[Kyle Reynolds]

Tried this with the position value of a text layer so far, didnt work.

[Kyle Reynolds]

Thank you for the reply,

That’s really usefull about the lighting, there are quite a lot of red lights already on the stage so I will try get them to dim those a little.

The flood lights I have will have baking paper over them diffusing them to a soft beige color, I’m sure this will be alright.

Unfortunately I dont have a crane or dolly and little or no time to make one so I will have to try and simulate these shots using a tri-pod and the shoulder stabiliser. Do you advise recording all the audio for syncing later? I have a rode shotgun mic for this I think that should be alright.

One more thing,

About the fps,

I really love the look of 60p slowed to 24p, could I shoot everything at 60p and then later sync it to the music? im sure this should work somehow. In any case, i’ve seen music videos time and time again where the musicians are not sync’d to the music

Thanks again

[Kyle Reynolds]

I am also having this problem, however I am not using windows

If anyone suspects its a hardware issue let me give you my specs

Apple Mac
12gb RAM
2 x 512mb DDR 3 Geforce Graphics cards
4TB Hdd Space.

I really dont understand why premier is so choppy, I am having serious issues trying to syncronise audio and video as premier does not let me preview very accurately.

I was using uncompressed footage from the Canon 5d mark ii, at 30 fps interpreted at 25 fps, and scaled to 1024 x 576. Even after interpreting the footage to 25fps, it would still not sync to the audio recording which was recorded at 25 fps, so i still had to speed the footage up by 120 %.

[Kyle Reynolds]

it would totally work! i’ve done many stop motion videos and one thing I use often is photoshop’s batch process function.

Take all of your photos and put them in one folder, take one of the photos and record your actions, doing whatever you want to do to the photos. Click the stop button once done and close the image you were working on.

Go to File > Automate > Batch file automate, then select your action, select your folder and select your output folder. You can also choose how you want to rename the files, if you want to import to flash you must use the extension 001, so it will save your sequence as 001, 002, 003 ect. You will have to press enter for every file it saves, this can be tedius but it goes quick, I have done up to 800 photos.

I wouldnt recomend using flash, as After Effects has an option to select Import as footage when you import your images. To change the speed of playback in AE, right click on your footage layer in your time line, and select Time > time stretch, and add the percentage if you want it slower, or decrease the percentage if you want it faster.

https://www.outoftheboxdesign.info/showreel/index.html
https://kylesmotion.blogspot.com/

[Kyle Reynolds]

That’s the kind of response I like to see. Ive been trying to find those tips by Dave for so long.

You have really saved me alot of trouble. In terms of Premier, how long would it take to learn it? Im not slow at learning programs, I learnt complex problems in 3ds max and encore in a couple of weeks.

Would you recommend doing tutorials?

Thanks for the really usefull response.

[Kyle Reynolds]

well then what would you suggest? Would Premier suffice?

[Kyle Reynolds]

hmm done a search for that but cannot find it, could you give me a link?

[Kyle Reynolds]

ok thanks

[Kyle Reynolds]

I really need urgent help with this.

Its really irretating that when comparing the FPS from VLC player or QUICKTIME with the frame rate in AE, they are completely different. On the mac, and on the pc.