Color difference between monitors

Hey guys,

After doing everything on my laptop I am surprised to find out that if you look at my movie on a different screen, the colors look really ugly.
-Is there a way to prevent this?
( I used web colors, thinking they would probably be the same anywhere.)
-Can I adjust it in After effects?

help :s

import audio in After Effects

Hi everyone, just a quick note to thank you for the productive day and the super good visuals you are producing. We are at the point where you have reached a high level of design, and now is your mission to give justice to your visuals and push it through the final stages of production, which will dictate how your final movie will be seen. If this was the Giro di Italia, you're climbing the last hill, or mountain, before you get to ride downhill in full speed to the finish ;).

I post above a screenshot from After Effects with just some notes about importing sound and making a simple transition, for some reason today in class the 'audio levels' option was not visible. Some of you may find that adding sound in After effects and layer it on top of your final movie/s may be the way to go as the final step bfore rendering your movie. Ok, so stay cool, plan ahead, and who need to sleep anyway right? :)

The BBB Train is about to depart!!!

Hello everyone, The Beeld, Beweging en Beleving ( yes, Image, Motion, Experience you know...;) is starting again, and we are ready to dive into the world of animation and storyboarding!
Here below I post again some tutorials that I found useful to get the basis of what animation is about. They help you in starting on the right foot instead of ending up tearing your hair out in desperation...so download the tuts at the links below and enjoy!
ps: one link is for photoshop brushes that may help you draw more wicked characters ....


walkcycle3-4.zip
walkcycle.zip
stop frame animation.zip
photoshop.brushes.zip
make lip synching easy.zip
character_anima.zip
animating scenery in after effects.zip
animatic in after effects.zip
animate a character in after effects.zip

How to prepare your .swf for import into After Effects

Ah, het wordt spannend!!

Denise, thank you so much for your reply, I add here below my reply to Hylke's emai about how to prepare your flash files for after effects:

After importing all your flash files
1-make a new composition for each of your swf files and name them with numbers so that you can keep the order of how the movie should play.
2- make a new composition, ctrl-n, and make it 525 x 288 pixels. This is 50% smaller than our movie, and it can be uploaded on the youtube channel.
3- In this MAIN composition put on the timeline all of your compositions which have the sfw in it so that your movie is one string of small compositions. You have to shrink the compositions to fit this smaller size, press shift to keep proportions.
4- on the top layer add any music sound effect you need
5- export, cntrl-m, and in the render queue panel put render settings= best settings, click on output modules and choose quick time, check the audio option, and then in output to choose the folder where you want your movie.
6- press render! it should be ok, will be big but not as big in size as you have now
7-upload on the bbbdelft youtube channel, username bbbdelft, password (to be mailed to you individually)

and don't worry if your movie is big, more than 1 gig, you can still upload it on Youtube!

hope this help....

Re: urgent: making the movie??!!

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> hi cesare,
>
> today I finished my last scene, and I tried to combine all the scenes.. but it doesn't work in flash (at least not the way I'm trying it..)
> I've heard you talking about After Effects: is that program more suitable for editing the entire movie?
> what can you recommend me to use?
>
> greetings
> gwen

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Hi Gwen,
Good to hear you're better :)
If you try to do it in Flash you will get confilcts if the names of your movieclips are the same, amongst other issues, so it is not recommended to compile it in Flash.

Yes, After Effects is the program to compile all your Flash .swf files on one timeline.

You can download a free trial from adobe, then go to file import and import all your sfw files. Then make a new composition size 1050x 576, and put all your swf on the timeline one after the other. After Effects is also good to add any music/ sound effects to your movie. Import them just like the flash files.

Then select your composition name on the timeline, then on the above menu go to Composition, >make movie, in the Render Queue choose Best Settings, and settings and as per Output module Quicktime, Animation compression. Choose in which folder where you want to save your movie and click 'render'.

Next wednesday I am available for assistance, hope to see you there...

Veel groeten
Cesare

Jasenko's rough cut Escape from delirium