Monday 24 January 2011

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Kinetic typography tutorial










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First Quote

Lee Evans:

Do you ever do that thing, where you walk into a room and you forget why the fuck you walked in there and then you ask yourself, Why did you walk in this room? Why you asking you, you don't fucking know!!

Lee Evans best bits YouTube 3 mins in.

Wednesday 19 January 2011

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After Effects

Workshop

Using audio

Music
Voice over/ narration
Sound effects

Itunes mp3, audio files, CD's,

Commercially would have copywright issues

Websites download royalty free audio

recording sounds yourself

"sound library" shared folder

File formats

AIFF- mac
WAV- PC
mp3- itunes
m4a- format won't work on AE

Itunes preferences convert to different formats

SWITCH
converts audio files from one format to another

AE

File import file
audio same as image files

DB measurement of sound volume -48 is off

set keyframes to fade sounds in and out etc

editing audio to select the part of audio you want

move the bar to trim audio file like image

only hear sound in ram preview



Double click on audio to hear in own window

Can choose which seconds you want


Rendering
AE will not export audio automatically
output modile
format options same as image
tick audio output



Import circle 'Bounce' file from illustrator

same size as AE file

click on layer hold alt and drag to comp window


Grouping in AE

Parent- child relationship

Nesting composition
(pre-composing)

Select layer as parent

Select other layers click on parent

drop down menu select parent layer

they will become children of the parent layer

select them all at once and click on the drop down menu and all will become children

opacity will not change on all just one

Rotation and scale will change on all

Children can still do their own thing but also move with parent

nest it to duplicate

layer  pre-compose, will create new composition

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Zoom video with audio: first test



Untitled from Brady Miller on Vimeo.