What I did:
Today, I motion tracked a text in Sony Vegas. It is a lot more difficult than I originally thought because the clip I was using had a lot of movement rather than what motion tracking is traditionally used for which is when you are zooming out to see the whole picture and that is the reason why I think I could have done a lot better if I had one of those clips. I added text to a 1-second clip and tried to make it stay in one position. I only got it half right because it stayed where I wanted to only for the briefest of periods. I think the main reason for this is because of all the movement in the video rather than just a clip of it zooming out. Also, I tried to the keep the text on the wall, but all the movement messed it up. I will come back to this tutorial when I am ready to make my montage in a couple of months but for now, this is what I did.
The 1-second clip of me attempting to get this down. It takes a while. Game: Destiny.
Today, I motion tracked a text in Sony Vegas. It is a lot more difficult than I originally thought because the clip I was using had a lot of movement rather than what motion tracking is traditionally used for which is when you are zooming out to see the whole picture and that is the reason why I think I could have done a lot better if I had one of those clips. I added text to a 1-second clip and tried to make it stay in one position. I only got it half right because it stayed where I wanted to only for the briefest of periods. I think the main reason for this is because of all the movement in the video rather than just a clip of it zooming out. Also, I tried to the keep the text on the wall, but all the movement messed it up. I will come back to this tutorial when I am ready to make my montage in a couple of months but for now, this is what I did.
The 1-second clip of me attempting to get this down. It takes a while. Game: Destiny.
What I learned:
I learned a lot today with motion tracking. I also used a lot of tools that I never used before like the 3-D tool that I never knew existed until now. I also used the tracking tool to move the text around and position it. Overall, I learned a lot about motion tracking today.
1. The first thing, I learned was 3-D Source Alpha which makes the whole layer a 3-D layer and you can edit things in 3-D with it like text. I first set up my clip and decided what region I was going to use for it.
2. Next, I added text and shortened the text down to the length the video. I also learned about motion tracking here. It's a tiny button near the 3-D button in the timeline.
3. Finally, I learned that in the motion tracking option, you can change where the text goes at that time and you can even change the size/angle of the text so if want to put your text on a flat surface, you can angle it to make it look like it's facing up rather than just staring at something. This also uses keyframes in that whenever you change the time and edit, a new keyframe gets created at that time so it can respond when the video starts.
What I learned:
Tomorrow, I plan to learn how to Hollywood-style videos. This is an effect that adds black bars to the top and bottom of your videos to give it that film feel. This is especially useful if you like creating short films or skits and recording them. I do not plan to do this on Youtube but I plan to do this in other classes and maybe just do stupid little things like this in the future. If I do decide to go down the path of skit making, this will be especially helpful. It also involves colour correcting and things like that so it is going to be interesting.
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