Day 7_Home_Thursday (Sept 22, 2011)

Saturday (September 24th, 2011)

3:40 - 6:45PM

1. Checked blog for what I'm suppose to do this weekend
2. Opened up butterfly.c4d file
3. I deleted the plane
4. Put in a Sky object
5. Activated the color module and set it to a shade of green
6. Named new mov file render butterflyloop2.mov
7. Rendered out to folder WK4 on working volume
8. Saved
9. Imported butterflyloop2.mov to final cut
10. Set marker to where I want to drop first animation
11. I dropped the mushroom file into the timeline in the overhead found that I need to do the same thing that I did with the butterfly file
12. Opened up the mushroom file
13. Changed the mov file name
14. Deleted the plane
15. Placed a Sky object in and activated the color
16. Set the color to green
17. Set my render
18. Went back to the project file in Final Cut
19. I opened up the butterflyloop2.mov in the video editor
20. Moved the image over to the left using the wireframe option
21. I then dropped it down into the timeline at first it showed up but then I added the chroma keyer and it won't show up on the video screen
22. I've taken it out and dropped it back in multiple times 
23. I'll try reseting the animation clip to see if that will get it back
24. It turned out that since I was only moving the wireframe it was messing with the rest of the video so I moved both the wireframe and the image then dropped it in and added the chroma keyer
25. I set the edging details but I can't quite seem to get the green trim off 
26. Rendered that section of the footage out and tested
27. I realized that I'm going to need another track for the clips I get back from Chris so I created another one
28. Moved the clip up to the the top track, track 3
29. Set up the clip duration to 1;17 it was originally 6;11
30. Tested again
31. I realized that the shot isn't stable so I now need to find a way to get the image anchored to that point
32. Looked it up
33. Found a link that and watched but it is Final Cut in association with a program called Mocha that is being used. I had finder look for mocha and had no success so the computers don't have the program but the method seems to work well. (Link posted below)
1. http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Use-Supreme-Tracking---Final-Cut-Pro-161792925
34. Looking to see if there is tracking in Final Cut
35. Looked on youtube and found one that was in another language then located this one
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1UYwBW1eCw
36. It looks like something that I should be able to do so I'm going to give it a shot
37. Imported mushroomloop3.mov
38. Saved project file
39. Opened new project file under name of Tracking Test
40. I went through the video tutorial and found that it isn't very hard to use at all (even when you have a lot of points set up to track with the mask)
41. But it's not exactly what I'm looking for so I looked for another tracking tutorial
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZP6oHsigdI&feature=relmfu
42. This one is a bit more helpful only I'm not completely sure as to how I'm going to applying it to what I'm working on right at this very moment
43. Made two more tracks (6 tracks total)
44. Took clips from the video file h4.mov and dropped them into tracks 5 and 6
45. Went through the process of the tutorial from number 35 and put it into Final Cut
46. Then dropped the mushroomloop3.mov file into the timeline on track 4 and applied sped up the animation by 444.19% shortening the length of it down to be equal with that timing of the clip
47. Then I applied the chroma keyer
48. That's when I realized that I didn't have the mushroom in the correct spot so I went into the final viewer and selected the options to use the image and wireframe and moved it into the space that I wanted
49. Tested
50. The motion tracker for the mask is blurry but I think I can go back and fix it but I'll leave it for now. I have the links in order to look back on if I need them.