{"id":6085,"date":"2014-02-02T16:40:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T23:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=6085"},"modified":"2014-02-02T16:43:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T23:43:19","slug":"putting-it-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=6085","title":{"rendered":"Putting it together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, here&#8217;s a first attempt to put it all together and create some sort of workflow.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Major elements drawn in Illustrator\n<\/li>\n<li>Imported to After Effects where the effects were added\n<\/li>\n<li>Finished composition put into Premiere where major transitions, sound effects and the extro were added<\/li>\n<li>Exported using Media Encoder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I added the lightening effects from AE&#8217;s prepackaged fx. The lightsaber effect is from a plug-in courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videocopilot.net\/tutorials\/light_sabers_v2\/\">Video Co-pilot<\/a>. Sound effects are all free downloads with the majority from <a href=\"http:\/\/theforce.net\/fanfilms\/postproduction\/soundfx\/\">theforce.net.<\/a> All in all, about 5 hours work, start to finish. If I was to take <em>any<\/em> care at all, I suppose I could triple that figure easily, not to mention how much time I saved by completely ignoring any smoothing of the animation; I will save that for when I have a gooder idea&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1920px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-6085-1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/styxmanmov.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/styxmanmov.mp4\">http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/styxmanmov.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, here&#8217;s a first attempt to put it all together and create some sort of workflow. Major elements drawn in Illustrator Imported to After Effects where the effects were added Finished composition put into Premiere where major transitions, sound effects and the extro were added Exported using Media Encoder I added the lightening effects from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}