Making next scenes

[Cobra5000]

Do you know how i make next scenes after i made the first scene.

Like this one - first cene is in forest. after 10 second, the next scene is home for example.

[jonbo]

Put all the layers for scene 1 in a group layer and all the layers for scene 2 in an another group layer that has the visibility turned off. Now you can switch off the visibility on the first group and turn it on for the second group where you want. If you have Debut, use bone layers for group layers.

[dueyftw]

Unless the scene is very short, I find it is best to combine scenes in a video editor. If something goes wrong with AS you will lose less work. Rare occasions files do get corrupted.

Another approach is to use the sequencer to off set the start of each scene. DON"T do that. From personal experience I had to fix a project by taking it apart and rendering each section individually because it was crashing.

Dale

[hayasidist]

I, too, break my work up into small AS files and assemble in a video editor. I'll split both by time and also by "depth" - so, for example, background action is in a separate AS file from main action.

[slowtiger]

Could we please include this with all the other regular questions into an extra first page in the manual??

[neon22]

My process is this:

1. Break the scenes up as you normally do.
2. Everytime there is a cut between scenes use a new AS file.
3. Everytime there is a dissolve transition - use a single AS file and make a group for each shot - use the fade script to dissolve between them.
   The fade script automatically does a couple of things that you can do manually (I.e. animate Visibility and layer Opacity).

Grouping elements really helps with scaling and positioning several layers together easily.

I render all scenes to individual image files not movie files.
I use QuicktimePro for its ease of loading image sequence files.

1. I load each image sequence and save them one at a time into separate quicktime movie files.
2. I can now easily load them and view them independently.
3. I can also easily cut and paste each sequence into a single quicktime movie and export it.
4. I use programs like Mediacoder to convert the resulting file (if it needs it) into other formats.

[JaMike]

Could we please include this with all the other regular questions into an extra first page in the manual??

But nobody ever reads the manual!