• Adobe After Effects

  Tracking question – is image sequence better to track or .mov + mp4

  Posted by Hanna Dean on April 19, 2016 at 10:24 pm

  kindly tell me if image sequence is better to track then .mov .mp4

  i have
  pf track
  mocha
  after effects
  synth eyes
  boujo

  kindly tell me what is the best so i can get beter results.

  Claude Rozsa replied 10 years ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Claude Rozsa

  April 20, 2016 at 7:40 am

  Hi Dave, I’m not I understand your explanation in the first sentence. I’m not a pro and use those programs as a hobby but try at least to learn to do it well.
  What do you mean by “An image sequence is much better than the mp4”.

  For instance I have the following shot: It is a long zoom from the middle of one of the streets of Pompeii. I intend to give the impression that the buildings on both sides of the street return to their original look before the Vesuvius eruption. For this I have still image (png) of the walls etc.My clip is a 20seconds mp4 with theses characterics:
  

  Do you mean that I should transform the clip into a sequence of 500+ single images? How do you that? The question may look silly but I don’t know the way tot do it. Thanks
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  Hanna Dean

  April 20, 2016 at 8:39 am

  youtube after effects image sequence
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  David Fleury

  April 20, 2016 at 11:02 am

  It is a simple export setting from AE. Yes it will create 500 (x) images per frame so make sure you have them going to a folder and not to your desktop which I have done more than once 🙂

  Then when you want to import the sequence into your editing program make you sure you have import image sequence box checked or you will only get one frame.
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  Claude Rozsa

  April 20, 2016 at 11:04 am

  thanks; I’ll try that

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