Enviro Fire Ae Workshop today

productive learning day. Looked at Takeshi Murata The Creators Project and Mc Keitch Madden Garden. Created 2 videos, one in After Effects (Ae) and the other using this Ae video in Final Cut Pro. The links to these are :

http://youtu.be/kqg5SLSgvxQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVwiqvnEANQ

The process as far as I remember

1. photos taken off phone, sent to dropbox, then copied into desktop folder "photos"
2. open one photo in Photoshop and created a set of actions to apply to each photo, took a few goes to get the effects what I wanted - glow like and smudged edges, some originals were of concrete and others of lights, fireworks and the kids in the balls. Image size width 1200, res 72. 
   
   
   
   
3. batch automate all photos from the file, these saved to a new file "action photos", FILE> AUTOMATE>BATCH remember to tick the override open, suppress dialogue boxes and suppress colour correction
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. open in After effects, NEW project , called Composition in Ae. duration set at 30 seconds - sufficient for today, width 1200  so set HDV/HDTV 720 25 = 1280 x 720 frame rate 25 
   
5. drag all images down to timeline
   
6. shorten them to length, change the opacity by adding in key frames, add effects etc. sounds simple - right?! 
   
7. render to create a video
8. import in final cut pro and apply mask, share
9. upload , to YouTube,  both videos
10. say well done me and thanks Gmail for the confirmation