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MatthewWhipple
12-12-2007, 08:49 PM
Hiya, I am a complete newb to AE, and am having trouble.

I have a series of still images created in Maya for my reel, and have imported them into AE CS3 Professional, have highlighted them in the project tab, and dragged them into the composition tab. I am simply looking to create a quicktime .mov from these frames. I don't need to do any fancy editing, I just need to create a .mov.

I am reading tutorial after tutorial and going through the help files, but can't find an easy way to do this. i have played around with the time slider bars, and can edit it so that each one is 1/30th of a second, but I will eventually have about 2 minutes of these, and this seems like an incredibly tedious way to make this into an animation. How do I evenly space out the frames to cover the total time I want the animation to be? All the tutorials I read are on using key frames to animate, etc or have far more advanced applications. Or if you could let me know which section of the help files cover this, I would be greatly appreciative.

Also, when I go to composition->make movie, it only lets me create an .avi, and I need it as a quicktime .mov. Any tips on how to set this up correctly?

Any step by step guides on how to go from a series of imported stills to a .mov would save my hiney!

Thanks in advance guys,
Matt Whipple
matt@thewhipplefamily.com
MatthewWhipple
12-12-2007, 10:18 PM
Never mind, figured it out, I needed to click on "Sequence layers" when I got the "New Composition from Selection" dialog box. May I KNEW there was something simple I was missing!

Also found the way to switch to a .mov, by clicking on the underlined text that said "Lossless", it brought up the dialog box I needed to switch to a .mov. Thanks anyhoo!
rawshark
12-23-2007, 06:29 PM
If I understood correctly, you just want to import a still image sequence in to AE, right?

1. File-->IMPORT-->Import Files

2. Select the first image in your (numbered sequence) and check the box in the bottom left of the diaglogue box which will say something like "PNG SEQUENCE" (or whatever file type you have used).

Then AE will create a single file from the sequence, with the correct fps and dimensions which you can then drag into a composition and render out as a Quicktime.
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