Daniel Sosanya
Fall 2020
Blog Post 10
After Effects Struggle
Yes if you’re probably wondering, I’m still struggling balancing all my work together. This senior year in college isn’t a joke. It’s literally tearing me up and spitting me out. I found the time today to actually sit and work on the animation assignment that was given to me by my boss Lisa. I had to watch a video to catch up on the AfterEffects program. It turns out that it actually did update and I’m not sure where anything is. I didn’t lie to my boss because I have used it before. It’s just that when it comes to working with programs, they usually update now and then so you really have to keep up with them. I counted I watched a total of ten videos just to figure out what I was trying to do. The videos I were watching all had an issue, either it was they were working on an older update of the program, or they were speaking too low. There were a couple that completely lost me and I had to actually end the video early. What I’m trying to do is take each of the images given to me ( There were twelve in total ), arrange them in the order I wanted them to be and then animate it. Easier said than done right ? I’m trying to make the animation of each photo start with a zoomed in frame and then zoom out. For an example Each Frame is eight seconds ( Based off my choosing ) in the eight seconds that I have for each of these images I want the full image to be zoomed out and fit the entire frame by the sixth second so that the viewer gets a chance to view the full frame.
I had to do this for each of the photos, to get a general idea of the transition of the buildings flowing correctly. It take way longer than expected because every two seconds I couldn’t find something or something wasn’t going the way I planned it to. I planned to finish the whole animation within a couple of hours but it actually took me a day and a half. The whole animation came to about a minute and four seconds. I wasn’t sure if it was too long or too short but I felt like a minute was fine. The most annoying part when it comes to animation is the rendering process. we render because
You want your video project to playback in real time with little stutter and with all effects and everything else in place. In addition to that it’s the process before saving your file in order to convert it into a mp4. There’s always a step after another step after another step, which is why AfterEffects is very annoying and tedious. The rendering process took about 20-30 minutes which wasn’t a surprise. I was expecting a longer period. The file for videos take up a lot of space but it’s nothing that I can escape, I wish there was a way to make my files take up less space but I’m still learning AfterEffects as the days go by
