Wall of Gray Videos
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The Wall of Gray Tour Bus is currently stopping at: Waldport, Newberg, & Florence with a detour through a Time Twister. The pictures will be back Real Soon
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The videos are back on-line.
The Wall of Gray Tour Bus is currently stopping at: Waldport, Newberg, & Florence with a detour through a Time Twister. The pictures will be back Real Soon
May 16th, 2005 at 3:36 pm
How did you make that Time Twister video? I understand that you setup the camera and did a long shot but how did you composite them so that the riders didn’t look translucent?
What editing software do you use?
That’s some of the freshest batch of skate video I’ve seen in a long time. Props. Keep’em coming.
May 17th, 2005 at 8:23 pm
I mostly use Sony Video Vegas to edit and Adobe After Effects for the tricky stuff like the Time Twister.
That layering effect was done with a Difference Matte - a setting on one of the After Effect keying tools. Using that I can pull the skaters from one clip and insert them over top of another - as long as the camera hasn’t moved. The matte’s are pretty sloppy but they worked.
May 18th, 2005 at 9:02 am
That’s awesome. I saw that same trick about 18 years ago at The Festival of Animation. That version was animated by hand and involved people going in and out of a kitchen/backyard. It was all layered and repeated like that.
I have to get that setup you have and try it out. Is it After Effects Professional or the standard version that does the matting?
I’ve done a little skate video using Studio 8. For $99 including the capture card it’s pretty cool. No high end stuff like after effects. Do you need Professional if you want to do the effect where you take a scan of a still picture then pan thru it where all the characters and layers do the parallax fly-thru thing?
Did you weight down the tripod when you did the shooting?
June 3rd, 2005 at 10:32 am
I have After Effecte 6.5 pro. I’m not sure what fetures any other version has, sorry. I’m pretty new at this, only been editing video for like a year.
>>still picture then pan thru it where all the characters
>>and layers do the parallax fly-thru thing?
I think that oyu should be able to do that with any editing program that allows layers - if you have a version of the picture with no people (a ‘blank’). You could cut out each person or object that you wanted to animate. Then layer them all over the blank version. Then zoom in and out or move each individual layer.
Hard to describe something like that.
Have you tried Sony’s Video Vegas software. It’s much easier to use than PRemiere and it has a lot of ‘professional features. Still kind of spendy like $400. That Pinnacle Studio software seems to be the best of the cheaper ones, though.