[Frank Manno]

Ok let me ask something because I’m trying to visualize the AE workflow from
an edit perspective.

Lets say you do the main edit in an edit package and do the speed ups, slow
downs etc then you need to use AE to do say, transitions between shots.
Would the right thing to do be to render it out and
import it in AE then make a split at each cut point again and from there
have each shot on its own layer and once that’s done, you can do the
transitions? Would this be the way to do it?

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

Thanks everyone.

So what should my comp size be to start with? Do I start with the usual 720×576 (PAL) or should I start with something much higher since I’m going to save as JPEG for print?

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

Thanks for your response –

You’ve shed some light on this whole thing for me. You’re right, I’m suppose to show off his photos not my animatiion skills.

Will have a listen to the music track a few times and take it from there. Thanks!

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

Woah, that’s exactly what I’m looking for!

Thanks.

[Frank Manno]

Ok. I tried arming a track for recording and it’s working. All except that everything is peaking at 0db and is way too loud and sounding very flat.

How do I adjust the input levels? Couldn’t find anything in the help for that.

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

Actually that seems to be what I’m looking for!

Just to make sure I’m doing this right could I ask you something please?

For this to work the scale of the second and third shots need to be somewhere around 5000% does this sound about right? And all I need to do is add a blur or a light zoom effect to make it look like a cool zoom out?

-Frankie

>It seems straight forward enough to me. Put you first shot on, make it shrink until it disappears, put you >next shot below it and parent it to the first shot. Repeat. Am I missing anything?

[Frank Manno]

Had a look at it, it’s the right effect except that zoom is zooming in. I was
looking for a zoom out.

I know it’s essentially the same thing in reverse except to do that zoooming out I’d guess I’d have to start the shot scaled up to begin with which is something I don’t want to do.

I want to be able to have the same look as that shine effect example except for the shot to zoom out and reveal a new shot, then to zoom out again and reveal another new shot and so on, hopefully without having to scale footage.

Is what I’m trying to do even possible? Maybe with some kind of mask or something?

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

Yes that’s it! Exactly what I wanted. Will give your method a shot.

Thanks James..

[Frank Manno]

Thanks Gary – Will try holding down just CTRL.

As for those red lines – Yeah a graphic file was going to be my next source of attack. Was hoping there was a way within the effects chain that would do it. No drama though.

Thanks for the response.

[Frank Manno]

Question: Can you do that transition with zoom out only?

The other thing I’m trying to do is exactly that but only by zooming out.

So the shot zooms out and the new shot appears. Should look like the camera
is travelling fast backwards to reveal new shots.

-Frankie