Well heres what happens when someone tries to do the exact same thing but with Obama instead of Hilary, but doesnt have access to the right tools or techniques:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dycbAsB9-ps&NR Im guessing you havent gotten all the answers yet because the answer is rather long. There are so many different techniques that could be required to make a modification to a scene look pretty seamless. I wish I was proficient enough at this stuff to answer your specific examples but I am not very good with such tools. After Effects is certainly one, Im not sure of an excellent cheap or free alternative, there are other alternatives that are fairly expensive. Some things can be done automatically rather than frame by frame, people try to avoid that wherever possible as there are just too many frames. But for a short sequence or something real special, or that no other auto or semi-auto tool seems to handle, manual editing of frames is one way to get results. If you dont get enough answers then try searching the web for terms like compositing, rotoscoping, keying At a guess people who are good at this stuff are also good at finding the sorts of footage that wont require almost impossible manipulation to work. Its usually easier if the source scene camera isnt moving much, for example. Im also guessing that even with the right tools, footage and knowledge, lots of time can be consumed in the all important final polishing stages which can make the difference between something good and the video I linked to earlier. Other forms of mashng together existing footage can be done a lot easier and faster, such as cruder mixing together of video samples, or splicing clips of someone to make them say something different. These are also more likely to be accoumplished in even a basic video editing package, as opposed to the generally more expensive compositing/animation apps. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "Aldon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bill, et al, > > I'm glad the discussion came back to my question about tools to use > to make a video like that. Yes, I know that the video was a reworking > of the classic 1984 Apple advertisement. I know that a lot went into > making the original advertisement. > > What I was trying to ask, and I haven't found a good answer, is how > does one go about making a new video, like "Vote Different" through > editing existing videos. > > The closest I've gotten, so far is from someone off the list > suggesting that After Effects could probably be used to do something > like that. Could this have been done with After Effects? How much > work is it to get proficient enough in something like After Effects to > modify a video the way they did? Are there other tools that are > better? Are there open source tools? > > To get more specific, at about three seconds into the video, you > see the drones marching in with three video monitors in the upper left > hand section of the screen. These monitors have a video of Hillary > playing in them. How difficult is it to take a video and add it into > a section of another video? > > At about 6 seconds, 15 seconds, 20 seconds, and 38 seconds the > image of the runner is modified to have an iPod and an Obama graphic. > How difficult was this? How much of this do you need to do on a > frame by frame basis, and how much can be automated with something > like After Effects? > > On a more general basis, how many of you on this list have done > this sort of editting to any of your videos? How many of you know how > to do it? > > Aldon > > --- In [email protected], "Bill Cammack" <BillCammack@> > wrote: > > Is that your answer to the poster's question about tools to use to > > make a video like that??? > > >
