you and the team at VideoCopilot. Thank you guys for your constant dedication to us, the fans. Andrew I hope you don't get too busy this year as we need more of your informative and always funny tutorials. Thanks for keeping it real.

Daniel

9 years ago

Today was a good day. I DID have to use my AK.

Manolo

9 years ago

Mr. Krammer, standing ovation for all your work&support, Thank you!

MEHRSHAD CHAKAMEH

9 years ago

Hollywood in Your Hands MAN !

Tim

9 years ago

I'm a bloody noob and just started working with after effects itself so there's a good chance that it's just a basic think which i don't know about but..

i'd really like to know how Andrew did the comp at 16:45 of the tutorial with the CORE-Logo build inside E3D.

If i build a logo inside E3D from a text layer, add a second solid with saber and change the core type to text layer (layer mask won't help either if i create a mask from the textlayer before) and change the position of the camera, the e3d-layer will go with it because it supports 3d space. Saber doesn't, which is also sad in the tutorial but how do i manage that the mask on the saber-layer works together with the camera? i don't wan't to "fake" volumetric saber like explained in 14:00, i just want it to go along with the camera.. if i turn the saber to a 3d layer (yeah, i know, that's not a proper workaround because it's not intended to work like that..) it works but it produces crappy quality (surprise surprise). Andrew didn't do it like that of course. So there must be a proper solution to this. Obviously there's something basic i do wrong, i hope you can help me out anyway. thank you very much in advance!

R-CANE

9 years ago

This is what I did. For a sharper better looking saber texture set your saber comp to 32 bit. (info in description)

Tim

9 years ago

*said.. sorry for the bad english.

It's clear that i first have to learn more about the core basics of after effects and such and i'll do so, next weekend is going to be full of tutorials.. but as i already said, i'd be happy if someone has mercy with me.

R-CANE

9 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBJIdJ6W7Og

Brian H

9 years ago

Hey Tim, It's pretty easy. R-CANE, I think you may be over thinking it. The basic setup to match what Andrew did requires only 4 layers and no textures in element 3D. The four layers to get a basic look are 1) camera, 2) Text layer, 3) solid (with Element 3d effect), 4) solid (with saber effect). Set saber layer to be a 3D layer, set transfer mode to screen or add depending on your liking and finally line it up where you would like it in 3d space. The advantage of doing it this way versus having it as a texture map in element is that you can have it float out in front of the 3d text to give it more dimension. For the final movement, move the camera instead of the 3d object, that way everything tracks together. Hope that helps.

Brian H

9 years ago

Here is a link to the results. I actually had 2 saber layers in this example.

https://youtu.be/USgt8EC88oY

Tim

9 years ago

Thank you very much guys, i'll give it a try once i get home from work. But.. i'm still curious how Andrew did it in his comp. He clearly hasn't set the saber layer to 3D but the layer mask still moves in 3d space. As there's camera movement he won't just transformed the outlines of the textlayer to match the camera perspective for every frame..

Brian H

9 years ago

Hey Tim, I am pretty confident he did have the layer with the saber effect as a 3D layer, if you look at the tutorial again, you can see the 3 axis, also in the timeline you can see 3 position values for the layer. He is not animating the mask at all, he is only animating the camera position. There is a chance I'm wrong but I'm 99.9% sure.

Tim

9 years ago

Hey Brian,

first of all, thank you very much. Must have been blind, you're right, there's a 3rd value. Well, then, the only question left is why my saber laber looks so crappy as soon i turn it into a 3D-layer. I'll try it with 32 bit comp as R-CANE mentioned. Can't wait to get home. Thank you guys for helping me out!

Tim

9 years ago

32bit comp doesn't change anything. still pretty jaggy.. is this normal? because in the tutorial it looks totally crisp.

http://oi67.tinypic.com/16if5s1.jpg

StevenJ

9 years ago

I'm having the same issue. I put up a question about it on the forum, but no suggestions so far. I do have one idea that I will try when I get some time. Double the resolution of the layer, and fit the mask to it, keeping the scale. I noticed AK's layer tightly fit the mask. Then in the comp scale down the layer and match it up to your 3d element. My theory is that as you move the layer closer to the camera it is kind of like scaling up the layer.

StevenJ

9 years ago

Update: I had a chance to try this and it does work. Increase the 3d mask layer's resolution (in layer settings), then scale it down in the comp. In your workflow you should probably do that at the beginning so you will only have to adjust the layer's position once. Note that you can't do this with a text layer. If you watch the tutorial, AK is doing this with a mask layer, not a text layer.

Tim

9 years ago

StevenJ: Boom! You're the man. That solves it. Many thanks!

Dusty

9 years ago

Thank you Andrew Kramer for producing such amazing products with tutorials at an affordable price. I've personally been following Video Copilot since 2007. You're an inspiration. Your products and tutorials have helped our company grow and produce amazing looking videos for our clients. Video Copilot truly is the best source for the highest quality motion design. Love your sense of humor and never fall asleep watching tutorials. I always recommend and refer to beginner to pro Video Copilot. You guys rock! Thank you for this FREE product and tutorial!

Josh

9 years ago

This rocks! Thank you!

Simon Olley

9 years ago

Really great work Andrew. Than you for sharing. Has anyone else reported a problem where the installer just doesn't do anything?

marcello

9 years ago

ADOBE must change their president!!!))))) W Andrew Kramer!

Peter

9 years ago

Thank you for providing amazing tutorials and plugins. You have provided me with the tools that have inspired hundreds of school students to create their own "New worlds and adventures".

9 years ago

From the first saber tutorial on...we did it all for Sammy...and the kids!

Matt

9 years ago

I got to 4:52 before I hit stop and went to the download. You guys are about as awesome as it gets.

Samuel

9 years ago

Come on man!! I love you and your team. Thanks

Archer Magnus

9 years ago

2016-2017 Every graphics demo reel will have Saber.

Guys, awesome work! Thank you

Nicolas

9 years ago

I do not understand why you have to give this out for free. Aren't free Tutorials enough for promotions?

Willem

9 years ago

Andrew, we own you so much. Thanks for the amazing stuff you give to us! You're a real life hero!

Jason

9 years ago

Mind Blown!

https://youtu.be/cqHUktTb0OY

Kev

9 years ago

Ah ..... Found the 'gotcha'...... Its in the small print on the tutorial video page
quote :
COMPATABILITY
After Effects CS5, CS6 & CC, CC 2014 & 2015
PC & Mac (OSX 10.8+)

So Answer is NO ..... Not for CS4

StevenJ

9 years ago

Because CS5 is the first version to be 64-bit. I believe all the plugins on this site that are CC2015 compatible will definitely not run in 32-bit.

Rob

9 years ago

Thanks a mil Andrew! So great to have you back. I started studying AE 10 years back when your site first launched, it has been the best training and inspirational resource for me. Come to Ireland some time!!!

Guinness will be on me!

Kev

9 years ago

Still not happening for CS4 ?
Could you confirm that this is restricted install or will you be posting an update?

Neil Ruff

9 years ago

Dude - no disrespect, but CS4 was 15 releases ago, and is nearly 8 years old! You really expect a developer that's putting effort into a free plugin to maintain that level of backwards compatibility?

Andreas Hohl

9 years ago

Thank you A K for 10 years of awesomeness!

Justin

9 years ago

I'm having a weird problem, when I set to a text layer saber makes me move the layer to the top left corner just to show up on the screen. Am I missing a setting here? Not sure how to move that besides moving the whole layer to a place I don't want it to be.

Luke Elliott

9 years ago

Can you Use the Plug-ins with other compostitng soft-wares?

Gabriel Howard

9 years ago

Just 10/10 and it's FREE!!! I just hope videocopilot gets bought by adobe while still being able to do whatever they want. No after effects without videocopilot. keep it up Andrew u always make me gigle ^^

Matthias

9 years ago

das ist ein super cooles Tool. Danke.

Raffaele

9 years ago

I can't immagine After effect without AK
Thank's for all

CB.Suresh

9 years ago

First Thanks "AK" to this Awesome Plug-in !!! Thanks a lot!!
But there was issues when i am try to install pop-up this message "Saber installer Stop working"
i am using Windows 7 ..AE CC 2014
Help !!!

Maurice

9 years ago

Will this run on cs5.5? I'm on a Mac 10.6.8 running cs5.5. I tried going into package contents and copying over the plug in to my after effects plug in folder but I keep getting an error when I try to run it.

Aidan

9 years ago

So, now that our appetites are truly whet: VC team, are we likely to see Sabre being used somewhere in Intercept?

Daniel

9 years ago

You're gone for a long time and then you're like oh hey here's a free plugin... How dare you-- be amazing!

Sam

9 years ago

Yeah, the nerve of some people.

David

9 years ago

Is there a way to make this work with shape paths (created from .eps files) ?

Dan

9 years ago

I don't know of a way to go from shape layers to masks directly, but you could always copy the path from the shape layer shape to the path of a mask and get it that way!

Frederic

9 years ago

Arg.. sorry for that link chaos up there... Oo

Johannes

9 years ago

Thank you so much for all te effort !!! grtz from belgium

Tony

9 years ago

If this is helpful to anyone...

I had some issues on install in AE 2015. Saber was crashing AE. I ending up choosing CUSTOM and navigating to the VC folder already in my Plug -Ins folder. (Because who doesn't already have a few VC plugins?)
The installer dropped a copy of Saber in there and created a new VC folder also with a copy of Saber. I then deleted the extra folder and was good to go.

I'm on a mac - OS 10.10.5 - AE CC 2015 13.7.0.124

Stephen

9 years ago

Hi Guys,

Does anyone know where I can get hold of the space station background scene images? The scene with the lightsabre

Cheers,
Steve

Jason

9 years ago

I pulled this one off google images. You can find one you like there I'm sure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUuUWgEuk2M

John

9 years ago

So Question, and I imagine this is potentially unrelated, but in the Saber Trailer, what was used to create the super fluid smoke coming off of the titles? It just looked so darn smooth and had a lot of turbulence so I wasn't sure if it was from the usual methods or not. Thanks.. John

Plicha

9 years ago

These are particle system created in external 3D app. (almost for sure)

Chris

9 years ago

Still can't install plugin. Attempting to run the installer just gives me a Finder error saying the Installer can't be opened.

Same across 1.38 and 1.39. I'm running latest version of Mac OS (and AFX CC 2015 fully up to date as well).

John

9 years ago

Showing CC 2015 as greyed out on my end. It will allow me to install only to CC (classic) and CC 2014... Which for whatever reason I still have both of installed in addition to 2015.

John

9 years ago

Also, I'm on a Mac.

Chris

9 years ago

I literally can't open the Installer to even get a dialogue box - it just fails to open every time.

Buggi

9 years ago

And it is for free. Just Awesome! Thank you very very much!

Paul

9 years ago

I created a little something for Portal 3 with it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEkED1rRGA

Jason

9 years ago

Looks great! The portal has that heat distortion look to it that really sells the effect.

Mohamed

9 years ago

Thank you soo much Andrew

Christian Michael

9 years ago

The addition of the animated preset gallery is fabulous and a great help in finding the look....Nice work boys :0)

Christian Michael
https://vimeo.com/126848035

Ian Sanderson

9 years ago

Awesome free plugin, I created this logo test with it combining it with Element 3D v2. Question though, how would I get Element 3D to see the saber so it reflects it in the environment?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv1O1s5CVmU&feature=youtu.be

Anders

9 years ago

@Ian. To create a reflection, just make a duplicate of the Saber layer. Convert it to a 3D layer and then scale/flip/place/adjust the "reflection" to look natural. Might be easy, but it worked for me.

Thibaud

9 years ago

This new update still doesn't work for CS4.
I'm going to fulfill my handkerchief... :°(

Steffen

9 years ago

@Thibaud

and why do not you install AE CC 2015

Kevin

9 years ago

Hey,

how do i get transparency on my Saber Layer? When I add it to screen in my precomposition, i still have the black background in my Master Composition.

Is theere a button ore something like in color vibrance for set it to Alpha?

Greetings from Germany!

kevin

9 years ago

Got it!
Thanks anyway for this awesome Plug In!

Alex

9 years ago

If its a precomp, you need to change the precomp layer to screen as well.

Lucas

9 years ago

This is like Trapcode particular but a little bit more basic!

heinie

9 years ago

should i connect internet to install? need it for offline plz

Christian Michael

9 years ago

Heinie,

You need the internet to download it. once its downloaded and installed, it will run in AE without internet connection.

Christian Michael
https://vimeo.com/126848035

Jake Whiteman

9 years ago

So cool, you're a legend!

Rogue Robot

9 years ago

Incredible stuff.Here's my first play.

Rogue Robot

9 years ago

Are links blocked? https://vine.co/v/iXFlKv633In

Ismail

9 years ago

Does this plugin only work for CC or can it work for previous versions of After Effects???

Ash

9 years ago

Works For Cs6 And CC

Steffen

9 years ago

I just saw that there is a new update of Saber Plugin
current version is now Saber v1.0.39 the first version true v1.0.38

Thank VCP for the Plugin Saber it's wonderful

Howdy from Germany

Ian Sanderson

9 years ago

Good call, I just saw that as well.

jure

9 years ago

How to fix the error code 40 during instalation?

Eliyas Jan

9 years ago

Amazing plugin,Thank you SO MUCH FOR THIS!

9 years ago

First of all THANKS for this fantastic plug-in, but after a few hours of working with it, the saber makes my AE (latest version on OSX 10.10.5) crash.

Assertion failed: (height > 0), function Enqueue, file /Volumes/videocopilot/lightsaber/src/thread_pool.h, line 117.

Ricardo Lentz

9 years ago

I had the same issue. A workaround that I tried is rendering the comp in a tiff sequence and bypassing the frames that crashed the AE render. In 350 frames 2 were crashing the render. Curiously in those frames the saber effect were out of comp's borders.

Invalid

9 years ago

Tried running the plugin, but receive the following error:

"Couldn't find main entry point for Saber.plugin (48 :: 72)"

"Invalid filter (25 :: 3)"

I'm running on a Mac OS X 10.6.8 with After Effects CS6. (Yes, the computer is old. Updating to 10.7. whatever for a cost would only break more things than it would improve.) I obtained the plugin by right clicking the installer (wouldn't run on my mac), opening the package contents, pulling out the .plugin file and dropping it into AE's Plugins>Effects.

Never thought my name would be relevant. Was really looking forward to this plugin too. Any solutions?

Jay

9 years ago

I have an old 2008 iMac that was running 10.6.8. I installed Lion which slowed my machine down, so I went up to Mountain Lion and it runs fast like it did on Snow Leopard, (sooo many cats). Anywho, I installed Saber, had to try twice, the first time I got a message saying the installer would not work. It seems to run fine in AE CS6 except for the text issue that crashes AE. Running Saber version 1.0.38. Hope that helps.

Jay

9 years ago

I think it's time to retire this clunker.

Yusuf

9 years ago

Thank you Andrew this plugin is awesome!

Julian Charles Velez

9 years ago

Kylo Ren's Lightsaber!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7qJZKBP_fc&feature=youtu.be

Ian Sanderson

9 years ago

Cool stuff.
https://www.facebook.com/IanS.3D

Jonathan Leiter

9 years ago

Just an observation. Because of how well colored and beautiful the light falloff is for this effect, I have a feeling that using it as background color or as a way to add blooms to lights in live action footage would be a wonderful alternative to using radial ramps or the glow effect. It would add that extra bit of legitimacy and dynamic range to effects that typically feel flat otherwise.

reza

9 years ago

Thanks Andrew! I downloaded it for Mac and installed it. However, my interface says "Missing_Saber_Controls" and in the "Effects & Presets" browser, when I type in "Saber" it has Light_Saber_Glow and underneath that it has Light_Saber_V2. Either one, I click on says "Missing_Saber_Controls or Missing_Saber_Glow". It's hard to follow along your tutorials when I have different values listed. It says, "AndrewKramer, Light_Saber_v2.1
I noticed, in your video tutorial it says "videocopilot" folder whereas mine says "AndrewKramer". I downloaded your plugin just as described.

reza

9 years ago

never mind. I reinstalled it and saw the problem. For some reason, it was defaulted to install on my backup hard drive and not inside AE. I fixed it. Thanks.

Michael Angelo

9 years ago

Test #2! This is too much fun!!! Thank you guys SOOOO MUCH FOR THIS!!!!

https://youtu.be/39FEtXzmMS8

Rigo

9 years ago

need help windows 10 cant let me install what I have to do to install ?

Nikolaj Sørensen

9 years ago

I had problems on Win 10 as well. If you right-click the installer and choose "troubleshoot compatibility", it will try to run a test with new settings. Then it runs and insrtalls with no problems

Andy

9 years ago

I love you guys thanks heaps for the plugin. Very generous!

Donnell

9 years ago

Sorry here it is..
https://vimeo.com/158115711

Jude

9 years ago

I LOVE YOU ANDREW KREMAR!!!

Dylan Counts

9 years ago

I love the plugin! The only issue is that I can't render in the highest settings, here's the Problem Details:
http://pastebin.com/nuf6sLWk

Anyone know the issue?

Donnell

9 years ago

ok here's a refreshed take of using this saber plugin i did earlier ..5 seconds long

https://vimeo.com/158109582

Andre

9 years ago

Awesome job!

R-CANE

9 years ago

My test of Saber inside of Element 3D
https://youtu.be/xBJIdJ6W7Og

Humberto

9 years ago

amazing plugin, thanks a lot..! how you do the reflection in the element 3d object??

Gazbaz

9 years ago

@Marrifer
I think it's Bank Gothic that is used for VCP's main titling and headings (see the ads on this page too)...hope that helps?

Marifer

9 years ago

@Gazbaz
YEA!!!! that is what I locking for!!! Thanks a lot!!! 3

Marifer

9 years ago

@Steffen

Steffen thank you very much but that's not exactly the kind of letter that Andrew used in the tutorial, if you look closely the uppercase H letter and the uppercase W letter, you will notice the difference

Marifer

9 years ago

I get it!!!! is Lakesight Font

Marifer

9 years ago

Anyone know the font of VC?

Gazbaz

9 years ago

@Marifer (sorry for my typo in your name before!)
I see you meant the script-style font, not the block upper case header font Andrew normally uses in VCP tutorials and promotion.

ATdesigns

9 years ago

You are awesome!!

R-CANE

9 years ago

I think I figured it out. You have to precompose your saber layer (move all attributes to new composition) then add Color Vibrance inside the composition and set the Matte Alpha to Only.
Then select this Saber Layer as a texture inside E3D and use it on a plane. Because Color Vibrance now made an alpha channel E3D can interpret the footage's alpha channel when you select Matte Alpha in the advanced material settings. This will only show the saber and make the rest of the plane invisible.

Mark Santella

9 years ago

I see you made it work. Unclear on what you mean by color vibrance. also unclear where you set the matte alpha only. Could you provide some clarity. Do you have to reposition the plane also? Thanks for your help

Beavertron

9 years ago

Just set the material to Screen or Add down the bottom of the advanced material options. This will create the alpha more cleanly

Luxury

9 years ago

Works Perfectly. Thanks for figuring this out!

Aroena

9 years ago

Andrew you rock! amazing plug in!

christoph

9 years ago

Hey andrew!
is there an issue with intel iris pro graphics card.
when using saber on a text layer it is showing layer black and when using on a solid with mask even with screen style it is also showing layer black.

Nick DeBoer

9 years ago

Works great! Totally makes some amazing results in a very quick and efficient manner....
Quick Test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqtctEtQd-4
Thanks guys!

John

9 years ago

Thanks Andrew! Love all your tutorials.

Jake

9 years ago

im recreating this with saber! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tn2zuMbuFM

Az Nuvunga

9 years ago

element 3d v1.6 1 year ago.
https://www.facebook.com/XyStudioCreative/videos

JimOK

9 years ago

So much to do with this plug-in - - can't wait! This was my second experiment. I added another solid with a mask and spun it 90° on the Z axis for the "bow shock" effect.

https://vimeo.com/157972414

Az Nuvunga

9 years ago

bom plug-in

David Adams

9 years ago

Worked like a charm. https://youtu.be/e4sAvwsUgAo

Daniel Orozco

9 years ago

You are the best!

Alfredo Elias

9 years ago

Thanks!, is really amazing

Marifer

9 years ago

Andrew... where do you buy or download the Harlow Font???

Steffen

9 years ago

@Marifer

http://ttfonts.net/font/19833_Harlow.htm

Marifer

9 years ago

Greg

9 years ago

Great again. The innovator in chief. Commenting on your video presentations. Your videos are the best in presentation and content. They are just so much fun to watch and 'learn'.

Thomas

9 years ago

DUDE. Just telling my girlfriend how I couldn't have been so successful in my business without VideoCopilot. Congrats on ten years and thanks for Saber!

Bruno Brito

9 years ago

Always great full for all the knowledge you share.
Thank you so much !!! You rock Andrew and time Copilot.

Jason

9 years ago

Hey Andrew,
Where did you get that cool spaceship background?

chris

9 years ago

GREAT PLUGIN ANDREW! I have had it crash on me three times..when I'm animating a light Saber.maybe it's my end I have a 2013 imac 8g ram. But for most part it's been stable.

rich

9 years ago

Saber crashes everytime I try to aply it to A TEXT LAYER, works great on a the masks. I'm going to reload AE and see if it's an issue with my program. I will let you know.

Jason T

9 years ago

Andrew,
How did you get the Saber layer to attach to the Element 3D type? I see how it's constructed/layered, but don't understand how you placed it there. Amazing plug-in, I was using it all day yesterday. Wheeee!

David H

9 years ago

Set the saber layer to 3D and then line it up in Z space where you want it. When you move your camera through the scene it will be move as well

Marcelo

9 years ago

I think he just adjusted manually and moved the camera around, it's not actually attached.

jonathan

9 years ago

he probably used a duplicated, outlined layer of the type that he extruded in element to make sure it was lined up, and then either parented via null to the element group or just moved the camera around.

Jason T

9 years ago

Settle the bet, Mr. Kramer!

Jason T

9 years ago

Thanks guys. I will give these a shot. Will these still work if I have the Element3D type animated as a multi-object? I'm thinking, no, but may have a workaround figured already.

LSSLSS

9 years ago

I Hi All,
I just made a quick preview of all the presets of SABER, each as 2 second preview.

https://youtu.be/mQ70OtdKR7I

just for reference

cheerio, and have loads of fun with this great new Plug-In !

marcel

Pele

9 years ago

I did some small experiments with Saber, bonding with pick whip the Core Start to the Null 1 and Core End to the Null 2 with the expressions "thisComp" (Identical as with Lens Flare or Beam):
CORE START:
thisComp.layer("Null 1").toComp([0,0,0])
CORE END:
thisComp.layer("Null 2").toComp([0,0,0])

Only in SABER MODE, Rotate Saber in 3d space.
Just experiment.

A lot of success in further work, YOU ARE THE BEST.THX!

Donnell

9 years ago

Hey Peale, thanks for posting this I'm getting promising results with your experiment as well

Donnell

9 years ago

Hey Pele, thanks for posting this I'm getting promising results with your experiment as well

danklord

9 years ago

i need help... im installing it and its not getting installed (yes i selected the version folder) ae cc 2014 pls help <3

e11world

9 years ago

AND HE'S BACK.
Always great to see more from you Andrew! I can't believe I've been watching your tutorials over so many years. A true inspiration.

THANK YOU for all the amazing free plugins and tutorials which helped shape what AE and the whole community around it.

rift films

9 years ago

where can we get the 3D lightsabor?

jonathan

9 years ago

Yeah! I'd love to see a quick tut on how to do such a photorealistic render in element with abhorration and whatnot. I bet andrew has some good tips and tricks for that one.

HANKE

9 years ago

Awesome plugin. Big thanks Andrew!
What about a contest?

Shehan

9 years ago

Hey!!! Can I have that 3D model that you're using as a base to the round saber design?

Andrea

9 years ago

Thank you Andrew! you are the best!!!

David Bixler

9 years ago

I would pay 50 bucks for this. Seriously.

Liam

9 years ago

Here is my first attempt at creating a title sequence with Saber:

https://youtu.be/DTd_l7X_2as

George Laird

9 years ago

you aren't hanging about, well done

Liam

9 years ago

Thanks dude, all inspired by Andrew

gerald

9 years ago

So how do I add all the cool glows to a text or a precomp mask layer in Element3D?

Stephen

9 years ago

ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!! Great job!

p.s ??? Does anyone know where I could get the background assets from the clip of Sam deflecting the laser bolts with the light Sabre?

George Laird

9 years ago

look my young padwan, try typing 'star wars corridors' into google, and may the Force be with you.

Mirko

9 years ago

Andrew, I'm watching our tutorials since your earthzoom tutorial. No one can compete with you - I mean NO ONE!

Brian Stevens

9 years ago

Andrew are you trying to make it up to all of us with a very awesome plugin for disappearing 1 year from VC webpage???cuz it's totally working...Thank you and appreciate you staying in touch with updates.

Matin

9 years ago

I believe I was the target at the end of the video, I had JUST FINISHED my Star Wars fan film and let me tell ya that 32-biy 3D layered lightsabers with many glow layers and much motion blur literally killed me to finish up.

Daniel

9 years ago

"...motion blur literally killed me..."

R.I.P.

Koz

9 years ago

Damn, got a bit choked up at the end of the tutorial.

Simon

9 years ago

The plug-in is another benchmark for Mr Kramer, where will he go next, what will he do? Who knows, but I know it will be cool -thanks so much Andrew, what the guy says below - you are a true inspiration - JJ Abrams knows that - I hope you carry on doing this and pushing the boundaries back, I know we're all hooked and I've spent more than I care to mention on VCP products, and I will be spending more in the future, keep on pushing the boundaries dude!

Matt Tinley

9 years ago

Pretty much anyone who works in After Effects owes Andrew Kramer a beer... or two... or 1,000. His tutorials really helped helped me catch a vision of what the software was capable of when I was first learning, and I continue to come back to them time and time again for more learning and inspiration. And now he releases a fully featured plugin like Saber for free? You don't get somebody like that every day. So thanks, Andrew! You are super cool. Thanks for your commitment to helping others, despite what must be lots of spinning plates in your life. It's inspiring. Go get some sleep!

Ismael Garcia

9 years ago

Yeah, yeah let???s give them something awesome so they forget about INTER?????????OH MY GOD IT???S FREE!!! you are the greatest andrew!!!

Duncan

9 years ago

Dude this is awesome. I've been watching your tutorials since I was in college, almost the full ten years that Video Copilot has been around. I've learned so much about After Effects from you, it's great to have you back. Keep up the good work

Kalali Jesse

9 years ago

SABER IS AWESOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMEEEEEEE!!!!!!! U ROCK ANDREW KRAMER. U ROCK. VIDEOCOPILOT RULES FOREVER!!!!

Travis Wade

9 years ago

Andrew, I know that I speak for a lot of us. Without you, I would have never pursued a career in motion graphics and animation. Time after time, you've inspired me and helped guide me into what is now a successful career. I got a late start in life in my career but better late than never. After losing my hand in a freak accident in my old career, discovering after effects and finding tutorials like yours kept my mind at ease and helped me to find something that I really became passionate about. I tell people that I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up until I was 35. I own my career and happiness in my career to you. I truly can't imagine doing anything else. You truly deserve all the success you've achieved and more because of your willingness to give back and help others. I hope someday that we get to meet so I can shake your hand. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Beavertron

9 years ago

Well said!

Paul Whitehead

9 years ago

I 2nd that 100%!! I would not be doing what I'm doing in motion fx if it werent for AK...

Trevor Powers

9 years ago

He started me on motion graphics also. been doing it for about 5 years now.

M. Steele Finley

9 years ago

This is so well thought thru, I can't believe your generosity, bro! I have been forced to switch to Nuke, but After effects will always be my playground! This is a stellar tool that inspires as much as it delivers practical, useful workflow!

BjÃ¶rn

9 years ago

So much appreciated Andrew!
Thank you very much!
Hope you'll get an Oscar for your work!!!

Bergy

9 years ago

AK - So excited about this plug-in! Is there anyway that you'll make the tut downloadable? It'd be nice to not have to always go to YouTube to learn how to use it. In fact YouTube is blocked at my job and that is where I do all my work in AE.

Solaiappan

9 years ago

Hi Andrew! My Incredible Super Hero, I'm very happy to hear your voice after long time. I'm eagerly waiting after this you continue your VFX tutorial in Different Di mentions.....
The plugin was awesome !

Peter

9 years ago

I love this guy!

Alessandro

9 years ago

Mabe there is a problem with a VCINSTALLER on Mac with OS X version 10.7.5 ... i hope this is not the reason why i can't install Saber

I use After Effects CS5.5 for a pay tv in Italy.
If i will use Saber in the future, can i use it for job, or there are limitations?

Joe Moskowitz

9 years ago

I installed it on my Mac OSX 10.6.8, running CS6. If you right click on the installer, and click "show package contents," then open "Contents," then open "Resources," the "Saber.plugin" is right there. Drag and drop that into your AE Plugins folder, and you're golden. I've been playing with it all afternoon!!!

Timber_Wolf_2

9 years ago

Where was this effect TWO YEARS AGO?!?!?!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyA5pWtLLlI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

x6_cgaYykg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZVY4reZAXo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCBGDr5LWjI

For the last two years, I've been tasked with creating these types of effects for a huge VFX spectacular using very difficult and/or render-intense effects... and this entire tutorial blew my mind.

BTW, you didn't spend much time discussing speed. Is it lightning fast, or is it a bit heavier on the render?

leigh

9 years ago

Hi Andrew,

Brilliant plugin! I found a possible glitch. Might only be my end. But worth mentioning.
Whenever I try adding this plugin to text in after effects cc for mac it crashes.

leigh

9 years ago

oops. Found the problem. No problems. Your plugin is flawless!

9 years ago

What was the fix?

9 years ago

Merci Andrew!!

Jim McKenzie

9 years ago

Thank you Andrew! Congratulations on all of your success! You are a true inspiration to all of us!

pavan

9 years ago

Nice Plugin and project file tutorial ANDREW KRAMER

And more tutorial please

Thankyou

Ineedrevelation

9 years ago

Hey Andrew it's not installing on my Mac. it just sits on my dock. Should I re-download?

ahmed Shakib

9 years ago

Its so good to have him back, great tut.

Phillip Bauman

9 years ago

What preset fits best as kylo Rens saber?

Justin

9 years ago

awesome Andrew. Long Live Andrew Kramer.

ÃŠnnio

9 years ago

Thank you Andrew! All of my learning has started with your tutorials! Thanks for your hard work!

danny

9 years ago

Que herramienta tan poderosa y util ... No solo para los proyectos que tengo en mente sino para innovar... Gracias Andrew y todo el equipo de VIDEOCOPILOT

wes

9 years ago

How do you get the sabre plugin to reflect on element 3d models? Like in the screenshot on the landing page of videocopilot.net?

Beavertron

9 years ago

This should help hopefully, project file included

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0hAe3fZ4O4

Micha? Zimnowodzki

9 years ago

"Beavertron" EMPTY LINK ON YT

Beavertron

9 years ago

Hi I've just updated the link, that hosting site was a rubbish one, my apologies. Now two links to download from.

Alessandro Silvas

9 years ago

Thanks for everythink!

Hubertus

9 years ago

Very, very nice. But one question. How do you the reflection in the tutorial?
(f.e. in 1:22)

Thanks a lot!!!

Eric Kerkhoven

9 years ago

Andrew, you and your team are truly amazing, this is brilliant!

Alessandro

9 years ago

Can i use it on After Effects CS 5.5? I have a trouble to install mac version

Kev

9 years ago

Anyone having trouble installing to CS4. The installer dialogue doesn't seem to see the app.exe

I looked on plug-in page to see if works with CS4 but there is no info.

Tried placing plug-in in the plug-ins folder but it doesn't appear in the plug-ins list.

sam

9 years ago

Me too, I am still using CS4, installed but plug in not shown up.

Kev

9 years ago

I'm on W7 64bit OS, Adobe suite installed ProgFiles(x86) except Photoshop which is 64 bit
...... is there a solution to this yet?

thibaud

9 years ago

Yes, same thing happened with CS4. No .exe found. I tried same thing (installing in plug-in folder) but, nothing... Dear Andrew, is there a chance to have this super brilliant plugin on CS4 ? or must we upgrade... thanks!

Kev

9 years ago

I'm on W7 64bit OS, Adobe suite installed ProgFiles(x86) except Photoshop which is 64 bit
...... is there a solution to this yet?

Jlaf

9 years ago

Damned! CS4 doesn't find Saber! Free plugin for new after Effects users! We've been following you since a long long time Andrew! Corect this bug in the new version please!

Ash

9 years ago

It works for CS6 & CC

Mika

9 years ago

Truly a brilliant tool! Was able to stumble upon a happy accident on a project I am working on now... Autotraced my source and applied Saber to that and animated the end offset. Masks being different sizes and shapes the animation flickered on and off as it was building and that was just the look I was after!

green

9 years ago

Thank you for this great plugin!

Please rename the properties in the next update.
Copy with property links does not fully work because the glow distortion properties have the same names as core distortion.

Marc

9 years ago

Thank you Andrew for making this outstanding plugin.
What you do for the Ae community is really out of this world.
Your products are in each aspect simply fantastic, combined with a more than reasonable price tag one can only be extremely grateful!

madmips

9 years ago

You are GODS to me!

Kevin

9 years ago

This Saber plug in is more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

Thank you Andrew.

Beavertron

9 years ago

Hey, had a play around with getting saber to integrated with Element 3D and reflections. I've uploaded to project file in the youtube link also if it helps anyone to see the setup. I'm no Andrew Kramar would like to add but hopefully will give people some pointers. Thank you so much for an awesome free plugin like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0hAe3fZ4O4

Please note you may have to manually relink the assets, I used optical flares, motion design 2 and pro shaders 2 elements in the scene.

Alan Tabrett

9 years ago

Tasked with VFX on a short, which requires a particular and sustained effect throughout most of the film, and this plug-in could not have arrived at a better time, perfect timing in fact!! Thanks AK and team VC.

Abdul

9 years ago

Thank you Andrew!!! I've been part of this community for 10 years and you really helped me grow and learn and I want to thank you. I can't wait to see all the cool things you will do in the next 10 years!

Ced

9 years ago

Second Render Test with new Plugin....Really loving this! and this is just the beginning! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

3pnduLDUKM

R-CANE

9 years ago

Great job, how did you solve the rotation issue so that it still fits perfectly when rotating it that much?

R-CANE

9 years ago

You used a precomposed instance of Saber to put on a plane in E3D with the transfermode to add and lined it up with the text?

R-CANE

9 years ago

You used a precomposed instance of Saber to put on a plane in E3D with the transfermode to add and lined it up with the text?

vijayshivan

9 years ago

hai andrew kramer
this plug in superb esy and massive

Timo

9 years ago

Mouldy Pea

9 years ago

Impressive

...Most impressive!

Thank you so much for all your hard work and all-nighters! What a toy to have to play with. And for free too! You guys at VC spoil us rotten. So worth any wait.

Thanks again, but quiet now... Have a new toy to play with. World begone for a few days!

Clive

9 years ago

Thanks so much for your tools! Looking forward to getting stuck into this one!

Frank

9 years ago

What a gift! Thank you so much!!

Salomon Chaussures

9 years ago

This tools is such an amazing gift to the community, thanks Andrews...for SABER and for 10 years of guidance!

Michael Angelo

9 years ago

My experiment for today. Can't wait to learn and play more.

Cheers!

~MAH~

https://youtu.be/IJ8oO6Q79D8

Eddie

9 years ago

Watch my clip very easy sohail

Sohail

9 years ago

Amazing work dude..!!

Sohail

9 years ago

Amazing work dude..!!

Eddie

9 years ago

Love this plugin man I've tried it in one of my scenes using E3D and Motion Design 2 check it out. https://youtu.be/vK4w5rthwFw

Earl-Louis

9 years ago

Thank you maaaan!

ManuelMT

9 years ago

Thank you for all the effort you put in this plugin. Thank you for giving it to us for free. And thank you that you still support your community the way you do

A huge thanks to the whole team at videocopilot.

A little idea for Version 1.1: What about saving own Presets? Or is it allready possible?

StevenJ

9 years ago

That would be a cool addition; for now you can just save an after effects file I guess.

ManuelMT

9 years ago

It would also be great to have an option to override the core color. For now you need to give the solid layer the exact color the core should have or am I missing something?

Invalid

9 years ago

Is there any way to download just the plugin file for a manual install? The installer (required OS X 10.7) is incompatible with my old mac's OS X version. This plugin is perfect for a project I've been working on, got all excited to download only to be locked out by the installer. Am I SOL?

Rick

9 years ago

You are my Force....it's inscrutability....

zman3

9 years ago

I get error code 40 during install

T-Man

9 years ago

Same for me on work windows 7 machine. Installed fine on my Mac at home.

Eunice

9 years ago

Andrew thank you! You are so kind & talented!

Ced

9 years ago

My recreation of the fire render from the tutorial...https://youtu.be/XohW06lbS0M

Michael Angelo

9 years ago

Excellent work. I like the added bits of real fire. I think that, toward the end, the font should stabilize to something more substantial with just a pinch of heat distortion. That's just me though. Still looks wicked sick. Great job man!

deji

9 years ago

boss level stuff

Thomas

9 years ago

WOW! Thank you never seems enough for the incredible gifts you provide us with......However I must still say it. THANK YOU Andrew & VCP team!! Beautiful plug in and well worth the wait

Mark

9 years ago

Thank you, really appreciate the time and effort!

Michael

9 years ago

Also played around a bit..
Our Battlefield Clan intro - DHK -
https://youtu.be/PnuuNfZ-x3I

Sivabalakrishnan

9 years ago

Thanking You for your new plug-in AK...

Marifer

9 years ago

Finally.... 1st Test whit Saber and reflections on E3D

https://youtu.be/koZzWLjU8xw

Ivan

9 years ago

Andrew, this is awesome!!! All I can say is thanks! To you and your team! Keep up the good work.

suyash

9 years ago

you are just awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!.you should be given recognition by adobe worldwide.AWESOME PLUGIN!!!!!!!!!!

yavar sh

9 years ago

Bravo

David Adams

9 years ago

Messed around with this plugin for 10 mins and came up with this. Render time was really excellent. I'm not sure how you do it Andrew Kramer, but I'm glad you do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4sAvwsUgAo

Bear

9 years ago

maybe... maybe you should have worked a little longer on it than those 10 minutes.

Sohail

9 years ago

Hey this is 2D plugin !! Not 3D. Can we make it 3D while using with E3D v2. I want saber to shoot directly to Z axis like towards the camera

Trevor Powers

9 years ago

Relax! It's free!

David Adams

9 years ago

I'm sure a smart guy like you can find a way to trick the camera and make it appear 3D.

Sohail

9 years ago

My friend I know its free.. ! And I'm thankful to Andrew but I want to achieve some effect where it shoots toward the camera .. I used trapcode particular but not getting the right effect.!! Anyways I used some wired expressions to make it look similar to 3D. Thanks

Eddie

9 years ago

What I did is in e3d create a tube to use as a template then use the plug in and composite on top easy cheers

Sohail

9 years ago

Thanks for suggesting

Cosmo Tigato

9 years ago

This is super Cool !!!!!!

Jason

9 years ago

My quick experiment with it

I can't wait to really get a hang of it!

https://youtu.be/BUuUWgEuk2M

Donnell

9 years ago

oh snap i see you jason ...coooool vid.

Jason

9 years ago

Thanks!! Donnell.

Lance

9 years ago

Is there a way to install this into hitfilm?

Donnell

9 years ago

playing around with what can be done with this plugin.. nothing crazy here, but you get the idea..everything was done with element 3d and saber

https://vimeo.com/157970869

Jason

9 years ago

Cool idea!

Donnell

9 years ago

Thanks Jason

Kevin

9 years ago

Did you also notice any crashes when zoomed out in the comp? I couldn't animate any of the points if I was zoomed out without it crashing. Thanks for all of your hard work guys!

Donnell

9 years ago

i noticed it too it crashed when i had 3 separate comps with saber plugin..Andrew said below they're working on it

Jeremy

9 years ago

With a weekend release, a lot of us got to play around today. Thanks for your hard work!

https://youtu.be/wPo3ryy6fFk

Donnell

9 years ago

ok so here's my re-creation of one part of Andrews trailer..Thanks again for the mazing plugin

https://vimeo.com/157964688

Ced

9 years ago

are those turbine things objects from E3D?

Donnell

9 years ago

Hey Ced yes it's from the motion design 2 pack from E3d

Vortex

9 years ago

May the force be with you, Andrew!

Maxim

9 years ago

Thanks you, VIDEO COPILOT! You are awesome!

Matt

9 years ago

I'm taking a day off work this week to play with this plugin. Thanks so much Andrew! It's amazing.

Eddie

9 years ago

Thank Ak awesome plugin. Been playing all night with it cheers woo hoo

Scott

9 years ago

Andrew, how did you make the planet? Terragon 2?

AllenGraph

9 years ago

Princess Bride and Lightsabers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dc3UB-jZYY

R-CANE

9 years ago

Would love to see the ability to save my own presets as a feature...Love saber..been working with it all day!

Jeremey

9 years ago

Amazing plugin, and even more incredible that you invested so much time and made this free. You have played a huge role in the development and inspiration of a ton of people in this industry.

I noticed its crashing on me and I think it may have to do with the fact that one of the instances of the Saber plug-in on my layer has both end points located off the canvas. The first instance has the end point off the canvas but its running fine, its only this second instance (on the same layer) that has both the start and end points off-canvas, that's causing it to crash every time. It looks like a couple other people have seen AE crashing while using Saber, so I'm sure you're on it. I just wanted to let you guys know.

Andrew Kramer

9 years ago

Thanks Jeremey! Yes are we are on top of this and should get a 1.1 shortly

Daniel

9 years ago

Congrat guy's great plugin! Love It

balabam

9 years ago

10주??? ????? ?????????. ??? 보고 ????????????.

Ineedrevelation

9 years ago

Congratulations on 10 years!!! We love you Andrew!!!!

Alzemir

9 years ago

Hi, Andrew and VC Group. Congratulations for a very high quality plugin. Along with the Vibrance certainly form an unbeatable team. Thank you for this most powerful and valuable support !!!

Eyal

9 years ago

LOOOOOVVVVVVEEEE IT!

9 years ago

This is a fantastic plug-in----and free???!!!.

Your talent and generosity are inspiring! Thank you so much, Andrew.

Marifer

9 years ago

Andrew... how can I create reflections in 3DE scenes from saber plug-in?

dude

9 years ago

sicksicksicksicksiCKSICKSICKSICK! U R THE MASTER!

Neil

9 years ago

This is beyond awesome. Although I gotta say it's crashed After Effects a few times already. I have about layers using the plugin, along with a layer of Element3D.

Neil

9 years ago

edit: FOUR layers.

Neil

9 years ago

Just crashed again. This is what it isays:
Application Specific Information:
Assertion failed: (height > 0), function Enqueue, file /Volumes/videocopilot/lightsaber/src/thread_pool.h, line 117.

Andrew Kramer

9 years ago

Email your project and system specs. We found a few bugs we are fixing and we can check it out.

Neil

9 years ago

Sent. Thanks AK!

Scott

9 years ago

Freakin' awesome Andrew and team! Thank you all and your families!
Will any of you be at SXSW? I know J.J. is speaking.

Brian K. Waters

9 years ago

This is stunning! Thank you Andrew and everyone else at VCP!

Neil

9 years ago

Andrew, please stop apologising to your followers. Given that you've done this for free, you don't owe anyone anything. I'd say the opposite is true, given how much you've done for free and how much we've benefited from it. Sure, it doesn't excuse why "The Force Awakens" in the opening scroll doesn't match the font in the other films

but you're an incredibly generous guy and we should be happy you do this at all. Don't let the power slip to the impatient people.

When giving an estimated time of completion, take a page out of Mr Scott's book, and multiply your estimates by a factor of four, you miracle worker you.

Muhammad

9 years ago

Bro apologies to his followers . Because Bro is nice and he loves nice stuffs.. Be nice like bro

david

9 years ago

thank you andrew!! youre amazing bro

Chris

9 years ago

Can't install the plugin under Max OS. Trying to boot the installer in the DMG gives an error saying it can't be opened.

Have checked security preferences and that's not solved problem. Running Mac OS 10.11.3 with AFX CC 2015

TokyoJames

9 years ago

Similar problem here. Installer opens and "successfully installed" but ... didnt actually install anywhere. Mac El Capitan with AE CC 2015

chris

9 years ago

Installer is completely failing to work for me. From inside DMG or from desktop, just a Finder error saying the file can't be opened.

Denis

9 years ago

The best plugin I've seen in a long time! So many options and total control of creation. You are THE best. Thank you!

Artemus

9 years ago

I only made it through the first 5 mins of the tutorial and I am screaming and jumping like a little boy. Andrew...I really don't know how to say thank you. Thank you Brotha Andrew...Thank you!

Mad

9 years ago

this plug in is brilliant,thank you so much !

Josiah

9 years ago

What are some good tips for integrating this with Element 3d?

Sean F

9 years ago

Check out this tutorial for details on how to line it up with Element 3D:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aA6lynCYMM&index;=5&list;

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Ali solo

9 years ago

You....! God!) thanx for it!!! For everything ...

AniMajik

9 years ago

Friggin' Awesome! and very useful for other things besides light sabers! Thank you for all your great work and help throughout the years!

Chris

9 years ago

The TNG-like phaser beam I created in just a few short minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FZySgmKWZo

Absolutely amazing!

Luis Rdz

9 years ago

Thanks a lot for your great effort and support for your community, that's why we keep visiting video copilot all these years

Leonardo Kowerdink

9 years ago

Thank you Andrew.You're a great person and a great professional visual esfectos. Thanks for all the work you do to share that knowledge and passion that you put into your work. Greetings from Argentina.

Dr_Stef

9 years ago

Now my brain is going nuts thinking about the stuff I can use this for keeping me awake. Thanks ever so much!
I mean that in a good way not a sarcastic way. Ok maybe a little. But still a good way!
Great plugin! already using it

David DeCorso

9 years ago

This plugin is so amazingly powerful! Quick text effect I made with it as a test:

https://youtu.be/HgUywvrzzb4

andres

9 years ago

The algorithms for noises in Cinema 4D are far superior IMHO than those found in 3Dsmax or AE. Imagine a way to port them into AE.That would open a lot of possibilities and better realism.
http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/cinema-4D-noise-palette/dc29c26db886692eca3bacb8d65c1972.jpg

Torsten

9 years ago

Really great work, Andrew. The wait was worth it.

And by the way: The Fanfilm you were talking about which would have profited by this PlugIn just came out yesterday...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

jo_91jN3Pk

I guess they would have loved to use it... .

Chris

9 years ago

They could use the plugin to make a remastered version down the road...

Ed Ferg

9 years ago

Awesome Andrew & Team!

Just in time for Ghost Busters. Light 'em up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VayXii8HtyE

Time Mark 1:30

sean

9 years ago

Very nice, although a banding-artifacts-killer-plugin is what we need now.
Adding grain and working in higher bpc just isn't enough to calm down the side effects of such powerful tools as this and OF.
Plus final compression just makes me wanna scream: WHY??!!!

Beavertron

9 years ago

My final client output settings. 2% noise, MP4 codec, 14 Meg Variable bit rate with 20 Meg set as max. Use either Vegas or Premier Pro to create this. No banding, accurate colours and great playback on pants computers as well.

sean

9 years ago

I'd love to see that result, Beavertron. Even this saber tutorial has lots of banding. Honestly, grain, 16pbc and the scatter feature on the gradient ramp effect (when using ramps of course) do a pretty good job, but with intense light sources like this saber or OF...mmm...
Post a link, if possible.

Chris

9 years ago

I tend to only have banding if I use exceptional bright values even in lower than 32 bpc...

sean

9 years ago

I assume each one of us has his/her own tollerance of such artifacts. Honestly, to me this very saber tutorial is unacceptable in terms of banding even with the very basic settings (example: 3'48"... or any other frame). So I'm not talking about a scene with lots of overboosted light sources; just a saber on a black BG. This tut is probably an 8bpc prj and the youtube compression surely doesn't help, but isn't youtube where everything ends up anyway?

Neil

9 years ago

Sean, just to be sure, what is the spec of your display? I've heard many complaints about banding from people that are actually the limitations of their display, rather than the output file.

Bear in mind as well that a file has to be 100Mbps bit rate to be regarded as HD sufficient for broadcast (in the UK, that is), so don't limit your bit rate too much if your computer can handle it.

Neil

9 years ago

Also, you seem to be under the impression that just a saber effect on a black background shouldn't suffer from banding..? A bright area fading into black is precisely the sort of thing that is prone to banding.

Sean

9 years ago

What you say is true, Neil: a bright area fading into black is very prone to banding. Which makes it even more frustrating. Unfortunately a 100Mbs bit rate is not something one can deal with in most situations.
Most stuff on youtube/vimeo is way below 10Mbps.
For the industry I work in - mostly corporate videos - banding is an issue ( for me of course as clients luckly don't even seem to see it..), especially so with plugins such as Optical flares and Saber I'd say.

sean

9 years ago

plus, I'd not honestly not even know how to export a 100mbs bit rate file from AE. Perhaps with uncompressed files? Any .MOV (h264) file I've ever exported (with no bitrate limits in the settings) has hardly reached 45Mbps

Andrew Kramer

9 years ago

Are you talking about the tutorial recording? The banding from the online compression is nothing like what the plug-in looks like in AE. Have you tried the plug-in locally?

Sean

9 years ago

Ok, I've just tried it. If I add a .5 noise in 32bpc the banding magically disappears in the viewport but when I export only the animation compression seems to keep up (with mov). With quality set to 100 it looks great but a 3 sec clip of just the basic saber is over 400 Mb with an over 1000 Mbps bitrate which is not very usable. If I set the quality to 70 it still looks ok and the size drops down to 63 Mb and the bitrate falls down to 176 Mbps which is the best compromise so far. Anything under those values has the banding back. With 8bpc there's no way I can seem to get rid of them.
Any other suggestion?

BTW
thanks Andrew!

Beavertron

9 years ago

Hi Sean, have you tried adding the dithering then exporting to MOV format with Animation codec set to 100%. You get a large file but its pretty lossless. Then export finally to client format using Premier to MP4 with a good bit rate. You shouldn't need to go above 28Meg for the bit rate for a great looking output. Hope that helps

Sean

9 years ago

Thanks for the tips Beavertron. I've done all sort of tests and once I convert the animation file to h264 no matter how I keep the bitrate high, the bandings are back. Don't get me wrong, I guess it could be acceptable for most people, but as I said previously it is really a matter of what one is after. The animation compression is flawless but way too large. Gojng back to the reason I wrote the post in the first place, I still think this issue is underestimated and the people who have the right knowledge to fix it should provide a "once and for all" solution.
If it looks good on your displays, make your h264 and turn down all the lights in your room and tell me if you seriously see no banding, even with a 30Mb bitrate. Besides this, as far as I'm concerned, saber is a great fun tool for sure.

Besvertron

9 years ago

I understand where you are coming. Incidentally I used to use the H.264 codec and I never got satisfactory results with CG created content, so i moved away from it. Maybe I wasn't setting it up right but I remember a particular project I went over the top with optical flares on, the banding was appalling. I guess its a bit hit miss sometimes. I hope you find a solution. Like i say MP4 was a pretty good one for me anyway and I'm pretty anal about client final look.

Beavertron

9 years ago

You'll have to excuse the quality of the production here, but this project used a heavy amount of flares especially towards the end in the nebula scene. Youtube doesn't help but managed to control the banding loads, it initially suffered really badly using other compressions, try not to cringe too much, was show opener with a tight deadline and wasn't my idea!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4mNpBjS9gQ

Sean

9 years ago

yeah Beavertron, I think that what mostly affected the quality of your file is youtube's compression. Otherwise I'd say the quality is very reasonable although I think it is also due to the lots of action going on which doesn't give the eye the time to focus on the artifacts that may occur. If you freeze the video, especially round where the sun flare occurs - round 4'33" - the banding can be seen but it really isn't bothering while it plays. Also, like Neil rightfully pointed out, the simple scenes are the worst: a lens flare flickering on a black background may give the worst headaches. My main issue with banding is its combination with online compression which leads to those unwatchable pixel splotches. Have a look at the intro here (the first 12 seconds) https://vimeo.com/80720501
I delivered an animation file (they wanted a master copy) which was pretty decent, but once uploaded onto vimeo, it just went beserk. The rest of the video also has lots of flares but just like in your case, since there's lots of action going on, the banding is not as noticeable.
Anyhow, thanks for sharing tips and experience. I'm not sure what you mean when you say you used to use h264 and now you use MP4. As far as I know, Mp4 is a container, while h264 is a compression so they're technically 2 very different things although they are often linked to each other since one may cointain the other, in fact Premiere gives the chance to export an mp4 via the h264 preset while if you select Mpeg-4 you don't get the option to choose any resolution you may need and the settings get kind of complex after you've headed into the multiplexer tab. So I'm not sure what settings you use to encode your final exports, but if you wish to share them, I'd be glad to test them out.
Cheers!

Beavertron

9 years ago

I see what you mean about the banding at the start. It doesn't help at all that hosted sites compress them out of our control to be honest. I use within Vegas, for output, its called Mainconcept AVC/AAC which outputs to MP4. I've screenshot taken the settings to make it easier, but should be able to replicate in any other app. Let me know of any improvements as well, happy to give them a whirl

Download link is to an image file. Thanks Sean

https://apia.wd2go.com/api/1.0/rest/device_redirect?device_user_id=20550177&device;_uri=/api/1.0/rest/file_contents/Public/Shared%20Videos/Output%20settings.jpg?device_user_id=20550177&request_auth_code=a9e1fd9c581fa4639b32654ae6f7d0427791225d6d4d2063f165efb0d6fbc58c

Beavertron

9 years ago

Ignore that link its not working for some reason, I've uploaded to a file link share

http://www34.zippyshare.com/v/7tNkkwlc/file.html

Sean

9 years ago

Thanks for posting yor settings Beavertron.
The codec you are using is actually an H264 since mainconcept uses the H264 codec and that is what premiere uses as well when exporting mp4. So we're pretty much dealing with the same stuff I'd say, just different platforms.

Beavertron

9 years ago

Hi Sean, I didn't know that, thanks for correcting things. Good to know. Yeah it's the best results I've gotten so far outside of prores. The event that played that promo wanted it in pro res format to play out of a Mac onto a 4K screen with 3 projectors. I didn't notice any improvement in the banding with that format either.

chris

9 years ago

Hey Andrew thanks for the Great Work Man resealing a New PLUG-IN for Us
God Bless you and Family

Bucky Cameron

9 years ago

Just finished first pass through the Tutorial, know there will be more.

This tools is such an amazing gift to the community, thanks Andrews...for SABER and for 10 years of guidance!

luis florez

9 years ago

it is not installing on mac 10.7.5. Andrew,would it be possible if I use the files that are inside the installer and manually copy and paste the plugin?

Joe Moskowitz

9 years ago

I just posted this somewhere else on here, but I installed it on my Mac OSX 10.6.8, running CS6. If you right click on the installer, and click "show package contents," then open "Contents," then open "Resources," the "Saber.plugin" is right there. Drag and drop that into your AE Plugins folder, and you're golden. I've been playing with it all afternoon!!!

Pier

9 years ago

Could you please make it work on mac osx 10.7.5?

bobomet

9 years ago

What a beauty Mate. Thanks ever so much.
How do you get the Saber layers to be 3D layers for the rotation?

Joseph O'Brien

9 years ago

Well, there goes my productivity for the next month. This is fabulous. I WANT TO MAKE ALL THE LASER BEAMS.

Gary

9 years ago

You're the reason I was able to figure out After Effects and you have given me the tools to do what I love. In a world where college isn't an option for some of us, your work an dedication has given us our livelihoods and our dreams. From all of us who have learned to not copy your work, but to learn the skills and build our own stuff, we thank you. Keep an eye out next time you're in San Diego, you might recognize your tools in use.

Mike

9 years ago

Keep up the great work you guys, always putting out incredible stuff, much appreciated by everyone!
Very happy to be supporting you guys

Brandon

9 years ago

Does anyone know how to add saber reflections in Element? Trying some "custom texture" options but usually when the "saber" layer is pre-comped, it won't show up in the scene setup in Element. Seeking some master reflection experts out there!!

Tentean George

9 years ago

I think it's like the texture on a plane thing in the Element 3D V2.2 Tutorial, where you have to render the animation as a clip and then apply it on a plane in E3D. I'm just guessing that's how it would probably be done unless Mr. Kramer decides to inform us on the matter.

Van Alencer

9 years ago

Thank you so much Andrew, you are the boss!! this looks insane.

I have an issue. The Saber Installer closes every time when I want to open it :/ What can I do? thanks!

Mohammed AboArab

9 years ago

Amazing plug-in, THANK YOU!

Ricky Elliott

9 years ago

The issue I'm having is being able to do the obscuration masking @34:00 in the tutorial, with distortion/any of the presets on. Currently as it functions, it only works with the basic core, nothing else in the Saber plugin will be rendered or obscured when using a obscuring mask.

Andrew Kramer

9 years ago

Probably because of the displacement. Try using the multiply for glow noise. Depending on your occlusion situation it may be necessary to do traditional mattes.

Billy Collins

9 years ago

First test with Saber. I made Portals from the game Portal. https://youtu.be/KRUhyNAFE9Y

Mikkel Barber

9 years ago

Andrew, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge in these tutorials!

Esmail

9 years ago

thank you,I didn't try it yet but you always deserve at least " thank you " Esmail - saudi arabia.

Nina

9 years ago

Andrew, Thank you so much! May the force be with you and your family

Joseph

9 years ago

Andrew, you've done it again! Thank YOU for all your hard work on this website!

Collin

9 years ago

This plugin is so good that I deleted all my previous saber work in my comps and was able to replace them in less than an hour with this! I have so much more control and it makes the time spent a whole lot less! Thanks AGAIN!

Dom

9 years ago

Best free plugin EVER!

If I had the money I would just Buy every VIDEOCOILOT Plugin!

But for a Student money is just "An Unstoppable Force!"

andres

9 years ago

Thank you, for giving sense to the passion for work. Always ahead, always in time.

Cosmo Tigato

9 years ago

Activate Interlocks, Dyno-therms connected, Infra-Cells Up, Mega-thrusters are GO!!!

Kiko

9 years ago

Is that from Voltron?

Letauf

9 years ago

Thank You Andrew

Eldiablo

9 years ago

Thanks a lot!!! Looking forward to use it. It explains all the time u have taken. In my opinion its totally worth it.

9 years ago

Wow!!! You are the man Andrew! I can't even believe it you give it for free. So good! All the best for you man! Thanks a lot!

David

9 years ago

It feels like we're taking food from your children's mouths having this plugin for free

As the trailer says, it's so dense, and it is so cool that you're just giving it away for nothing.
Downloaded it and used it already, your help makes my stuff look cooler.

So today I worked on some stuff that already used Optical flares and your distortion plugin, and now sabre too.

Happy days and thanks again Andrew and your team \^^/

9 years ago

Andrew you deserve everything that is going great in your life. You've not only enriched my life, you've enriched us all with your talent and limitless possibilities brought to us by creating visual effects using Affect Effects and the Video Copilot plugins. We've watched you grow into THE definitive After Effects expert and taught us with practice and love for the game we can be great as well. Thanks again, you will forever be remembered as the Phil Jackson/Michael Jordan of After Effects.

SimonV

9 years ago

Super cool ! Vraiment merci beaucoup pour tout ce partage et les tutoriels.

Gabe Alvrz.

9 years ago

Why lord? we're not worthy of your gifts!

Dana Clarke

9 years ago

Is there any way to parent to a track and have only the saber and not the entire layer follow thanks!

Markus

9 years ago

How to integrate the reflections from saber into a Element 3D scene?

Nick

9 years ago

Brilliant man. That comment at the end about the guy finishing his lightsaber movie... Genius!

Alex M

9 years ago

I like that the tutorial says "100% free".

fernando

9 years ago

Impressive, and 100% free. I be honest, different people as usual

Daniel

9 years ago

Muchas Gracias Genio, que la fuerza te acompañe!!!

9 years ago

You're the man!

Rachel

9 years ago

I copied the vector path (in Illustrator) of a particular logo and pasted that vector path onto a solid. Applied Saber. And when I tried to scale up the layer, the Saber outline of the logo doesn't increase in size. So I tried to increase the mask expansion, and same thing. The logo (vector path on the solid) stays small. Saber seems to ignore scale and mask expansion. (Now I only watched 20 mins of the tutorial so far, havent finished the video), but does anyone know of a solution? I ended up going back into Illustrator, making the logo bigger in that program, and copying that vector path and bringing it back into AE.

Noah Shreve

9 years ago

I really want to know how he did the chromatic aberration on all of the E3d stuff

Phil

9 years ago

In Element 3D, go to Render -> Glow -> Chromatic Diffraction - those settings will give any glowing items in your Element scene that aberration look.

Noah Shreve

9 years ago

@Phil awesome! Thanks man.

Phil

9 years ago

No problem

Eduardo Ortiz

9 years ago

Amazing plug-in, THANK YOU!!

David Robillard

9 years ago

Thanks Andrew Awesome work. Love to see another tutorial just on text effects and this plug in.

Brad

9 years ago

Hey Andrew, what can I say, its BEAUTIFUL. You and your team are beyond amazing! Your software and plug-ins have helped me soooo much! You can't imagine. This was a great gift for everyone, thank you.

Noah Shreve

9 years ago

I died when you pulled up the spark tutorial lol

Brando

9 years ago

Brilliant!

What's next?

Chris Aberger

9 years ago

I tried to change the core type to a text layer and then selected the text and then I get an error saying "child not found in parent" "unknown exception" otherwise cool as hell

Patrick

9 years ago

I had the same. don't apply saber to the text layer but to a clean solid. then set the core type to text layer. Underneath that option select your text.

Parker

9 years ago

I found a problem that is really stopping me from getting the effect I want. When I duplicate the effect, the second one completely ignores the elliptical mask and still shows the glow on the outside, no matter how I tell it to show.

Ricky Elliott

9 years ago

Hey Andrew,

Quick question: any chance you'll implement the 'mask core' feature to work with the distortion? I dropped the plugin on a previous project of mine to play around with it, and realized that when using masks to roto, it gets rid of all the distortion when using a mask to obscure the core. The only way to get the distortion to show up is disable the alpha mode, but that puts the effect on the obscuration mask as well.

Ricky Elliott

9 years ago

Here's an example of what I'm talking about: http://imgur.com/a/eKtYk

Dave

9 years ago

You have your masks on the saber layer. Put them on a separate layer.

Ricky Elliott

9 years ago

@Dave: but that will cut off the glow, which needs to appear on top of the obscuration.

Rob Baines

9 years ago

Installed it to 2014 and 2015 on installer and it only installed properly on 2015, easily resolved however as I just copy and pasted 2015 version plug-in into 2014 and it seems to work...
I will post something if there are any problems with doing it that method! Just having a play with it at the moment!

So far though... Great plugin! Thank you for making this available!

Rachel

9 years ago

I closed all the applications. Installed Saber for CC, CC2014 and CS6. I open up CC 2014 and type in "saber" under effects and nothing comes up. I restarted the computer, opened up AE CC2014 again, saber still isnt there. I installed again. Still not there. I'm running Mac OS X 10.11.3 (El Capitan). Any suggestions?

Rachel

9 years ago

Update: The plugin appears in CS6. But not CC 2014

srikanth

9 years ago

hey andrew i'm frm india thanx a lot learned so much from VCP seriously gave me so much stuff
keep gng !

Jay Prater

9 years ago

Fantastic, brilliant, and mindbending as always. Thank you!

luis florez

9 years ago

weird i can not install it!!! will keep up trying

AgustÃn

9 years ago

Lightsaber 3d model pack?

hafanos

9 years ago

Hi, I need help with instal. I run instaler, but nothing is hapend. Can you help me?

Andy

9 years ago

Finally ! .. I tested it ... Really cool .
Well done AK

fizardo

9 years ago

no me corre en windows de 32 bits

JÃºnior PorciÃºncula

9 years ago

This Plugin is AMAZING. And very small size. Unbelievable.

Jason

9 years ago

Thank You Andrew!!!!!!!!! :O)

Jeff

9 years ago

Wow. Worth the wait! I really like the procedural noise and glow fall off, very helpful to add that special touch!

sylvain

9 years ago

Great job !!! Thanks you so much !!!

Liam

9 years ago

Plus I have spent all day producing a intro title sequence that I will show case soon, all thanks to Saber and the VC copilot team. Thanks

Dan

9 years ago

Awesome, Just awesome...

The Chad

9 years ago

This is an amazing plug-in to add to all the VC products I've purchased over the years. I really want to donate something for it. Is there an email I can send money to? I would like to continue supporting the VC team, but I think I've already bought everything... Thanks!

hossein-moravej

9 years ago

What a lovely idea! Excellent !!

big tnx for brilliant plug-in

+++ Andrew Kramer +++ = *** god of vfx ***

Liam

9 years ago

I still think a Space 3d model pack is a great idea, just saying...

Christian Michael

9 years ago

Fabulous plug in. I see a LOT of possibilities for animated text and title backgrounds. I'm also seeing a lot of features brought over from the plugin "Heat Distortion" and maybe some settings from Element? I first watched this at 7:30 BC this morning (before coffee) so my mind could have been playing tricks lol. I'll re watch it again later and have a play after I've finished my current work video.

Great work as always, great tut with good humor and I seriously hope this gets you noticed in the industry and gets you a lot more block buster gigs.

Good to have you back :0)

Christian Michael
https://vimeo.com/150286496

Sean F

9 years ago

Check out this tutorial for details on how to line it up with Element 3D:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aA6lynCYMM&index;=5&list;

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Kevin

9 years ago

It keeps crashing whenever I drag the saber off frame in an animation.... any suggestions?

Andrew Kramer

9 years ago

Email us a project, we will check it out. THX

Liam

9 years ago

I've had similiar problems when I customise the core type, from saber to text layer or layer masks. Maybe it will be fixed in a later update, after all it has just been released.

Patrick

9 years ago

@Liam I had the same. don't apply saber to the text layer but to a clean solid. then set the core type to text layer. Underneath that option select your text.

Engr. Sanee Ahmed

9 years ago

@ Liam I checked and experienced the same issue. I agree with Patrick. After applying saber to a solid and then setting core type to text layer. Below you will have the option to select your desired text layer. After that, you can drag saber off frame. I have done this a lot and everything is fine. But if you apply saber to directly text layer and drag it, then AE will crash. But I don't know why someone would wanna do that. Regards

ndigilabs

9 years ago

first attempt:
https://youtu.be/bwQ_NO8qWf8

Paul Whitehead

9 years ago

I LOVE IT, HAHA!!! AWESOME JOB!

Engr. Sanee Ahmed

9 years ago

Lovely... cute... I didn't imagine that this Saber plugin could be used in such cute way

Jay B

9 years ago

Thanks VCP!

Liam

9 years ago

Already made some awesome stuff on this FREE plugin! Thank you so much Andrew, might show it off here soon... Maybe

Fouad sb

9 years ago

ty bro ty so match AK

J.A

9 years ago

Any chances to have it run on mac os 10.7.5 ? So frustrating not to be able to play with this new toy??? sob...

Andrew Kramer

9 years ago

We're going to check this out. Might be able to post raw plug-in files for manual install too.

JosephG

9 years ago

Punish them! Punish the Mac people!! Let the gates of Hel fill with the screams of your victims!!! But not the screams of the dead, of course, just wounded screams-mainly whimpering, a great deal of complaining and tales of sprained deltoids and gout.

Oh and thanks for the awesome plugin.

Ernest T.

9 years ago

Yes it will be very appreciate to have the raw plug-in files available. Thank you so much for all your generosity and great tutorial.

John

9 years ago

@JosephG Thor... yes.

Justin

9 years ago

I can actually say that I'm ready to get home from a vacation so I can start using this plugin. Great work Andrew and your entire team at VC!

Bruno

9 years ago

First test with the new Plug-in: SABER!!
https://vimeo.com/157920580

chris

9 years ago

Is there a way to turn the soild that Saber is on into 3d layer? If that makes sense?

Andrei

9 years ago

Excellent work Andrew and the team, as always! I don't get it though, why is this free!?

min

9 years ago

Wow!!!!
Good job ,man!

StevenJ

9 years ago

Thank you for this amazing plugin Andrew. It really is amazing what it can accomplish with literally a few clicks. Really great tutorial also! It caught my son's attention as well. He is ready to make his light saber now.

paul

9 years ago

AK,
Thank you for the plugin. I saw your tutorial and I can see your pixel DNA all over it. Thank youuuuuuuuu

Ertugrul

9 years ago

Can't you share it without a setup. Just plugin ?

Bruce Carter

9 years ago

OMG this is so cool! this is the plug-in that the world always needed
thank you so much Mr. Andrew Cramer! thank you Video Copilot team!

Frank

9 years ago

Pretty Slick! Thanks so much for working so hard on this and providing it for free! You rock!

Martin Cameron

9 years ago

Thanks so much for "Going the extra mile" for your pals here on VCP! I already have a project in mind for this ! (Here,here,here)

Kimvivi

9 years ago

Thank you so much, really really thank you.

Songggggg

9 years ago

great work！thank you and your team！！Andrew you are grandmaster

Aaditya Joshi

9 years ago

Great Plugin As Well As Great Tutorial.
Thank You So Much!!

Pawel Nejman

9 years ago

Amazing work. Thank you very much for plugin and tutorial.
It's great that you're back

Kevin Kutchaver

9 years ago

As someone, who back in the photo-chemical days, actually hand drew lightsabers in ROTJ, I have to say thanks a bunch for this plug-in. I'm looking forward to using he crap out of it! Keep up the stellar work!

Andrew Kramer

9 years ago

Is that right?! Awesome. The lingo checks out!

9 years ago

Thanx! Seriously Awesome... gotta say, I would have paid for this

I think it's apology time from some of those folks that got 'butt-hurt' from this FREE plugin not coming out exactly when projected, and making stupid comments.

I get it, you're excited but man up.

hans123

9 years ago

Great Plugin !
Thank you so much !!!

Joel

9 years ago

Thank you Andrew and Team for all your hard work and passion you display. The Plugin looks like a lot of fun can't wait to try it. Side note I really liked the matte painting challenge and the modeling future buildings for the map pack you guys did awhile back I think it would be a great idea to try to do another one of I feel like it brought the VCP community together

erick

9 years ago

Awesome plug in as always, Thank you so much for your hard work and allow us to make our dreams come true...:O)

jared k

9 years ago

Andrew thanks for the awesome plugin. I have a request to make the plugin better. on the distortion functions can you add a loop evolution option like on the after effects default fractal noise? it would help out for some of us for logo animations. thanks

chad

9 years ago

i agree, this plugin needs to loop

it is awesome for still images too ^_^

littledebbiescake

9 years ago

+1
Also, It would be great if you could push the offset beyond 100%, to be able to loop it. This way you could have the outline going round and round your mask. It might be possible already, but I haven't figured out how...

ariel

9 years ago

Grand, Thank you very much!

Beavertron

9 years ago

Quick render integrated Saber plugin with Element 3D to create reflections and dynamic lighting. Amazing plugin....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0hAe3fZ4O4&feature=youtu.be

Karan Kapoor

9 years ago

Nice one. How exactly did you integrate it into element 3d for the reflections?

Beavertron

9 years ago

Hi Karan, there is a brief description in the clip and I've now uploaded the project file if that helps. Basically the reflection element is only in the element 3d scene so you can boost it independently. Hope that helps

Robert K

9 years ago

Thank you VC for your hard work

Hecky Pecky

9 years ago

Thank you so much not only for this plug-in but all the things that you did for us noobs!

Les

9 years ago

Thank you so much Andrew! This plug-in is too awesome

Corey

9 years ago

FAN-freaking-tastic! Thank you, Mr. Kramer and your hard working VFX team.

9 years ago

just one word !!! WOW

Anthea Li

9 years ago

thank you so much

Peadar Donnelly

9 years ago

It's all fun and games until someone makes a burning KKK cross with the fire preset.

Great plugin though, Kudos!

SEAN

9 years ago

I'll be the first son.

hungedit

9 years ago

Thanks!

Jake

9 years ago

This is free?? Andrew Kramer is too great. You have given video effects people so much. I would not be able to do any sort of video effects if I hadn't discovered VC. Thank you again.

NinjaSM

9 years ago

Awesome andrew! you guys rock! The amount features you've put into this free plugin just shows how much you love this community!

(Btw this is what i was doing while waiting for this tutorial -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dg9rl_2Hik
)

NinjaSM

9 years ago

For people wondering what it is, I was too bored hitting f5 yesterday, then boring turned into frustration! I cant show my frustration here, coz these I know Andrew is working day and night to get this done. So I to calm myself down, I started killing those guards and pushing the dead bodies off the cliff, into the ocean. Thank god andrew launched saber today or else more dead bodies would be sinking into the ocean now!!

Yang

9 years ago

Thank you very much! But the plugin is a little hardware consuming when running on my old PC..

nDjent

9 years ago

Thx dudes, Nice work

David DeCorso

9 years ago

Am I doing this wrong, or does it not work on AE CS2?

Levi

9 years ago

This is the coolest thing ever created you crazy bastards! Love you so much for this. Thank you!

wilson

9 years ago

Eres Sorprendente Andre Kramer Eres Increible Dominican Republic

Fatmir

9 years ago

Great job

Neil

9 years ago

What took you so long?

Love from London.

mcrumble

9 years ago

Great job Andrew and team!

Micheal Malcolm

9 years ago

AWESOME!!! thank you again Mr Kramer and thank you VC team.. and Welcome back into our life... its really nice to hear from you again... Awesome tutorial
THANKS from Nigeria

Eugene Afanasiev

9 years ago

This is so.. Amazing! Thank you very much!!!

ImanVFX

9 years ago

Hi VC
Thank you very much

hosein hajipour

9 years ago

WooooooooooooooooooooooooooooW
that's niceeee

آ??ا د??ت گر??(persian)

GhayRat

9 years ago

Thank you!! so amazing!

wayne

9 years ago

Ha! Aweeeesome and thank you and the team! Did I say Thank you?

Mark Jones

9 years ago

DUDE!!!! This is awesome. Im so impressed man. Cant wait to play with it. God Id literally kill someone for an hour with you to pick your brain. Because Im a zombie and thats what I do. lol Thanks man

Angel

9 years ago

Incredible work again, Mr Kramer, well done and thank you!

David DeCorso

9 years ago

My thanks goes out to Andrew and everyone on the VC team, you guys are amazing and I'm so glad to be a part (albeit a small one) of this awesome community.

Lance

9 years ago

YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!

Kspmn

9 years ago

Awesome as usual... But here we go with the Jackpot question... From where you can get those awesome lightsaber models? Boooyah!

Andrew grier

9 years ago

Andrew
Thank you so much for this new plug-in, it's tutorial, and the late nights,. the effort, the idea, and for providing such inspiration to everyone interested in learning and creating extraordinary visual effects

congrats on your latest composition

Rick

9 years ago

Thanks! Pure Fun! You always challenge me to do more.

Patrick

9 years ago

As soon as I apply the saber effect to a text layer AE crashes. Anyone else having this problem??

Patrick

9 years ago

Found it. Don't apply it directly to a textlayer

Vytas Rauckis

9 years ago

LOVE the self-deprecating humor. Great one with the sparks!!!

Bambi

9 years ago

Wonderful plugin! Absolutely tremendous!

Serdar

9 years ago

Thank you again and again and again AK!

I'm thankful for your generousity on your knowledge!

May the force be with Kramer's and VCP comunity.

Vitalii

9 years ago

Heeey, wazzup! Andrew Kramer and Videocopilot - thank you!

Dan H.

9 years ago

The quality of this plug-in is amazing. Nice tut also. Thanks VC !

Rob Callicotte

9 years ago

Thank you!!

Mario

9 years ago

Enjoyed every second of this video, you are the best! Thank you so much Andrew

Don Engel

9 years ago

Andrew, this is an amazing tool. Thanks so much for this. I'm hoping to use it as a replacement for the generally kludge methods needed when using the stroke effect to build reveals!!!

Beavertron

9 years ago

Been playing with this plugin all morning.... where's the flippin DONATE button!!!

thierry

9 years ago

Very, Very, good work.
THANKS ! !

Is that possible, inside the plugin, to save a "Saber preset" ?
(i know, i can use the ffx, but just asking..)

Marc De Coster

9 years ago

Thank U for everything Andrew. For the plugin, but for everything else

You teached me everything I know ... well, with After Effect I mean ... Ten years ago I was already able to make jokes. But yours make me laugh though !

Paul Whitehead

9 years ago

Thanks AK and the VC team...

Choi PD

9 years ago

Good Works!!
Thanks!!!

issam dey

9 years ago

TY my teacher

Michal Zimnowodzki

9 years ago

how to reflect light saber on surface ??

R-CANE

9 years ago

Use the free VC reflect plugin

Michal Zimnowodzki

9 years ago

VC reflect plugin - Is not compatible withs CC2015

R-CANE

9 years ago

Yes it is, I just used it to test it for you before I replied

CWD

9 years ago

Use pre-composed saber layer as a custom texture layer in e3d and uncheck visible to camera to only show it in reflection.

9 years ago

Thank You.

AHarper

9 years ago

Where is an Intercept???

Oscar

9 years ago

Please send me your address... I have to send you flowers!!! A LOT with LOVE..
Sweet, soft and corny love!

Thanks Andrew, Thank you so much!!!

R-CANE

9 years ago

Combine E3D with Saber:
Make text layer (x) - in element: custom layers - text layer - (X) - extrude text, give it a bevel. Make a solid, apply saber (set coretype to text layer and choose text layer (x)(set transfermode to screen)- make the solid with Saber a 3D layer.
Create Group Null of E3D text layer in Element. Pickwhip the saber layer to the Group Null. Don't rotate it too much. Or just make a seperate textlayer for Saber you can adjust the width of.

Dan H.

9 years ago

Thanks!

the frenchy

9 years ago

mes compliment le pl
ug-in est génial

Roberto

9 years ago

THANK YOU SIR. GOD BLESS VC TEAM.

Barno

9 years ago

Could you please make an paint brush line version of this plug in ^_^? Instead of a light, an ordinary paint brush stroke comes out, or if there is a plug like already would it possible to make a tutorial on that? Thanks a bunch in advance!

Choi PD

9 years ago

It's reaaly worth the whole waiting.
Reaaaaaally appreciate your hard works and sharing Andrew!!
Great plug-in and great Team works.
Next Time, "Star wars" the whole VFX will be your hands.
You are the God of VFX !!

GabyS

9 years ago

Great plugin! Thank you!

Broseph Jenkins

9 years ago

Totally worth the wait

Sareth

9 years ago

does anyone knows how he made the reflections on the element scene at 00:56 seconds in the video ?

Engr. Sanee Ahmed

9 years ago

Wow... Finally the wait is over... Thanks a lot... Stay Blessed

Michael

9 years ago

Pure AWESOMENESS !!!!

Cris

9 years ago

Fixed it by using the plugin on a solid. I don't know if the plugin is programmed to work also on Adjusment Layer, anyway now i can use it! Thank you so much for this awesome free plugin! AMAZING work as always!

Hector Dao

9 years ago

Wow! Waiting was worth it ! Great job Kramer and VC Team!

Alex

9 years ago

Thank you very much Andrew!!!!

Doug

9 years ago

Thank you so much Andrew and Video Copilot Team. You as always give so much to the FX community and this plugin is a great example of that. You never cease to amaze me with your generosity and the shear amount of time you put in to help all of us.

Weezer

9 years ago

Just watched the tutorial. This is easily a $50 plugin; I bought RealGlow and this surpasses it completely - so again, thanks for your generosity. You could easily have made a load of money on this so your efforts (and everyone at VC) are all the more warmly received!

tehri

9 years ago

With FX Particles Builder, 2 wonderful and impressive tools at the same timing !!!
Great THX for the gift, Andrew ! nice to see you again !

Omer

9 years ago

Checkout Saber Plugin in Suicide Squad trailer theme.
Hope you like it.. its so cool plugin thanks andrew !!
https://youtu.be/poGsoGDPu1o

X-Raym

9 years ago

One other very well thought plugin !
Thanks you very much for your generosity !

Quentin Ecrepont

9 years ago

First comment ever on Video Copilot, although I watched almost all of your tutorials.
I am just writing this comment to say one word: unbelievable.
You, your work, your team, actually all what you created... Awesome.
As someone following you for years, we grew up together and you became a serious inspiration.
Many thanks.

Paul C

9 years ago

Ah, the installer doesn't work! (Had to be me!)

Does this plug-in only work with non-prehistoric OS's? I'm unfortunately having to run 10.7.5.

A.J

9 years ago

The same for me... sob sob...

Clair

9 years ago

That was amazing!! Thank you Andrew

Mark

9 years ago

A fantastic FREE plug-in. Congratulations to YOU and your team on top quality products and tutorials. Your commitment to this community and the wider one for VFX and AE is unprecedented!! Now get some well deserved rest and THANK YOU.

math

9 years ago

you are the best.
saber so fantastic
thanks

Paolo

9 years ago

ahahah the final is great.

Thanks for plug!!

sohail

9 years ago

it's not 3D ... its only 2D anyways great plugin. thank you andrew

Daniel

9 years ago

Ppffff this is just wicked sick! No words to express my gratefulness!
Hugs AK

Tispa

9 years ago

Thank you very much for this, Andrew+Team

Soundar

9 years ago

Wow!!!. This is so amazing!!!. great job Andrew & Team, would be great if you could do a tutorial on how to integrate it with Element 3D, thank you.

Leoboe

9 years ago

A few years ago I made a Star Wars short with a few friends and because we had a one week deadline we ended up rotoing with two people simultaneously (on two computers) to get the Lightsaber-battles ready in time.

One second film needed about one hour of postproduction which was still only possible because of your LightsaberV2-Plugin.

Needless to say: thank you big deal for this Plugin and the endless possibilities it gives us! Worth every second of waiting time!

Bobby

9 years ago

so awesome

Misel D.

9 years ago

Hi Andrew, just a quick question: Is Saber compatible with Element 3D V2? I mean can we 'somehow' apply saber over e3D text or objects?

Steve Green

9 years ago

You could use it as a custom layer texture map, or use a z-depth pass as a track matte.

The Dave

9 years ago

That was explained in the tutorial

CyberSin17

9 years ago

How to add the saber light on element 3D model edge? Is it a way to export a path on a new layer?

Weezer

9 years ago

Oh man, I stayed up for 45 hours once on the launch of a magazine. Never again! Get some sleep and some decent food inside you! And thanks for the freebie!

DonHanzo

9 years ago

Merci Andrew from Senegal

Liyo

9 years ago

This is AWESOME!!! All hail the video copilot team!

christiaan

9 years ago

hi
I love the look of the plugin, however i can't get it to work with illustrator files (.ai) or shaped layer in after effects
im use cc 2015
" help me Andrew Kramer your my only hope "

Charlie

9 years ago

Try copying your shape paths to a mask path (set a keyframe on shape path, copy to mask path) then set Saber to that mask.

pink top

9 years ago

wow...i dont know what to say...or type....im speechless..

p/s: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

J.A

9 years ago

Looks sweet, but i can't run the installer on my mac 10.7.5???
Any one sharing this problem ?

Rachel

9 years ago

I tried installing it on my Mac (os X 10.11.3). It said installation complete. But when I go into AE CC2014, and type in "saber" under the effects and presets, nothing shows up.

Joe Moskowitz

9 years ago

Ilias

9 years ago

Thank you.

-ili

Cris

9 years ago

Thank you so much for this Andrew and VC team! But I have a problem. I've installed it on Win7 + AECC2015 and it works perfectly, then i don't know what happened and i can make it work anymore. I unistalled the plugin, reinstalled, reset AE to default settings, but once i load the plugin on a adjustment layer, i can't see anymore (like i see the first time) the blue beam of default. Any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks in advance

Marco

9 years ago

Many thanks to you and to the whole team behind Video Copilot! I'm really happy to be part of this community.
Happy 10th anniversary. Keep doing what you do and keep putting your energy in every single tutorial like you always did.
And most important: keep enjoying it.
High five to Andrew and team, see you next time!
THANKS FOR SHARING!

Zeke Faust

9 years ago

I really appreciate everything that you and Video Copilot have done for the community, and indeed the industry as a whole. You've no doubt created countless careers and inspired millions of people (me included), and all along the way with an attitude that is positive, productive, creative and helpful. You've shaped trends in graphics, videos, films and TV, and it has probably seeped into general pop-culture at times as well.

In the Boujou section of the meteor tutorial, I remember you discussing how it's beneficial to know how the software works even if you don't want to drop $10,000, since you might encounter it if you get a job at a studio somewhere. It was a touching moment because it showed that you really cared about the people who were watching and willing to learn, and were eager to help them succeed with no apparent benefit to yourself.

And that Andrew Kramer is exactly the same today, making tutorials and releasing plugins like Element that you could easily charge $700 for, or Saber (free!), not because of some business strategy or PR move but because you genuinely love this work and want to help others succeed just like you've succeeded.

I'm honored to have been with you for nine of those 10 years, growing, improving, and evolving right alongside you. Here's to another decade of flight through the crazy skies of creativity. Though we don't know where we're going, though it can be dark, though it can be stormy, we always have our co-pilot.

Steve

9 years ago

What no project files? after being up for 2 days, now i have to watch the tutorial and do my own work. j/k Thanks a bunch Andrew, Always appreciate your hard work. Great team over there. I've learned a ton from you. Congrats on your well deserved success.

Sean

9 years ago

Hello, i was trying to use the plugin 'saber' and the effect disappeared. what should i do?? plz help!!!

Han

9 years ago

I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeee you Andrew. Thanks for the plug-in..... The possibilities are limitless with Saber. Thanks for your time and making it free. I am grateful.
From Africa with love

Kirill

9 years ago

Really cool stuff! Thank you!!! )))))))

Ragnar Borsheim

9 years ago

Great plugin! Another helpful tool. But the tutorials have been invaluable for learning my way around AE over the years. Thank you so much!

Free Templates Ae

9 years ago

Andrew Kramer (....)

I did not find what actually say very, very strong Plugins easy some things that we take a great time in the design example of a neon logo and I wish you all the best thank you very much

Note I will work a lot of templtaes to my website

Saber Plugins by: video andrew lol

^_^ Thanks

willo

9 years ago

As ever thank you. Some really cool stuff.

CycloneFire

9 years ago

***ERROR*** and thts for those who faced installer crash, just Run with admin rights and u r good! ~IS WINDOWS 10 REALLY CRAPPY~

Choi PD

9 years ago

You are the man!!
Reaaaaaaaly appeciate what you've done and shared.
I just got much more energy to go ahead.
Thanks kazillion Andrew!!

Peter

9 years ago

Just stunning. Not only is this a free plug in (very very generous) but you worked into the night to release this plug in and then again for the tutorial, just to avoid disappointing your community. This says a lot about your values and I for one want to say thank you sir. Like everyone else here I have been inspired by your past ten years of Video Copilot and hope the success you are now enjoying last for many years to come. Now go sleep

CycloneFire

9 years ago

Hey, did someone noticed, the plug-in version on update 4 of last post was 1.0.9 and now it already moved up to 1.0.38 nice difference!! |

Thibaud

9 years ago

Hi and thanks for this super mega cool plugin !
But, it doesn't work on AE CS4...

Gweieidowe

9 years ago

Wow!! REALLY?? Now, THAT sucks. I was looking forward to creating some cool effects. What is it with developers leaving the not-so older stuff, behind?? I mean Adobe's putting out a "new" release, almost EVERY year... How does the "little guy" keep up?? IF these guys want "dedication," when we DO "upgrade" this is NOT the way to achieve it. Or is loyalty dead these days???

Raj Angad Singh

9 years ago

Thank you so much Andrew sir. This is really an amazing plugin and it's so great that you have put so much effort on this plugin and still giving us for free. We love you sir.

Gazbaz

9 years ago

You are a total genius Andrew, and all at VCP! Thank you for all the extra yards spent on this FREE plugin.
I'm about to dive in

AJW

9 years ago

Stayed awake in Idaho..received bacon..I mean reward!

Thank you!

Elliot Ritchey

9 years ago

Is anybody experiencing After Effects crash after applying the saber plugin to a text layer and setting it to show on the text? Or do I just need to upgrade my processor?

WedgeBL

9 years ago

Same thing happened to me... Great Plug-in anyway. But maybe that has to be fixed. Thank you so much Andrew.

Marco

9 years ago

Me too, if I try to apply to a text layer it crashes. (On Mac)

Mansooryan

9 years ago

why you apply to text layer? you have to make new solid .. apply saber .. then choose text layer as mask ..

DanE

9 years ago

Same thing for me. Too bad I got excited about this release.

WedgeBL

9 years ago

@Mansooryan
You're totally right... Thinking mistake. Thanks

CWD

9 years ago

Dont apply it directly to text.Use a solid.

Jerome

9 years ago

Thanks a lot Andrew (and all the VC team) !

Robur

9 years ago

Thanks a lot for that great plugin

Vladislav

9 years ago

Great plugin! Thank you Andrew!

Ertugrul

9 years ago

I cannot install it. It says "The version of this file isn't compatible with version of Windows you're running".

9 years ago

This is just speechless!!! I love you man..
Thanks for everything all over the years AK, You are like the ROSHAN level 25 in Dota2 <3

Danit

9 years ago

Andrew Krammer, YOU ROCK!!!

Alexey L.

9 years ago

Thanks Andrew. The plugin is very good. Now, some things can be done easier, and some simply can be done.

Ignacio C

9 years ago

Thank you very much.

Andre

9 years ago

You are not Andrew Kramer. You are a god. Thanks for this amazing plugin.

Mansooryan

9 years ago

Wow sir .. I have no words describe this .. and in the last part after the music .. I remembered the day you released the light saber tutorial .. I was blown .. now it is like shockwave for that tutorial .. a chain reaction indeed

Korre

9 years ago

So great. And I love the way the colours blend when using multiple 'sabers'. Such an amazing job!

Michal Zimnowodzki

9 years ago

so many opportunities - it was worth the wait - THANKS

Yimin

9 years ago

THANK YOU ANDREW!!!!!

Jason

9 years ago

Why did I just watch this at 1 am???

Micha Karmann

9 years ago

Hi guys ...
Awesome ... nothing more to say.
But one question. I couldn't install it. Do I need more that 256 mb?
Cheers, Micha

CycloneFire

9 years ago

Wohoooo! Finally,its up..seems like u broke 1:00 A.M barrier once again and did it !! thanx very much!!

Motasim

9 years ago

Thank you Andrew Kramer.

Coby

9 years ago

Andrew, thank god we have you. This is so great. Thank you so much for everything

Ralph

9 years ago

Finally! Thank U Andrew, VC is the best!

dzidek

9 years ago

Thank you so much!!!!!!!!

Tim

9 years ago

Holy creative cow!
This has sooo much potential! Can't wait for the commercials to use it. Thank you and your team.

R-CANE

9 years ago

Andrew Kramer, you are my hero! I am in this tutorial for 8 minutes and I am totally speechless from what I am seeing. This is the most amazing plugin and you are giving it away for free. This should be world news! I can't thank you and the VC team enough for what you are giving us.I already bought E3D and all the packs and shockwave etc. I think that's the best way to thank you.

CliffordLi

9 years ago

Thank you for helping and leading the industry！！！

Simon Thorley

9 years ago

Andrew, what a guy - thanks to you and all your team - not even looked at it yet, but the point here is that
you MUST have been up all hours doing this, the world was waiting and you delivered -
I noticed that Andrew posted @ 7am European time - 11pm Sat evening west coast USA

LEGEND! will never forget this... you rock!

Cheers
Simon.

Ali

9 years ago

Thank you So Much. Great Job.

Enzo

9 years ago

YES!!! Thank you Sir!

Marc

9 years ago

Now I see why you had to delay so much time. I'm blown away. Truly remarkable plug in... and FREE! I would have definitely bought this plug in. My mind is reeling with possibilities. Thank you and your team for the amazing work!

Viggo

9 years ago

It looks freaking awesome! Can't wait to try it!

Chelfyn

9 years ago

Fantastic work. Thanks heaps for making it free as well. You rock.

jeremy

9 years ago

as amazing as this tut is, its actually the tidbit at 29:24 that actually saved me life of frustration, so thank you for that!

Theforceitself

9 years ago

Humanity is lucky to have you Andrew!

Eric Terrill

9 years ago

I notice the Torch Turbulent from Action Essentials!! Sweet I have that pack also!!

hans

9 years ago

the installer for mac doesn't work for me... the installer logo just pops up and nothing happens

Joe Moskowitz

9 years ago

Joe Bailey

9 years ago

Thank you, Andrew! This looks awesome. I'm not in the industry, but love learning stuff like this. I'm more of a technical person, and use VFX to exercise the atrophied creative part of my brain. I purchased all your Bundled sets and they are amazing. Still learning the basics and have a long ways to go, but my kids will be thrilled once I come up with a few ideas and work on creating something fun with the family. Thanks again to you, your team, and family.

Mulubrhan

9 years ago

Thanks beyond words!!! To all team VideoCopilot. Andrew, thanks for all your generous gifts in the world of VFX. I salute you. you make our dreams possible.

Benn

9 years ago

Excellent plug in. Thank you

VFXman

9 years ago

'What a day! What a lovely day!'

Kel

9 years ago

Thanx so much to the VC crew for Amazing work once more

Stephen

9 years ago

Thank you! Enjoy your rest now AK!

Duca

9 years ago

GREAT!
Could we obscure Saber with one or more object (layer) in scene?

Many thanks for a reply!

Tony

9 years ago

yuhuuuu!

Rafael

9 years ago

Muy agradecido saludos desde Ecuador, eres el mejorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

James

9 years ago

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects... coming soon!

jeroen

9 years ago

OMG! It looks great

Eric Terrill

9 years ago

OHHH MY GOD, I AM IN HEAVEN!!! THIS IS AWWWWEEEEESOOOOOOME!!!!!!

Stefan Schmidt

9 years ago

Speechless Andrew...

AWESOME

Joseph

9 years ago

Andrew and Video Copilot team, I just want you all to know how much I appreciate this and respect you all.

I do business with a lot of people, and I can say without hesitation that your products and free flow of assets and information is without equal. You're the best. Thank you and keep on jamming.

Nick

9 years ago

Hahaha! The very end. We love you anyhow, Andrew.

Pawanvir Singh

9 years ago

F....F...Finally

Thanks Andrew! Love you.

Paul

9 years ago

THANK YOU ANDREW KRAMER!!!!! THIS IS AMAZING

chrisl

9 years ago

Many thanks very very much beautiful

John

9 years ago

SO MUCH DENSE!

Steve Green

9 years ago

Thank you and the VCP team, it's going to be great fun putting this through its paces.

Chris

9 years ago

THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Wow! It's really amazing!!

Yuri

9 years ago

Andrew, i have no words! You should give the Nobel Prize

Beavertron

9 years ago

Amazing, thank you. Any tips on how you got the ring to nicely reflect into 3D geometry halfway through the trailer. An element 3D tip?

Jon

9 years ago

It's time wahoooooo!

sohail

9 years ago

Thank You so much Andrew for this awesome plugin SABER. Hope you will create more plugin in future and share with us.!! Great work Bro
We all waited so long for this one and now waiting for Batman vs Superman.!! #Hyped #SABER #BVS

Ash

9 years ago

Thank You For Your Hard Work Andrew & Team Really Appreciate it

Eric Terrill

9 years ago

Mr. Kramer and VCP team, my words cannot express my gratitude!! Thank you all very much!! For all it's worth, please thank all your families for all your late nights away from them.

Jay

9 years ago

OMG, Thank you so much Andrew!

Patrick papyrazzi

9 years ago

Merci beaucoup , Andrew!

Daniel

9 years ago

awesome awesome awesome
andrew you did it again
such a great plugin is so amazing

A.J.

9 years ago

Thanks a ton, Andrew & Video Copilot.

Joshua

9 years ago

that falloff though!

amazing quality plugin! thank you to the VCP team!!!

ratra

9 years ago

thanks AK...have a great weekend!

Patrick

9 years ago

OMG SO GOOD. THank you Andrew!

philippe

9 years ago

ho ho thx Mr Kramer i just up and i open Ae direct for work with new plug *-* ... incredible man ....

Omid

9 years ago

I started using AE for a personal fun project in 2012. After watching your tutorials I started applying for some contract work on Craigslist. Fast forward to today, I'm making a decent living doing video production in Vancouver.

I you owe you so much Andrew. I've bought all your plugins, even a couple that I don't use just to support Video Copilot.

Thank you! You are awesome.

shadferxo

9 years ago

Thank you Andrew, That was amazing Andrew

Christoph

9 years ago

OMG.Thanks that is a really great plug in to enhance the style of light. Andrew your effort for your community is unbelievable. ..

Chris

9 years ago

I was waiting for something Star Wars related. Happy to hear from you again Andrew.

Melfred Ilagan

9 years ago

need internet connection?

Nikhil

9 years ago

Intercept!! o_o
2 weeks sounds like 2 years now. xD
Please release it. xD
PLEASE

atitar

9 years ago

Only 0.8 MB? I think it will size over a gigabyte just for the texture file
.

Andrew Kramer

9 years ago

No textures. All procedural!

Lord Voldemort

9 years ago

having issues with the download...windows 10 does not like it...lol

Engr. Sanee Ahmed

9 years ago

I am using Win 10 x64, AE CC2015... Everything is working perfect for me

Engr. Sanee Ahmed

9 years ago

I am using Win 10 x64, AE CC2015... Everything is working perfect for me... (May be you can switch your sides to the good ones... I mean from Evil om Riddle to Harry Potter

)... Kidding ofcourse

Melfred Ilagan

9 years ago

2.11MB?

Steve Green

9 years ago

Great job, congratulations!

innths

9 years ago

Thank you my MASTER. Now the whole world will be mine ...hahahahah...

SnakeVFX

9 years ago

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marcotronic

9 years ago

Thanks a lot! Really awesome plugin!

Kris

9 years ago

thank You Mr. Kramer

as always you made us all happy

hope you doing well pal !

alhimi

9 years ago

Thank you Andrew

Harsha Nimantha

9 years ago

That was amazing Andrew...You are the King of After Effects always. Thank you very much sir...

Tomek

9 years ago

Thank you Sensei

Liam

9 years ago

Andrew...thank you good sir!

Brent

9 years ago

Thank you Andrew, now go get some rest!

9 years ago

ryu

9 years ago

thnaks AK

you are awesome

Sri

9 years ago

you are the best .....thank u man .....continue ur awesomeness

Beavertron

9 years ago

Thank you. Amazing work

Jorge Carlos

9 years ago

Yeah!
Thanks Andrew XD

Jobster

9 years ago

Woooooo!

CARLI

9 years ago

Amazing, Cool~~~~~ Thanks a loooot.

Qualitijd

9 years ago

Thanks Andrew and Team!!! You're Epic! Much love from the Netherlands!

Cristofano

9 years ago

Amazing, Thanks a loooot.
You are outstanding

AllenGraph

9 years ago

Awesomenesses

loops

9 years ago

YESS!!!!!!

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO ANDREW AND EVERYONE ELSE AT VC!

Josef Bsharah

9 years ago

Cheers Andrew !

Jeremy

9 years ago

i coming

Elwazeery

9 years ago

At last

meet

9 years ago

THANKSSSSSSSS ALLOOTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS EPICC!!!!!!!!

LORD ANDREW KRAMERRRR!!!!!!! THANK YOU VERYYYYYY MUCHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

charly

9 years ago

man you rock for real
soooo disapointed that you don"t make anymore tutorials now we are so lost without your great tutorials .
but i think that you are involved in some much more interesting projects now so i guess we're all f...
thanks again
you're the man again
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Shane

9 years ago

What do you mean he doesn't make tuts? He just made one. He's made so many already, and if you've mastered them all you shouldn't really need tuts here on.

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