I went looking for a YouTube video to illustrate, but I couldn't find one. So, basically, let me see if I can describe better.
Let's say I have a still-shot of some players about to make a play. I want to draw on that, illustrating how the players are about to move, and I want my process of drawing on it to be recorded as a video or animation. Something like, say, After Effects, is good for letting you draw a line an then set keyframes to animate it, but what I want is to be able to draw and have the whole drawing process recorded. The cheap DIY way I can think to do this is with a screencast program. I'd load the still image up in something like Photoshop, run the screencast program, draw on the image with the paintbrush, and then I could crop the video so nobody saw I was using an art program. But there's got to be an easier way. -- Rhett. > I think you¹re actually after two separate things... The first is to layer > two feeds (video/graphics/animation) onto each other in real-time, being > able to control either video independently of the other. The second is an > animation tool to animate your drawing - I don¹t know your john madden > example, so I hope I understood right! > > For the layering/playback I think you¹d have to look at some other apps > outside adobe for that, I¹m sure there¹s something out there that > broadcasters use. It¹s probably not right for what you¹re looking for, but > it gives you an idea of what can be done: I use Modul8 (for visuals), one > of > its features being that you can add a layer onto a playing video, onto > which > you can draw. Whether you¹re drawing or not, the rest of the playback is > unaffected... you can stop/play/rw/etc the underlying video just like > always. > > If you find an app that can do something similar then you probably > wouldn¹t > need to pre-draw and get something to automatically animate your drawing? > > > > -- > David Terranova > www.davidterranova.com | blog.davidterranova.com | www.rebelrave.tv > > > > From: "J. Rhett Aultman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:36:49 -0800 (PST) > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: [videoblogging] Football chalkboard > > > > > Maybe a bizarre question, but one that was popping in my mind as I'm > shooting sporting events these days. Let's say that I wanted to do a > chalkboard kinda like John Madden uses when he's explaining football plays > in instant replay. What would be nice is to basically just draw on the > video and have some tool turn my real-time drawing into an animation. I > have Adobe CS4 but I honestly can't think of a way to do that. > > Anyone got a good idea for this one? > > -- > Rhett. > http://www.weatherlight.com > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
