Thursday 26 January 2012

Lorraine tech seminar.

Photoshop
Drop down settings menu in layers bar.
select layers
> new group from layers.

This means layers are easy to deal with both in photoshop and after effects. The created group also appears in after effects as a folder.

Colour coding layers will also help organise complicated compositions.
Making layers you're finished 'shy' will take them off the timeline and mean it's less cluttered.

Output formats
H.264
this setting gives the best quality with the smallest file size, as opposed to the usual animation with quality no better than H.264 but enormous file size.

Render settings > best settings
time span : work area only.
this will only render the work area...
means you can show small changes without having huge files clogging blogger and vimeo account.

ctrl + 8 > applies a marker. 
Holding shift allows you to snap to markers set within the timeline.

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