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Importing photos and raw images into After Effects

Importing photos and raw images into After Effects - After Effects Tutorial

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Importing photos and raw images into After Effects

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- Let's move on to importing some other types of assets. A common source are going to be photographic assets. Now depending upon how you capture these, they can be in a wealth of formats. Everything from compressed JPEGs that are well suited for posting to the web, to other formats that are raw or native to the camera. Let me show you how to bring these in. And after effects you'll simply use file import, or double click in the project area, and then navigate to the images you want to import. Let's start by bringing in a JPEG file to start. This comes in as a simple file and you could choose to create a composition directly, or bring it in. If you have multiple JPEGs with consecutive numbers, be careful with the sequence option. This is designed for animation frames or time lapse sequences, and we'll try to assemble them into a movie. So if you're importing and getting really short video clips it's because you've got that…

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