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miab02
10-23-2003, 11:32 PM
Hi,

I hope this is in the right section of the forum...

I have a really stupid question (don't lauch)

I have followed tutorial in the book Learning Maya 5, and when i have done a software and a hardware render, so do i got alot of .tif files.

the software render ended up with 40 .tif files named ball1 - ball40.tif

and the hardware render ended up with 40 .tif files named fire1 - fire40.tif

The book wants me to composite it with my composting software, and the only prg my school have (no help with the prg, since thet can't use it) is Adobe After Effect 6.0 But i have never used it, and i don't know how to put all this files togheter to an animation... is there any tutorial? or is there a friendly soul out there how can explain how to do this?

thanks in advanced...

Mikael Andersson (miab02)
Ian Jones
10-24-2003, 12:01 AM
Hi,

This is exactly the right place for this sort of queston.

You didn't explain what you really wanted to do with the two layers though. I am guessing by the filenames that you are making a flaming ball of some sort. So all you really need to do is bring both into after effects, and layer them together. Maybe use a special type of blending mode...

Let us know exactly what it is you want to do with the two pieces of footage and we can answer more specifically.

If you just need general 'hot to use' After FX, then there are plenty of online tutorials. There's a sticky thread at the top of this forum which has lots of linkt to tutes.
miab02
10-24-2003, 07:50 AM
Hi,

I want to put all the files togheter to make an animation...

is i mention i have 40 .tif files that one picture is one frame of the animation, they are named ball1 - ball40.tif

and i also have 40 .tif files that contains only the sparks.

Is it only to load all 80 pictures in aftereffects in diffrent layers? like ball pictures into one layey, and the sparks into another layer?

thanks,
Ian Jones
10-24-2003, 01:27 PM
It is very simple, yes.

Import the two sequences seperately. Import then select the first frame image and check the little tickbox 'sequence' thingy. do the same for all your sources of footage.

Assuming you don't know how to create a composition yet... goto: composition > new composition

select all the settings you want.

This will popup a black window on your screen and a timeline pallette aswell. Drag your footage files from the project window into the timeline, or directly onto the composition window. Note: draging into the timeline automatically centers their position.

Thats the basics really... theres a lot more to do of course but you can experiment from here or look into the help files. I hope that was useful.
miab02
10-24-2003, 06:55 PM
thanks it worked :)

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