Making my own tracked videoI made a video filming a hallway, where I then imported the poster into my composition.
I then added a 3D tracker and made a detailed analysis as the video was complex.

However because the video had a lot of white walls the contrast and brightness impacted the tracking making it glitch a lot.

As a result I used mocha to help stabilize the poster in a single  position by surround a red rectangle around where I wanted the poster to be placed.

After the tracking on mocha was complete the video was 95% stable there was still a frame that glitched, so the best solution was to remove that single frame.

Finally, the poster was stable and I adjusted the, saturation, brightness and I added a blur filter so it blended into the background.

Working with 3D layers

Using this video made by a drone we learnt how to add various effects, including decay and fire.

Firstly we had to add the clip into the main composition, after wards I had to click on the anchor tool(besides the camera in the tool section) to drag the anchor in the clip downwards.

We then inserted a ground decay object but we had to make it blend into the clip. To do this we had to render its track points in effects control, after that many small colourful symbols appeared .

The next step was to pick one of them and right click them to create a null, then rotate the z axis to make it lay flat on the earth then blend it by playing around with the saturation and hue's.

To create the fire effect , we inserted a clip of a fire into the main composition, then made it 3D and played around with its axis.

After we aligned it with a null object and then changed the saturation and hue of the fire to make it blend and seem more realistic.

 To change the drone set up to a more suitable frame, we had to change the composition settings to 1280/720 frame and in the effects settings we had to use 'optics compensation.

Point tracking 05/03/20

These are the initial steps I wrote for beginning how to point track.
After those steps I also learnt that I had to make a null and then make sure it follows the tracker formed.
Eventually, bring in a 3D object making sure it follows the null- this is made possible by using the parent pull whip tool.

I had to create a moving plane, I first inserted the plane alone which was a stabilized clip.

I then added two track motions on either sides, afterwards I clicked on the position, rotation and scale settings before adding analyse and transform to the track type.

I went back to my composition and added a null object.

I inserted the missile's although they overlaid the plane so I added a filter which illuminated the plane and duplicated the plane as well so the missiles appear below them.

Through this project one of the main things I learnt was that in order to activate track motion you have to insert a clip, as images do not work.

1-You can either create stills in photoshop of layered images and then export them to after effects.

2-You could stabilize a video in premier then export it into after effects.

3-You could stabilize a video in a single composition within after effects then insert the product into the second composition.

Making my own video using the camera -AFTER EFFECTS

- Tuesday

We had to create a video using the camera on after effects including texts and images.
I added different layers of texts all including different statements and then a few pictures which I edited on photoshop.

I was able to use the tips I learnt from learning how to use cameras, including making the text and objects 3D, combining layers with the parent whip chain, and playing around with the various axis.

After effects-working with Cameras

We extracted this file including different shapes and graph paper.

Upon opening the document, I added made all the objects 3d and then I camera and made it have a focal length of 25mm.

By changing the positioning of the camera I was able to rotate the objects ; and eventually I started my animation by changing the positioning of the camera between  1 and 5 seconds. I rotated the screen during the time with the camera effect and added an ease in and ease out animation.

Overall I learnt how to create 3D objects and using the camera to make seemingly camera transitions.

 These are some notes I made whilst learning the controls.

green screen -photoshop

Using photoshop we imported an image then, I used the magnetic lasso tool to cut the man out and then I copied and pasted it into a new file.
This was a film file so I chose the one with 1920/1080 settings and then I pasted the image.

Green screen -Premier

Using premiere it was easier to add the animation of the man moving instead of placing it manually one by one on the time sequence like in after effects.

Although the keying in after effects was more effective at removing the green screen background than the one in after effects.
But in terms of layering there is more clarity with using premiere.

I also learnt to use the composition settings including:
-48000 kH sample rate
-QuickTime, Apple pro res 422 HQ
-1920/1080