From the course: VFX Techniques: Building Replacement with After Effects

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Setting up the project in After Effects

Setting up the project in After Effects - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: VFX Techniques: Building Replacement with After Effects

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Setting up the project in After Effects

So let's setup our After Effects project to start working on this visual effects shot. First thing I want to do is import my footage. This will be video footage of a street, which we're going to use for the 3D tracking to replace the building. So I am going to go to File>Import>File, go to my Desktop where the Exercise Files are, go into the Footage folder and go to the folder called Street and here is an image sequence of our street. Now this was video, but it was converted to an image sequence, and this is great for doing the visual effects work. So the image sequence I simply have to click on the very first frame, in this case 000, make sure the Sequence button is checked, which it is and click Open, and here is the street footage. It's a single unit right now. Now while this is highlighted we can see the various attributes of that footage, including the resolution 1920 x 1080, the duration, and the frame rate. Now there are a couple of things we need to change here. One is it'd be…

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