From the course: After Effects Artist in Action: Eran Stern's Personal Transporter
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Reviewing, choosing, and preparing footage - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Artist in Action: Eran Stern's Personal Transporter
Reviewing, choosing, and preparing footage
In this movie, we will review and choose the best footage file to use, and we will also go in to adjust its volume control. I'm starting here, inside Adobe Bridge, and I can see all the eight takes of the footage that I took the same day. The actor in this case is my brother, Yuval. And, I'm going to switch from the Essentials to the Filmstrip View. This way, when I'm choosing something, I can lower the volume all the way down, and play it for you. We can see the result. Now, the first thing, which is the most important, is to plan your shot. In this case, we can see that I'm just explaining to my brother what I want him to do. And, my plan was for him to get inside the frame, and then draw an imaginary circle in the air. After that, he should duck, and stay on the floor a couple of moments, and then leave the screen. And, you see that we've got a couple of takes here that Yuval is doing the same action all over again. And, the most important thing, if you are going to shoot something…
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