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1. Production Reflection
Adam Wheeler

2. Process
• Import the song into the composition and
drag into the media layers
• After importing the song I pressed L x2 to
open the waveform of the track so It’s easier
for me to place markers on the main points
of the track I want to sync my footage to, so
it’s a lot more accurate.
• It’s very time-consuming to find all of the
individual beats on a track and maybe a
waste of time limiting my time to work on
the rest of my product

3. Process
• Imported my footage into the project and
trim the clip into the section of the clip I
need, scrapping the rest of unneeded
footage.
• I CRTL + Click on the video layer and select
track camera, this will analyse the footage
and give us track points to work with, we
can use this to motion track text/PNG files
by creating a solid and a null layer.
• Often the camera tracking failed as it wasn’t
able to find track points and track each
individual frame and also didn't’t work with
the adaptive resolution
• The final product for the 3D Motion track
didn’t come out as well as hoped for as the
edges were rough due to the anti-aliasing of
the render, I tried compensating this with
Ambient Occlusion (SSAO)

4. Process
• After I’ve selected the footage I want to play
at a specific marker, I use a third party
plugin called Time Remap which allows me
to manipulate the footage speed depending
on the frame rate of the footage, After I’ve
worked with the speeds a bit, it seemed
very rough at times so I highlighted all of the
key frames, pressed F9 and this easy eased
my key frames, allowing me to edit the
curves in the graph editor in a U shape
formation making my footage flow better
with the music.
• Problems I had were that my footage was
only 60fps limiting me to only 50% speed
and often I would need to go lower than
that which caused my project to drop
frames.
• With the 24/30fps footage I had, I couldn’t
manipulate the footage with Twixtor
without there being any frame warping and
frame loss.

5. Process
• I Fully synced my footage to my background
track so the video flows well with the audio
and with Twixtor with the U Curve Velo
allows the scenes to transitioning smoothly.
• I had to be very careful with the curves as if I
pull the curves to far down it may cause my
composition to drop frames.

6. Process
• The next and final stage is the effects stage, I
had experimented a lot with individual
effects to replicate the old look to my trailer
as it’s supposed to look aged and a VHS
style.
• I was able to replicate this look by using a ix
of Sapphire and BCC plugins for AE/SV and
the plugins I primarily used were S_TV
Simulator, I used this to give the scrolling
effect as if the transmission wasn’t coming
through, I used Film damage to give it an
aged and damaged look with the scan lines
and I used BCC Film burn to replicate it
burning so I could transition it to the outro
scene and a lot more Effects to add to my
trailer e.g. blurs, lighting etc.
• It’s very time consuming finding the right
effect then messing around with it and then
following it up by animating the effect so it
changes.

7. Process
• Finally I add my final product to the render
que and render out the final product at
720p @ 24fps.
• Problems I had were that the render time
was very time consuming and often the
render would crash meaning I had to restart
the render over and over again.