Espionage724 Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 I have seen one video somewhere that was a edited version of the Mac OS X Leopard intro movie. I was wondering if I could do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ducttapelad Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Use motion, shake, or after effects Note: Needs to be able to have 3d layers Get a background image and scale it up to be very large. You want this to be 2d Create text layers position the layers of text through out 3d space and at different angles Create a camera layer and keyframe flying from one layer to another. *other animation to the layers are optional *you want the bg layer to be bigger than the camera view and u might have to keyframe it to move with the camera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espionage724 Posted November 25, 2007 Author Share Posted November 25, 2007 What program should i use for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ducttapelad Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 I personally would use After Effects 7 for this because that is what I have and what I am familiar with but Apple Motion or Apple Shake will get the Job done. If you do not have any of these any 3d program might get the job done Blender from Blender.org will get the job done but the interface is difficult to learn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espionage724 Posted November 25, 2007 Author Share Posted November 25, 2007 OK ill try to find one of those programs to use. Do you know which one is the best one to make the video easily? Blender is quite confusing lol and lags alot for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ducttapelad Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 Well controls for the timing will be easiest in AE, Motion or Shake I would say the Motion would be the easiest given Apple's ease of use with other applications Unfortuately Motion, I believe is only available as part of Final Cut Studio but here is a trial site http://www.apple.com/motion/trial/ The only problem is that the trial is for Motion 2 and i don't know if Apple integrated 3d multiplane compositing until Motion 3 if it will not work you can download Shake from http://www.apple.com/shake/trial/ After Effects trial is available from adobe.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espionage724 Posted November 25, 2007 Author Share Posted November 25, 2007 K...ill just download and use After Effects. Will the instructions u posted towards the top work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ducttapelad Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 They should For after effects the layers I would use are 5. Camera layer (default settings work fine) ^ | | |(as many text layers as u want) | | | 3. Another Layer of text 2. Text 1. Background (In leopard intro its a space image) *Text and Camera can be created from Layer -> New -> Camera or Layer -> New -> Text Before creating the camera scale the Bg up to maybe twice the composition size. Then add your text layers spread out throughout the comp. Click the box next to each text layer that is under a 3d cube This will make it 3d layers rotate each layer along the green axis (Y axis) to various angles You can create a camera and keyframe it (click the stop watch button) to face each of the text layers Then keyframe the bg position so that when the camera moves down the bg moves down and vise versa A great resource for learning AE is http://videocopilot.net/basic/index.html Good Luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espionage724 Posted November 25, 2007 Author Share Posted November 25, 2007 K...right now im watching the videos for AE at the link you provided. I will try to make the video and if im successful ill post it. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espionage724 Posted November 26, 2007 Author Share Posted November 26, 2007 I'm just playing around in AF. I'm still not too sure how to do it though even after looking at the guides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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