Joseph W. bourke
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Eric –
Here’s way too much info on Metadata – it’s the Adobe help file, and it also has some good links to video tutorials:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS7D166319-4319-4f7d-BCF2-28B26E30FB5C.html
I use Metadata on every project – I have a custom template with all of my copyright info already built, and I just Append it in Bridge to whatever output files I need tagged – it saves a lot of typing. I recently posted on my Blog about using AE Metadata to find the project with Metadata from the output file:
https://bourkemedia.com/adobe-bridge-metadata-saves-the-day/
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Hi Fred –
Don’t confuse the FCP workflow with AEs – AE is a compositing tool, not an NLE. That said, you should have no problem at all dragging and dropping layers into a Comp and having them all line up at frame zero. As a matter of fact, I can’t remember it ever happening any other way. By “Sequence of Items”, do you mean that you’re importing stills as a Sequence? In that case, you’d be getting just what you told AE to do, and each new layer will show up at the end of the last layer – the “stair step” look you spoke of. Try just importing all of your files – or dragging and dropping from Bridge, then selecting all of them in AE and dragging to the New Comp icon in the bottom of the upper left panel. They should create a new Sequence with no staggering.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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I think that Adobe Prelude may be your solution:
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/short-and-suite/how-to-ingest-edit-what-you-want-in-adobe-prelude-cs6/
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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You’re welcome Nicolas – some of what you’re looking for may involve just creating a pre-comp prior to the effect. I’m not absolutely sure.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Hey Todd –
Have you ever used Gentibus CD? It’s a free cataloguing program which allows you to scan your CD and DVDs (even drives), and then be able to look at what’s on your disks without ever putting them in a drive:
I used to use a program called Catfish, but development stopped with WinXP, so I had to jump ship to Gentibus CD. It seems to have all of the same features. It’s a real time saver, and worth a donation to the developer.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Take a look at some of the Compound Effects that After Effects includes:
https://www.video2brain.com/en/lessons/using-compound-effects-1
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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I think it all depends on where you have located your cache – take a look in the settings for both Premiere and AE – this may be the culprit. This should help you out:
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Pond5 is a good source. You do have to do some digging, but I found a very nice music package for a hyper-local news channel which I did an on-air graphics package for.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Here’s a good explanation of LUFs:
https://productionadvice.co.uk/lufs-dbfs-rms/
I haven’t run into a need to know about it yet, but I’m going to learn about it just in case.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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I believe you just delete the tracking points that confuse the track. Either that, or maybe mask out the areas of the HUD which are confusing the track?
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com