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Rosny College Computer Graphics & Design 2015 Level 2: Project & Graphic Skills 4 – Introduction To 3D Animation A Guide To The Production Process: Part Five –Compositing The Final Movie

PART FIVE

Compositing The Final Movie

Part five of the assignment involves creating a short title sequence with After Effects and then using Premiere Pro to prepare the final movie for outputting as an MP4 file with the H264 compression codec to reduce the data size of your completed movie

Step 1 – Open After Effects

Find Adobe After Effects in the Adobe group of programs and open the application. We will use this to create an animated text introduction.


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Step 2 – Create A New Composition

Create a new composition by going to Composition > New Composition. Pick the HDV/HDTV 720 25 Preset. Check that Pixel Aspect Ratio is set to Square, that Frame Rate is set to 25 and change the Duration (time length) to 6 seconds. See below for settings.

Step 3 – Create Some Title Text

Click the Choose Guide & Grid Options button and pick Title/Action Safe. Click the Text button and type out text into Layout Window. Select the text and centre it. Choose a suitable font and resize it to fit inside the inner rectangle as shown below.


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Step 4 – Apply A Text Animation Preset

Make sure your timeline slider is at the beginning of the composition and select your text in the composition workspace. Now go to the Effects & Presets panel, pick the Animation presets group, open that, open the Text group of presets and pick a text preset to apply to your words. Here the Random Fade Up option has been chosen. Now scrub back and forwards on the timeline to see the effect. If happy, save your file as something like “intro.aep” into your Computer Graphics R Drive folder. If not choose undo and apply another preset to the text to test that.

Step 5 – Open Premiere Pro

Find Adobe After Effects in the Adobe group of programs and open the application. We will use this to create the final composite of all the elements to make the finished movie. When the welcome screen appears pick the New Project option.


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Step 6 – Create Name And Set Location Of Project

When the new Project window opens, create a suitable project name and set the folder location to your Computer Graphics R Drive.

Step 7 – Define Sequence Settings

When the Sequence Presets box opens, go to the HDV group and choose the HDV 720p25 preset. This will set up your video editing timeline for compositing your final movie. Choose a suitable name for the sequence and click OK.


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Step 8 – The Premiere Pro Workspace

This is now the editing space in Premiere Pro. The next step is to bring in all your assets to composite together to make the final movie.

Step 9 – Import After Effects Intro Composition

Go to File < Import or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+I and locate your After Effects intro sequence file. Double click the file name and when the Import After Effects Composition box appears pick your intro comp and click OK to import.


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Step 10 – Import Render Sequence

Now go to your Computer Graphics R Drive folder and find the folder where your rendered sequence has been saved. Open the folder and check Image Sequence. Click once on the first frame of your render sequence and then click Open. This will import all your sequence into Premiere Pro.

Step 12 – Preview Animation Sequence

Preview your rendered sequence by double clicking the icon of your sequence as shown below. This will load it into the Preview window. Press the Play button the see all your sequence play.


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Step 13 – Source A Sound Loop And Import

Now you need to source a sound loop to add to your composite. Flaskit.com/loops/ is a great resource of 100s of loops. When you open the link, choose a category. You can preview a clip by clicking the loop player. When you find a loop you like click the download link. Then right click the download.mp3 link and save the loop into your Computer Graphics R Drive folder.

Step 14 – Import Sound Loop

Go to File < Import or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+I and import the sound loop into Premiere Pro.

http://www.flashkit.com/loops/


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Step 15 – Create End Credits

Go to File < New > Title. When the dialogue opens accept the settings, name it credits and click OK.

Step 16 – Style End Credits Text

In the Title Credits dialogue box, select the Text tool and type out your credits. See below for suggestion. The important bit is to credit where you obtained your sound loop from and who was the creator. Centre your text and use Title Properties or pick a Text Style for format the text.


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Step 17 – Make Rolling Credits

Now click on the Roll/Crawl Options button. In the box set the Title Type to Roll and for it to Start Off Screen and End Off Screen. Click OK to finish.

Step 18 – Lay Up Assets In Timeline

Load in order your Intro After Effects Comp, your animation sequence and credits into a video channel in the timeline. Click the Play button to preview it if you want.


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Step 19 – Load Sound In Audio Track Loop And Trim If Needed

Now load your sound loop into an Audio track. You might need to loop it by adding extra clips or trim it at the end with the Razor tool. Get help with this if needed.

Step 20 – Add A Fade To Sound At End.

Select Sound Loop. Go near to end of the clip and open up the Effect Controls. Open up the Audio Effects and click the Level stopwatch to create a keyframe. Go to end of your loop and then drag the volume level all the way to the level. This will fade out sound at the end.


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Step 21 – Add A Lens Flare

Now click on the Roll/Crawl Options button. In the box set the Title Type to Roll and for it to Start Off Screen and End Off Screen. Click OK to finish.


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The sequence is now complete and ready to render out. This will be done by doing network rendering to make use of the 20 computers we have at our disposal.

NOTE: Before advising your work is ready for network rendering, make sure any bitmaps you have used in your sequence are located in Computer Graphics R Drive. Otherwise your work will not render out properly.

Once rendered you will composite your render sequence in Adobe Premiere adding a sound track, intro title in After Effects and credits.

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