Maybe. My question originally began under the premise that I had somehow missed a simple feature in the Adobe CS4 suite that would already do it.
-- Rhett. Rupert wrote: > 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] > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
