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== Preparing a Video to Rotoscope == | == Preparing a Video to Rotoscope == | ||
Why? Animating every single frame of a video can often feel tedious and unnecessary. Most animators rotoscope on 2s or 3s. To animate on 2s mean to animate every other frame of a video, meaning that if you have a video shot at 30fps, you're animating at 15fps. To animate on 3s is to animate on every third frame, so your animation frame rate would be 10fps. Editing a video so that it matches the frame rate you want to animate on is step one to efficiently rotoscoping! | Why? Animating every single frame of a video can often feel tedious and unnecessary. Most animators rotoscope on 2s or 3s. To animate on 2s mean to animate every other frame of a video, meaning that if you have a video shot at 30fps, you're animating at 15fps. To animate on 3s is to animate on every third frame, so your animation frame rate would be 10fps. Editing a video so that it matches the frame rate you want to animate on is step one to efficiently rotoscoping! | ||
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Revision as of 08:34, 26 October 2023
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Preparing a Video to Rotoscope
Why? Animating every single frame of a video can often feel tedious and unnecessary. Most animators rotoscope on 2s or 3s. To animate on 2s mean to animate every other frame of a video, meaning that if you have a video shot at 30fps, you're animating at 15fps. To animate on 3s is to animate on every third frame, so your animation frame rate would be 10fps. Editing a video so that it matches the frame rate you want to animate on is step one to efficiently rotoscoping!
Preparing the Video in Premiere Pro
- Select a video to animate over
- Trim the video in Premiere so the start point is the first frame of your animation and the end would be the last.
Export the video through Media Encoder
- Click in the Timeline of the sequence you want to export.
- Go to File > Export > Media....
- In the bottom left choose what part of the sequence to export.
- Entire Sequence: exports the entire sequence.
- Sequence In/Out: Exports the area between any in and out points set in the sequence.
- Work Area: Exports the Work Area set in the Timeline.
- Custom: Exports the area set by the triangles above this setting.
- Click the Queue button and Adobe Media Encoder will open.
- Drag the H.264 Match source - High Bitrate preset onto your clip
- Click on preset name to pop up the Export Settings dialogue box, in order to edit frame rate.
- In the Video tab uncheck the box to the right of Frame Rate.
- Set the Frame Rate to either 10 or 15 as needed.
- Click OK.
- Click the Start Queue button (green play button in the top right) to start the exporting.
Rough Animator
Transferring the File
AirDrop
- To transfer files from computer to iPad and vice versa, use AirDrop on Mac computers.
- Open AirDrop and turn on bluetooth and wifi
- Allow the computer to be visible to "everyone"
- Drag file onto AirDrop screen and click "accept" on the iPad
- The files should be saved to photos
Rotoscoping
- Start a new project file in Rough Animator
- Go to File > Import Video
- Once clip is selected, go to timeline layers and add a layer copied to timeline
- Use video layer slider to adjust the opacity
- Start tracing frame by frame!
