Throughout this year, we have used a collection of different Adobe software that I had used before and either was confident or knew the basics with them. But After Effects I had never tried, mainly because I had never looked into video editing before. At first it's daunting, your screen gets filled with timelines and render queues and buttons I'd never heard of.
I knew what I wanted to do in AE, it was just a matter of how I apply that to my animation, it was simple enough on paper, but it took several tutorials to do just the simplest things...
my first task was adding text, because of my basic skills, i kept the text simple, ideally I would have wanted something much more complex to happen with the text, but I chose to do a simple fade in, fade out option throughout the first 2 scenes, using keyframes and changing the opacity.
The next task was fading the music out at the end so it didn't just suddenly stop, thankfully this process was very similar to the above with text, so that problem was soon solved.
The biggest problem was getting the music and animation to play at different speeds, It just wasn't working, either the music would slow down and sound really deep, or speed up and go high pitched, I spent a long time trying to fix it but instead, I increased the speed of my animation by 10% and rendered it without sound and turned it into a .mov, knowing that hopefully, I could just simple drag and drop the music onto the .mov in iMovie and it should fit together fine.
Thankfully, it did.
