Album Memories Old Film Look Help File

1 ALBUM MEMORIES OLD FILM LOOK HELP FILE

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1. PROJECT'S STRUCTURE

The folder RENDER contains the ready to render composition. Before render it (Menu Composition / Add to render Queue), you will have to customize media placeholders and edit texts placeholders.

The MEDIA folder includes all the used media placeholders in this project. The subfolder "Media Comps" includes different comps corresponding each to one of the media placeholders.

ASEETS folder includes the elements used in different scenes of the project. One subfolder contains the SoundsFX, another includes the Music Track....

There are seven SCENE xx folders. Each of them includes the different elements (media [as photos: picture with a thin (horizontal) rectangular frame or as dias: media with a rectangular (vertical) frame; these dias comps. are smaller than the photos comps. For each Photo Comp there is a Text

placeholder located in the TEXTS subfolder of the concerned SCENE. You will have to edit these texts placeholders in the various TEXTS subfolders. For each dia Comp. there is a text legend layer in the dia comp. itself. You will have to edit this test also. Several SCENE xx folders contains also a subfolder "MEDIAS". In this one, there are the media and their respective layout, which are displayed in the concerned SCENE.


2. PROJECT'S CONTENT

This project is divided into seven different SCENE; each scene is a part of the global animation. Each Scene displays several texts placeholders and (eventually: Scene 02, Scene 03, Scene 04 and Scene 05) also several media placeholders (as Photo Comp or Dia Comp). The Scene 04 uses media as Films Comps: they are composition where media are located before an old pellicule element.

The Scenes 01, 06 and the Scene End displays only texts placeholders.

SCENE MEDIA Number of Texts Placeholders Number of Dias

Legend Texts Photo / Dia / Film

SCENE 01 No Media 2 - - SCENE 02 Media 01

Media 02 Media 03 Media 04 Media 05 Media 06 Media 07 Media 08 Media 09 Media 10 Media 11 Media 12

5 7 01 Photo 02 Dia 03 Dia 04 Dia 05 Photo 06 Photo 07 Dia 08 Dia 09 Photo 10 Dia 11 Dia 12 Photo

SCENE 03 Media 13 Media 14 Media 15 Media 16 Media 17 Media 18 Media 19

2 5 13 Photo 14 Dia 15 Dia 16 Dia 17 Dia 18 Dia 19 Photo

SCENE 04 Media 20 Media 21 Media 22 Media 23 Media 24 Media 25 Media 26 Media 27

8 + 1 = 9 0 20-21-22-23 -> Film 01 23-24-25-26 -> Film 02 Photo Photo




SCENE 05 Media 28 Media 29 Media 30 Media 31 Media 32 Media 33 Media 34 Media 35 Media 36 Media 37 Media 38 Media 39

5 7 28 Dia 29 Photo 30 Dia 31 Dia 32 Photo 33 Photo 34 Dia 35 Dia 36 Photo 37 Dia 38 Photo 39 Dia

SCENE 06 No Media 1 (several texts layers)

-

SCENE END No Media 1 (several text layers)

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Here below, a PHOTO COMP: (the corresponding text placeholder appears outside this comp and it's animated)


Here below a DIA COMP: the text legend layer appears over the picture frame and has to be edited in the media (dia) composition (no different test composition for these dia legends texts. They are not animated):

Here below one of the two Film Media COMPS: media are placed over an old pellicule element. Texts about each media is animated and appears outisde the Film Media Comp.

IN most of the compositions of this project, a common "color code" for different types of layers is applied:

GREEN LAYERS: layers used as revealer for the below layer with an Alpha (Track Matte Property):


CYAN LAYERS are commonly the main media layers (there are often children layers parented to them, and used as shadows by example). These children layers are BLUE LAYERS.

PURPLE LAYERS: concern Layers with TEXTS PLACEHOLDERS (see Above picture)

PRESETS LAYERS (see below) are commonly ORANGE LAYERS.

3. TEXTS PLACEHOLDERS EDITION

As explained before, there are different types of texts placeholders. Each PHOTO COMP owns its own Text placeholder into a specific composition

Commonly, these texts are animated. Be attentive to the timeline's markers notes (to find the best location on the timeline to edit these texts layers). Simply open one of these Texts compositions (located in the TEXTS subfolder of each SCENE) and use the TYPE TOOL to edit the different text layers of the composition. Repeat this process for each Text placeholder of each Scene.

. These TEXTS Placeholders specific compositions are always located in the TEXTS subfolder of the concerned SCENE.

For the DIA MEDIA COMPS. the text layer (to edit) is present in the DIA Media composition. These DIA Media Comps. are located into the MEDIAS subfolder of each SCENE

The two Film Media Comps. (only present in the Scene 04)

. Simply open each of these DIa Media Comps. and use the TYPE TOOL to edit the text legend layer. Commonly these texts layers are not animated.

group several Media Placeholders into a single composition. But each of these media owns its specific TEXT Placeholder Comp

. located into the TEXTS subfolder of the concerned SCENE. Edit these Texts Placeholders by following the same process as for the Texts Placeholders of the Photo Media Comps (above).


The picture here above illustrates a DIA Media Composition with its Legend Text Layer (commonly the first upper layer).

4.MEDIA REPLACEMENT

Initially I used two kinds of pictures for this project: horizontal (paysage / landscape) pictures with 800 pixels width and 600 pixels height and vertical (portrait) pictures with 600 pixels width and 800 pixels height.

The easiest way to customize this project is to resize your own pictures according to the following table, before media replacement.

SCENE MEDIA Type Width X Height Photo / Dia / Film SCENE 01 No Media - - - SCENE 02 Media 01

Media 02 Media 03 Media 04 Media 05 Media 06 Media 07 Media 08 Media 09 Media 10 Media 11 Media 12

HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL VERTICAL VERTICAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL VERTICAL VERTICAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL

800X600 800X600 600X800 600X800 800X600 800X600 600X800 600X800 800X600 800X600 800X600 800X600

01 Photo 02 Dia 03 Dia 04 Dia 05 Photo 06 Photo 07 Dia 08 Dia 09 Photo 10 Dia 11 Dia 12 Photo


SCENE 03 Media 13 Media 14 Media 15 Media 16 Media 17 Media 18 Media 19

HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL

800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600

13 Photo 14 Dia 15 Dia 16 Dia 17 Dia 18 Dia 19 Photo

SCENE 04 Media 20 Media 21 Media 22 Media 23 Media 24 Media 25 Media 26 Media 27

HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL

800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600

20-21-22-23 -> Film 01 23-24-25-26 -> Film 02 Photo Photo



SCENE 05 Media 28 Media 29 Media 30 Media 31 Media 32 Media 33 Media 34 Media 35 Media 36 Media 37 Media 38 Media 39

HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL

800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600

28 Dia 29 Photo 30 Dia 31 Dia 32 Photo 33 Photo 34 Dia 35 Dia 36 Photo 37 Dia 38 Photo 39 Dia

SCENE 06 No Media - - - SCENE END No Media - - -

Thank's to the tables (above) you will be able to prepare easily your different media files before replacing the media placeholders in this project.

Remember: the media used as PHOTO Media Comp are displayed in bigger format and the media used in DIA Media Comps are displayed in a smaller format. Media concerned by the Film Media Comps (Scene 04) are displayed into an intermediate format.

TAKE A LOOK AT THE VIDEO TUTORIAL REPLACING MEDIA


Once you prepared your own media files, you are now able to replace the different media placeholders of this project. All these media placeholders are located into the MEDIA folder.

Procedure:

-1- Select one media placeholder in the MEDIA folder and use MENU FILE / REPLACE FOOTAGE / FILE. Select your file to replace the concerned media placeholder (into the browsing dialog box).

-2- If you used media with different size / dimensions (see above tables), you will have to open (just after each media placeholder replacement) the corresponding composition into the folder MEDIA / Media COMPS. So, you will be able to adjust scale or position properties of the media layer in this comps. These Media COMPS are used in the whole project as base elements. Adjusting position and/or scale properties (to cover all the composition area) with the media layer is important and will make easier the following customization steps for you.

-3- Each media placeholder has a corresponding composition in the SCENE / MEDIA subfolder for the Scene where this media is displayed. There are Photo Media Comps, Dia Media Comps and Film Media Comps. After each media placeholder replacement, open the corresponding composition into the MEDIA subfolder of the concerned Scene and adjust Scale, Position properties. You will eventually have to edit the mask of the media layer (specially for the DIA Media Comps).

To edit a layer mask, simply select the layer, hit M (or MM) on the keyboard (to reveal the mask(s) od the layer and the properties of this(these) mask(s).

Select the mask to edit ant use the keyboard Shorcut CTRL T to be able to edit the mask. When a mask is ready to be edited, little handles appear on the mask. Use simply your mouse cursor to edit the mask. When you keep the CTRL and SHIFT keys pressed the modification will be proportional for the different sides. Once a mask is selected and ready to be edited, you can move it using the arrows of the keyboard.

If you prefer delete the existing mask, simply select the desired mask and hit the DELETE key on the keyboard.

To create a new mask, be sure to having selected the concerned layer, and use the Rectangle tool or the Pen tool to build a new mask of this layer.

You could also brows to this page relating to "Creating Masks":

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS37445DB7-352A-42e9-BACB-EB40BD421524a.html

CHECK THE VIDEO TUTORIAL MEDIA AND PRESETS ABOUT THIS


Read also the following lines about selecting masks:

Select masks in the Timeline panel 1. Click the right arrow next to a layer name to expand it. 2. Click the right arrow next to the Masks heading to expand it, revealing all masks on that

layer. 3. Do any of the following:

To select one mask, click its name. To select a contiguous range of masks, Shift-click the names of the first and last masks

in the range.

To select discontiguous masks together, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) the names of any masks you want to include.

Note: You can select only whole masks in the Timeline panel. To select individual vertices on a mask, use the Composition or Layer panel.

PLEASE, LOOK AT THE VIDEO TUTORIAL "MEDIA MASKS" about this subject.

5.USING THE PRESETS COMPOSITIONS

In this project there are five types of PRESETS. They are located in the PRESETS folder. These presets allow you to very easily modify the applied effects for an defined element (PHOTOS, DIAS, BG...) in the whole project.

Each PRESET Composition includes several predefined presets layers. Commonly, a single preset layer is set to VISIBLE in each preset composition (others are set to HIDDEN :: Use the"Little Eye" Icon to HIDE OR SHOW a layer. They are adjustement layers. A such layer set to hidden means that it won't be used when the concerned preset composition will be applied .

IN each PREST Comp. there are also media (photos, dias..) layers. You can use them to help you to make your choice between the different present presets layers. Of course, to see in real time these changes, you have to set to VISIBLE these media layers (commonly lower layers in the list).

Once your choice is made, be sure to SET TO HIDE the media layer(s)....


The above picture shows the PHOTO PRESET Composition. We can see this comp includes six different presets layers (layer 01 to layer 06). Only the preset layer (PRESET PHOTO F) is selected, the others are hidden.

When you set the media layers (layer 07 to layer 09 in this case) you will get the real time preview for this preset applied to several Media Photo Comps.


If you decide to use another preset layer (by example the PHOTO PRESET D), set this layer to VISIBLE and set the before visible layer (Layer 01) to hidden. You will get this:

You could also use several presets one over another. By example with the presets layers E, B and A active, you will get this:


The order of the applied presets layer can have an impact on the global look. Test different layers orders when you want to use several presets layers.

Don't forget, when you made your choice, to HIDE the lower media layers (in this case layers 06 to 08). If you forget this, the preset will show these media in all the comps where this preset will be applied....

If you prefer to use no one preset layer, simply HIDE ALL these presets layers in a defined preset composition.

May be,you will get this preset comp applied in some compositions and not applied in other compositions. In this case, you will have to open all the different compositions located in the ELEMENTS subfolder of each Scene. So you will be able to set the Preset composition to HIDDEN when you wan not to apply this one in this comp. For the composition in which you want apply the concerned preset composition, simply let the preset layer active (enabled) in the concerned comp.

These explanations could seem to you long and complex. Just test during a few minutes the different possibilities. A such system give you an quasi infinite number of possibilities, a very easy way to harmonize the applied effect for a precise element in the whole project, with only a few clicks....

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CHECK THE VIDEO TUTORIAL MEDIA AND PRESETS ABOUT THIS

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