Photo Gallery With Sunny Flowers: Quick Start Guide

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Photo Gallery with Sunny Flowers

Quick Start Guide

CONTENTS

1. Folder Structure
2. Changing Photos
3. Changing Texts
4. Rendering
5. Extra Tips

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1. FOLDER STRUCTURE

Before you even open the project please install the free googlefonts.
1. Go to http://www.google.com/fonts
2. Search for the fonts Alice and also Sanchez and click Add to Collection.
3. Click the Download button in the top right.

In the image of the Projects panel above, the comments next to each folder explain
usage. The main render comp sits at the top. The REPLACE folders contain comps you
will alter. The EXTRA OUTPUT folder contains comps for different render sizes and the
last IGNORE folder should be only altered if you know what you are doing and decide
to make your own custom changes.

We are now going to explain how to change the images and text. It’s really simple!

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2. CHANGING PHOTOS

1. Twirl down the 1 REPLACE Photos folder in the Project panel and double click any
photo you want to change from 1 to 24.

2. Press Cmd + I (Ctrl + I on a PC) to import a new photo, drag it into the timeline and
delete the placeholder photo. The photo should be 970 x 680 pixels in size.

TIP! If your photo is not at the exact size then press Cmd+Alt+Shift+G to fit the
composition height or Cmd+Alt+Shift+H to fit to the width, instead of fiddling about
with scaling it close to the size of the comp.

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3. CHANGING TEXTS

1. Twirl down the 2 REPLACE Text folder in the Project panel and double click any
Photo_frame you want to change from 1 to 24 (plus intro).

2. Double click on the single text layer and retype. Note that your imported photo is
already visible in the Composition panel.

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4. RENDERING

1. Double click 1 Sunny Flowers Output Comp in the Project panel.


2. Press Cmd + M (Ctrl + M on a PC) to add it to your render queue.
3. Render the file to your codec of choice.

TIP: There are many ways of rendering and encoding files and it depends entirely on
your Output device. A file intended for laptops for example should be something like
H.264 (You will need Quicktime for Windows installed to playback on a PC). In this
case we would render the file out as Lossless from After Effects. This is good practice
to avoid the need to re-render if the compression is too low for example. We would
then use a program like Quicktime Pro 7 to encode the file with Video settings such as
these below. Set audio to AAC 44.1 kHz Stereo 192kbps.

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5. EXTRA TIPS

Easily change the order of shots


In the Main Output comp ! Sunny Flowers Output you might have noticed that there is a
neat stack of pre-comps from 1 to 24. Every shot from 1 to 23 is exactly 4 seconds
long (Shot 24 has overhang for your end message). This means you can easily swap
around the order without worrying about the audio not being in sync. If you have the
music Paper Orchids in the Sun released by hiFOOTAGE then that has been especially
composed for this video to hit the beats every 4 seconds.

Easily turn off images to show less than 24 images


If you wish to show less than 24 images then simply turn off any of the pre-comps in
the ! Sunny Flowers Output comp. For example in the image above layer 001 is turned
off so all you see is the flowers without Photo_frame 1.

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We really hope you get excellent use from this project and find this guide helpful.

If you get time please visit http://envatomarketplaces.com to rate our work to let
others know if we did a good job!

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