Timeline/organization Question!
by David McDonald
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Jul 18, 2008 at 2:02:06 am
This may be a stupid question but I am fairly new to after effects and this issue concerns me a lot.
Currently I'm trying to colour correct and do some other things to a video I edited together, but how am I supposed to colour correct each shot without having a million layers for each shot? It's a music video with maybe hundreds of cuts and I wanna do different things to each shot (which all require different attention because they are in different locations/have different lighting)
My instincts from using Final Cut make me wanna checkerboard layers in the timeline (like different shots in a track) but it only lets you extend or shrink the layer within the timeline, not double it up (from what I can see).
Does anyone know a way of solving this problem without having a million layers, or individually treating each shot BEFORE editing them together?
Re: Timeline/organization Question! by Bart Straman on Jul 18, 2008 at 11:12:18 am
hi there,
normaly use Premiere pro for editing etc and do your visual effecs in AE. but yeah in a music video, normaly I also go for AE :)
what i do:
devide your music video into sections. now you have serveral clips per section and you can edit them. Then "pre-compose" them and at all the pre-compose section in a new comp on the timeline for you master(the master comp). then when you "alt-doubble click on windows pc" on any pre-comp in your master it opens up that comp in a new timelin so you can work on that. that comp is, what you choose yourself, is alot cleaner and more overview than everything stick togheter.
tip: you can also do an overal "COLOR CORRECTION" on that PRE-COMP with al the shots in it. saves alot of work. You can also use transitions and stuff between pre-comps.
read more about them in the help-menu of After effects
