Dylan Reeve
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I’ve always used paper edits as a rough cut (not least because I’ve yet to meet anyone who can paper edit effectively to duration). However I also frequently version my sequences, so I can recover things I have removed, or revert to an earlier cut in the director requires it.
Most of the serious offline work I have done has been reality series – and in those cases I’ve been give quite a lot of control, the paper edits have been pretty much a story line and listing of useful grabs and elements. I often reorder and cut them down heavily.
It will depend on your role, and the accuracy of the paper edit as to how much flexability you have.
I’m quite good at convincing producers to do it my way when I think things are wrong (without being pushy). With situations like yours it can be really frustrating when you have a higher up with a different vision come in and make big changes, especially when it seems that the producer you’re working with isn’t in step with the higher ups.
I’d say use the skills you were hired for to make the changes you can when things are really wrong – but only if you can do it without causing trouble… otherwise you’ll have to rough it out.
It comes down to how your client views your services – have they hired you for your knowledge and skill, or simply as a machine operator. Sadly it’s often the latter, and that can be really frustating.
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As long as you are in “blue dot” mode, all vision from the timeline will playout the standard Firewire port (except when it is receiving input, ie. when the capture tool is open).
All you should need to do is render the timeline, go to the start, press play and it will come out the firewire. It pays to put a frame of black at the beginning and end of the sequence, otherwise it will hold on the first and last frames.
Firewire output should be covered in the manual (I don’t have any handy at the moment)
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Yes.
Use the Command Palette in “Menu to Button” mode and assign a key to the “More Detail” and “Less Detail” entries from the timeline fast menu (More is zoom in, less is zoom out).Menu to Button is great – I have things like Render and Audio Mixer tool asigned to keys in that way.
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Titles will need to be rendered, but that shouldn’t be a huge problem as they will render quickly – assuming they only come up for a while and fade off – if they are present for the whole duration then you will have a big render.
Once those are rendered the timeline should be able to be played out over the DV without any problems.
With a Mojo you will get a realtime layer which will mean titles can be played out unrendered.
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What I want to create is visual representations of data, not just the text itself, otherwise Inscriber would do the job. Sadly nothing I have available provides anything close to quick or easy graphical visualisation.
It’s not that I want to go live with AE so much as I want to be able to make animations with a quick turn around, and then play them directly from the PC in a timely fashion.
I suppose at the very least I could use Avid Xpress Pro as a playback system – import and playout the rendered animations. Which might be where I am headed now, as the ability to play, even rendered sequences, from the AE timeline is pretty limited.
I have no framestore, and the Inscriber system is an older and limited one…
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What I want to create is visual representations of data, not just the text itself, otherwise Inscriber would do the job. Sadly nothing I have available provides anything close to quick or easy graphical visualisation.
It’s not that I want to go live with AE so much as I want to be able to make animations with a quick turn around, and then play them directly from the PC in a timely fashion.
I suppose at the very least I could use Avid Xpress Pro as a playback system – import and playout the rendered animations. Which might be where I am headed now, as the ability to play, even rendered sequences, from the AE timeline is pretty limited.
I have no framestore, and the Inscriber system is an older and limited one…
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I’ve recently started playing with AE scripting – and being a PHP programmer myself, I can relate… The level and quality of online documentation at php.net has spoiled us for all other languages.
However, there are quite a few good Javascript references online (although being web-focused they sometimes are a little confusing) and there is the “Scripting Guide.pdf” on the AE disc which provides information on the functions, objects and properties unique to After Effects.
I’ve also found the following websites helpful:
https://www.aenhancers.com/
https://www.motionscript.com/I’d love some other links and resources too though…
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I’ve recently started playing with AE scripting – and being a PHP programmer myself, I can relate… The level and quality of online documentation at php.net has spoiled us for all other languages.
However, there are quite a few good Javascript references online (although being web-focused they sometimes are a little confusing) and there is the “Scripting Guide.pdf” on the AE disc which provides information on the functions, objects and properties unique to After Effects.
I’ve also found the following websites helpful:
https://www.aenhancers.com/
https://www.motionscript.com/I’d love some other links and resources too though…