Week 11: Music Vid part 2 of 2

Screenings: Michel Gondry
-Hardest Button to Button
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-Sugar Water
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-Kylie Minogue "Come into My World"
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FCP:
Sequence menu/Seq settings/Timeline options
-Show audio waveforms checkbox

FCP time remap
-Constant speed: change the duration or speed of your clip uniformly throughout
-Variable speed: keyframe your clip's timing.
-3rd tool in Slip edit (in FC toolbox) is your time remap tool.
-hotkey is SSS

Graph in your Motion tab, represents Current time vs. Clip time.
-Slope upward means the video plays forward
-Slope downward means video plays backwards
-Moving a Time remap keyframe Up makes the frame you're watching go up a frame in original clip value
-Moving Time Remap keyfr left or right changes its timing
-keyframes close=fast mov't
-keyfr far=slower mov't

Smoothing the Time Remap graph: 

-use the 3rd tool in the pen tool, "convert" Hotkey is PPP
-Click on the keyframe in the graph to smoothe it.

Retiming in AE:
-To show just video, turn off audio switch
-To hear just audio, no video, turn off video switch

To view Audio waveform

-select your audio layer and hit LL
-if you don't see it well, go to AFX/Prefs/User Interface colors, and darken
-if you still don't see it well: select your audio layer, hold shift and type L
-This brings up your audio levels property.
-Up your audio levels. Remember to reduce them before final render.

PRESS Period on num pad to play audio alone
PRESS Zero on num pad to play audio and video together
-Hold Apple while scrubbing to see/hear audio and video frame by frame.
-Turn on Caps Lock to freeze your onscreen preview while you scrub your audio.

MAKE SURE auto-save is ON
AFX menu/prefs/autosave
-i do every 2 min, max versions 5
-set this up every time you work on a school computer.
-and then SAVE your PROJECT

MAKE SURE your audio preview is as long as your audio clip.
-AFX prefs/Previews/change the duration of the audio preview.

can create markers on the timeline 

-using Asterisk * on Number pad, or going to Layer/Add marker.
-Double-click the marker and Name it in the Comments field.

Select video layer
-Layer/Time/Enable Time remapping
-it gives you 2 keyframes: 1 for your original clip-beginning and 1 for your original clip-end.
-create new keyframes on "coolframes"
by clicking in the little box between the keyframe navigation arrows.

You can also make new time remap keyframes

-by sliding the keyframe value in the Time Remap property with the Pointer finger.

Assignment: Time remap music video.
1-edit music in FC
2-rough edit of picture in FC
3-RETIME in FC or AE
advantage of FC: realtime playback
advantage of AE: kickass frame blending.
4-color-correction, transitions, and visual effects