Finally!

After 2 long days of painstaking editing and hand numbing shortcuts, I am finally done with my short kinetic text animation. The initial size of the video was 2.39gb which is HEAVY. Turns out I forgot to use a compressor before clicking "Render". Our teacher taught me how to use compressors and amazingly the file's size went down to 2.09mb. Enough chit chat from me.. Here's the video..

Scariest Part of the Project

RENDERING. I see it everyday at school, on notepads in the PC's in the lab. At first I thought "What's the big deal with rendering?" But now that we started using After Effects, and it requires you to render the video when you make a movie, I found out that it is such a big deal. Rendering can't be done in an ordinary PC, and sometimes the application crashes. Good thing mine didnt. This post is in relation to the previous one, about the documentary for our PolSci class. Here's a Snapshot of the process..

Peace

We were instructed to make a video for our PolSci class, and I planed on making one of those kinetic text animations I see on YouTube. Since we planned our video to show our human rights, and how it is being violated, I planned on animating the texts and forming a peace symbol as it plays. First, I used Adobe Illustrator to map out the design of my peace sign, I used Illustrator so that when I import it in After Effects, it will not be pixelated because it is a vector. This is how I want the output to look like in the end..