> 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.
Im not sure how easy it is to write over moving video. Kent Bye sent me this tip: Well, I haven't found an easy way to do it over moving video. But what I have done is used Skitch to take a screengrab, and then record the annotations via skitch. That's what I did on this video: http://www.ebbandflow.tv/blog/index.php/2007/03/10/metavlog/ It'd also be possible to take a black screen grab the size of the screen, annotate the black screen with Skitch. And then composite it over the video using something like the Multiply Blend mode. You could either watch the video on the side, and try approximate the locations of the annotations. Or just do some generic annotations, and then resize and move around the composited movie. There's also ways for Adobe After effects to record mouse trackings and animate them, but that's really difficult to do with any fluidity. -Kent. -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
