Paul Hennell
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First of all, might just have been a typo, but you can’t import 3d objects into AE. The best you can do is render images out from your 3D app and import those into AE, which is delightfully fiddly when you only want something simple.
If you want to try that 3D funness I’d personally recommend blender (which is the only 3D software I’ve ever really used (Being free helps a lot there 😀 )) but any 3D software you fancy would work fine.
For you specific need there are some simpler AE only options though. Just using layer styles to fake the 3D can work in a pinch but it sounds like your best bet would be following the CE Shape Extruder tutorial which hopefully will let you do it all with fairly little amounts of fuss.
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If you have CS3/4 you can import your AE project into Premier without having to render anything more then once. Not sure if that works with any earlier versions though…
If you’re into making short films I’d really recommend The DV Rebels Guide which has loads on the AE/Premier workflow and how to get the best looking video from even the most budget cameras.
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Computers are smart and can work almost anything out, it’s TVs and Region codes that cause all the hair pulling problems. Far as I know you shouldn’t have any issues with computer files (Except for you know funky codec issues…)
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I’d say pretty much all the tutorials here are worth seeing, they’re fantasic for picking up odd things you didn’t even know you ought to know, as well as teaching you loads of tips and tricks and new creative methods.
Regarding other sites vidocopilot.net has probably the most consistently brilliant collection out there, but other sites have some good stuff. https://maltaannon.com and https://allbetsareoff.com/ have some great videos and https://aetuts.com/ is shaping up with quite a few nice things. (But search first – they’ve often already answered 😀 )
I know what you mean about collage – there’s more then enough AE help on the web to learn pretty much everything, and anything you get stuck on the forums here will answer expertly.
Most important is to fiddle a lot. Pause tutorials and try to guess where they might be going, try and make a variation of the effect when you’ve finished. Mess around with different filters and see what you can make, most of all have fun with it. Nothing is so satisfying as the first time you work out how to do a complex effect all yourself.
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The App Data folder in XP is a ‘hidden’ folder which means it wont show up by default. To see it in explorer go to Tools > Folder Options > View Tab > Advanced Settings and select “Show hidden Files and Folders”.
Hopefully that should solve your problem.
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Garbage Mattes in AE are called Masks and are created by clicking with the pen or shape tool on your footage in the preview window. The AE manual will tell you more, and googling for “After Effects Masks tutorials” is bound to give you some helpful links.
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That is a cool effect. No idea how they actually did it, but it clearly involves a good knowledge of particles.
If I was replicating the effect I’d probably use footage then take the end frame into photoshop separate the layers and mask them out as the particles come in. Still needs a good particle knowledge (Or appropriate plug-in) to make them properly explode.
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Forgive me if you know this already, or if it’s not the problem you’re having, but the most common cause of audio issues is users trying to get AE to do something it can’t. AE only plays audio when you ram preview, not when you scrub or play the timeline.
To hear audio in AE you need to either Ram preview or hit “.” on your number pad which will play the audio from the current time marker.
If you’re animating to your audio get used to the wav forms display and using markers (“*” key), you’re gonna have to use them.
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To make a circle mask you can double click on the circle mask icon (Left of the pen) on the toolbar. (If you can’t see the circle mask tool you need to click and hold on the square mask tool, to see all the available mask shape options.)
The property question looks like your first foray into expressions; expressions are incredibly powerful, and incredibly useful, but somewhat hidden away until you need them. To add an expression to any property, Alt + click on the animation stop-watch symbol and a new line will appear where you can add your expressions.
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There’s a thing you can do with interlaced footage where you can separate the fields to get ‘intermediate’ frames for better quality slow-mo. Video tutorial here.
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