Presentation in After Effects

[Tl Westgate]

Ooooh!

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I’d love to know the answer to this as well.

— TL

[Steve Roberts]

You can make chapter markers in AE. Here’s an article.

However, for interactivity, you’ll have to embed the rendered movie in some kind of player that can work with chapter markers in the MOV you rendered from AE. That’s up to you …:-)

[Jan Voss]

Thanks for the quick reply!

There is native support for the “Quicktime presentation mode” somewhere in the Quicktime file specifications it seems.

When I export a presentation from Keynote to .mov it will playback in “presentation mode” (my term) automatically in either Quicktime on Windows or Mac. So it seems there is no specific player adjustment needed to interpret the chapter marks (I’m guessing that’s what they are) as stop points during playback.

The tip with the chapter marks in After Effects is great but I don’t think regular chapter marks will do the trick as playback of regular Quicktime movies does not pause at chapter marks automatically.

Maybe there is a way to add the pause-at-chapter-mark-functionality directly form within After Effects (a plug-in? Some render option?)?

Actually, by this time (been searching for a solution for days) I would be happy with any kind of solution offering the presentation mode playback feature that does not require Keynote 🙂

Thanks!

[Bartosz Urbańczyk]

hmm i’m having exactly the same problem, i even tried in premiere but no success

any ideas??

[Brett Merson]

I love this place. Every time I hit a wall there is a thread here where other people are already talking about my problem. The only thing I’ve been able to find is reference to Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language ((SMIL) pronounced smile). Anyone know if this is what is being used in keynote movies?

Links
https://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/interactivity/smil.html
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/IQ_InteractiveMovies/quicktimeandsmil/chapter_10_section_4.html

I’ve got the sneaking horrid suspicion that After Effect can’t do this… anyone out there care to prove me wrong??? Please! 🙂 Prove me wrong. I don’t want to learn SMIL. I’m trying to output PPT presentations with the speakers’ audio from a 2 day conference.

PS: Found a great little app called ‘Metadata Hootenanny’ that might help… or might not. Found it before I worked out that movies had to be exported as ‘quicktime’ and not MP4 to get chapters out of After Effects. Live and learn.
https://www.applesolutions.com/bantha/MH.html

[Steven Fokkinga]

Did any of you guys ever found a good solution for this? I am also interested in making presentations in after effects…

Or is there another easy way of using high-quality video and/or animation (exported from AE) in presentations? I only know powerpoint, which always takes time to load videos so is far from fluent. I am on windows.

Thanks!

Steven

[Thomas Leong]

I have doubts that AE can be ‘user modified’ as a presentation software. That was not its intended target application…as everything is geared towards rendering for output.

Since you are Windows-based like I, check out –
1. AvStumpfl’s Wings Platinum – probably one of the simpler versions rather than the top end Multidisplay version. Differences and features are listed in a table in the Demo’s Help Files under ‘Versions’. Note that it is USB-dongled software and can make use of dual-screens if your graphics card has dual outputs (eg. Controls on one monitor, full-screen presentation to projector/large monitor on the other output). It’s at version 3.70 presently with v4.0 about to be released.

or,
2. Presentation Manager. Though designed as worship presentation software, there seems to be quite a number of features one could use for business presentations. Demo is available.

Thomas Leong

[Ahmad Fadhil]

hi all, I have one trick that is perfect for this topic. In principle, you want to build a rich and interesting presentation through stunning effect of after-effects. it helps you get started with understanding adobe flash cs first. because the best way to start the video after-effect results from processing that is running it with the flash program. so you are free to enter scripts, both manual key press or automatically (based on time). Thats All!

[Frank Boxman]

Hi, I didn’t read all of the comments, and the post is a bot old, but for those who stumble upon it a solution might be Prezi. It’s a presentation tool that is way more dynamic than a powerpoint. Check it out here https://prezi.com/.
Now I haven’t used it myself yet – I never do presentations myself – and it does have a learning curve, but seeing the examples it really brings life to a presentation. Like this one:
https://prezi.com/gsoot_1arnmk/future-proof-your-education/
Enjoy.

[Shali Otoo]

Might have to use both flash and after effects.
You could create different compositions in after effects for you presentations and use the swf files as a background in flash.
Use the mouse click command in flash to call the different compositions/swf.
A bit long winded but just an idea.