Bleary Polka is an experiment I did over the last couple days, trying out the amazing new graph editor in After Effects 7 to control time-remapping video in order to synchronize with music. The latter half of the video still sucks, partly because of the footage, and partly because I didn’t spend much time on it. It is however proof of concept that I can remap video to music inside After Effects, something I wasn’t able to do previously because of the lack of convenient real-time audio preview capabilities, and clunkiness of the time-remapping capability in AE 6.5.
It is amusing for me, and probably not entirely inaccurate, to imagine this being me early Friday morning of week 10, in a state of panic.
For anyone who is interested, here are is my Budget and Production Schedule for my spring project.
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So with that whole time remapping deal, you’re controlling the footage’s speed direction and it’s position concerning duration? if so, holy shit, I can’t wait to start editing.
yes, time-remapping in After Effects is basically the speed of the footage dynamically, controlled with keyframes. The speed can be anywhere from 1% to 10,000%, positive or negative (forward or reverse). With the new graph editor in AE7, it is super easy to have a great deal more control over your keyframes; they can be linear, bezier-curve controlled, logarithmic, etc. It’s basically representing the progression of the video footage, from beggining to end, as a graph of position vs. time, which you can then manipulate as much as you want with keyframes. This Screen Shot may clear what I’m saying up a little bit.
If you speed up or slow down footage a great deal, the quality will obviously suffer, but it could be quite useful for your purposes.