Rotoscoping

Preparing a Video to Rotoscope

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.
3. Export the video through Media Encoder
4. Drag the Quicktime H.264 preset onto your clip
5. Click on preset name to pop up the Video dialogue box, in order to edit frame rate.

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

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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