Paul Hennell
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Yeah, by exporting as flash/to flash there are ways to turn that into a screen saver – check you know what you’re doing before you start though – most screensavers are more programed/coded rather then animated and while a looping video can be made into a screensaver it might be harder than you’re thinking.
As for video size, depends a bit on the monitor size I’d guess. Not sure what the standard monitor is these days – check what whoever you’re making it for uses and look at the options in the program you’ll actually make it into a screensaver with are. (I.e. You might not be able to scale up only down, you might have to add borders on widescreen etc.)
Good luck.
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>I deliberately made it shaky
Not sure how you made the shot shaky, but if you can re-do it ‘steady’ your sky replacement will be easier. Once you’ve added the sky, you can shake the footage with AE so as to still get the look you want.
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This AE Typography Tutorial will help starting you off with the general typed thing – search on You Tube for typography for other examples which can give good ideas for this style video.
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I believe there are ways to get markers from Audition, Soundbooth or Premiere Pro so if you have any of those you can try taking advantage of their more audio-aware workflows. If you don’t however it’s best you’re fully versed in the AE ways: (Might be stating the obvious here – but in case you don’t know them)
Press “LL” on your audio layer to see the waveform (Or toggle it down)
Use the ‘.’ key on the number pad to play the audio.
Use the ‘*’ key on the number pad to mark the audio as it plays.
Use ctrl+mouse to scrub the audio to refine the markers.You could also consider using any sound editing program (Such as audicity) to make a different copy to help you mark. Amplify the key bits so they’re easier to spot on AE’s waveform – or use an equalizer to enhance the bass so it’s easier to pick out – just remember to put the original back in when you’re done.
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For the hand held feel it’ll be far far easier to do it in post. Tracking a hand-held shot will be tons harder then scaling the video up a bit & adding some wiggle. This tutorial with less motion would probably work – experiment a bit to find a method you like.
As for the one-shot it doesn’t sound impossible but its hard to say without really being there. Make sure you get enough footage to cover in case you have to try a plan B, and it might be worth considering if other options will be easier (Like doing two shots masking the change with a ‘conveniently in the way piece of flying debris’ or a flash of light or something).
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Hi Ben – There’s actually quite a few options for learning AE – depending both on what you want to do with the program and how good you are with computers etc.
In terms of DVDS both Lynda.com and TotalTraining.com offer AE videos (As well of course as the Creative Cow Series) – but I’d suggest a better starting place (assuming you have the bandwidth) is the podcasts on Creative Cow and the video tutorials over at Videocopilot.net. If you follow the Basic Training from there, and then do some tutorials from here you’ll pick it up fairly well and get more idea on what you might want to learn in more depth/how easy the software seems to you.
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How are you making this stencil? Transparent images seem to work fine with CCpage – and even the back color respects the images alpha.
If you’re making it with a track matte system you’ll need to pre-compose the layers (Layer > Pre-Compose) and then apply the page turn to that comp.
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Generally I believe the plan is ‘As green as possible’ (e.g. #00ff00) that’s the target. However, as you’ve discovered, reflectivity is largely more important – no use it being the perfect green and having bright spots of light and dark spots of shadow. Any fairly bright, strong colored green should work.
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I think the first problem isn’t that you’re zooming in, so much as you’re orbiting ‘through’. Go to the middle of the orbit and viewing from the top, move the camera position to the left or right. That way the camera will go around better (although it will still need tweaking).
That said, it’d be easier to parent your camera to a null and move that around (one rotate key would work for the video above!) – videocopilot covers how this works really well in either lesson 07 or 08 of their Free training series – totally worth checking out – it’ll make 3D cameras easy.
As for the preview it does seem short, but it depends massively on what effects you’re using – however check your Cache settings they might be too low. (google around for what the recommended levels are).
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I think you’re more confused by what you’re trying to do, rather then anything going wrong here, but no-worries, all can be explained.
First – an image sequence is just that, a sequence of images. You’ll end up with a folder full of numbered images, each image being the equivalent to one frame. This is handy for all manner of reasons – from alpha channel support, to being able re-render and replace specific frames.
When importing an image sequence (to AE) you have to tick ‘Image sequence’ (Bottom left of image selection screen) and then all the pictures will come in, grouped like a video. I’ve never used Vegas but I imagine there’s a similar option. Highlight the first image and look for it – it’ll be there somewhere.
Alternately you can just export a video file. In the render queue output options – select ‘Quick time movie file’ or similar and you’ll get a single file movie. Note there’s a lot more to movie settings – if you don’t understand concepts like bit-rate, interlaced video and compression, you’ll probably get better quality from images. Still if you want to export to video use the output ‘Animation’ present. Tends to make a larger file – but it’ll look decent without having to fiddle with settings.
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