What is Adobe After Effects?

[cassiee.livejournal.com]

I have question, about Adobe Effects. What is Adobe Effects used for, per say in a vid? I know some vidders use it, I know in part it's to create motion graphics(am I wrong)? Apologies if this has been asked before.

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[whereistheluv.livejournal.com]

After effects is used to do things like rotoscoping, where you can mask out clips over layers of video like you would a still image in photoshop. You can see an example of it in my vid Colorblind (http://blackbird-films.com/musicvids/veronicamars-colorblind.zip) Think of the movie Pleasantviller where the world was black and white but then one person was in color. That's rotoscoping.

You can also do green screen type stuff where you put somethign in front of a different moving background (not just a still photo) and you can do more complicated picture in picture stuff where you map points to a moving image so you could make like one of thos pictures in Harry Potter where it's in a frame but it's moving, and the frame is tilted at an angle, not straight on.

After Effects is great, you can do alot in it, but if you don't have a lot of RAM it will take forever to render things.

[whereistheluv.livejournal.com]

wow, sorry for all the typos in that. I think it's time for me to go to bed! LOL

[cassiee.livejournal.com]

Don't mind at all(the typos), thank you for the info!

[cassiee.livejournal.com]

The vid by the way, is fantastic! I love the symbolism with the colors and black & white! Brava!

[whereistheluv.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And I'm glad I helped a little.

[dzurlady.livejournal.com]

So not my fandom, so some of it passed me by, but wow - what a cool vid. I love the way you've used the colour and black and white - did it take you long to do?

[whereistheluv.livejournal.com]

Yeah it took a while. First I had to come of with the concept and make the whole vid without any effects. Then I had to export each clip with a color effect into after effects separately then apply the color effects the the layers mask and keyframe veronica and then export it out of after effects and back into my editing program. It was a couple weeks of solid rotoscoping.