Brian Charles
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Well Brandon, sounds like you might be hooped. The tasks you describe are easy for someone familiar with After Effects but may be challenging to a new user.
Can I assume you are running After Effects CS 5 or greater?
I’m going to assume you have footage (a video you shot) of some sort of box. If there is no camera motion you need to look for masking tutorials.
https://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE_Creating-Masks/1
If the camera moves look for Motion Tracking tutorials for Mocha (a product that ships with After Effects).
https://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE_Rotoscoping-Mocha/1
These will get you started. If you don’t understand the interface, you may want to get someone with more experience to help you.
Good luck.
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*If* there is enough resolution in the original footage (photographs etc) you just need to place the SD Comp in the HD Comp and click the Collapse Transformations switch and you won’t degrade the image by scaling
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In Write on the motion path defaults to bezier spacial interpolation.
To change it you can double click on the layer in the timeline to open the layer panel where you can see the motion path.
Click on one of the vertices with the Convert Vertex tool to change the interpolation to linear. You can also alt+control click or Command + Option click to access the Convert Vertex tool temporarily.
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After Effects doesn’t significantly benefit from the graphics card. OpenGL is flakey in AE and most users disable it.
If you use other applications, like Premiere Pro or a 3D app that uses OpenGL, you’ll see a speed gain there, but not for AE.
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Your project settings are in frames and displaying feet and frames.
From the File menu choose Project Settings and change it back to Timecode if that’s what you want.
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What do you want to learn?
Video editing, motion graphics, compositing, visual effects?
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Add an adjustment layer above all layers you want to have the effect.
Apply the preset to the adjustment layer.
To fade, keyframe opacity of adjustment layer.
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For anything other than simple camera moves a camera rig is beneficial. It may simply be a camera parented to a null object or something more elaborate.
A good starting point are the 3 tutorials on Camera Rigs by Andrew Devis which you can find here:
https://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Animating-a-Camera-1/1
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I don’t think this is a preset. This is animation of position and rotation (3D X axis).
The transition is Y axis rotation and a layer change.
Oops, Walter you beat me to it.
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If the color difference is subtle a feather on the mask may fix the problem.
Otherwise you can color correct one side to match the other using Levels, Curves or Color Finesse.