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Great Video – How did they do it?
Hey all,
Need some advice on how to tackle a project I am working on.
A while back in this forum someone put up a link to this site for a different video. I book marked it and have been trying to figure out how they did it. I would love to be able to use some of the ideas in the video for a piece that I am working on. Particularly the smooth continual movement feeling they have going on.
How would you tackle a project like this in AE? Is this one big comp that they are moving a camera around on?
https://www.leftchannel.com/work-moneycoach.php
I posted this in the Motion Graphic area but thought this more of an AE specific question after doing so, oops.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Brian
System Specs:
Avid Xpress Pro v5.7.5
Window XP SP2
HP Workstation xw4100 Pentium 4 2.60 GHz 2 gig RAM
After Effects v7.0 -
3 Replies
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Looks like a big comp with lots of (animated) layers, over which they move a camera. Just add a camera in your After Effects and toy around with that, no real big stunts are pulled in this movie.
Oh, and be sure to ease-in and ease-out the movement keyframes, that really smoothes things out (or just select all keyframes and press F9, it does wonders most of the time). Plus, you need to turn on your motion blur on all layers. It really increases the feel of smooth movement
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Yep, exactly as was said above.
But also – their camera movements are a lot smoother than straight easy ease will give you, and their pacing varies – often fast acceleration and slow deceleration. You’ll need to play around with the speed curves in the graph editor to get similar results. It’ll take some time to get good with them but once you do everything will have far more feel to it.
Nico J BB
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Yes, a fairly straight forward comp, but make sure to pre-compose, you can get lost when you are stacking up a-lot of layers, pre-composing will help your work-flow immensely
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