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VE Development document

Basic Knowledge of AE That Developers Should Know

Update time : 2020-03-28 09:25:46

Brief Introduction

AE is the short for After Effects that is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe Systems. It is suitable for the institutions or a person that work on designing and creating video effects such as television stations, animation studios, multimedia studios, or personal post-production studios. It is also a layer based post-production software. In the software, ever footage can be represented a layer. You can stack many layers to create effect. The final result is rendered after blending every layer with its corresponding animation and effect.

Layer Types in AE

Text Layer

Just as its name implies, text layer is used to create a text. You can set the font size, the alignment , the spacing, the kerning, the color and the font of the text in this layer. Besides, there are hundreds of text animation presets for text layer in AE. At the same time, the layer can be set into 3D mode. You can adjust its position, rotation , scale and other parameters to create an interesting visual effect.

Shape Layer

The shape layer is drawn and created by the pen tools or shapes for AE such as squares, circles, and triangles. The shape layer has unique parameters such as the stroke (the outline of shape) and the fill ( internal figure ), and some other specific parameters such as angle or quantity.

Solid Layer

The parameters of solid layer are much simpler than shape layer except for the basic parameters of color, position, rotation, and scale. CPU is used with low frequency comparing to shape layer due to this designing. We suggest you use this layer if you do not need more except basic parameters.

Camera Layer

The camera layer is used for the 3D composition. The layer will generate a virtual camera that can be positioned and rotated. Customers can change the viewport of the 3D space by controlling the layer.

Light Layer

Like the camera layer, light layer is used for 3D composition. As a light source, it affects 3D layer.

Null Layer

Null layer is used to assist other layers to complete some parent-child linked motions. Details in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erGluetVjZY.

Adjustment Layer

Adjustment layer does not have visible result, but designers can add special effects to the adjustment layer. The adjustment layer can affect all layers that are put below it. So this layer is often used to create video filters.The transform parameter options of the adjustment layer are the same as solid layer\'s ( from position to opacity ).

The Introduction of Common Items in AE

Frame

We often meet the word of frame in composition at AE or a video file.Before we give the definition of the frame, one thing you should know is how a video is presented. Video animation effects is created when a series of images or shots of film playing at a very high speed. For example, if the speed of playing video is to 20 frames per second, you can see it as that 20 images are played consecutively per second. It is so fast that what you see is a video animation effect. And frame is one of the images. The faster the frame speed, the higher the video quality, and the longer it takes to render.

Composition

A composition is the framework for a video or a movie that has its own timeline and includes multiple layers. In some places in the After Effects user interface, composition is abbreviated as comp. You add a footage item to a composition by creating a layer for which the footage item is the source. You then arrange layers within a composition in space and time, and composite using transparency features to determine which parts of underlying layers show through the layers stacked on top of them. You render a composition to create the frames of a final result, which is encoded and exported to any number of video formats.Simple projects may include only one composition; complex projects may include hundreds of compositions to organize large amounts of footages or many effects.

Pre-composition

If you want to group some layers that are already in a composition, you can pre-compose those layers. The new nested composition becomes the source for a single layer in the original composition. You can nest compositions by adding an existing composition to another composition, just as you would add any other footage item to a composition.

Rendering

Rendering is the process of converting the layer and its corresponding special effect animations into a video file format.

The Third-Party Plugins

The third-party plugins can be installed for AE to rich its effects. Each third-party plugin has its own unique parameters.