Stupeflix After Effects Guidelines

Stupeflix provides a simple After Effects to Stupeflix Widget workflow. This documentation will guide you through our engine limitations and the supported After Effects features.

This documentation is our little living thing, it regularly evoles and we feed it as regularly as we can. If you have any questions regarding the AE docs, feel free to drop me an email at seb (at) stupeflix [dot] com.

• Introduction to Adobe After Effects
  • Why After Effects?
  • What versions are supported?
  • Where to learn After Effects
• Creating a Stupeflix Compatible AE Project
  • Let’s talk about Widgets
  • Designing Your Widget
  • Paradigm shift
  • Camera and 3D layers
  • Nesting and Precomposing
  • Some Limitations
  • Sneak Preview of the XML Power
  • Exporting
  • Demo Project
• Creating a Transition Widgets
• Placeholder and Tagging
  • Graphical Placeholders
  • Text Placeholders
  • Tagging your Placeholders
  • Demo Project
• Expressions and Bézier Curves
  • Cloud Renderer
  • iOS Renderer
• Supported AE Features & Formats
  • Supported Effects
  • Support Details
  • Supported File Types
• Unsupported Features & Formats
  • Features
  • Formats (Static Images)
  • Formats (Video files)
• Preping your Project
  • Non Linear Template
  • Linear Template
  • Technical Recommandations
• Using the SxC Validation Script
  • Script Basics
  • Scoring System
  • Estimated Render Time
• Optimizing your Project
  • Naming Convention
  • Pre-Rendering
  • Start/End - In/Out Points
  • Assets Size
  • Output that Matters
  • Depth and Matte
  • iOS Render Engine
• Further Optimizations
  • Merging Mattes
  • Nested Scale
  • Duration Trim
  • File Size
  • Video Stacks
  • Video UGC Continuity
• Using the Stupeflix XML Editor
• Mixing your Project with XML
  • Applying XML filters
  • Applying modifications to AE Widgets
  • Applying transitions
  • Audio