[Will Snow]

Yo

Yeah, if you use Apple’s Compressor, for example, and select the highest quality settings for MPEG-2 PAL format, it will simply speed it up I believe.

I used Apple’s Cinema Tools once, to conform a 24fps to 25fps and that worked too.

Yeah, I’ve tried looking into the 23.976 shebang, but can’t really find a definitive answer one way or the other re: using it.

All the best!

W:)

[Will Snow]

Hi!

Funnily enough, I too am embarking on an animation, and posted on here re: framerate etc.

Apparently, the standard procedure is to simply speed up a 24fps project to 25fps, and sometimes not even fiddle with the resulting pitch/speed change in the sound.

So even though the DVD will be 4% faster than the original, the difference will be no more than people in The Land Of PAL have had for decades.

I’ve been recommended to work in 23.976psf, but I’m not totally sure how this helps either a PAL-out or a film-out, though apparently it’s easier when it comes to NTSC-outs.

Good luck with your project!

W:)

[Will Snow]

Yo!

This tutorial:

https://www.videomaker.com/article/14206/

looks pretty decent. It requires Photoshop too.

A way to do it just in AE would be to use the vector paint tool I guess. It’s an okay tool, but a bit annoying sometimes.

W:)

[Will Snow]

Oh cool!

Noted for the future, thanks Todd!

W:)

[Will Snow]

I don’t know any off the top of my head, but I always think it’s worth doing things properly and working through the textbook(s).

I used After Effects CS3 Classroom in a Book, but any of the main ones when you go on Amazon and search for After Effects will be fine.

The thing with AE is that it is such a user friendly, intuitive, and pleasing program to use … yet it’s so powerful, that you won’t want to stop your learning at just nesting compositions.

However, for your problems right now, a quick Google throws up some results that will probably be fine:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=after+effects+nesting+composition+tutorial&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

[Will Snow]

Hi Louis!

Do you know about nesting compositions?

Lets say you have the character acting out his remembering pose. That would be one composition.

In another composition, you would create the montage of all the bits of the scenes he’s remembering.

You then drop that composition into the timeline of the original composition (the one with the character), position it just like an object, and add as many masking, vignette, and blurring effects to it as you want. You can also keyframe its motion to have it moving across, if you so wish.

Does that make sense? Don’t worry about being new to AE, what you’re after is very easy to achieve 🙂

[Will Snow]

Hi Walter

Thanks for that. I think I will be using an image sequence for the master quality, plus a ProRes 422 transcode to work with in FCP.

[Will Snow]

Hi Dave

I would have replied sooner, but I’ve been doing a bit of research on the whole shebang.

It looks like a film out will not be required. So that makes the 25fps option clearly the one to take … right? I can do DVD-outs and tape-outs for PAL no problem. If NTSC is needed, then it’s needed and a conversion must be done. I could even do a 50i 1920×1080 Blu-Ray without any major complications.

At least I think so…

[Will Snow]

Hi Dave, thanks for the response!

[Dave LaRonde] “Why don’t you just work in online resolutions in AE?”

Apologies for not being clearer in my original post. I do intend to work in 1920×1080.

[Dave LaRonde] “Why not Render using the AE Render Queue…”

Again, my bad. I fully intend to use the Render Queue, not export.

[Dave LaRonde] “…in the codec you’ll use in FCP?”

Do you mean offline codec, e.g. 422? I could, but does this presuppose I’m also rendering out at full res? So with each clip coming out of AE I’ll have the online and offline?

[Dave LaRonde] “And why do you think you need Color when you’ve got a ton of color-altering effects in AE? Okay, maybe you’re more used to Color’s tools… there’s nothing wrong with that.”

Mmm, once in Final Cut I was thinking of sticking with the other programs too.

[Dave LaRonde] “Remember this, too: 24p and 23.98 are just nicknames for the actual NTSC film frame rate, which is 23.976 fps. You must work in 23.976 in AE, because unlike so many other applications, AE actually calls a spade a spade.”

I’m in the land of PAL, does that change matters?

So just to recap, would you stay clear of an image sequence format altogether?

Thanks again W:)