Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv — Message #65654
From: Mr. Eric D. Kirk <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: Re: [AE] Making a Cone in Element 3D
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 12:57:07 -0400
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Stephen,

Well this is kind of nice to hear actually because I LOVED Vegas.  Last version I had was Vegas 12 and felt the pressure to go to Premiere and the truth is, most of my projects I do are so small that I often doing the entire edit in AE.  That's right, I know some hate that but for a minute long thing, it works fine and it's effect based so that's why I am in AE to begin with.  But, now you make me want to relook Vegas.  I felt it was so user friendly.

Eric

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 12:53 PM Stephen van Vuuren <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Eric,

 

Not sure about the Element 3D question as I’ve never saved an imported model as preset but I believe presets are just for the type of item e.g. textures, models, lights etc. I don’t think there is an entire rig “preset” that I recall off the top of my head.

 

I still do my personal editing in Vegas (current Magix Vegas Post Pro V17). They are working hard to get the app back on track after Sony’s years of neglect and it’s coming along well (it’s finally more stable than Premiere).

 

You can export Premiere projects but like any translation it’s going to have it’s limited, it’s really useful for only simple timelines without effects, titles etc. It’s really just a variation of XML exports.


Best,

stephen van vuuren
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From: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Sent: Monday, October 7, 2019 6:26 AM
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: Re: [AE] Making a Cone in Element 3D

 

Hello,

 

For those interested, the cone I was making was for the Artemis Moon Spacecraft and here's a 7 second sample.  I will be separating the module later since the booster would be gone by this time in space.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md3CE57JSLo&feature=youtu.be

 

By way of this sample, I have a couple questions.  I did use Blender by the way for the cone but I built this model in Element 3D otherwise (assembled I guess).  I'm having some difficulty saving the model as a preset.  I know the procedure but for some reason it doesn't save ALL components.  Any idea on what could be the solution?

 

And a second question, probably not much help here but I used to use Sony Vegas to edit and I have a project from 2012 that actually has a feature to export to a premiere file (even saw a youtube video) but for some reason, after exporting the entire thing, it does not produce the actual premiere file like I see in the tutorial.

 

Incidentally, the old footage I have could prove to be a cool time lapse thing with me nearly 8 years ago and then current.

 

Appreciate any insight if anyone has some.

 

Eric

Kirk Productions

 

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 8:12 PM David Baud <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

What Chris says.

For simple shapes, you may want to use a a vector software like Illustrator and export an eps file for Element.

 

David Baud

Colorist & Finishing Editor

david at kosmos-productions.com



On Oct 1, 2019, at 18:04, Chris Bobotis <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

 

Learn Blender. Free and easy to learn. Model whatever you like there then export.

 


 

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Eric D. Kirk | Kirk Productions

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443.206.1347

 



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