From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)
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Using video files for texture
From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)
Using video files for texture
We've been compositing multiple stills together but there's a little trick that I like to use which is time-lapse photography. After all time-lapse is several stills combined to show the passage of time in a new movie. You can find a lot of my time-lapse courses available online to help you learn more about this process. But I'm going to help you learn the basics today of putting stills with footage. Let's go ahead and open up a project and open it up from folder 12 called Mixing in Footage, we've got three shots here and we'll build each one as part of these activities in the chapter. Here we have an arch from outside the Seattle Science Museum and I've got a night sky. Let's bring that night sky footage layer in and you see it comes into the scene. It's HD material but this layer is a lot bigger. So I'm going to choose my Composition settings here and adjust things to match, will go with HD 720. And what we're going to do…
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