So I am trying to edit this footage I have and cut it into several pieces (3x3 square) so they can move individually from one another.
The only solution I can come up with is going into Final Cut and cropping/resizing the movie size for each individual square, then exporting then importing into After Effects. Somehow I think there may be an easier way.
Any ideas?
I understand Precomposing, as far as I know. And I know it’ll be helpful in the compositing of the individual clips.
But the problem I’m having right now is actually getting these individual clips without having to turn them all into individual files (if there’s even a way). My question is, if there’s a way to do this! Thanks!
Maybe I’m not understanding this problem, but wouldn’t duplicating the layer a bunch of times, with a rectangular (square) mask on each layer do the job just fine? Granted, might get a bit fiddly if you mean 3 pixels by 3 pixels… that’d be a fair amount of layers.
Well, ideally, once I get a 3x3 worked out, I’ll want to turn it into a 3x3x3.
I guess masks would work, I just feel like there might be a lot of confusion when I bring in more pieces.
How would having one mask per layer be more confusing than having a ton of individual files for each piece of footage? Or I guess you could have one layer with a bunch of masks on it, whichever way you feel like organizing it.
As the others said - what point is there in trying to separate them to individual files first? You can split clips in a myriad of ways in AE, rename items even in the project window, let alone the timeline and use any other number of functions and effects. You are creating a problem where none exists. Once the clips are split up and reside in their pre-comps, what does AE care? To the program it makes no difference what’s a layer’s source…
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