Joseph W. bourke
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George –
In case you ever want to know – in the 3D texture and material mapping world, that light through your ear is called sub-surface scattering, or SSS. You never know when it might come up at a cocktail party :>)
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I’ve had very good luck with Pond5.
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Jim –
You know you can save Effects Presets, just like in other Adobe software? You can also assign them to a hot key. Here’s a short tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpvf1L7qnsg
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In terms of just slicing and dicing, removing breaths, etc., I simply zoom in on the VO, then go through it section by section, using the Insert Silence command on the selected breath (works on background noise as well, or page noise). The best tip I can give you is to zoom in tight, so you can really see the waveform, and take out awkward pauses (I just select a bit of silence, then hit Delete).
Here’s a good tutorial on processing the VO to make it sound great after you’ve got your cleanup and timing done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOfL_75OqpY
I also leave the Auto Heal feature turned on, so if I cut something out, or add something in, it helps it to sound natural:
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/peachpit-tv-for-video/healing-audio/
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Here’s a very good explanation of importing Illustrator files to AE:
https://www.jamesmerry.co.uk/home/?p=388
If you just want to cut to the artboard issue, scroll down to Multiple Artboards.
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It’s called Secondary Color Correction, and it involves isolating the color range of the element you want to change, then changing it. A white dress with a cream shawl may be a tough one, since the cream is close to the white, and the shawl on top of the white is going to cast shadows pretty much the same color as the shawl. You could use Color Finesse:
https://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Secondary-Color-Correction_AE/1
If the CC is proving too difficult, you might have to duplicate the layer, then use the Roto Brush (it will make the masking job easier, but you have to learn it) to isolate the shawl (if that’s even possible), or suggest to the client that they schedule a reshoot, since costume changes are generally accomplished with real clothing, not in post. Not everything is possible to fix in post.
Joe Bourke
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Just do a Collect Files on the project. This will put both your rendered materials and all elements used in it (photos) in a .zip file in a new folder with the project name.
Scroll down to Collect Files to find out the details:
https://helpx.adobe.com/en/after-effects/using/basics-rendering-exporting.html
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I run into this all the time with my demo stuff, since some of the time, I’m doing contract work as an animator, and my work is edited in with other content which I’ve had no involvement with. Some of the time, I just do the titles, or color correction. My solution has been to create white text on a black screen which dissolves up at the end of the piece, explaining just what my creative involvement was. Example: “The elements presented here are six contract animations, produced for xxx xxxxxxxx.” or some sort of similar, specific text which can’t be misconstrued. Sometimes I need to show my work within the context of an editor’s work, and I don’t want to lay claim to something I didn’t do, even unintentionally.
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I think the key issue here is what size the PSD files are, both in pixels and MBs. It may be that the size of the files is overkill for the size of the final output from AE. You want to tread a fine line between the images maintaining their detail, and having so much detail that it doesn’t matter, and bogs down AE.
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The Compound Blur effect could also be of use here:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a9d3c597-7baaa.htmlJoe Bourke
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