planning AE projects…

[Charles Pierce]

The Cow’s AE Podcast has an episode for job planning. It’s one of the earlier episodes. Check it out…

https://www.creativecow.net/podcasts

chuck

Podcasts

[Mark]

I can’t give you advice on planning, but if I can give you one piece of advice, it’s to keep things clean. Take the few extra seconds to create folders in your project window to keep elements clean and organized. Take the time to name comps, or add layer markers with names and/or descriptions. When the project starts to get big, you will be happy that you took that time.

Regards

Mark

[Steve Roberts]

Here are as few things I’m doing now:

– use the comments column in the timeline and project windows
– use label colours for layers associated with an item (all layers associated with the particle stream coming from the right are green, for instance)
– use null layers named “———” as spacers in the timeline to separate layer groups
– use the auto-save in save, or save incrementally in 6.5 and earlier
– if I expect to be reusing elements from other comps, I place them all in the same project. I find that importing other projects clutters things a bit.

If you want to see organized projects, get Trish and Chris Meyers’ books and open some of their projects. Same goes for the COW — demo artists have to be organized.

[Kolade Balogun]

phew…I see how really complicated AE can be to it’s users when it comes to planing each comp..anyways guyz…thank you very much for your tips…I appreciate it…

Regards,
‘kk’

[Charles Pierce]

If you don’t want to buy Trish & Chris’s book, you can watch Aharon’s podcast tutorial in which he goes through project management and folder and naming strategies. It’s a class that you would pay a lot of money to attend at a conference and it’s a free podcast.

chuck

[Kolade Balogun]

thank you very much guyz for your kind help…I really appreciate it. I’ll keep up to what you guyz have told me to do and I be a better animator…lol!..

Regards,
‘kk’