Thursday, February 01, 2007

Rough Edit complete

I finally have completed a rough edit of my footage and will be posting it up online very soon. Right now I am finalizing the decisions on which shots I will keep and which ones I am certain that I will not be including. After showing the footage to my brother, who is in charge of my sound design, he recommended that the footage stay at a normal pace while the hiphop track is playing and then turn into slo mo when the rock track comes on. I tested this idea out and it works magnificently. Some of the problems that I am tackling now are dealing with interlace issues. Trying to get interlacing out of my footage has been a bit of a struggle. However I am confident that I will be able to come across a plugin that accurately deals with this issue.

Another big plus this week was finding out ways to achieve the color correction effects that I want. On Tuesday I showed some of my references to Selena Simmons who has a background in graphic design. She recommended using photoshop, and showed me some awesome effects that will definitely come in handy when I get ready to design the background as well as work on color correction.

My goal this week was to begin on Rotoscoping. My date to begin was Monday, but due to some minor setbacks I had to begin this process today. So far I am doing pretty well. I have been able to rotoscope at the rate of 15 frames per an hour. I have about 20 seconds of footage to rotoscope. Which means I will take me approximately 40 hours to rotoscope this whole thing. So if I dedicate at least 8 hours for 5 days then I should be done by Tuesday. Which allow to me head right into my sound effects and allow more time for the 3d modeling portion of this project. If anyone has any tips or advice I would definitely like to know.

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