Art34A Assignment 6 Notes

Creating projects

• File-new project to create project
• All files are linked files
  • keep them with project

Main windows

• Project window
  • Stores your footage items
• Composition
  • What the viewer sees
  • You can move things in this window
• Timeline
  • Where most of the work is done
    • Rearrange layers
    • Set blending modes
    • Animate properties like opacity
    • etc

Importing footage

• go to file-import-file
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Stills

Compositions

• Creating
  • go to composition-new composition
• Adding footage

Layers

• Ordering footage
  • drag up and down
• Switching on and off
  • click eyeball
• Setting blending modes
  • click on the dropdown menu in the timeline
• Shy layers
• Quality settings
• Time graph
• Navigating the time graph

Properties and keyframes

• Click the arrow next to the layer name to reveal transform properties
• Move the current time marker to the time you want to start animating
  • Click the stopwatch next to the name of the property that you want to animate
    • This creates a keyframe which is a point in time where you want to specify a value for a property like opacity
    • Change the value(opacity, etc.) to set the keyframe
    • After effects will create the in between frames between your keyframes
    • If you are on a keyframe and you change the value of the property, the keyframe will be adjusted to the new value
    • If you are in between keyframes and a property is already animated and then you change a value for a property, a new keyframe will be created.
• Drag a keyframe to move it in time
• Select a keframe and press delete to delete a keyframe

Previewing

• 0 on number pad to ram preview
• period on number pad to audio preview

Rendering

• Go to comp-add to render queue to set up render
• Click on lossless and then format next to video to change the compressor to Sorenson 3
• turn on audio in render window