Insane February Vidding Project
Feb. 1st, 2009 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So, short story: I've signed up for an 'Insane February Vidding Project', with
daybreak777,
chaila43 and
taragel. We've each set our own goals, depending on what we want to work on, but the idea is that we create a series of vidlets quickly, to push our comfort zone into new areas.
I chose to focus on effects, to see whether it made any difference to my vidding long-term. So my goal is to learn 10 new things (and demonstrate them as proof!) in two weeks. EEP!
Excitingly, I've got off to a good start by learning about keyframes. FINALLY! They're so easy! I'm so embarrassed now. ;) So I got to playing around with 'scale' and 'centre' in Motion, and I put in a fade to white transition for kicks... Here's all 4 secs of it!
Effects vidlet 1 - Boppy
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I chose to focus on effects, to see whether it made any difference to my vidding long-term. So my goal is to learn 10 new things (and demonstrate them as proof!) in two weeks. EEP!
Excitingly, I've got off to a good start by learning about keyframes. FINALLY! They're so easy! I'm so embarrassed now. ;) So I got to playing around with 'scale' and 'centre' in Motion, and I put in a fade to white transition for kicks... Here's all 4 secs of it!
Effects vidlet 1 - Boppy
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Date: 2009-02-01 01:09 pm (UTC)I think it's really cool!
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Date: 2009-02-01 10:38 pm (UTC)Scale = making the image bigger or smaller, so in this case making four little images (50% of normal size) and having them reduce in size over time.
The 'Centre' function was used to move them right, left, top or bottom.
This is from one of my WIPs. It may or may not see the light of day. If it does, I'll probably use different images, but possibly keep the effect.
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Date: 2009-02-01 02:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-01 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-01 03:21 pm (UTC)I can tell what's also going to be awesome about this is that I'm going to be able to learn What Stuff Does. Oh so that's the kind of thing that key frames do!
Are you posting snippets of vids you are actually working on? *is nosy*
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Date: 2009-02-01 10:41 pm (UTC)So it turns out keyframes enable many many things. They basically are just a way of marking where an effect starts and finishes. So in this one, I would mark where I wanted a picture to start (centred at 75%) and where it would end (off in one of the 4 corners at 50%) and voila!
Scale = making the images bigger or smaller
Centre = moving the image around (so left, right, top or bottom)
I layered the four images on top of one another like a pyramid.
I hope that's helpful! We can all learn!
Yeah, I am posting snippets from WIPs. Luckilly I have 4 WIPs. So hopefully eventually there'll be more than 4 seconds. *lol*
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Date: 2009-02-02 01:07 am (UTC)It's very nice of you to educate all of us! :D
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Date: 2009-02-02 01:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-01 05:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-01 10:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-01 09:08 pm (UTC)(Um, it's the four separate windows right? That's very cool.)
I gotta get off my ass and find another program!
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Date: 2009-02-01 10:51 pm (UTC)So with this, I marked a start point with an image at 75% of its normal size, centred. Then I went to the endpoint and marked it, with the image reduced to 50% and positioned in one of the four corners. Two keyframes for each of the four images.
I used the 'Scale' function to reduce the size of the pictures and 'Centre' to position them.
Keyframes can be used for more or less any effect that you want to use over a set period of time--so you can zoom with them, pan, fade in or out, adjust colour gradually...
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Date: 2009-02-02 03:59 am (UTC)no subject
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