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Idea corner three: Creating sequences from filmstrips

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Idea corner three: Creating sequences from filmstrips

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Earlier in this lesson you used this sequence of Muybridge images. Muybridge is a person who did a lot of photography of people and animals in motion to see how they moved. I am going to press Page Down and step through the frames of this. The way we created this sequence is we took a series of 10 individual stills, then had After Effects import them and string them together as if they were a continuous movie. The question is how did I create the sequence in the first place? I want to show you that. I am going to select my Sources folder, do a Command+I or Ctrl+I to import, and select a couple of scans I made. I am going to make sure Sequences is disabled because I want the individual images. Click Open. Dover Books has a wonderful publication called The Human Figure in Motion by Eadweard Muybridge. And here are a couple of scans from that book. You see that the book presents the Muybridge images as continuous panels, not as individual frames of animation. So what we did is we took…

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