General After Effects Quertion

[Jock]

Hi there guys,

 

Now I've never even opened After Effects before so i know next to nothing about it though I have used premier pro albeit just for the absolute basics.

 

Now after looking through some of Andrew Kramers tutorials it seems it may not be too hard to incorporate some nice graphics into my demo reel that i'm creating but i'm just after some guidance as to how to go about it.

 

I mean, so you do some jazzy graphics for your title, would this be a different file entirely to say your demo reel and youd just combine them once they are complete, or would you tend to do the entire project under one file and just in the timeline move from your jazzed up title to your reel?

 

Just wondering how your meant to approach it.

 

Thanks

 

Stewart

[Macer]

Anything I create in AE I usually render out as an image sequence and combine it with my other footage in PP. I know they can link together, so I'm sure there is a simpler way... ... but it works for me.

[Jock]

Nah that sounds good enough for me too, gives me an idea anyway.

[alias_marks]

I mean, so you do some jazzy graphics for your title, would this be a different file entirely to say your demo reel and youd just combine them once they are complete, or would you tend to do the entire project under one file and just in the timeline move from your jazzed up title to your reel?

 

For what it's worth, I try to keep everything for the whole animation linked into one main after effects file, then organize things with compositions *linking in all image sequences, etc). That system probably breaks down when more than one person needs to work on the file though...

 

Would love to hear what larger studios are doing to have multiple artists edit different parts of an animation when doing PP. Any insights out there?

[Fooch]

We do it per shot basis. Normally we have a few animators / compositors working.

Plus you can import AE files to each other so we might import in the colour tweaks and apply it for different shots.

 

The complete output would be put together in Premiere / Final Cut or sometimes AE.

There we grade it on 1 monitor , put the final touches like vignettes - tints , difusions etc ..

 

We normally just keep replacing the shots with newer superseeded versions as the project progresses. (Example, early renders / wireframe comped shots are just replaced out in the main file) This gives an editor/director master control over timing / music etc while everyone else works on improving the shots.