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I just bought After Effects…
I am a pretty high end user of Sony Vegas and receive the Creative Cow rss update and I have seen so many things in AE that I want to be able to do so I bought it. Now I am looking at my shiny new software, staring at a blank screen and I don’t know what to do. Can somebody kindly recommend me a good starting point via tutorial video or website to go to. Thanks!!
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Right here on Creative Cow are very good podcasts for After Effects!
But the best AE Site is http://www.videocopilot.net This is Andrew Kramers Website on wich he has a lot tutorials.
In case you´re new to AE like you check out his After Effects Basic Tutorials also on his Site.
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OK Thanks for the head up
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Wow…thank you so much for the insight. It sounds like AE might be better to use for specific effects within a different project in Premiere or Vegas. Would that be accurate?
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For smaller projects, and if you have a good enough computer, well a lot of RAM actually, feel free to use the space bar (its a good habit to get into throughout compositing) and yeah i can usually get it to playback in realtime. What i would say is always SAVE your work. I use incremental project saves so i can revert to a given time if necessary.
more important, have fun.
cheers
chris
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Oh and for an incremental chronological learning curve to software i prefer to run throught the http://www.lynda.com tutorials as they follow a path which gradually introduces you to the software and how and why it does what it does. Rather than just having random tutorials.
cheers
chris
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I guess that makes sense. For example…right now I am editing a 30 second commercial that airs on TV during Astros and Rockets games in Houston. I have done the whole spot in Sony Vegas and am pretty happy with it all in all. But I feel like I could do some cool stuff with it in AE. Or maybe not with it specifically but I dunno…I felt like I needed another tool in the bag, ya know? By the way I would love to see some of the stuff you guys have done…
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