AfterEffect help Uhh...huh?

mercenary123 · Post by **mercenary123** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:35 pm

Ok, well, I looked at the help for AfterEffects, but it's not really working out.

I don't know how to do anything on there exept create a composition and place my video in it.

With everything else I'm lost. I dought anyone is going to tell me evrything about AE, but it's worth a shot.

(NOTE: I don't really need AE for anything (yet), but I wanna learn more about it for future reference.)

Thanks much,
mercneary123

SpecialFX · Post by **SpecialFX** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:40 pm

when i first got it thats all i could figure out just find tutorials on the internet for effects and they often explain how to go about doing everything and once you understand the effect you can start apply the same sort of technique to other effects also just play around with the different tools.

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:11 pm

Ugh, reread the damn help, play around with it, don't ask us for every little thing..

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:15 pm

It IS confusing to sit down with at first. Playing around just confused me more. Check out some tutorials and strt with the basics.

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:24 pm

Yeah, again, re read the manual, it teaches you everything you need to know..

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:24 pm

Except creativity!

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:27 pm

Yeah, if you really have enough sense in you, you'll be able to take what you learnt, all the teuqinques and such, to do whatever you want ( up to the limitations of the program ) .. it's all about how logical you think

mercenary123 · Post by **mercenary123** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 12:46 am

Epsilon wrote:Except creativity!

Good one!

cantoloupe · Post by **cantoloupe** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:25 pm

yea, i ususally read manuals cover to cover, theres usually alot of stuff that people dont notice, and thus they dont get everything they can out of the program

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:30 pm

Creativity is something you should have before even using the program. Re-read the manual .

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:54 pm

I3lade203, what's that got to do with knowing the program? He simply said that he read the material, not trying to figure out creativity!

cantoloupe · Post by **cantoloupe** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 8:26 pm

yea dude

Magic-Man · Post by **Magic-Man** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:49 pm

I have AE 5.5 and i havn't tried anything out on it, i am goin to start to learn how to use it maybe to morrow and ps. I3lade if you have nothing useful to say go away!