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Bush won the election. I'm dissappointed. Of course, initally I was seething with rage and frustration (and on a completely unrelated note, I found a gray hair yesterday morning), but I've found ways to sublimate. You know me -- when live gives me lemons I...vid. Apparently when life dumps a truckload of lemons on me I vid accordingly. It's not that I find it theraputic, exactly. Note that I said sublimate, not relax. It's more that I lack the energy to scream at the president and my computer at the same time.
I've decided to give my ears a well deserved break. I'm making the credits rather than working on the vid itself. I wanted to make them look just like the ones in the movie. I thought I could do this in by keyframing the motion in Premiere along with using the "wind" effect and a moving mask. As it turned out, not so much. Considering the movie credits were probably made in After Effects it's no surprise mine just ended up looking way tacky.
Heh -- just realized that last bit was totally not in English.
Anyway, my solution to crappy looking credits is this: photoshopping [1] the movie credits frame by frame [2], then reassembling them in premiere [3]. I've already done the main title. It looks really fucking cool. In fact, I keep vascillating between "Bush won the election" and "my credits look so fucking cool!!!" Fun fact about divx compression: the resulting video is approximately 1.2% the size of the raw bitmaps. Roughly 1/100 the size. Daaaaamn. Premiere's default output is something like 20% if I remember correctly. My mind is having trouble wrapping around that.
It occurs to me that I've photoshopped upwards of three hundred frames doing the beginning title and the easy parts of the three end credits. I'm never going to be able to call anyone anal ever again.
I'm still sleeping an average of six to six and a half hours a night. Someone in my co-op has a theory that this is typical student behavior this time of year due to changing weather and stress. Wah! I miss sleep!
[1] I don't have Photoshop. Or, actually I do, but it's in German and I can't really do anything with it. The program I use is GIMP. This is free software, originally created to be the Mac equivalent of Photoshop before an official Mac equivalent was made. It is available for Windows, and fairly user friendly. You can download it here.
[2] The software I use for this is Capture Solution. It is free software (although like many other programs it will continuously bug you to purchase a more sophistocated version). You can download it here. It can do lots of really useful things. My favorite feature is the one that allows you to section off a portion of a video file (avi or windows media) and then deposit all the frames in the section into the folder of your choosing as bitmap or jpeg files (if you don't choose a folder the files go in the same folder as your video). I first got this program so I could make mini-movie icons like the ones I kept seeing around LJ all the time. Now that I'm making vid credits, I'm really glad that I have it on my computer.
[3] Some useful facts for reassembling frames in Premiere. The default for importing a still image is something like 150 frames. If you don't want to have to resize each frame after you drop it on your timeline, just go into Edit-->Preferences-->Still Image and change the default duration to 1 frame. Remember that at least half the things you can do in Premiere you can do in bulk. You can import files in bulk. You can drag them to your timeline in bulk. You can drag them along your timeline in bulk. If you want to do a color change or some other effect(s), you can make your changes on one frame, then highlight the rest of your frames, right click-->paste attributes.
I've decided to give my ears a well deserved break. I'm making the credits rather than working on the vid itself. I wanted to make them look just like the ones in the movie. I thought I could do this in by keyframing the motion in Premiere along with using the "wind" effect and a moving mask. As it turned out, not so much. Considering the movie credits were probably made in After Effects it's no surprise mine just ended up looking way tacky.
Heh -- just realized that last bit was totally not in English.
Anyway, my solution to crappy looking credits is this: photoshopping [1] the movie credits frame by frame [2], then reassembling them in premiere [3]. I've already done the main title. It looks really fucking cool. In fact, I keep vascillating between "Bush won the election" and "my credits look so fucking cool!!!" Fun fact about divx compression: the resulting video is approximately 1.2% the size of the raw bitmaps. Roughly 1/100 the size. Daaaaamn. Premiere's default output is something like 20% if I remember correctly. My mind is having trouble wrapping around that.
It occurs to me that I've photoshopped upwards of three hundred frames doing the beginning title and the easy parts of the three end credits. I'm never going to be able to call anyone anal ever again.
I'm still sleeping an average of six to six and a half hours a night. Someone in my co-op has a theory that this is typical student behavior this time of year due to changing weather and stress. Wah! I miss sleep!
[1] I don't have Photoshop. Or, actually I do, but it's in German and I can't really do anything with it. The program I use is GIMP. This is free software, originally created to be the Mac equivalent of Photoshop before an official Mac equivalent was made. It is available for Windows, and fairly user friendly. You can download it here.
[2] The software I use for this is Capture Solution. It is free software (although like many other programs it will continuously bug you to purchase a more sophistocated version). You can download it here. It can do lots of really useful things. My favorite feature is the one that allows you to section off a portion of a video file (avi or windows media) and then deposit all the frames in the section into the folder of your choosing as bitmap or jpeg files (if you don't choose a folder the files go in the same folder as your video). I first got this program so I could make mini-movie icons like the ones I kept seeing around LJ all the time. Now that I'm making vid credits, I'm really glad that I have it on my computer.
[3] Some useful facts for reassembling frames in Premiere. The default for importing a still image is something like 150 frames. If you don't want to have to resize each frame after you drop it on your timeline, just go into Edit-->Preferences-->Still Image and change the default duration to 1 frame. Remember that at least half the things you can do in Premiere you can do in bulk. You can import files in bulk. You can drag them to your timeline in bulk. You can drag them along your timeline in bulk. If you want to do a color change or some other effect(s), you can make your changes on one frame, then highlight the rest of your frames, right click-->paste attributes.
