Animation in After Effects

[Fooch -]

If its just a simple cut/edit film, use premiere.
However if you want to push it more, really add motion graphics, then use ae.
I would start by the basics in video copilot first. (that's the first thing I use to get my class to go through)
When you get the hang of it, it's just like photoshop on drugs.

[Fooch -]

Funny I'm just starting to use AE myself. I actually just logged on to post a link to this AWESOME script http://aescripts.com/bg-renderer/ AE has piss poor rendering management and this script allows you to render in the background. Love it! Hopefully this will help you too once you get into it further.

You would love this then Jeff


http://www.monologue.gr/tutorials/mo...ender-manager/

[erick gustafson]

When it comes to rendering in AE I suggest you take a look at your memory and multiprocessing options under preferences. Tweaking these to match/utilize use full system specs will greatly decrease your render times. Also, whenever possible, try to render things off your local machine or try to establish the fastest connection to your server possible. My link to the server was just patched into the server core which resulted in a 100x increase in my connection speed resulting in renders times that were a fraction of what they had been before.

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[Dan Deery]

Digital tutors have some free beginner tutorials

http://www.digitaltutors.com/11/trai...746&autoplay=1