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I know After Effects is King of adding tons of special effects to enhance video but I can't afford to pay thousand bucks or to subscribe monthly. I'm on APE 12. Just wondering if there is less expensive "After Effect" alternative for windows in the market ?
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Mainly on Intro title, lower Third, split screen for 3-4 minutes real estate video.
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What kind of intro, lower third, split screen ?Originally Posted by AAC
For the most part, those can be done in most NLE's quite easily.
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Maybe Aurora 3D Presentation Maker. http://www.presentation-3d.com/products/presentation-3d.html
Or maybe Bluff Titler. http://www.outerspace-software.com/blufftitler
You still need an NLE to assemble everything. Maybe Sony Movie Studio. http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/moviestudio
I do commercial real estate presentations all the time, and I use a lot of different tools. It's hard to recommend any one product. All my work is custom, and I use everything from spreadsheets to 3D motion graphics.
Real estate projects are unique in that you can't bling it up so much that you misrepresent the offering. Find the key selling points and expound on that. School District, Neighborhood, Comps, etc. Keep it real.
Good graphic design and layout is critical. Don't do HDR to camouflage a fixer. Other agents will get pissed off.
Most of the buyers now are real estate investors looking for income properties (rentals) because bank interest is so low and precious metals/bonds/Stock Market are all maxed out.
Good old fashion real estate has always been king of investments.
Whoops, I went off the deep end.Last edited by budwzr; 14th Dec 2014 at 15:12.
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Originally Posted by poisondeathray
What kind of intro, lower third, split screen ?Originally Posted by AAC
For the most part, those can be done in most NLE's quite easily.
What do you need that requires AE ?
OK, now my client asks me to add a flashing price tag (price deduction) animation to the video clip when he is talking in front of the house. He expects a zoom in and out animation (about 5 seconds) to show the $50,000 price deduction. I don't think APE 11 is able to create it. Any freeware suggested to get my job done ?
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Agree.Originally Posted by budwzr
Yes, I know every video is unique but I don't want to spend too much time in searching special effects to enhance the video. I should stick to After Effects but my tight budget only limits me to freeware or less expensive plug-in that works well with APE 11.
Something like I need two footage on screen. The left side video about my camera rolling on a hard wood floor dinning room. The right side is the close-up of hard wood floor to show case the high quality. -
Not freeware (unless you count Blender, but that's a steep learning curve and not quickly learned), but I'd suggest BluffTitler. Create/find your "pricetag" graphic, import it and animate it in 3D in your "video window" (you could even use a vid clip of your client as a temp background for alignment purposes, just remember to disable the background layer at render). Render using Uncompressed+Alpha channel (aka transparency) to RGBA 4:4:4:4 avi.
Layer in APE. Done!
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Originally Posted by AAC
1) Depends on what you mean or client means EXACTLY by "flashing price tag". There 100's different ways you can do that. Some of them you can do in Elements. Others you can't
2) Zooming in/out is really just scaling the clip up/down. You can do that basically in Elements. But it depends on what you mean EXACTLY by zooming in and out. Because there are many different ways you can do that as well. Some you can do in Elements. Others you can't -
There's nothing you've mentioned so far that can't be done in Elements. AE obviously gives you more control, more options and more means. It comes down to how fancy it needs to be.
The workflow is almost identical.Last edited by smrpix; 15th Dec 2014 at 07:08.
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Whatever you can't do in Elements, you can do it with Aviutl (free). You only need to learn how to use it....
Got my retirement plans all set. Looks like I only have to work another 5 years after I die........ -
See attachment. Done in AviUtl in 5 minutes... if you know how.
Stopping development until someone save me from poverty or get me out of Hong Kong...
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Here, use this one. To make it blink, repeat it on the timeline with a short space between each one. Then render that out as a separate video and use track motion to position it and zoom in on it.
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"Flashing price tag" and reduction can play out a hundred different ways.
Poor communication is going to make your life a lot harder. Clarify expectations - very likely your client probably has something in his/her mind already of what it's supposed to look like. When you present them with something entirely different to what they envisioned, you're going to be redoing this many times...
For example, in my mind, I have something totally different envisioned than the last two posts above.
Some mock ups, sketches, are usually done . Get a clear idea of what they want ahead of time. If you show them "other videos" , be careful that you show them something that you are able to re-create. -
Like what?Originally Posted by poisondeathray
Mine's cheezy, but cheeze gets the point across quickly.
Last edited by budwzr; 15th Dec 2014 at 13:15.
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Here is a quick flashing sign I did in Aviutl in a couple of minutes.......
Got my retirement plans all set. Looks like I only have to work another 5 years after I die........ -
That's a house? Or a deer hunting blind.
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It was an old abandoned house i came upon in the woods. It was extensively vandalized. Nice location with great view though.....
Got my retirement plans all set. Looks like I only have to work another 5 years after I die........
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