Digital Multimedia

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Digital Multimedia

• Week 9

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CALENDAR
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AGENDA

• Intro to Adobe Encore
• Into to the Encore Interface and DVD burning
  process
• Review of your mid-term drafts
• Exporting from Premiere and After Effects
• Good practices
• After Effects Lesson
• Wiggle
• To initiate an expression, alt-click the stop
  watch for the property or select the property and
  go to ANIMATION gt ADD EXPRESSION
• wiggle(frequency,amplitude)
• Time permitting
• How to display multiple flash videos (.flv) in
  one iterface
• Advanced use of Flashs FLVPlayback component

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LESSON

• Exporting for DVD from Premiere
• WINDOWS DV AVI (.avi) (720x480 .9 for standard
  or 1.2 pixel aspect ratio for widescreen)
• Exporting for the Web from Premiere
• Flash Video (.flv)
• Consider making it half size (320x240 square
  pixel aspect ratio or 360x240 .9 pixel aspect
  ratio)

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LESSON

• More Details on Exporting from Premiere
• When you want to export your movie to eventually
  bring it into Adobe Encore DVD to burn a DVD, I
  recommend that you export out a Windows DV AVI
  file (FILE gt EXPORT gt MOVIE)
• WINDOWS DV AVI
• NTSC 720x480
• .9 pixel aspect ratio for regular DV, 1.2 for
  widescreen DV
• When you want to create files for sharing on the
  web, youll want to use Adobes Media Encoder
  (FILE gt EXPORT gt ADOBE MEDIA ENCODER) and the
  following settings
• Flash Video (.flv) FLV8 NTSC 700K

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LESSON

• Exporting for DVD from After Effects
• UNCOMPRESSED MICROSOFT AVI (.avi)
• WINDOWS DV AVI (.avi) (720x480 .9 or 1.2 pixel
  aspect ratio)
• Exporting for the Web from After Effects
• Flash Video (.flv)
• Consider making it half size (320x240 square
  pixel aspect ratio or 360x240 .9 pixel aspect
  ratio)

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ASSIGNMENT
Due Week 10

• TIME-BASED MULTIMEDIA PROJECT 1
• Assignment
• To create a short timed based piece of multimedia
  art using any combination of media and multimedia
  software. You can use stock video library
  footage, your own video footage, still
  photography, or graphics that you create from
  scratch. Conceptually/thematically there are no
  restrictions. The final product can be
  abstract/experimental (ie. video art, Norman
  McLaren, etc). or traditional and linearly
  narrative (ie. short film, drama, comedy,
  documentary, music video, logo animation,
  experimental animation, etc.) Formally, your
  final piece must be no less than 10 seconds and
  no more than 10 minutes.

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ASSIGNMENT
Due Week 10

• TIME-BASED MULTIMEDIA PROJECT 1
• Some Potential Ideas
• A short film (narrative, experimental,
  documentary, surf film, etc. all genres are ok)
• A music video
• The opening title sequence to a film
• A trailer to a movie (you can use the existing
  footage to a movie, then edit it to create your
  own trailer)
• A logo animation (i.e. the animations that you
  see before a film begins at the theater)
• A commercial (30 seconds or 1 minute in length)
• Experimental animation (ie. Norman McLaren)
• Others may be ok (come speak to me if you have an
  idea not listed above)

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ASSIGNMENT
Due Week 10

• TIME-BASED MULTIMEDIA PROJECT 1
• Project Timeline and Important Dates
• Week 7 Film Treatment (ie. storyboards) due.We
  will have an informal critique/discussion on this
  day to look at your pre-production plan.
• Week 8 1st drafts due.We will have an informal
  critique on this day to look at the 1st round
  drafts.
• Week 10 Midterm project is due.We will have a
  formal critique on this day to look at the
  completed projects.

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ASSIGNMENT
Due Week 10

• TIME-BASED MULTIMEDIA PROJECT 1
• Purpose/Objective
• To go through the full creative design process
  for cinematic time-based projects.
• To integrate images, motion graphic design,
  digital video, sound effects, and music into a
  unified multimedia work of art.
• To effectively defend course work conceptually.

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ASSIGNMENT
Due Week 10

• TIME-BASED MULTIMEDIA PROJECT 1
• Format There are two major parts to the
  assignment
• DVD with custom DVD Interface Menu (using Adobe
  Encore)
• NOTE due to an Encore software
  conflict/restriction in the NMA labs, you need to
  be logged in as an administrator when you burn
  your DVD. The good news is that you can design
  your DVD using your regular UH login. You will
  need to ask me, or a lab manager, to log you in
  as an administrator ONLY WHEN YOU NEED TO BURN A
  DVD.
• Flash web version of the midterm project (.flv)
  to be handed-in via either data cd or flash usb
  drive. Do not post online on your www2 site
  unless you have ample space.
• Flash Video (.flv)

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