by danielwang » Sat Aug 24, 2002 8:11 pm
Help! I'm totally insame and i'm trying to do a video with billions of cool effects using only Adobe After Effects, Flash MX and a pad of grid paper to do mappings! I am a total newbie with only 2 months experience on After Effects and I haven't read the manual because my copy is just a CD with no box because I had to get it through return fraud!
So I started by dragginfg in my Videos, I have to figure out how to get rid of the sound and make everything fit into a fake letterbox! Plus, I'm trying to use a script to get rid of dynamic removal-resistant watermarks by adding different degrees of darkness to those damn cable companies logo where they lighten up in the face of a logo, but it's just black! Geez do I have to make my video even smaller to get rid of it? (gets flames)
Second of all, I want to do automatic frame dropping to, say, slowly speed up a clip, make a 4 second clip fit into 3, change the clips to fit the projection perfectly. Instead of having to edit 48 individual frames, is it possible to, say, tell AE to drop every fourth frame for 4 seconds, etc?
Also on my list are effects such as field mappings, how do I map field colors to different frames? What about delayed clips? Say, I want to take a clip and put it into my video, the top of my video shows the top of the clip, the bottom of the field shows the same clip except delayed by 1/8 second and slightly lower position on the original. Like this:
Clip:
A
B
C
D
E
My Video:
A
B
C
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B
C
D
And changing this dynamically, such as moving down, say I want, by the end of the clip, it should show:
A
B
C
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C
D
E
I know how to edit. I's just that witout clever things like changing the speed of a clip, you'r not going to get by with a MP3-ed song and about 2 hours of downloaded real media footage (exaggeration, but not my much).