Comments on: After Effects Workflow at The New York Times

By: Terence Oliver

Terence Oliver — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:04:49 +0000

Zach,

You guys are on the right track. A big “YES” to motion graphics. The potential for storytelling, graphic presentation, entertainment and so much more is astounding.

I just hit my year anniversary of using the program. It can’t be rushed; I’m Just about to finish my first quarter of teaching it as a college course. Word of caution: If folks could not illustrate before AE, they won’t be able to afterward. It’s not a “magic bullet”.

Creativity, imagination and strong visual skills are a must. Plus, it so much deeper (and wider) than Photoshop, Illustrator or any of the other programs people are used to. A solid commitment has to be made by individuals to struggle through many of the early frustrations encountered while leaning.

Bravo! New York TImes, you are helping to lead the way.

By: JT

JT — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:26:17 +0000

You can type text with the marker names and it comes up on the layer in the timeline very useful.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:50:40 +0000

You could also come to AENY and learn more about After Effects and some inspirational work from others .
Next meeting is Oct 29th in NYC.

Check the site .

wwwe.aeny.org

By: blog.conigs.com // Mograph Workflow for NY Times

blog.conigs.com // Mograph Workflow for NY Times — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:25:31 +0000

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By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:46:56 +0000

You can also automate it by using my new script for After Effects: AudioToMarkers http://aescripts.com/audiotomarkers/

By: Zach Wise

Zach Wise — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:01:27 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I had no idea, I’ll give it a try on our next project.

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Kurz protokolliert 27/10/2009 | netzprotokolle — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:16:17 +0000

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By: Michael Pick

Michael Pick — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:16:07 +0000

Nice to see NYT bringing mograph into the mix! Thanks for sharing your workflow.

The part with the beep track/taking a trip into STP seems to add an extra step though. In case you overlooked it, scrubbing through your audio file in the AE timeline with command & held mouse click makes it fairly simple to hit your marks (arguably more so than realtime as you can speed up or slow down the audio with your mouse or jog-wheel). You can add markers to these points on the timeline with the asterisk key as you go.

If that doesn’t feel real-time enough, there’s always the numpad period key to play audio in realtime, and you can hit the asterisk key during this audio playback to add markers to your timeline. It doesn’t render the visuals at the same time, but given that you’re seeking to add markers to your timeline for syncing visuals added after the fact, I guess that wouldn’t matter? You can then move your markers a tad if your key tapping was a little off the mark. Hit “LL” and you can also see the audio waveform right there in the timeline, if that helps to judge things.