Tips and Tricks

Using Two Layers To Control Shape and Color
On occasion you need to be able to control not just the content of a graphic element (its shape) but also it's color, separately to the shape. For examp...
Creating a Bar Graph
The following tutorial shows how to create a bar graph using dynamic images.
Creating a Pie Chart
Pie charts are used to illustrate how something is split up into parts — for example, how your monthly income is spent on various types of expenses, how you...
Dynamic Calendars
Calendars are only available for full-service clients Calendars can be very useful, especially when explaining to customers how they're being charge...
Useful After Effects Scripts
There are several tools that can ease the process of preparing After Effects projects for Idomoo. Here's a quick list: Bake Paranted Transform — This ...
Baking Keyframes and Parenting
It is sometimes useful to hold all the animations of a layer inside the layer, rather than use expressions or parenting. It is very useful when using the wi...
Bevel Workaround
Unfortunately effects can't be used on placeholder layers, which limits the amount of things you can do to a placeholder layer, but with a little creati...
Exporting the Right Resolution IDMs for Your Project
A lot of videos being sent to customers are sent in smaller resolutions to what you might be used to. For example: 720p. This is so the load time of the vid...