Photos to Film: Stopmotion Animation - After Effects: Issue
- November 21, 2020
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Hey so I was using 2012 version of After Effects which had all my settings set up automatically which my ex who is more tech savvy then me had set up because I only use After Effects (though I want to learn) for one thing and that's to take 1000's of photos & turn it into a basic film for running through Adobe Premiere to make stopmotion animation.
They yanked my licence without warning and was forced onto the new version of the program which doesn't have my settings & things are almost the same but not quite.... So what happens is when I drop & drag as I normally would for a new composition, for some reason all the photos stack on top of each other as all the same length instead of the automatic function it did before to make sure they are not stacked like that but are each photograph/frame about a second or so each but are spread out like frames of a film - not stacked on top of each other. I shouldn't have to do this manually. I know I ran into the same problem the very first time I used the program in 2012 but I don't remember how to fix it and don't remember what my ex did to make everything work automatically.
I have taken a photo of an old file that the frames are arranged the way I want (it used to do that automatically when I drop & drag) and what it is doing right now with the stacking thing I am trying to describe.
