Motion Graphics

Video Tutorials

How to Create an Animated Looping Logo Background in After Effects (No Experience Needed)

If you’ve ever recorded a screen share or a picture-in-picture segment and stared at that blank white or default black background, you know the feeling. It looks unfinished. It looks like you forgot something. For a while, I just lived with it, because I assumed animated backgrounds required serious motion graphics skills I didn’t have. Turns out, the fix is surprisingly simple, and it took one Peter McKinnon tutorial to completely change how I set up video segments that need a secondary display.

August 31, 2026

Video Tutorials

How I Used Claude AI to Turn Raw Footage Into a Polished Video (No Editing Experience Required)

I’ve been putting off video for years. Not because I don’t want to share my work in motion, but because every time I opened a video editor I felt like I’d wandered into someone else’s cockpit. The timelines, the render queues, the color grading panels, all of it. I’m a photographer. I know light. I do not know what a keyframe is, and until recently I didn’t particularly want to.

August 7, 2026