Rotoscoping

Preparing a Video to Rotoscope with Premiere Pro

Preparing the Video

1. Select a video to animate over
2. 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

1. Click in the Timeline of the sequence you want to export.
2. Go to File > Export > Media....
3. In the bottom left choose what part of the sequence to export.
   1. Entire Sequence: exports the entire sequence.
   2. Sequence In/Out: Exports the area between any in and out points set in the sequence.
   3. Work Area: Exports the Work Area set in the Timeline.
   4. Custom: Exports the area set by the triangles above this setting.
4. Click the Queue button and Adobe Media Encoder will open.
5. Drag the Quicktime H.264 preset onto your clip
6. Click on preset name to pop up the Video dialogue box, in order to edit frame rate.
7. Click the Start Queue button (green play button in the top right) to start the exporting.

Transferring the File

AirDrop

1. To transfer files from computer to iPad and vice versa, use AirDrop on Mac computers.
2. Open AirDrop and turn on bluetooth and wifi
3. Allow the computer to be visible to "everyone"
4. Drag file onto AirDrop screen and click "accept" on the iPad
5. The files should be saved to photos

Rough Animator

Rotoscoping

1. Start a new project file in Rough Animator
2. Go to File > Import Video
3. Once clip is selected, go to timeline layers and add a layer copied to timeline
4. Use video layer slider to adjust the opacity
5. Start tracing frame by frame!

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