Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects

Overview

“First of all, I will import the footage into After Effects. Then I will check the composition, duration, and framerate of the sequence. I will end by exporting an image sequence for the tracking stage.”

In this video lesson John Bashyam addresses the topic: Prepping the Shot in After Effects, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects. Learn the VFX pipeline from start to finish, and create a realistic video with surreal elements by rendering and compositing objects into live action footage.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Prepping the Shot in After Effects We've talked a bit about choosing our footage and what to look for in terms of VFX. In this lesson, we'll dive into our first software, After Effects, import our footage, and do a bit of a basic setup. Let's get into it. First, we'll bring our footage into After Effects. We'll do that by double-clicking in the Project window or you can go to File, Import, File. A double-click is much faster. Navigate to where you saved your footage and click Import. Alternatively, you can drag it in there. I'll import it that way. We'll check a couple of things once we i...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects

• Level: Beginner
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• 2476 students
• 5 units
• 30 lessons (7h 5m)
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• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe After Effects, Maya

• Areas

  3D, 3D Animation, 3D Modeling, Animation, Audiovisual Post-production, Character Animation, Film, Film, Video & TV, Photography Post-production, VFX, Video Editing