I think I must've missed the point of what you're trying to do. Would not my suggestion of a screen drawing program like ZoomIt/Magic Pen and a screencast be a million times easier, better looking and higher quality than taking screengrabs and drawing over them in skitch/photoshop and editing them into the video? Much more like a video chalkboard, and the drawing would be animated rather than just stuck on?
On 19-Nov-08, at 7:25 PM, J. Rhett Aultman wrote: Doing it over a still would be fine. The flow would be video plays, stops on a still, I draw on the still, then the video starts again. I'll have to check this Skitch out. -- Rhett. Jay dedman wrote: >> 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. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
