Making a Silent Movie in PRE 9

[videocreater]

Chuck I have Checked the Videos. and Steve will tell you that i do have His Book. i just wish that the Books were Easier to Obtain.

[Steve Grisetti]

Actually, the books are very easy to obtain, Don. It's just tough to get anything online without a credit card or PayPal account.

[Chuck Engels]

I highly recommend watching all of the free tutorials for versions 4 - 9.
Things like "The Clip and Crop Effect" will help you to understand how to apply effects and modify them in the properties panel. Every tutorial will teach you more than just what the main subject/title is. When you have specific questions about something we are always here. Everything you need to get started is in the tutorials and Steve's book

[videocreater]

What is Not in the Book is How to Get my Video. into After Effects.

[Chuck Engels]

That's because the book is about Premiere Elements, not After Effects

There are some really great books on After Effects out there and lots of very good tutorials.
Check out Videocopilot.com for starters, creativecow.com is another.
The tutorials at Lynda.com are also excellent. For a small fee you can watch their tutorials on any of their 100's of subjects.

After Effects is not an easy program to learn, I hope you have lots of time and patience.

It depends on the project setting, is it standard definition or High Definition?
Have you read the AE manual about how to import Assets? There are lots of AE tutorials online.

If the project is SD then export via the Share tab to AVI, if it is HD then you can export to HD MPEG at the proper size, 1080 or 720. Those resulting exported files will import into After Effects just fine.

[videocreater]

it's HD but theres no way to import it into AE. i have books and Stuff from VideoCoPilot. and i already Searched for how to videos. and there is none. all i want to do is get a video into AE so that i can do the old time look to my video.

[Steve Grisetti]

I know of no reason you wouldn't be able to get hi-def video into After Effects, Don. It works with virtually any video frame size and format.

[Chuck Engels]

It would be a lot easier to do the old time look to your video in Premiere Elements, After Effects is overkill for that effect.

Have you read the After Effects Manual about how to import Assets?
Maybe your version of After Effects is too old and doesn't support High Definition Video?

[videocreater]

i have After Effects 7. what Version of AE Supports HD.

[Chuck Engels]

Found this at Creative Cow
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/921127

Looks like you need to convert the files to AVI or Quicktime, will take lots of drive space.
You should be able to export with the correct pixel dimensions, 1920 x 1080 or whatever the original video is using Premiere Elements.

It seems that full HD support didn't come about until CS4, some HD support was available in CS3.
CS4 Supported Import formats: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffect ... 2AF8a.html
CS3 Supported Import formats: http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEf ... C2AF8.html

Here is a simple little tutorial on importing video into After Effects
http://www.ehow.com/how_7781977_import- ... fects.html

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

I have been tracking this thread and I have to suggest that if you are still not 100% familiar with PrEl then I would strongly recommend that you leave AE out of the equation for now.

[Steve Grisetti]

I tend to agree, John.

It's a little like trying to drive a big Mack truck when you haven't yet mastered a Volkswagen stick shift.

[momoffduty]

After Effects is not an easy program to learn, I hope you have lots of time and patience.

Plan on investing a lot of sweat equity. And maybe a few gray hairs too. If you get a more current version I would be happy to help. Sorry I can't help with your version, things change too much and I am on a PC with CS4.

[Chuck Engels]

I have to suggest that if you are still not 100% familiar with PrEl then I would strongly recommend that you leave AE out of the equation for now.

Especially since Premiere Elements is perfectly capable of creating an old film effect that you can adjust and change to your liking.

Here is a sample of a silent movie I did for my Niece's wedding
[wmvvideo]http://www.chuckengels.com/PremierVideo/ChuckE/video/Silent_Wedding.wmv[/wmvvideo]