How to Create Heat Waves in Adobe After Effects CC (2017)

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I go over how to create heat waves in Adobe After Effects. These are really fun and pretty easy to create. They can be added to things like fire, or to make a scene seem hotter.

[@SiegeTales]

If it does not work for you after being applied, try swithching from "Source" to -> "Effects and Masks" in "Displacement Map Layer" option.
Thank you for the tutor!

[@newwavevisuals]

Still not working

[@astralplane6182]

This is correct - thank you!

[@terka96]

thank you!

[@TigerBoundTV7]

Life saver

[@Director414]

Beautifully explained !!!

[@AdobeMastersOfficial]

Thanks so much!! Happy to help :D

[@DigitalMediawithLydia]

This looks great, thanks!

[@AdobeMastersOfficial]

No problem! Thanks for watching!

[@christiancarbajosa347]

Thank you, sir! Great instructions.

[@AdobeMastersOfficial]

My pleasure!! Hope this helped :D

[@GeoffreyWirth]

Great method. The lense flare should be applied afterwards: wouldn't distort in real life since it is "in" the camera. ;-)

[@karld2792]

If it doesn't work, try to increase the value for horizontal displace.

[@paulcristo]

Great tutorial. Concise and intuitive. Thanks.

[@levispalast]

thx realy helpful my friend

[@AdobeMastersOfficial]

So glad to hear it!! Thanks for watching!! :D

[@thomaswindfeld728]

DUDE! AMAZING. ESACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!! THANX :-)

[@AdobeMastersOfficial]

No problem at all! Thanks for watching!

[@italopimenta9]

Exatamente o que eu precisava! Muito bom o seu video! Parabéns

[@lupe103344522]

This channel is so underrated

[@llegendaryjay]

doesn't work I followed ALL the instructions

[@TooMuchWithIt]

ANZZL lmao how tf did I find you

[@newwavevisuals]

Same.

[@astralplane6182]

Great video - thank you!

[@saigadreamcast]

Thank you for a simple tutorial.

[@ophax3552]

Can you make ghost/invisible letters? Thanks for the tutorial

[@pepero0526]

thank u!

[@AdobeMastersOfficial]

You're so welcome!!! Thanks for watching :D

[@brandungmedia]

This helped me big time, thanks alot!

[@AdobeMastersOfficial]

Glad it helped! Thanks for watching!

[@downtown9508]

man, you've been posting awesome content! thanks

[@NoctissGameplays]

it doesnt work for me. The screen is just filled with Red particles flying up, the base picture isnt distorted at all, its just the red particles flying up

[@NoctissGameplays]

ohh nevermind, after rewatching you do it like 20x i realized i was dragging displacement map into the particles not the picture footage.... good one brain

[@arthurtodd5221]

This is extremely helpful, thank you so much :)

[@AdobeMastersOfficial]

No problem! Thanks for watching! :D

[@thedebapriyakar]

bruh this is amazing

[@Darthcharlie100]

Great tutorial thank you!!

[@Kaaxe]

Couldnt get it to work until I under "displacement map layer" changed "Source" to "Effects"

[@nate5124]

Thanks! 😁

[@timefilm]

Thanks

[@AdobeMastersOfficial]

Thanks for watching?

[@AdobeMastersOfficial]

Thanks for watching?

[@polkeprins5967]

is it possible for me to use the effect on a picture instead of my footage to create a sort of 'gif', or if i can put the heat waves on top of invisable footage so it works too?

[@vastkit]

Can anyone provide it it in overlay black background , heat wave

[@ThanakritGu]

Thank you!

[@AdobeMastersOfficial]

No problem, thanks for watching!

[@ASSADZMANFILMS]

Thabks you so much for this

[@AdobeMastersOfficial]

No problem, it's a really fun effect to create! Glad I could help! :D

[@Plafintarr]

It's not doing anything in my project : / Thanks for the video though.

[@EazyWorldPeace]

Any idea how to make it slower? I've tried playing around with the velocity, resistance, gravity, just about everything and I can't get it to calm down & move slower

[@pjlierman]

You could always right click the heat map precomp and select time stretch and just play around with the speed of the precomp itself. Probably a little simpler than messing with settings on the particle world

[@BeyerKids2]

I'm doing this with some graphics and it's almost making a pattern. Any way to avoid this?

[@AdobeMastersOfficial]

Hmm potentially this is only happening in the view of your production so that you can see it in full time. I would try rendering it out, and seeing if the patterns are still there.

[@wvttz_]

Why won't my particles go away when I put my footage layer above it? It stays on top.

[@abhijeetjsawant]

Either your footage layer's opacity is not set to 100 or the layer has a blending mode which is not set to 'normal'.
In any case, once you apply the displacement to the footage, you can hide the 'map pre-compose layer' and the heat wave effect should still work.

[@joycees]

Did you uncheck the eyeball by accident? or maybe you have a layer mode turned on?

[@wvttz_]

@@abhijeetjsawant forgot what it was but i figured it out thanks tho

[@wvttz_]

@@joycees forgot what it was but i worked through it thanks tho

[@cameronstewart6454]

Thank you. For some reason the waves are only affecting a specific area of the photo, not the whole thing. Any ideas why?

[@jagotato]

Because your particles are no covering all the photo.

[@newwavevisuals]

Didn't work ?

[@hammerhand_blacksmith]

I do all as you said. Didn`t worked

[@rfrodrigofernandez290]

thanks!