Due Feb. 27 at the beginning of class<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Import any number (1 to infinity) of\u00a0still images<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0video<\/strong> into After Effects and drag them into a\u00a01280×720 composition.<\/strong><\/p>\n Then, for the following 5 properties<\/strong>\u00a0add at least 3 keyframes per property:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n (Since that’s 5 properties,<\/strong> and at least 3 keyframes per property,<\/strong> that means there should ultimately be at least 15 keyframes altogether.<\/strong>)<\/p>\n Another requirement is that you use\u00a0Easy Ease In\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Easy Ease Out<\/strong> on at least\u00a0one<\/strong> of the properties in order to get experience with some exponential interpolation.<\/strong><\/p>\n The above may be keyframed\u00a0all\u00a0on the same layer or multiple layers.<\/strong> The main thing is that you get some experience with animating each kind of property.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Duration: 10 – 20 seconds<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Please submit a compressed<\/strong> (h264) video file to D2L in the “exercise no. 1” dropbox. It shouldn’t be too large in file size, maybe 10 – 30 MB or so.<\/strong><\/p>\n (To create this compressed file, I recommend rendering a high quality quicktime from AE (using the codec ProRes 422 on Mac or DNxHD on Windows) and then compressing the high quality file using Handbrake as described here<\/a>\u00a0or Adobe Media Encoder.<\/p>\n Alternatively,<\/strong> you can just render and compress in one step<\/strong> from After Effects by choosing h264<\/strong> as the render codec, but you might have less control over the resulting compression quality.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" exercise no. 1 Due Feb. 27 at the beginning of class Import any number (1 to infinity) of\u00a0still images\u00a0or\u00a0video into After Effects and drag them into a\u00a01280×720 composition. Then, for the following 5 properties\u00a0add at least 3 keyframes per property: Scale Rotation Position Opacity Some effect property (e.g., blur amount, liquify’s distortion mesh, bulge … <\/p>\n\n