This Blog is now apparently full. I have therefore set up a Design Practice blog part two, the link is below.
Design Practice 2
Thursday 9 December 2010
Wednesday 8 December 2010
After effects
1.12.10 Workshop continued...
Playback- Right side panel Preview box
Short cut keys
| <| takes you to the beginning
<| | takes you back one frame
|> playback
Spacebar- playback
Info panel FPS 25.00 realtime
The more complex your timeline gets the slower it plays back
Green line above composition on timeline
Ram button |||> Playing from RAM 125 of 125 Once it gets too complex the RAM can only show part
of the preview
New composition resolution also at bottom of screen
Half one pixel in every 2 will be previewed
quarter every one in 4
This will enable you to preview more at the right pace
You can preview one section
Work area bar Below timeline numbers
Blue tab click and drag to move
Layer properties every layer has transform property
|>transform
Anchor point center of rotation
First number horizontal 2nd number vertical
Same with scale
rotation 2nd number no. of degrees of rotation
first number no of resolution
Opacity click drag left and right
Key frames
Click button next to position to create key frames, change time on the timeline, click and drag object which creates a new key frame
Arrows allow you to jump to previous or next key frame, can then re set the position of the key frame
To add another change the timeline and drag object key frames are like anchor points
Click on key frame points and drag apart to speed up or slow down
Delete a key frame click on key frame backspace
Add or remove keyframe forward arrow and backward arrow
Copy and paste key frame
New layer solid
Tild key next to z on keyboard show the active panel
Keyboard shortcuts
'P' on keyboards reveals position
'A' Anchor point
'R' rotation
'S' Scale
'T'Opacity
'O' Outpoint of current layer
'I' inpoint of current layer
Press shift to see more than one property at once
'U' all properties of layer that has had key frames enabled
'N' end
'B' beginning
shift- keyframes to select more than one
Composition- Add to render queue
Render settings
Time span
Best settings
Length of comp
Output module
lossless
Format quicktime
format options h.264 to go on vimeo or youtube
output to
