Animated transitions

[papaf1]

I'm not sure if there is a correct category for this, but does anyone have any idea how those nice transitions they use on the news are done? Do they use an animation package, after effects or is there special software that does it.

[Anonymous]

It is my understanding that the major assets like the fly-in logos like "KOMO NEWS 4" are originally built in 3ds Max or Maya.

The text graphic overlays (the lower 3rd name titles) are built in After Effects on standard templates.  You could also make a simple .PNG in Photoshop but the text wouldn't be animated.

Each of those are saved in 1920x1080 (16:9 HD) or 1280x720 (16:9 SD) or 720x480 (4:3 SD) depending on the size needed.

Then those are laid over the footage in Premiere or Final Cut Pro.  (You don't want to edit in After Effects because for some reason the audio doesn't work unless you are doing a RAM Preview.  This eliminates "scrubbing" which is pretty essential to video editing.)

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

I guess it dependson what you mean by "transition".

A lot of broadcast graphics eye-candy is handled by dedicated hardware and/or software that mixes streams of video.

The moving/overlaid elements are generally pre-rendered in the renderer of your choice with an alpha transparency background to facilitate overlay. More sophisticated hardware/software generates the animated sequences on the fly from a range of templates.

Hope this helps.

[papaf1]

I had seen an animated transition or maybe it was an animated lead in to a section of a video, that looked like it had streaks or lines originating from one spot and arcing into the scene then each line burst into text or words like bullets points to the next video section. I was just wondering if there was special software that did this or would these be created and animated in AE, 3ds Max or Maya.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like After Effects to me but it could been done in any one of a number of motion graphics content designers...including Max , Maya and Flash if you were prepared to figure out out to achieve what you want to see.

My guess would be After Effects or Apple's Motion.

A quick internet search for Motion Graphics Software will throw up more possibilities.

Hope this helps

[Anonymous]

Yeah, without seen it, it sounds like After Effects.