Rotoscoping

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

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 H.264 Match source - High Bitrate preset onto your clip
6. Click on preset name to pop up the Export Settings dialogue box, in order to edit frame rate.
7. In the Video tab uncheck the box to the right of Frame Rate.
8. Set the Frame Rate to either 10 or 15 as needed.
9. Click OK.
10. Click the Start Queue button (green play button in the top right) to start the exporting.

Rough Animator

Transferring the File with AirDrop

AirDrop

1. To transfer files the video file to the iPad use AirDrop.
2. on the IPad go to Settings > AirDrop and select Everyone for 10 Minutes
3. Select Everyone for 10 Minutes
4. on the computer open a Finder widow.
5. Select AirDrop in the top left corner
6. Turn on WiFi if needed.
7. Drag file onto ipad in the AirDrop window.
8. Click Accept on the iPad
9. The files should be saved to photos

Rotoscoping

1. Start a new project file in Rough Animator
2. Go to File > Import Video
3. Select Photos
4. Select the video and press Use
5. Use video layer slider to adjust the opacity of the video
6. Drag the layer you are drawing on to the top.
7. Start tracing frame by frame!

2D Rotoscope Station

• Rotoscope Station