Comments on: Create a Photo Montage with After Effects

By: Steve Holmes

Steve Holmes — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:04:08 +0000

Hi there Jirre,

Your English is just fine my friend, thank you for trying well! Sadly there are no PDF downloads for the tutorials, but they were originally in printed form on Layers Magazine. If you can get hold of one of the magazines, you’ll at least have a “real” PDF version, one you can hold

Hope this helps, and glad you like the tutorials! Don’t forget to check out the After Effects Podcasts I have done, on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=295971174

Enjoy!

Steve

By: Dreamtuts

Dreamtuts — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:30:19 +0000

[...] Read this tutorial : http://www.layersmagazine.com/create-a-photo-montage-with-after-effects.html [...]

By: jirre

jirre — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:52:05 +0000

I am typing from Brazil. Very good the tutorials. Do you have them in PDF to download? Thank you very much. If possible, e-mail me to jirre1@bol.com.br
Sorry about my english (is not my first linguage), but I try to do the best.

By: Steve Holmes

Steve Holmes — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:59:51 +0000

Hi Michael,

10gb? How are you exporting it from After Effects, which compressor settings? To play it on a DVD player, you’ll need to export as MPEG-2 (and if you did it 16:9 HD then it’ll need to be re-sized down to widescreen SD format). I usually use Compressor (Apple) for MPEG-2 compression, and then DVD Studio Pro to put the pieces together.

Let me know how you’re doing the export, and let’s see if we can figure out what’s happening.

Steve

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:06:07 +0000

Steve, I put one of these together and it works well, I appreciate the help. However I have a huge file size , like 10GB and I can’t export it to a dvd. Can you help me with some advice on how to down size it and export it so I can play it in a dvd player anywhere? Thanks, Michael

By: Steve Holmes

Steve Holmes — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:22:18 +0000

Hey YY,

Hard to decipher what the problem is from the description, but sounds to me like you’re either not setting the Overlap option on, or your timeline length is different to the one here and if you enter my numbers it’ll give you a different result.

What I’d suggest is check these steps:

1. Your timeline is 10:00 long
2. All the layers are the same length, fully 10:00 long
3. Select them in the right order (bottom to top)
4. Choose Sequence Layers
5. Turn Overlap ON
6. Set Duration to 09:20, which is 10 frames less than the overall timeline. This basically shifts each layer along by 10 frames from the start of the previous one, saving you the time of doing it by hand.

Let me know if this doesn’t work for you again if you follow those steps, and perhaps I can take a look at your file in that instance.

Let me know,

Steve

By: YY

YY — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:30:50 +0000

Thanks for the tut Steve,

I am having an issue with step#9. Once I complete the step all the pics but 1 disappear. What did i do wrong? Thanks again Steve

By: vfox

vfox — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:38:51 +0000

Great article!

Make photo collage in a snap with this free software

http://www.ourpix.com/photo-collage.html#125

By: Steve Holmes

Steve Holmes — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:14:04 +0000

My pleasure, Bob! Hope it works out perfectly for your project.

All the best,

Steve

By: Bob Gilchrist

Bob Gilchrist — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:58:55 +0000

Hey – thanks Steve!

By: Steve Holmes

Steve Holmes — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:48:17 +0000

Sorry all – the new .aep I posted was capitalized. Right name, wrong format. Here you go:

http://www.clickenergi.com/layers/Photo_Montage.aep.zip

Cheers,

Steve

By: Bob Gilchrist

Bob Gilchrist — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:54:43 +0000

Steve – that link:
http://www.clickenergi.com/layers/photo_montage.aep.zip

Doesn’t work?

I’d love to use your idea for my niece’s wedding video (I’m non-pro and this is a personal family project – no fees involved!).