Adobe After Effects

Our After Effects template provides a more advanced way to create content for HLD displays.

Requirements

• Adobe After Effects 2025

Downloads

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Looking Glass HLD Template.aep

Our After Effects template provides automated masking, safe areas, shadows, and reflections. All the effects will update automatically once you've replaced the main composition.

In our experience, Adobe Premiere Pro's UltraKey effect can provide a cleaner chromakey than After Effect's built-in options. You may find a better workflow first importing content to Premiere, using UltraKey and then pulling it back into After Effects.

Compositions and Layers

The After Effects template is based off of three key components.

• Animation - this will contain your content, and also be used for the shadow and reflection components.

• Add Shadow - builds off of the main composition and adds a shadow effect.

• Add Reflection - builds off the main composition and adds a reflection effect.

• Background - a background element you can use to tint the HLD's background color.

• Alcove - a preview of the HLD's 3D volume. This should be turned off before exporting content.

All of the preset values created for our Motion Graphics Template in Premiere are also available in our After Effects template in the Essential Graphics panel. This can be an easy way to adjust content values on the fly without going too deep into the stack.

The effect controls are as follows:

• Alcove Preview - A toggle for the alcove, this should be disabled before exporting.

• Transform Controls - Controls for adjusting the transform of the main content.

• Reflection - Adjustments that can control the position, opacity, and strength of the reflection effect.

• Shadow - Adjustments that can control the position, opacity, and strength of the shadow effect.

• Background - Controls for a tintable background layer that can apply color to the holographic element of the HLD.