Tips/Hints about this video?

[Chris Smith]

[Macohead] ” is the the camera moving and everything else is stationary or is it vice versa?”

You can do it either way. It’ll look the same in the end. Depends what you’re most comfortable with. Many people create all the elements and parent them all to a single null and animate that null so all the elements pass by the cam.

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

[Mylenium]

Moving the layers is usually easier than moving the camera, especially when there is no need for real depth (as most of the elements in the clip are graphics). It also facilitates layout as you can work on all elements in one big master comp.

Mylenium

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[Robert Morris]

Can I pipe in here with another question? Okay… maybe 2. 🙂

So it looks like the background was one huge graphic. Let’s say all the elements were 3D layers on top of it and a null was animated. Wouldn’t that really slow down the entire workflow having such a huge comp panning around? Would AE even be able to handle a comp at such a large size? I know that even when I work with several layers at 2k resolution, AE gives me openGL errors. And just FYI, I’m using AE 6.5 with 2GB of RAM and a Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB graphics card running 2 19″ LCD monitors.