Week 2 - Lab 1 (E-learning) and Lab 2

Lab 1 (E-learning)

For his week lab work which is e-learning, we will be doing on some tracking and screen replacement using the given video "Fringe hospital bed" which can be found in olive.

For this exercise, we do not have any tutorials to follow through, however, this exercise is sort of very similar to what we have done on "Week 1 - Lab 3", which is replacing video in the scene using track motion. I found it similar to what we have done previously, thus I decide to do more for the exercise rather than just doing the same replacement of video in the scene where there is no screen movement.

I decide to replace the video from the monitor screen from the start, where the camera of the whole video screen move along slowly to make the monitor screen appear. I find it a little challenge as I didn't done it before. Along with the help of my friends, I manage to done it quite well I guess, it is actually not that difficult after all.

Firstly, I split the video into 2 different parts, one is showing the whole monitor, while the other part is the one with the camera slowly moving towards the monitor. For the 1st part, we use the same thing as we have done before, which is the perspective corner pin. For the second part which is abit more tricky, we need to use another track motion to track from the nose (which is one of the better starting track point) which is what i have done where we must go along with the movement of the camera screen towards the monitor. Lastly, we must position it at the monitor screen from the start so that the video won't start to appear and move from the nose where we start to track it. For the last part where the guy wakes up, it is the same thing using perspective corner pin to track and replace the video. I also added some sound effect to make the whole scene looks abit more funnier at the start and more creepy at the ending part.

Below is the video scene that I have done, along with the sound effects. Enjoy!

Lab 2

In this lab, we will be doing on a simple exercise called the "Track Matte". This is a rather simple exercise where we just need to input a text title and use the track matte option in After Effects to make the text blend in together with the background.

There is an option in the After Effects track matte, where we selece alpha matte so that the text will blend in with the background of the video. Lastly, we add in bevel alpha, along with the drop shadow tool to make the text looks better with shadow effect and a little bit of coloring on it.

Below is the "Track Matte" video that I have done, the video may be a little lag, I think my quality for the video is a bit higher than normal, but i try to render out in low quality to minimise the lag, turns out when I upload the video it keeps blinking, I think the lag cause the video to become like that when I uploaded it, I apologise for the cause.

Reflection:

We have come to the second week of this subject, so far I'm doing quite well up to now. For his week exercises, I find it quite simple while also learning some of the basic tracking in After Effects. I find the E-learning pretty cool, where I successfully done the 1st part which is tracking from a moving scene, I thought it will gonna be quite hard, but after I done it is actually quite easy to do. I think that's all for now, I'm gonna start my James Bond tutorial, hope it won't be too boring and is fun to do!