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Filstrip icorporated into animated log
Ok so i am making a video logo for a class im taking and i was trying to figure out how to do the things i wanted to in after effects the basic description is:
Starts out showing video clip then zooms out showing filmstrip that the video is on revealing to the righ the logo filmstrip will be on the left side of the video logo on the right
can someone show me or link me to tutorials for all of this please thanks
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Ok, I assume you have your footage and a picture of a filmstrip? If you don’t have the picture, you’ll need to get one (or make one). You’ll also need to make sure the filmstrip picture is on a transparent background. If you make the picture yourself in photoshop or illustrator, this won’t be a problem. If you’re using a photo of some film, try to take it against a background that can be easily keyed (e.g. a green one). If you’re using someone else’s photo, and can’t key, you can always use the pen tool to draw around the filmstrip once you’ve brought it into AE and dropped it into its own comp.
Next what you’ll want to do is put your footage into a comp with the filmstrip pic. Position it correctly so it fits into a frame of the strip. You’ll probably want to make the footage a layer beneath the filmstrip, so the inside edges of the filmstrip “overlap” the footage. If your footage is too wide and sticks out the edge of the frame, use the rectangular mask tool to mask the edges.
Now drop the filmstrip comp into your final comp. Scale it so that the footage fills the screen. Move forward a couple of seconds and place animation keyframes in the filmstrip layer’s position and scale properties (if you don’t know how to do this, select the layer in the timeline and hit P, then shift+S). Then move forward a second or so and scale the filmstrip down and position it on the left of the comp. New keyframes will appear in the timeline. If you want, select all the keyframes and hit F9 to make them easy-ease.
Now place your logo in the right hand side of the comp at the bottom of the layer stack. When the filmstrip animates, the logo will be revealed.
Is this what you want it to look like?
If you’re stuck on the basic animation techniques or on masking, see Andrew Kramer’s tutorials at videocopilot.net. Find the basic training section.
Simon
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how can i animate the filmstrip so that it looks like its playing the video? like scrolling down the comp?
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Blimey, well that could be tricky. It depends what look you’re going for. If you want the video to play back real time you’ll have to move the filmstrip at a fair old lick: 30 (or 25 for PAL) frames per second. Basically, so fast that you wouldn’t be able to see the filmstrip anymore!
If you’re really stuck on the idea and don’t mind the work, you can do it like this. Put your footage in a comp of its own, then send it to the render queue (cntl+m). In the render queue, click the link beside the Output Module. Set the video to render out as a jpeg sequence. If necessary, set the quality upto 100%. The render the footage out. You’ll find that you have rendered out a set of jpegs instead of a single footage file. Now what you’ll have to do is reimport the images (not as an image sequence – what AE calls a set of images that it treats as a single footage item – just as a folder full of images) and then manually attach each image to the filmstrip in sequence.
If I were to do this I would duplicate the composition with a single frame of filmstrip in it so that I had as many copies as necessary, then drop each jpeg into an individual comp. Then bring all these comps into a new comp and reposition them so they made a single strip of film, parenting them to each other so that when you move the bottommost frame down out of frame, the one above it is pulled into frame.
Sounds like a lot of work, though!
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