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Very easy - you just keep everything in the one folder and work from there. That way you can easily transport stuff from one machine to the other.
Anything that's a template - you'd just open up and replace the relevant graphic and then render with the default settings already there. There's an AE template for all the title sequences in English Regions / WNA, you just replace the clips and the text at the end!
Yea, and with post-production it is easy, however the issue with After Effects is that it doesn't have a proper templating system, and is it rendered out as an alphaed VT, or alphaed image sequence, and then overlaid in edit, or is there a specific workflow where it is all rendered through AE? And would Lambie-Nairn or BBC News's graphics team produce a single "template" and pass it round?
Not many graphic systems would have the kind of simple template system you mention - even Quantel kit would still require you to use the 'kit of parts' and model the animation on that, changing type as you go.
As to the files, probably be rendered out as a standard animation and then a matte would be created - systems like Viz etc. work by using FIll and Key signals so the switcher can interpret this and decide what to show, what to hide, and what to make transparent, and anyway the majority of stuff is edited on server or played out from computer so it's easy to drag the files from one machine to the other if they're a Quicktime file with key and fill.
LN would make a simple template, and as long as the layers are labelled and people have an idea of what to do in After Effects, it would be fairly simple to modify and amend. After all, you're not going to let someone who hasn't a clue in After Effects go and work with a template - experience and knowledge is often a pre-requesite of the job.
peterrocket
Founding member
As an After Effects user, it would be interesting to see how they have the "templates" setup for the graphics. Being a post-production tool, it can't be used for the Live output, but the dynamic elements like text, with the entrance and exit timings and effects.
Very easy - you just keep everything in the one folder and work from there. That way you can easily transport stuff from one machine to the other.
Anything that's a template - you'd just open up and replace the relevant graphic and then render with the default settings already there. There's an AE template for all the title sequences in English Regions / WNA, you just replace the clips and the text at the end!
Yea, and with post-production it is easy, however the issue with After Effects is that it doesn't have a proper templating system, and is it rendered out as an alphaed VT, or alphaed image sequence, and then overlaid in edit, or is there a specific workflow where it is all rendered through AE? And would Lambie-Nairn or BBC News's graphics team produce a single "template" and pass it round?
Not many graphic systems would have the kind of simple template system you mention - even Quantel kit would still require you to use the 'kit of parts' and model the animation on that, changing type as you go.
As to the files, probably be rendered out as a standard animation and then a matte would be created - systems like Viz etc. work by using FIll and Key signals so the switcher can interpret this and decide what to show, what to hide, and what to make transparent, and anyway the majority of stuff is edited on server or played out from computer so it's easy to drag the files from one machine to the other if they're a Quicktime file with key and fill.
LN would make a simple template, and as long as the layers are labelled and people have an idea of what to do in After Effects, it would be fairly simple to modify and amend. After all, you're not going to let someone who hasn't a clue in After Effects go and work with a template - experience and knowledge is often a pre-requesite of the job.
