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Saturday, December 18, 2010
PE_7 CS5
7:40 PM
Matthew E. Park
For my final video for this class I decided to make an entire project from start to finish with Adobe Premiere. My plan for the idea involved using the chroma key feature or 'green screen' effect. Now, I've used green screen via iMovie in the past. The effect is decent, but iMovie does not allow you to edit and customize your key. The green screen I have access to is just a curtain, so there is always a lot of color variation. You can see shadow like ripples in the background of the video I linked above. Premiere gives you much more control. First of all, Premiere gives you the ability to crop a key, which will reduce problem spotst, by...
PE_6 CS5
7:17 PM
Matthew E. Park
This week I decided to continue my exploration of After Effects and Premiere. For my first project I decided to go back into After Effects and tweak the Christmas photo show I made last week. I decided to add an opening title screen.Once again, it took my a little bit of time to figure it out. The Adobe products are intended for professional use, so making them user friendly isn't really a primary concern. First of all, unlike iMovie, AE gives you the ability to create text boxes and move them anywhere in the frame you would like them.The other cool thing about creating titles in AE is the number of preset text animations. The presets are...
Sunday, December 12, 2010
PE_5 CS5
6:53 PM
Matthew E. Park
This week we made another Hollywood style trailer to promote our holiday food drive competition. It turned out pretty good, but I was unhappy that I was not able to make some text additions that I wanted to make. I wanted to add the names of a few faculty members to promote them as the stars of the fictional film "Quest for Cans." The iMovie 11' templates will not allow much customization and even exporting and importing back into iMovie is still a problem due to the limited text feature. The clip played for the students on Thursday without the text I wanted to add. Since Thursday, I have become brave enough to use CS5, and I was able to...
PE_4 CS5
6:24 PM
Matthew E. Park
I decided to take the plunge and create a project using one of the applications in Adobe CS5. I have to admit that I find the Adobe products a bit intimidating. iMovie is one thing, but Premiere and After Effects... That's a whole different ballgame. I decided to keep it simple since it would be my first experience with one of the applications in the CS5 suite. I decided to make a holiday photo show of my boys using After Effects (AE).First I created a background movie in iMovie by stringing together six photos that I changed to black and white. I then imported this movie into AE. I also imported all of the color shots I would use in the...
BP_11 NetRocket Commercial
6:17 PM
Matthew E. Park
The music was created in Garageband and the animations are courtesy of Animation Facto...
BP_8 NetRocket
5:44 PM
Matthew E. Park
NetRocket is a social bookmarking tool with a bit of a twist. If you haven't used social bookmarking, I highly encourage you to start. The ability to have a virtual favorites list that you can access anywhere is reason enough. There are many good sites out there. Like all of these sites, Netrocket allows you to save you favorite links via the web so you can access them from any computer.You simply add links by filling out a simple dialogue box.What makes NetRocket different is its built in scheduler. NetRocket gives you the ability to set up email reminders to keep all of your online activity on track. You simply set the date and time you...
Sunday, December 5, 2010
BP_4 Fotobabble
7:00 PM
Matthew E. Park
Fotobabble is cool tool that allows you to add audio to a photo and then share with others. Since I also teach classes for the virtual school program in my district, I am always looking for new ways to make announcements to my students. Fotobabble just made the list. I could use goofy pictures or pics realated to the content. Either way, I think it will bring a little more than just the standard podcast.The engine is real easy to use. You simply upload the pic, click record, and preview. Once you save it is ready to be shared.I plan on using this to send stuff to my staff and to send fun to friends. If you have never seen or used this...
PE2_iMovie
6:15 PM
Matthew E. Park
For another project, I tried to illustrate the green screen feature by showing the transition from the actual green screen to the simulated background. I had to create a transition from a blank green screen to the subject in front of the screen. I used cross-dissolve to achieve this because cross-dissolve will only dissolve what has changed in the frame. Here is an example with a clip using my lovely wife as the star.The best way to pull this off is to use one continuous roll. I shot this with a tripod and I had my wife simply walk out of the frame. To edit, you just have to cut out the footage of the subject leaving. You then cross-dissolve...
PE3_iMovie
2:59 PM
Matthew E. Park
Here is my certificate from Lynda.comMatthew ParkThis week I made a video to promote the 9th grade food drive competition at my campus. I worked on this project with the principal over 9th grade and one of our counselors. I was responsible for the concept, most of the filming, and the editing. We decided to make it in the style of a Hollywood trailer. This is real easy with iMovie '11. Despite the cool templates available in iMovie '11, I decided to deviate a bit which created a challenge. I wanted to have a dramatic and cheesy slow motion segment in the middle of the trailer (you may want to turn your volume off for this clip. I left it...
PE1_iMovie
2:21 PM
Matthew E. Park
When using iMovie, sometimes I am not satisfied with the text feature within the program. I have experimented with a variety different ways to bring text into my projects; however, I've never experimented with making a motion text movie via iMovie. That is... until today. I created a simple text transition movie with a stark solid black background and dramatic light gray text. For my subject I chose to use the famous "Out, out brief candle!" soliloquy from Macbeth (I'm obviously in a cheerful mood).I started by creating my text slides in powerpoint. After creating the layout for each slideI then brought each slide into iMovie. The cool...
