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February 25, 2017
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I need AE to automatically allign one layer after the end of another

  • February 25, 2017
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Hey everyone, I've got a bit of an issue here. It's a bit complicated:

What I need done:
1. I need a few hundreds of videos, each consisting of Intro, Middle, Outro. Monthly.

2. Intro and Outro is different for each video, but it remains the same every month.
3. Middle one is the same and is prerendered.


Solution I have figured out so far:

1. Make 100 (for instance) comps. Each has intro and outro
2. Middle section would be a precomp
3. Replace video in precomp and we have it replaced across all 100 precomps

4. There should be a precomp that'll have background music. Which should fade out towards the end of outro. I'd link precomp audio volume to a slider on outro. Animate the slider and wherever the outro moves, audio fades.

Now the things I haven't figured out:
1. Middle section might be different each time. I need the outro to be aligned properly. I ultimately wish I could have the precomp length to readjust according to the audio file. I also wish I could have a marker that would realign a few frames before the end of precomp and that's where the outro would be aligned (so than it can be lifted up from beneath over the middle video)


I REALLY need help figuring this out. I had no idea how to search for any solution

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    Rick GerardCommunity Expert
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    February 25, 2017

    You are talking about editing and not effects. After Effects is completely the wrong tool to do this.

    Import your footage into Premier Pro select the clips in the order you want them to end up in the timeline, right click and collect create new sequence from selection and then Q it up in the media encoder and move to the next one.

    You will be able to do real time previews and render four or five or maybe 10 times faster than rendering from AE.

      V
      VMS studioAuthor
      Known Participant
      February 25, 2017

      Rick first of all thakns for the response,

      However, I am afraid you didn't answer my question:

      in a nutshell what I'm trying to achieve is this,

      1. Have 100 intros and 100 outros

      2, Have one middle section
      3. Tell AE or PP which video to use for middle section.
      4. Have the software realign outro and audio ending

      Then next month, i want to have a new middle section, tell software about the new middle section. Have it then realign outro and audio to the new middle section's end.

      I assumed AE will be able to do this better because it supports scripting/automation. Can Premiere Pro realign outro section depending on how long the middle section is?

      Dave_LaRonde
      Dave_LaRonde
      Inspiring
      February 25, 2017

      PP is not automated, but if it takes you more than 5 minutes to put in the intro, add the middle section, add the outro and then begin exporting, you'd need to go back to editing school.  Anyone who has any kind of editing chops would need far less time than that.

      So no, the process isn't automated.  But it's really fast.  Just do it rather than agonizing over automation -- you'll waste a lot more time tilting at that particular windmill.

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