Daniel Waldron
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The spot on the ring could honestly just be a really small, feathered circular shape layer. You’d have to rotoscope it; it’s too dark to even attempt motion tracking. Maybe add a masked shine effect if it needs more of a reflective look. It will take quite a bit of time to manually track it to the ring.
For the canvas, you can manually keyframe some masks to reveal the image, or you can use a clip of an ink bleed with an alpha channel to use as a track matte. If the shot is moving, you’ll also have to do 3D camera tracking also. Keep that in mind if it hasn’t been shot yet.
It seems like you might be in a bit over your head. I’d check out Video Copilot’s Basic Training before diving in an trying to achieve more difficult effects.
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Parent your lines to a null object and keyframe it moving up and down. Put the Hue/Saturation effect on an adjustment layer above your lines and keyframe it changing change colors.
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Check out FX Factory. They’ve got what appears to be hundreds of plugins and transition packs.
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That is a very broad question, and there is not really one specific right answer.
If it were me, I would lay in the master audio track and then sync up the video clips of the singer singing the song. You’ll be left with your dancing shots now, so start seeing what works for particular parts of the song. I’m assuming this won’t be effects heavy, so at this point it should be kind of like putting together a puzzle; move clips around to until they look good with the music.
That’s just my broad suggestion on how to approach it. Sometimes you just need to dive in and see what works.
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Twitch from Video Copilot is pretty powerful for only $45. I’ve only used it in After Effects, but it should work in Premiere.
Also, if you have After Effects, a wiggle expression would do the trick pretty easily.
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Hard to tell, but it may be a corrupt file in your timeline.
You could try exporting different sections until you figure out which file it is. I don’t know how long your video is, but let’s say it’s a minute. Export the first 10 seconds. If it hangs, then narrow it down to any files in that area. If not move on to the next 10 seconds and so on until it freezes.
I’m assuming of course that you’ve tried restarting your machine.
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Don’t know about the grabby gray bars, but you can hold down the space bar and click to drag around the comp window.
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In this case, yes, you don’t need to compress it very much because of the small size. In general though, if you can have a good looking video with a small file size, why not? When you’re ready to export, experiment with some different settings and formats and see what you like. It should only take a few minutes per export and you can see for yourself which you think gives the best results.
I have not heard of the Imagenomic Portraiture plugin. If you think you can get good results in AE, by all means give it a shot. But if you’re pressed for time and have never used AE before, I think you could end up find it more difficult and time-consuming than you thought. Premiere has some great color correction tools, and you could probably achieve good results from sticking with it.
I would definitely finish the cut before doing any color correction. No need to waste time adjusting shots you’re not going to use. If you’re using music and want to time any of the video to it, then add that in as well. Once that is set, then add the text and graphics.
Happy to help. 🙂 You’re pretty ambitious for this being one of your first projects. Good luck!
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I find H.264 MP4s to be a great delivery codec and format. It can be highly compressed and still look good, and it is playable on pretty much any computer or operating system if you ever have to deliver the file to a client.
As far as color correction, I would stick in Premiere. After Effects has a steep learning curve and unless you are doing some serious color grading or masking, Premiere should be able to handle all your needs. If you are looking to give the video an overall stylized look, I would check out DV Shades’ EasyLooks plugin. It’s cheap and has some great presets.
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This technique is a great and easy way to white balance clips in Premiere. I find it more accurate than the eye-dropper/3-way Color Corrector in FCP.