Week One
In this workshop we learnt how to create a video from photography stills. I prepared the images ready for the video by resizing them on photoshop to the PAL UK video standard size of 720 x 576 pixels. Instead of editing each photographs size individually, we learnt how to record actions on photoshop.
- Create new action - record - change image size - save as (new folder) - close image - stop
To apply this action to one other image, I could open the other image and select the action and the change would be made. Or, to apply it to all of the stills, I would select file - automate - batch - choose folder with stills in - ok.
I used Quicktime player 7 to create this video. I opened the image sequence and changed the frame rate to 12 frames per second, resulting in a 6 second video. I then exported this movie, changing the frame rate to 25fps as this is the PAL standard.
I then edited the still photographs by creating an action to change things such as the hue/saturation, which I applied to all photographs at once as I had done previously.
This is my edited video, which I uploaded to Vimeo.
Week Two
This week in the moving image workshop I have made a video from my own drawings, so my piece is relevant to my current work. There are only 8 images, meaning the final video lasts for only just over a second. Instead of using quicktime player, I have used final cut. Just a few advantages of using final cut are that you can have audio and text in your video, you have more control over your images, you can have gaps in the video, and the images can last for different durations.
I started by importing my images, and then dropping them into the timeline. The length of the image block determines the time it will be on screen, so I shrunk the blocks, as with a flick book, each image only needs to be seen for a very short amount of time.
This week in the moving image workshop I have made a video from my own drawings, so my piece is relevant to my current work. There are only 8 images, meaning the final video lasts for only just over a second. Instead of using quicktime player, I have used final cut. Just a few advantages of using final cut are that you can have audio and text in your video, you have more control over your images, you can have gaps in the video, and the images can last for different durations.
I started by importing my images, and then dropping them into the timeline. The length of the image block determines the time it will be on screen, so I shrunk the blocks, as with a flick book, each image only needs to be seen for a very short amount of time.
This screenshot shows how I added text to the video in the viewer window. In the end, instead of having the text as a separate slide, I decided the text would be underneath for the duration of the video. I did this by overlaying this block.
By creating a new sequence, and then dragging my old sequence into the new one, all the slides will work as one, as if it was a video now. If I wanted to, I could place the sequence more than once.
To save my file, I exported it using quick time conversion, and saved it with h.264 compression.
