Cloaked Predator or Invisible Person [After Effects Tutorial]

In this tutorial, Ray shows how to do a Predator invisibility, ghost, or invisible person effect using Adobe After Effects Creative Suite 5 (CS5). Part 2: Predator Decloaking [After Effects Tutorial] Part 3: Advanced Color Grading: Predator Thermal Vision [After Effects Tutorial] It&Predator Time [Original Skit] The quick steps are as follows: 1. Load in your footage (clean background and keyed actor) 2. Create a new composition 3. Drag footage onto comp (background on bottom) 4. Pre-compose the background layer (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + C, Move all attributes, Open New Comp) 5. Make comp 125% and then scale the layer to 125% to fit 6. Back in the original comp, scale and position the actor 6. Pre-compose the actor layer (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + C, Move all attributes, don&Open New Comp) 6. Add the "Displacement Map" effect to the background layer in the main comp 7. Use the following settings on the displacment effect * Displacement Map Layer: "Actor" * Use for Horizontal/Vertical Displacement: Luminance * Max Horizontal/Vertical Displacement: 55 8. Hide the Actor layer in the main comp to see the final effect 9. Double-click the Actor layer to open it&comp Need to intensify the effect? 1. To see it in the final comp preview: A. Click the padlock on the comp preview tab B. Click the Cloaked tab right below that to switch to the final comp C. Click the Actor comp tab at the bottom 2....