Chris Evans
Forum Replies Created
-
[Paul Jones] “imported into Premiere by opening the AE file in the usual way”
What does this mean? I assume you mean Dynamic Link. The ‘usual’ is different for everyone.
Do you have any expressions in your After Effects file? If you make a new title in AE on the iMac and bring it into Premiere, does it cause problems? I would try deleting them in Premire and re-importing them from After Effects, possibly making a new After Effects Project and copying all the stuff from the old one into the new one. Do all this while on the iMac.
-
Alright, so If I understand you correctly, here’s what I would do.
I’d take a frame that I wanted to pause on and I’d export that frame (you can easily do that in After Effects, or you can just print screen it. I’d take that frame into photoshop and cut out the face. Then I’d take the footage, the cutout face, and silhouette into After Effects, clip the footage end to be where you want to pause it, put the cutout face on there, size it up to match perfectly with where it is in the frame. Then I’d animate in the silhouette (however you want to do that, animate position so it flies in, whatever). Then I’d move some time forward and put the face cutout over the head of the appropriate silhouette and position/rotate it so it looks correct, maybe put a mask it a little so it matches appropriate. Maybe put a feathered mask over the neck so it fades instead of having a sharp line. Then I’d tweak the animation so it looks nice as it plays. If you wanted the video to freeze right there instead of cutting away, you can duplicate your original footage, right click>time>freeze frame at the appropriate frame and put it underneath all your other stuff. If you’ve got masks, you probably need to animate the mask expansion as the face cutout moves.
If you don’t know how to do some of that stuff, just look up tutorials and stuff. It’s gonna be much easier to do in After Effects than Premiere.
If you wanted the face to still be moving, you’ll have to rotoscope it in After Effects, just google it if you don’t know what that is.
-
I’m not sure I exactly understand what you’re trying to accomplish it. As I understand it, there’s a video with some people in it, then you pause the video, then one of the character’s faces flies away and ends up pasted on a silhouette?
Is that about right? It’s difficult to give an answer when I’m not sure what you’re trying to accomplish.
-
I’ve never used it, but I think Adobe Prelude is made for this type of thing. I don’t know much about it, but you might give it a look.
-
Video is private and needs a password.
-
Did you try rendering out from AE as a high quality codec, then transcoding to h.264 in encoder?
-
If you have CC, the ray traced renderer isn’t really a thing anymore. I mean, it’s still there, but the direction they went with creating 3d stuff in AE is Cinema 4D and it’s practically better in almost every way, except that you have to jump back and forth. If you want to use it and it works for you, then that’s awesome, but I’m not sure tutorials for it are really going to be of interest for many people.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t do what you’re passionate about and if this is what you want to do, keep doing it. I’m only mentioning this to encourage you to think about what your viewers might want.
-
When doing a RAM preview, it begins playing from the beginning of the work area until the end of the work area. Just manage that to always be around the area your working on. I think they took out a way to play from the current time indicator, though I don’t know why.
-
The link you posted gives me a 404 error. Do you have another example?
-
What expression are you using?
I would just copy the keyframes again and again for the duration, no expression needed. Though I have to admit I rarely use expressions and if I were more familiar with them, I might know of an easy way to achieve this with expressions.