Animation

I have been paying for an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription for around a year now. In order to help justify this expense, I’ve given myself a goal to learn the other programs in the suite that I don’t yet use (I primarily use Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat).

I started with Premiere. Coming from Final Cut (before the “X” version which seems to have turned it into a toy), the user interface initially felt very different. However, even just going to one tutorial on manipulating the interface, it seems that Premiere and Final Cut are very similar programs. They both have a very similar model, and how it is presented mostly the same. After getting used to clicking on different things and a few different keyboard shortcuts, I’m able to make pretty good use of it.

After going through a bunch of tutorials for the various Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, I have made my first animation.

• I drew the clock in Illustrator (which I’ve known for many years, at least 30), with each hand on a separate layer. This took about 20 minutes.
• Then, I animated the hands using After Effects. This took maybe another 20 minutes.
• Then, I brought that animation into Premiere Pro and made a sequence that repeated for 2 minutes.
• Lastly, I uploaded it to Youtube from within Premiere Pro.

For reference, this is the same clock animated with Adobe Animate: