There is relatively little altering of the original work. All effects are made by placing "masks" over the existing tv monitors and then adding a new layer with the Hillary footage.
After Effects is your best tool because you can tweat the edges and the surface of the "inserted" footage to make it better conform with the original source material. You can pull off the picture effect in FCP and other programs just no as well or easily in my opinion. I have just started with After Effects and this kind of stuff is sort of AE 101. Very easy to do. All of the shots invloving tvs are also static in this piece which means you don't have to keyframe the mask and move it every few frames. Just add points around the object until you have the outline of the mask over the tv set right. Them add the new layer of video and adjust the scale as needed to fit inside the mask you created. The video itself has a few effects thrown on it. It's just a matter of figuring out what effects do what and how to combine effects. Again, pretty easy. The logo on the shirt is added as another layer and is keyframed to match the perspective and motion of the runner. Probably time consuming but fairly easy, just adjust the scale and position of the logo to follow the runner. After Effects does fill in the gaps between keyframes with a perceived path so you don't have to do frame by frame, but the more keyframes you use the better the motion especially with something like a person running and bouncing up and down. The spinning part I don't know how to do, never tried it. I imagine it involves curving the logo to match the body curvature and masking as well. After Effects is expensive. Find a student whose ID you can use to get a discount from one of those educational software companies. The difference is several hundred dollars. Throw them a few bucks or contribute to their binge drinking. My first AE forray is up at Wreck and Salvage. http://www.wreckandsalvage.com Used mattes to preserve the original wipes from the Starman trailer and insert my own footage. > 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??? > > >
