A great After Effects resource

E-Ko · Post by **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.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 12:45 pm

Study! Study! Study!

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 1:31 pm

ah, nice. Thanks for the link.

Zarxrax · Post by **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...

y2kwizard · Post by **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.....

E-Ko · Post by **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.

Zarxrax · Post by **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.

Ashyukun · Post by **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.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 10:14 am

No, I am importing the project file into after effects.

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 10:44 am

OK, that I've never done- I've just used .AVI clips.

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...