Monday:
Today In class we started the day off with a survey. That survey took a good 40 minutes to finish. Over the weekend I didn't get to film because my brother was out of town. Since I didn't have any video to edit today I am going to create a lens flare. I found a instructional video on how to make a lens flare. It took longer than expected to make the flare. According to the time left on the video I am about half way done. I also spent a short amount of time creating the blog post to keep track of what I did today.
Today In class we started the day off with a survey. That survey took a good 40 minutes to finish. Over the weekend I didn't get to film because my brother was out of town. Since I didn't have any video to edit today I am going to create a lens flare. I found a instructional video on how to make a lens flare. It took longer than expected to make the flare. According to the time left on the video I am about half way done. I also spent a short amount of time creating the blog post to keep track of what I did today.
Tuesday:
I finished the lens flare. Since I haven't filmed yet I want to get practice working with video and the motion tracking text. For the motion tracking text I found a video that is very helpful. It makes the different steps to make the motion tracking text very clear. I haven't started it but I'm positive that I can finish within one or two class periods. Since I didn't have any video I am getting a stock free video from a website that I found. Today I worked on the blog and spent a lot of time fixing up the flare because in the video it said I could move it, but when I tried to it would move one layer at a time. I had to play around with some different settings to get everything to move together. I then got the stock free video in After Effects and finished the very first step. I will most likely finish the video tomorrow. When you put the lens flare into a video it looks better but when it's alone like it is it doesn't look that great.
I finished the lens flare. Since I haven't filmed yet I want to get practice working with video and the motion tracking text. For the motion tracking text I found a video that is very helpful. It makes the different steps to make the motion tracking text very clear. I haven't started it but I'm positive that I can finish within one or two class periods. Since I didn't have any video I am getting a stock free video from a website that I found. Today I worked on the blog and spent a lot of time fixing up the flare because in the video it said I could move it, but when I tried to it would move one layer at a time. I had to play around with some different settings to get everything to move together. I then got the stock free video in After Effects and finished the very first step. I will most likely finish the video tomorrow. When you put the lens flare into a video it looks better but when it's alone like it is it doesn't look that great.
Wednesday:
To start the day off I Finished the motion tracking text video. It was pretty simple. There were only a few steps that I had to do. I'm now done with the lens flare and the practice so now I'm going to start working on the video that I proposed and got approved. I haven't worked with video in after effects before so to start I didn't know really what to do. Today I spent a lot of time watching tutorial videos on how to edit in After Effects. The four videos that are attached below showed me what to do and answered the questions that I had. The video on the far left told me that when uploading images into After Effects you need to have a transparent background and if there is a white or colored background it wouldn't work. All the logos that I tried uploading had a colored background so it doesn't work. I wasn't really sure how to do that so I also had to look a video up on how to do that. I also spent a good amount of time today updating my blog. Tomorrow I plan to work on cutting all the different video. I hope to finish this by Friday but there is a chance it might not get done until Monday or Tuesday because I'm filming over the weekend and I might add some of that in.
To start the day off I Finished the motion tracking text video. It was pretty simple. There were only a few steps that I had to do. I'm now done with the lens flare and the practice so now I'm going to start working on the video that I proposed and got approved. I haven't worked with video in after effects before so to start I didn't know really what to do. Today I spent a lot of time watching tutorial videos on how to edit in After Effects. The four videos that are attached below showed me what to do and answered the questions that I had. The video on the far left told me that when uploading images into After Effects you need to have a transparent background and if there is a white or colored background it wouldn't work. All the logos that I tried uploading had a colored background so it doesn't work. I wasn't really sure how to do that so I also had to look a video up on how to do that. I also spent a good amount of time today updating my blog. Tomorrow I plan to work on cutting all the different video. I hope to finish this by Friday but there is a chance it might not get done until Monday or Tuesday because I'm filming over the weekend and I might add some of that in.
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Thursday:
Today has been frustrating. I've been trying to get the second part of the logo to work. Whenever I upload it it always seems to be a bad quality image. I keep going back and retracing my steps but nothing seems to help. A couple videos tell me how to vectorize text. Apparently I am vectorizing the text but After Effects doesn't think so. I spent majority of the day trying to fix that problem. I ended up adding it to the original logo so that it was one image. Most of my day was taken up by watching the videos linked below and the one from Wednesday about uploading logos into After Effects and trying to figure the bad quality problem out. I also wanted to keep what I did well documented so I spent a little bit of time updating my blog.
Today has been frustrating. I've been trying to get the second part of the logo to work. Whenever I upload it it always seems to be a bad quality image. I keep going back and retracing my steps but nothing seems to help. A couple videos tell me how to vectorize text. Apparently I am vectorizing the text but After Effects doesn't think so. I spent majority of the day trying to fix that problem. I ended up adding it to the original logo so that it was one image. Most of my day was taken up by watching the videos linked below and the one from Wednesday about uploading logos into After Effects and trying to figure the bad quality problem out. I also wanted to keep what I did well documented so I spent a little bit of time updating my blog.
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Friday:
Today I was finally able to upload my videos to my computer. For some amount of time today I went on my friends Instagram and watch the videos that they have made. I looked at them because I want to model my video after their's. I also took some time taking notes on what I thought I needed to include in the video. I also had to delete pictures off my computer to clear up some space for the videos and the After Effects files because they take up A LOT of space. Right before class ended After Effects crashed on me and I lost almost all of the work I had gotten done. It was really frustrating. Even though this sets me back a little bit I think if I work on it over the weekend I will be able to get majority of it done so when I come back to school on Monday I will be able to finish the starter project. For the remainder of class after After Effects crashed I proof read my blog to make sure everything made sense.
Today I was finally able to upload my videos to my computer. For some amount of time today I went on my friends Instagram and watch the videos that they have made. I looked at them because I want to model my video after their's. I also took some time taking notes on what I thought I needed to include in the video. I also had to delete pictures off my computer to clear up some space for the videos and the After Effects files because they take up A LOT of space. Right before class ended After Effects crashed on me and I lost almost all of the work I had gotten done. It was really frustrating. Even though this sets me back a little bit I think if I work on it over the weekend I will be able to get majority of it done so when I come back to school on Monday I will be able to finish the starter project. For the remainder of class after After Effects crashed I proof read my blog to make sure everything made sense.