After Effects

• It's my first time to learn how to use After Effects
• When I do the masking via After Effects, I have to import the video to each layer. When I did render videos, I have to wait for a long time.
• Today, I compressed each video by QT Pro again. Checking together with Shira, we found the re-compressed quality is still good enough to fit on our final interface and it save me time to work.
• Originaly, I thought, the ".aep" After Effects file contains lots of video, it should be a large file. But after exporting, I am surprised found it's very small!
• the masking took me long time because I have to pay attention to the position alignment on same background, to be careful and more details on characters overlapping part.
• I have to speed up to give Shira final file for coding
• Shira found solution to use Flash replacing Director. I am not quite understand how, she suggested me to have a look on her blog which is helpful! http://nln-sg.blogspot.com/

Export DVs to computer

• we spent long time to export DVs to computer. I started to question, why there is no faster way to do export. But it seems, all we can do is to be patient and wait. DV file is original video format, uncompressed, the file is huge.
• why no technicians trying to find a better solution to do quick exporting?
• we use QuickTime Pro to compress all the DVs' to be ".MOV" format, because I will use Premiere to do video editing.
• Taz will also help me in video editing, she used i-movie. To make sure we can edit the file by two different softwares, she exported the video via QT Pro.
• QuickTime Pro is an important bridge allowing the connection between our editing softwares.