You will need the following programs to complete: InDesign, After Effects and Media Encoder – all of which, are part of the Adobe Creative Cloud.
First you’ll need to open up the folder that contains all of the files needed. Go into OneDrive and open Customer Folders\AW House\2. Design & Print\39243 – Slideshow
You can create a new folder each time if you want but because of the way the images auto-replace themselves, this is the easier way.
1. InDesign
Open up the Slideshow InDesign file, make the changes required. These should have been sent to you via email and should say which changes to make. Just assure that any amends made, still have the same text properties such as font size, line height etc. Once you’re happy with the amends made, you’ll need to go to File>Export. This should automatically have the file name filled in as 39243 – Slideshow.jpg and also in the correct folder too. Hit save, confirm you want to overwrite and make sure the following settings are used: All Pages, Maximum quality, Baseline, 300ppi, RGB and only tick the top two options. This will then export the slides as JPEGs and overwrite the previous ones. Now you want to open up After Effects.
2. Adobe After Effects
Inside the same folder there is an After Effects file which you will need to open, make sure you are in the Vid 1 composition. The images within this should have been automatically updated to the new images you just created in InDesign. It works of a linking system, so as long as the new files are using the same file names and location as previous files, they should update without any problems. You can check this by going to the start of the video timeline and hitting Spacebar to start watching the video and make they are correct. If the first loop is correct, the rest of the 28 mins will be, so no need to check the whole video. Next step, making sure you are in the Vid 1 composition. Go to File>Export>Add to Adobe Media Encoder queue and move on the next step.
3. Adobe Media Encoder
After completing the previous step, Media Encoder should open up and the video should be in the render queue, you may need to give it a minute or so to appear. Make sure the format is H.264, the preset used is Match Source – Adaptive High Bitrate and then click on the blue out file location, you can save this file wherever you want, but make sure you name it something appropriate, such as the date or job number if you have one. After this, hit the play button, this will now start the video rendering. You can see progress in the encoding box, seeing how long it has taken and how long it thinks it will take to complete. I would suggest closing down other programs (Except from After Effects and Media Encoder) while the render is in progress, this will speed up the time it takes dramatically.
4. WeTransfer
After completing step 3, you should now have your large video file in the chosen location. You can now go ahead and go to wetransfer.com (no need for an account). Click on the 3 little dots and make sure Get Transfer Link is selected and then drag and drop your video file into this window, and hit upload. Once the upload is completed, it should give a download link. Copy and paste this into an email to the account manager for this job, they will then send it on to AW House who simply need to download, and then replace the file on the USB stick to this new one. Deleting the old file.