• Adobe After Effects

  3D Animation to video

  Posted by Ray Jender on August 5, 2008 at 10:02 pm

  Excuse me if this is not the correct place to post this question.

  I will be creating a 3D animation in the near future.
  What I want to do is overlay the animation onto existing video.

  Any tutorials on doing that?

  Thanks,

  Ray

  Jackie Gammie replied 17 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  Joseph W. bourke

  August 6, 2008 at 4:49 pm

  Ray –

  What I normally do (my workflow goes from 3DStudio Max 8 to After Effects) is output my 3D element from Max as a Quicktime with alpha channel (Animation setting, millions of colors+) at 60 frames per second with no fields. This lets my element be keyable, and gets rid of the frame stutter problem commonly associated with elements that contain fields.

  When I import the file into AE, I just make sure my setting is 30 frames per second, and it treats the 60 frames as fields – looks great, and keys just fine.

  Joe Bourke
  Art Director / WMUR-TV
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  Ray Jender

  August 6, 2008 at 5:04 pm

  Wow….nice answer Joe…

  Just to be clear, I am a newbie at both video editing and 3D animation. I do have a little experience in 2D animation. I have volunteered to video a local pee-wee football team throughout the upcoming season.

  There are about 6-7 kids on the team whose fathers are deployed in Iraq. I thought it would be cool if they could either receive DVD’s of their kids games or watch it on the internet. For the 3D animation, I was thinking of that Monday Night Football graphic of the 2 teams helmets crashing together. I thought that would be pretty cool for the kids.

  Anyway, I will be using Cinema 4D for the 3D work. I am having a hard time finding a decent 3D model of a football helmet. I’m running short on time and learning to model one myself would probably take me quite awhile. I’m also obviously low budget here and looking for a 3d model donation! lol…..

  For the video, I’m using Cyberlink PowerDirector 7.

  Sorry for rambling…..

  Thanks for the response.

  Ray
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  Joseph W. bourke

  August 6, 2008 at 5:23 pm

  Ray –

  I’m afraid I don’t have one, but there are some relative cheapies on Turbosquid:

  https://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Index.cfm?FuseAction=ProcessSearch&intStartRow=1&istSearchKey=football+helmet&intMediaType=2

  Obviously the quality varies with the price, but the two buck helmet is pretty good, as long as you keep it moving. Good luck!

  Joe Bourke
  Art Director / WMUR-TV
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  Ray Jender

  August 6, 2008 at 5:35 pm

  Yes, I have seen those on TS. I may have to pop for one of their models.

  Thanks,

  Ray
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  Jackie Gammie

  August 22, 2008 at 9:50 pm

  Digital Preserves has a 3D football that rotates you may want to use.
  https://www.digital-preserves.com/shop/index.php?crn=274

  Jackie Gammie
  Senior Editor
  MarmaladeMedia.com
  Graphics Designer
  Digital-Preserves.com

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