Ben G unguren
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It should look fine the way you’re describing, but if you don’t want any image loss from the scale-up/scale-down process, you should enable “collapse transformations” for the nested layer (looks like a little sunshine, by the motion blur & frame blending switches). This will cause AE to wait to do any image calculations until it’s been piped through the second comp.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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H264 is an interframe codec, which means if you want to read one frame, you usually need to read some of the frames before and/or after as well. This means that there is a lot more computer work going on (1) transferring data (multiple images) off the hard drive and (2) performing the extra decoding necessary for interframe video.
You might have a fast processor but a slower hard drive (USB, e.g.), or a lightning fast hard drive but you’re rendering in AE, playing iTunes, and running a web browser with 15 creative cow tabs open, which means you’re running 50 or so flash animations as well….
Or you might be running multiple clips at the same time, which ups the transfer and processing time immensely.
However you measure it, H264 requires more computer resources to run than an intraframe codec of comparable filesize. Kudos to Adobe for developing a playback engine that can handle it in real-time, but that doesn’t mean it can do it as effeciently than with an intraframe codec, like ProRes or DNxHD.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Move the anchor point of your “lid” to the edge, where the hinge would be. Then animate that layer’s rotation. Voila: the lid lifts….
If you want more complex box-opening animations, is’t mostly a matter of parenting the proper layer to other layers, setting your anchor points in the proper location, and animating their rotations….
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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On point #3 note that cmd+D adds a video dissolve. Shift+Cmd+D adds an audio dissolve. Use the page-up/page-down keys to jump between edits on any active (hilighted) track.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Try the Animation codec with the color setting at RGB+Alpha (Millions of Colors +) OR the PNG codec, RGB+Alpha, Millions+
Either will work fine.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Use the t2i preset for neutral rather than turning everything down….
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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The MPEG encoding will be at 720×480 regardless. When doing graphics work (in AE or PS) I almost always work at square-pixels, and thus at 854×480 (not 852 — technically it’s 853, I think, but odd numbers scare us away). But as far as the render for the editor goes, it shouldn’t matter — they should render it out anamorphic 720×480.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Don’t forget about the free video training that adobe provides:
https://tv.adobe.com/product/premiere-pro/Really there isn’t a silver bullet to learning any app. Just diving in is usually the best way — and it sounds like that’s exactly what you’re about to do! Good luck!
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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AE’s “CC Particle World” plugin should give you what you’re looking for. Here are a couple tutorials that should get you started:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/3d_sparks_title/
https://effectsportal.net/index.php/2-minute-tutorial-how-to-make-sparks-in-ae/Ben Unguren
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Yup — those areas need to be removed by hand. Which, when you consider how much you don’t need to roto, is a great deal.
Occasionally you can use a difference matte key to remove non-green background elements, but that works best when they are very different from the foreground (in your case, there’s a lot of dark colors in there — best to go with the roto).
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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