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  • Looking for AE insights as I delve into my first post production…

    Posted by Sean Tyler on January 14, 2012 at 4:19 am

    Greetings everyone, I’m new to PP/AE and have been enjoying the wealth of information available from Creative Cow but as I delve into my first major Post Production, but I am quickly finding new issues that I haven’t found the answers for yet, so i thought I’d get involved here, any help would be greatly appreciated…

    Currently I’m editing a clip that I requires several effects and I was wondering what the best “order of operations” would be.

    1. Zoom/Pan
    2. Remap Time, using AE
    3. Stablize, using Warp Stabilizer in AE
    4. Garbage Matte/Ultra Key in PP

    Any recommendations?

    Sean Tyler replied 14 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • John Cuevas

    January 15, 2012 at 2:34 am

    My approach would be:

    1. Stablize, using Warp Stabilizer in AE
    —Lock down your shot first. Stabalizing a shot becomes harder and harder the more you effect the shot.

    The other 3 options really depend on the shot, but if I were doing everything in AE, after Stabilizing, I would garbage matte/keylight, pan/zoom then time remap.

    Time Remapping adds/subtracts frames, do that last. My 2 cents.

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

    “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
    —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

  • Sean Tyler

    January 30, 2012 at 4:43 am

    Thanks for the 2 cents, greatly appreciated!

    s

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