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jimlolo
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March 12, 2019
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Animating Stills Over A Video in AE

  • March 12, 2019
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I have a video with an ice cream cone still on a layer above the video. The still is animated through Mocha tracking data from an object in the original video. I want to add a drip of ice cream to the ice cream cone that requires 12 stills to make it look continuous.

These stills will need the tracking data applied to them. I create these stills in Photoshop, with the cone on the bottom layer, then each layer above the cone has a longer and longer drip of ice cream, from no drip to all the way down.

What's the best way to get these stills from Photoshop into AE, and can they all appear in 1 layer, or 1 layer per still?

I also want each still to last 2 frames (i.e. 2/24 second in time).

Thanks.

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    Correct answer Szalam

    There are a couple of ways to do that.

    If they're all layers in your Photoshop file, the easiest thing to do would be to import the PSD as a composition (retain layer sizes). Then, you can just go into the resulting comp, move two frames into it, trim all of your drip layers alt/opt + ] ) - thus they're two frames long each. And then use the Keyframe Assistant command "sequence layers".

    Alternatively, if you have all of your drip images saved as separate files (Drip_01, Drip_02, etc.), you can import them all as an image sequence and in the interpret footage dialog, tell them what frame rate you want them to be.

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    Szalam
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    SzalamCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    March 12, 2019

    There are a couple of ways to do that.

    If they're all layers in your Photoshop file, the easiest thing to do would be to import the PSD as a composition (retain layer sizes). Then, you can just go into the resulting comp, move two frames into it, trim all of your drip layers alt/opt + ] ) - thus they're two frames long each. And then use the Keyframe Assistant command "sequence layers".

    Alternatively, if you have all of your drip images saved as separate files (Drip_01, Drip_02, etc.), you can import them all as an image sequence and in the interpret footage dialog, tell them what frame rate you want them to be.

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    jimloloAuthor
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    March 12, 2019

    Having a problem with lining up the drip with the cone in AE. I have a drip still as a layer. In Photoshop the still of the drip is the same image and canvas size as the cone.

    In AE, I associated the drip with the tracking data for the cone. I also copied position, rotation, and scale from the cone to the drip still. I checked and all values are the same between the cone and the drip.

    But the drip is put in the upper left corner for some reason.

    I did import as a Photoshop composition, and dragged a layer into my AE project. The layer is shown to be a PSD layer. Does that need to be a PNG? If so, how do I do that?

    Thanks.`

    Martin_Ritter
    Martin_Ritter
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    March 12, 2019

    Since the cone is already tracked and placed, you can just parent the drip to the cone, without applying the tracking data twice or copying transition values.

    Just place the drop - no matter if image sequence or composition - where it should be in the frame you are looking at and parent it to the cone.

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