All language subtitles for 10 - Stationary Timelapse Part II - After Effects

All right guys, now that we're done processing we're going to go ahead and

open up After Effects so we can start creating our time-lapse.

I really recommend using After Effects CC.

Anything from 2014 to 2015 is a perfect piece of software to use.

All right now, that we're into our project menu guys,

we're going to go ahead and create a new project.

Should just create a blank site that's not already up.

We're going to go ahead and create

a New Composition and we're going to be making a 1080p composition.

So, under presets that go down to 1080p or HDTV

1080 at 24 and what this means is we're going to be

doing a 24 frames per second 1080p video.

Go ahead and set the duration for 30 seconds.

All right now, we want to import those files that we just

created in light room so go ahead and go to File, Import,

files and then depending on where you saved it,

go ahead and find the folder and then I'm going to go ahead,

you're going to click the first JPEG that you find and then

make sure that JPEG sequence down here is selected.

If it's not selected what's going to happen is it's just going to import the one image.

We want to import all of the image.

So, make sure that you select JPEG sequence,

then click open and then you should see that it says,

1 to 400 and that's how many frames we took,

we took 400 frames.

So once that's done,

we're going to go ahead make sure that our settings for that are correct,

we want to make sure that the frames per second matches up.

So, I'm going to come over here,

click on frame rate,

and you can already notice that our frame rates are completely different.

So the composition frame rate is 24 and our time lapse sequence right now is 30 so,

we want to change the time lapse sequence to 24 as well.

So, what you're going to do is you're going to click on the image,

you're going to go ahead and scroll down to interpret footage.

You're going to select main and then where it says,

Assume this frame rate you're going to change it from 30 down to 24,

and so I have to do, click okay.

So, now our frame rates match.

What's going to happen is it's going to be able

to play a lot smoother when the frame rates match,

and if frame rates didn't match what would happen is there'll be a stutter or

a glitch in your shot and it would look pretty nasty,

so you want to make sure that the frame rates always match.

So, after you figure that out you're going to go

ahead and click your sequence and then I'm going to

drag it down to composition one, all right.

Depending on the resolution of your camera it could

be a really high resolution camera or a very low resolution camera.

Right now, we're using a 12 megapixel camera so,

we're pretty much at the 4K range,

so we need to bring down our image to the 1080p size.

So, you're going to go ahead and select your image,

hit scale, go ahead and make sure that when you

scale down it's inside the boundaries of the 1080p window.

So, from here, you're going to have some latitude to move the image up or

down or left and right you can reposition it if you want.

So, I want to make sure that there's enough foreground,

middleground, and background without cutting off the building,

so I'm going to position are shot right here.

After that's done, you're pretty much ready to render your sequence out.

So, make sure that your sequence bar at the top for rendering

in and out goes from the start to the end of your time lapse clip.

Now, all we've got to do is hit preview.,

we're going to hit play stop and what it's going to do is it's going to render

a nice little draft version for us and

efforts done rendering we can see the time lapse looks like.

All right guys now that it's finished rendering,

we're going to go ahead and take a look at our final shot so,

let's go ahead and hit play.

So, you can see when we were out shooting,

we were actually dragging the shutter,

so you can actually see the nice motion blur from the cars and the people as they go by.

This just gives it a really nice cinematic flowing motion kind of feel to it,

but I think the next part is,

what happens if you want to add some kind of movement to the actual image?

Well, we want to go ahead and take this static image and make it motion.

So, what we're going to do is we're going to go back to scale,

we're going to change the scale properties that we already did and take that from

whatever the scale number is and take it right

back up to its original which is 100 percent.

After that, we're going to go ahead and create

a new null object and then we're also going to create a new camera.

Basically, what this does is it's going to place a virtual camera inside

our scene and we're going to go ahead and

link using the pick whip which is this cool little curlicue thing,

we're going to take that and drag it to, sorry,

go ahead and click on camera and drag it down to null and

basically we're going to be able to control

both the camera and our image using the null object.

So, make sure that on

this right hand side you can see a little 3D cube boxes means 3D layer.

Make sure that they're all clicked on so,

you can actually see a little cube pop up underneath our time lapse and on the null.

Now, if I go ahead and come over to my window here and I click on the Z layer I can pull

back and push in and you can see the the image starting to take shape.

So, what I want to kind of convey to you guys is you can go back and add any kind of

movements you want to a stationary image and this is

a really great way to add some very subtle movements.

What we're going to do here is maybe we just do a nice little push in so,

by doing this we're going to create some keyframes.

The first keyframe is where I want the camera to

start and I want to kind of showcase the area here,

so I want us to zoom out.

So, I'm going to zoom into the building here just a little bit,

find a spot that I really like,

come down over here under null,

go ahead and hit P on your keyboard and that's going to bring up the position.

If you don't hit P you don't want to use a shortcut,

you can just hit down the down arrow,

go down to transform and under position click the little stopwatch here.

What this is going to do is it's going to create

a keyframe and you can see it under timeline right here.

This is going to be our first point

and then we're going to go all the way to the end of our shot,

16 seconds and we're going to go ahead and make the Alt keyframe and

I'm just going to zoom out here so we can show some more of the image.

Really, get as much in there as you can and I'm going to take

it right to the cost of our frame.

So, this is going to be the out,

and if I scrub through the timeline here and you can actually

see the motion happening as I'm scrubbing

through and what this is doing it's just creating a simulated zoom basically.

Since you are using a very high resolution camera like a for 4K or

6K or an 8K processor or chip censor, my bad.

You have the ability to really move in,

push in, pan left,

tilt right, you can do whatever you want.

So, we're going to go ahead and render the sequence now so you can see what it

looks like with the simulated motion on it.

One thing to watch out for is sometimes your computer may not

be able to handle all of the processing that's going on so,

what you can do is you can actually downgrade

the resolution and what you're rendering in.

If you click over here we're rendering at full resolution,

but you can change that from full to half to a third or a quarter and this is

really going to increase the performance of your computer and the playback.

If you're finding it being if it's slow,

so if you're finding your computer slow or just not responding,

go ahead and just change the resolution.

All right, and here we go,

we're playing back our now motion controlled sequence and we can see that there's

a really nice subtle zoom out and it really just gives it

a really nice flowy feeling

and it's something that you can do very easily with any static shot you produce.

So, if you don't have the ability to have

a motion control system, you can fake it and post.

All right, now we have our shot completed.

What we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and export this.

So, the best way to do that is to go up to composition,

making sure that we've got our sequence selected which is our comp one here.

We're going to go ahead and add it to the Adobe Media Encoder.

All right, now that we've got our Media Encoder

open we're going to go ahead and change the settings.

Now, depending on what you want to do,

we can do something like an H.264

codec which is your standard kind of web viewing or we can

save it for a little higher-quality and go to

QuickTime and this is really going to be dependant upon your settings.

If you go to the resource section in this guide,

I'm going to go ahead and show you guys how to do

different variations of codec encoding because there's a lot of differences for this.

So, for this one in particular though we're just going to go ahead

and make this for Internet release,

so we're going to go ahead and click on the

H.264 matching our source and high bit rate is fine for right

now and what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and click on select

the file output and then save this in the folder that we created.

So, I'm going to go to my time lapse project,

I'm going to click Save

and I'm also going to change the name from comp one to street shot.

Then from there all you're going

to have to do is click on the green arrow and start the cue.

Now again, this is all really- the rendering is dependent upon

the processing speed and your hard drive and memory and everything else.

So, this could take anywhere from a few minutes to a couple hours.

In our case, it's just going to take a few minutes so,

we'll let this render out and then we'll have our finished time lapse.

All right are shot is finished so,

what we're going to do is we're going go ahead right over here,

we're going to click on this output file project line right here,

it's highlighted in blue and what that's going to

do it's going to open up the folder where our shot's at.

I'm going to go ahead and see are newly created MP4,

double-click it and there's our shot and go ahead and hit play and watch in real time.

That looks pretty cool. You've made your first time lapse. Great job.