How can I use an iPhone to record and after effects to edit?

[EthanVlogsTV]

Hi there, I recently purchased after effects and premiere pro. I'm very new to the programs but I'm watching some videos. I was a bit confused at first, I record everything with my iPhone 8 Plus in 4K and when I tried sending it to my Mac computer After Effects program the quality down graded a lot. Everything became pixel like. How would I go about uploading my iPhone videos to my After Effects program on my Mac without it lowering quality?

Also, what is the correct way of sending the videos to my Mac and uploading to After Effects? (The method that wouldn't down grade any video that I recorded)

Thanks have a great day 🙂

[Richard M Knight]

If you are just editing and not doing any effects work, I would use Premiere.

[EthanVlogsTV]

Yeah I'm using effects for a short film that I'm making 🙂

[robodude]

I very new to After Effects as well.  I have been trying to figure out these issues also.  From what I can tell this program needs to buffer videos sometimes. (maybe because 4k) If you let your 4k video play one whole time in After Effects it will process and be fine after that. (notice the green bar in the timeline) I really just figured this out today after weeks of wondering what was going on.  I don't think your video lost quality when transferring. 

[EthanVlogsTV]

Awesome thank you so much 🙂 I will be trying this tomorrow.

[Rick Gerard]

After Effects is designed to produce visual effects and motion graphics that you cannot do in a non-linear editor like Premiere Pro. The most efficient way to use AE is to create one comp for the shot you are trying to create. The shot should be trimmed so you do not waste time creating and rendering pixels that will not end up in the final edit. More than 90% of my comps are under seven seconds. I had one a couple of months ago that was only about 70 frames but it had nearly 100 layers and it took the better part of a day and a half to complete.

If you want to learn AE the least efficient way to do it, and the way that will develop bad habits, lousy workflows, and a bunch of frustration is to just start poking around in the UI and watching a bunch of YouTube tutorials presented by enthusiasts. The most efficient way to learn AE is to click on the User Guide section of this forum and Select the  Getting Started and the Tutorials sections. You will also find the same links on the After Effects product page and the After Effects Home Screen.

If you run into trouble then be sure and post detailed workflow descriptions and screenshots with the modified properties of the layers that are giving you problems revealed. You can find all modified properties by simply pressing the "u" key twice. There are so many ways to do even the simplest tasks that just saying I'm having problems with something doesn't give us any idea what you are doing or what could fix the problem.

Good luck with your AE journey. Maybe his visual will help:

Both require training and homework to fly, but AE is a lot more complex.

[Guest]

Read this before you start with Premiere, please: https://www.reddit.com/r/VideoEditing/wiki/faq/vfr