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Brettman123
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November 28, 2018
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Photoshop animations into After Effects

  • November 28, 2018
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My final desired outcome is to export a GIF from After Effects into my Adobe Portfolio site, I want my Masthead to have a bunch of animated things on it.

I want to do short animations in Photoshop and bring each one into After effects to have them all going at the same time. Each animation is 2-4 frame loops. There are 15 separate animations.

Can you tell me the right way to export or import into AE from PS? I want the whole composition to fill the entire screen (24 inch monitor) except for a 3 inch side margin on the left.

I need to finish this right away and I know Photoshop much better, and don't have time to learn how to do the loops in After effects today. Thanks for your help.

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    imeilfx
    imeilfx
    Inspiring
    November 28, 2018

    Wait! So you wish to export short looping animations yes? And you are preparing those animations in Ps yes? I'm not sure of what do you mean when you say that you wish to play them at the same time - do you mean to stich all 15 animation on one screen in a grid and play them as one or what?
    But even if I'm not 100% clear of what you wish to achieve i what I described is what you need you can do all of that in PS and you don't need AE for that.
    To be honnest most people when in need of Gif and they are working in AE - they export AE animation as movie clip and in Ps converts that to gif.

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    Brettman123Author
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    November 28, 2018

    Thanks for reply. You are right, I do wish to stitch them all together on one composition. Can I do that in Photoshop?

    I thought you could only do one animation at a time in Ps? Can I get 15 independent gifs running in Ps at the same time?

    imeilfx
    imeilfx
    Inspiring
    November 28, 2018

    That all depends on what you wish to ahcieve but as time is of the essence and as you are not familiar with AE at all. Just export each of your short animations into a movie clip and then import all of them into one new photoshop file and scale and place each of those in places where you wish to see them - after that go to File>Export>Save for Web and from there Gif/Loop

    Or even faster... make each of your Ps animations into smart object and copy/paste your smart objects in new (final) file - after that the same as in previous example - scale, place, export.

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