Ultimate Contact Sheet After Effects template Customization Tutorial

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Ultimate Contact Sheet After Effects Template Step-by-Step Customization Instructions FLUXVFX.COM

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How to customize the Ultimate Contact Sheet Slide Show After Effects template from FluxVFX https://www.fluxvfx.com/templates/ultimate-contact-sheet-slide-show-after-effects-template/

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Ultimate Contact Sheet After Effects Template

Step-by-Step Customization Instructions

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INTRO

Ultimate Contact Sheet Slideshow After Effects Template

Display your beautiful photography with the Ultimate Contact Sheet template- the stylish and modern de-sign is perfect for any project- wedding, fashion, corpo-rate, or everyday life!

Each of the 50 photos is it’s own animated scene so you can easily edit the timeline to use just what you need.

Every animated photo scene can easily be switched from landscape to portrait orientation- that’s TWO dif-ferent animations in one scene! Just turn on the cam-era layer you need- Landscape or Portrait- and the tem-plate does all of the work for you.

The Blur & Focus camera effects are on a single layer that can be turned off or moved in the timeline- no keyframes to mess with!

Customize the length of the 4 video scenes by moving ONE layer marker! Select your ‘freeze frame’ for the end of the video then move your layer marker to the place in the timeline you ‘d like the video to stop playing.

Easy to customize and update if you need to swap out a photo- simply check a box to display the numbered labels for all photos so you can easily find and replace images.

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Here’s what’s included:-50 Photo Scenes-4 Video Scenes-Two Optional Text areas for each Scene-1 Closing Logo Scene-1 Closing Text Scene-3 Opening Text Scenes-3 Video Scenes-2 Light Leaks video overlays-animated circle, square, and arrow animations

-HD1080-Adobe After Effects CS4 and newer versions

-TRT: (02:17) Main Preview Montage Source files:-Ultimate-Contact-Sheet-Slideshow-template.aep, markings.psd, arrows.psd, (2) Light Leak quicktime movies with Alpha channel

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PROJECT CONTENTS:'elements' folder:contains the source files used to make the animation including pre-comps, solids, and all source files

Render Comp folder:Contains Final composition to be rendered.

Replace Logo Here folder:Contains placeholder compositions for your photos

Replace Photos Here folder:Contains placeholder compositions for your photos

Replace Text Here folder:Contains all of the compositions to customize all text areas in the project

Replace Videos Here folder:Contains video placeholder compositions

Scenes folder:Contains compositions for all of the Scenes in the project

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Select the “Show Photo Numbers” layer in the Ultimate Contact Sheet slideshow Render Comp. In the Effects Controls panel check the box for “show photo numbers” to see numbers for all of the photos or un-check the box to hide the numbers.

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How to Show/Hide Photo Numbers:

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How To Replace Photos:

In the Project Panel go to the “Replace Photos Here” folder. Double-click to open the “Replace Photo 01” composition.

Turn off or delete the placeholder layer by clicking the eyeball icon or simply hit ‘delete’.1 2

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How To Replace Photos:

Next, go to File/Import/File...Navigate to the folder with the photo you want toimport.

Hit “Open” to import your photo to the Project Panel.3 4

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How To Replace Photos:Drag & Drop the imported photo into the Replace Photo 01

composition timeline.

With the photo layer selected, Hit S on your keyboard to bring up the layer’s Scale property, scrub left on the numbers to scale the layer down if needed.

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For Portrait(Vertically Oriented) photos: Hit R on your keyboard to bring up the layer’s Rota-tion property, type 90 in for the Rotation

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How To Change Photo Frame Text:

In the Project Panel open the Replace Text here folder, then Replace Text and Numbers on Frames/Photo Frames/ then double-click to open the Photo Frame 01 composition

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Double-Click on any text layer, the text will become highlighted and ready to be customized.

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Go to the Character Panelto change color, font, and text size

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How To Change Optional Scene Text:

In the Project Panel open the Replace Text here folder, then Replace Photo Scenes Optional Text here then double-click to open the Replace Photo Scene Text 01 composition

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Double-Click on any text layer, the text will become highlighted and ready to be customized.

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Go to the Character Panelto change color, font, and text size

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How To Change Logo and Closing Text:

In the Project Panel open the Replace Logo Here folder, then double-click the Replace Closing Scene Logo and Tag line composition

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Double-Click on any text layer, the text will be-come highlighted and ready to be customized.

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Go to the Character Panelto change color, font, and text size

Drag & Drop in your imported logo file into the timeline, place it anywhere above the text line.

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How To Change Intro Scene Text:

In the Project Panel open the Replace Text Here folder, then open the Replace Intro Text Here folder. Double-click to open the Replace Intro Scene Text 01 composition

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Double-Click on any text layer, the text will become highlighted and ready to be

customized.

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Go to the Character Panelto change color, font, and text size

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How To Edit Video Scenes:

In the Project Panel, go to the Replace Videos Here folder,then the Video Scene 01 folder. Next, double-

click to open the Replace Video 01 composition

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In the top nav, go to File/Import/File...2

Navigate to the your footage file hit ‘open’3

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How To Edit Video Scenes:

Select and drag your imported video file into the Replace Video 01 composition timeline.

4 If you want to edit the start and end of your video do it in this composition.

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How To Edit Video Scenes:

Next, open the Video Scene 01 composition located in the Scenes/Video Scenes folder.

6 Move your Current Time Indica-tor in the timeline to the

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Next move the layer marker labeled “out point” to where the Current Time Indicator is.

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How To Edit Video Scenes:

To set the freeze frame for the end of the video,open the Set Video START and END still frame 01

composition in the Replace Videos Here/Video Scene 01 folder

9 On the Video End Frame layer, make sure yourCurrent Time Indicator is directly on top of the Time Re-

mapkeyframe. You can scrub the numbers left and right or you can type in a specific time for the freeze frame.

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How To Edit Video Scenes:

Go back to the video Scene 01 composition and scrub through the timeline, past your “out point” layer marker to make sure you are happy with the freeze frame. If it’s off or not what

you wanted, go back to the Set Video START and END still frame 01 composition and tweak it from there.

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How To Turn On/Off Optional Text Areas:

Open the Photo 01 composition located in the Scenes/Photo Scenes folder. Find the layer “Re-place Photo Scene 01” and turn on/off the layer by clicking the eyeball icon next to the layer in

the timeline.

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How To Set Up a Portrait (Vertical) Photo Scene:

Follow the steps on pages 6-8 for importing photos. With your photo selected in the timeline, hit R on your keyboard to bring up the Rotation property then type 90 for the rotation.

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How To Set Up a Portrait (Vertical) Photo Scene:

In the Photo Scene comp (Scenes/Photo Scenes), turn on the camera layer labeled “Portrait Camera” by clicking the eyeball icon next to the layer in the timeline. To

revert back to Landscape Camera, turn Portrait off.

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