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Analyzing the shot and designing the titles

Analyzing the shot and designing the titles - After Effects Tutorial

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Analyzing the shot and designing the titles

- In this chapter, we'll create a short teaser for a fictional TV show about famous bass players. This is a great exercise for learning how to track surfaces using mocha AE, as well as modifying the tracking data after the fact. We'll also see how we can mimic rack focus camera effect that applies not only to the video but to the titles as well. We'll start by analyzing the clip, view the mock up I've already made and talk about the challenges that we need to solve. But first I want to show you the video clip that we are going to use as our background layer. In this clip, we see a close up shot of a bass player with a camera rack focus. Meaning that the focus is changing during the shot. So, whatever we do we need to make sure that we'll match it in post. So, my idea here is that we'll use this clip to create a short trailer a fictional music show named Mister Bass Man. Which is of course a famous tune from the sixties by Johnny Cymbal. And this song was also covered a decade later by…

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