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A great After Effects resource

Postby E-Ko » Fri Oct 18, 2002 12:26 pm

I imagine that this site is probably well known amoung most of the folks in these forums, but I recently found a great site with tons of Adobe After Effects tutorials and felt I'd let others know about it.

The site is called creative cow and may be found at http://www.creativecow.net/

The site has a variety of additional features, including product reviews, book reviews, forums, and tutorials for other software products.
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Postby Castor Troy » Fri Oct 18, 2002 12:45 pm

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Postby jonmartensen » Fri Oct 18, 2002 1:31 pm

ah, nice. Thanks for the link.
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Postby Zarxrax » Sat Oct 19, 2002 1:02 am

Thank you soooo much! This will be so helpfull to me... working on a video completely in AE...
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Postby y2kwizard » Mon Oct 21, 2002 5:59 am

Ugh...I pity you, Zarxrax, if you're doing a video totally in AE...the editing tools are rather primitive.....
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Postby E-Ko » Mon Oct 21, 2002 3:58 pm

y2kwizard wrote:Ugh...I pity you, Zarxrax, if you're doing a video totally in AE...the editing tools are rather primitive.....


As compared to....?

Are you referring the Premier?

If so, conditionally true - I've found that it's easier to edit footage in Premier than it is in After Effects. Luckily, Premier projects can be imported into After Effects, allowing you to edit your project in real time using Premier then manipulate it in After Effects. Not 100% clear cut - After Effects discards the transparancy and motion settings of the Premier project.

If you're referring to something else, like Final Cut Pro or an Avid system, you've got me at a loss - I've never used either.
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Postby Zarxrax » Mon Oct 21, 2002 4:36 pm

Weibelius - maybe you could help with a problem I've had. Was originally planning to make the "frame" of the vid in premiere, then import that into AE. However, when it gets imported into AE, it cant find a LOT of the clips, and it just replaces them with color bars. I have no idea why its unable to find certain ones. And the ones it cant find seems to be completely random, i mean, there is no pattern to which files go in ok and which dont.
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Postby Ashyukun » Tue Oct 22, 2002 7:51 am

How are you exporting/importing the clips, Zarxrax? Are you exporting them to their own .avi's from Premiere? I've never seen AE not import an .avi properly- I usually export clips I want to edit in AE from Premiere using either Huffy of just as uncompressed AVIs (since I haven't been able to get AE to compress output using Huffy... baka AE...), and it has always imported them without any problems.
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Postby Zarxrax » Tue Oct 22, 2002 10:14 am

No, I am importing the project file into after effects.
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Postby Ashyukun » Tue Oct 22, 2002 10:44 am

OK, that I've never done- I've just used .AVI clips. :oops: I didn't even know you could export the project files (I've still got a lot to learn about AE myself...) from Premiere and import them into AE. Though by the sound of it for the time being I'll stick with doing it with clips...
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Postby E-Ko » Tue Oct 22, 2002 2:14 pm

Zarxrax wrote:when it gets imported into AE, it cant find a LOT of the clips, and it just replaces them with color bars. I have no idea why its unable to find certain ones. And the ones it cant find seems to be completely random, i mean, there is no pattern to which files go in ok and which dont.


Footage replaced by color bars...I've encountered this before.

In my stumblings, I've found that this is due (but probably not limited) to one of two things. Either After effects couldn't find the footage file (as is the case when I've deleted the footage files or moved them to a different file/directory/etc on the hard drives) or After Effects doesn't recognize the format of the footage file (as is the case when I've tried to import TitleDeko Graphics).

I would suggest attempting to directly import one of the problematic footage files into an AE project. If AE can import and display the footage without problems (i.e. actual footage instead of color bars), then you can simply replace the color bars with your footage.

If you can't directly import the problematic footage, then...well...I'm afraid I don't know - I'm a bit ignorant when it comes to file formats. Perhaps the problematic files are missing the proper extensions?

I ran some simplistic tests before posting this response and found that After Effects had no difficulties importing premier projects containing quicktime (including DV, mjpeg A, animation, cinepac, sorenson video 3, H.263, and uncompressed), avi (including mjpeg, DV, Huffyuv, Cinpac, and divx 5.0), illustrator, photoshop, filmstrip, mpeg1, mpeg2, animated gif, gif, flc/fli, targa, bitmap, or tiff files. It did replace offline files and TitleDeko Graphics with color bars. I don't have any real media, windows media, or VOB files on-hand (embarassingly, I haven't attempted to rip a DVD yet - my DVD-ROM crapped out over a year ago), so I didn't test those.

Hope this helps. No doubt that there might be something else going on that I don't know about. Still learning myself.

Incedently, I forgot to mention in the previous post that AE disgards any subclips when importing Premier Projects - it properly retains the footage in the timeline but doen't reproduce the subclips in the project window. Or so I recall.
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Postby Zarxrax » Tue Oct 22, 2002 2:37 pm

Well... the files in the premiere project consist of a couple hundred PSD files... I can import them directly... but that could take like an hour or more, to sort out which ones it took in and which it didnt @_@
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Postby OmniStrata » Mon Oct 28, 2002 11:02 pm

Yes Zarx, I too am suffering from this problem...

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