Self-Reflective-Journal: Week Twelve
This week my goal was to finish my making of (breakdown) and final dance mocap visualisation video. I started first by getting my rendered images into After Effects for my final dance video.
← Importing images as Open EXR.
← Green Bar indicating loading sequence of the images.
← Here was the effects tab. I only used contrast as it made the colours more vibrant and saturated. I tried Auto colour but found it messing up the sequence of colours and making the red scene blue at some points in certain frames. I decided to go against using it and kept to using auto contrast, changing the black and white clip settings levels. I also chose not remove Grain as there was no severe effect or difference.
I then made a Premiere Pro scene with my final danced sequence. I exported my After Effects file and then imported it into Premiere Pro
← I watched the scene through to check if there were any inconsistency with timing or frames being messed up or missing. As I did two renders before I found glitches so I had to re-render but that was okay because I gave myself enough time to do everything.
Here was the 'Render Queue to get my exported mp4 vide0.
Effects and Presets →
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← Importing clips into Premiere Pro
← Sequence, timeline in 24 frames per second, HD1080p
Effects and Essentials for main editing purposes →
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I tended to use dissolve (Cross Dissolve) for fading clips back to back. →
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Also for sound I would use Crossfade, Constant Gain and Exponential Fade →
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← Text tool to make credits at the end of the scene. Used ' Responsive Design - Time' to have a roll effect on the credits under the Essential Graphics, Edit tab.
I then started my making of video (breakdown). I opened a Premiere Pro file and cropped my selected OBS video clips that I wanted to show and put each clip in order of each weeks process.
← Breakdown video basically done, copyright free music added and text and effects added to enhance video.
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Video is currently 2:24:22 long.