- Try to watch these at the highest resolution (i.e., Go to settings and bring it up to 1080p) if possible for your connection and device. Try to stay on top of these dates below for the material. Go to the calendar to see when things are due.
Monday, August 24
- Go HERE to watch Lecture-Demo 3, AFTER EFFECTS – Kinetic Type – Synching Sound with Text
- Go HERE to watch Lecture-Demo 4 – Kinetic Type Part 2 – Transitions and Hang Time
- Go Here to watch Lecture-Demo 5 – Rendering Movies with Adobe Media Encoder
- Start animating your type with the soundtrack you edited. Remember to keep it to 15 second intervals.
Wednesday, August 26
- Go Here to watch Lecture-Demo 6 – After Effects- 3D space, Common Expressions, Animation Presets and Applying Effects
- Continue animating your type with the soundtrack you edited.
- POST YOUR WORK THUS FAR ON THE BLOG. If all you have is the audio file, just upload it to Google Drive and then share the link on your blog. Preferably you will render out a Quicktime move, post to youtube and embed it in your blog post as per the previous video. Email me with questions. LOOK AT EVERYONE’S WORK ON THEIR BLOGS before our class meeting this Monday.
- SCHEDULE A MEETING with Ed via Zoom this week to talk about progress/concepts/problems, etc.
- For Wednesday, by 12 noon, you should have posted on your blog a quicktime movie of your work in progress, whatever and wherever stage of the process so far, from the previous assignments. Audio should be finished, 30, 45, or 60 second intervals, Type is beginning to be synched up with sound if not styled. THEN Wednesday during class time, go to the NEXT 4 STUDENTS after your name is listed on the class blog list (or also found at edmidgett.net) and make comments on their posts in the comments section of their blogs. Write the comments to an email file if you run into problems with the comments section of a particular blog. The last 4 students should start back at the top of the list. This way everyone is writing only 4 comments for a work in progress critique on Wednesday. Try to offer constructive criticism, especially regarding the concept. Ed will comment as well. If you need one on one help with the software, Schedule some time with Ed regarding your process/progress on the blog before our in progress critique on Monday, August 31. I am available this weekend and also on Monday and Tuesday.