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Camera Settings for Rotoscope Footage Using classroom Canon T1i 1. Turn the camera on.

2. Turn the settings dial on top to the Video Setting.

3. Select Menu button.

Video Setting

Menu Button

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4. Under the red tab with the movie camera icon check to see that the resolution is set to 1280 x 720. If its already set to this size, press the Menu Button to exit.

How to Change the Movie Rec. Size

1. Use the arrow keys to move down the list to Movie rec. size.

2. Press the Set Button. (This opens up the options for resolution.)

3. Use the arrow keys to move down to 1280 x 720.

4. Press Set.

5. Press Menu button again to exit.

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How to Shoot Video 1. To record - Press the Record Button to begin recording.

2. To stop recording Press the Record Button again.

3. To view your recording a. Press the Preview Button b. Locate the clip you want to view c. Press the Set Button twice

4. To get back to recording mode Press the Preview Button

Record Button

Preview Button

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Editing Your Footage 1. Open Adobe Premiere Pro CC and choose New Project.

2. Name your file: periodnumberlastname_rotoscopeclip

3. Click Browse and choose N Drive>Student Folders>Your Period>Your

Name>Rotoscope Folder. Click OK.

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4. Click the Project Tab to make it active.

5. Click on the New Item Icon.

6. Choose Sequence

7. Click the HDV folder to expand. Click on HDV 720p30 preset.

New Item Icon

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8. Double-Click anywhere in the Project Panel.

9. Locate your rotoscope footage in your N Drive>Student Folder>Period>Your

Name>Rotoscope Folder and click Import. NOTE: You may have more than one clip because you may have planned on cutting the final time down to 15 seconds.

10. Drag and drop your footage to the Source Panel. (Upper Left)

11. Press the Play Button to view your clip.

Play Button

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12. When you get to the beginning of the footage you want use, press the

Mark In button.

13. Play the clip to the point at which you want to end and press Mark Out button.

14. Put your cursor anywhere on the video in the Source Panel. Click and hold the mouse button down while and dragging to the timeline.

15. Hover over the V1 (Video 1) layer and release the mouse. The video snaps to the timeline.

Mark In Button Mark Out Button

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16. You may get a Clip Mismatch Warning. If so, choose Keep existing settings.

17. You are ready to Export when you have 15 Seconds of footage.

The next few pages have videos to help you use the tools in Premiere Pro to get your clip looking just the way you want it.

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Useful Premiere Pro Tools Zoom In/Zoom Out on Footage

Plus Key = Zoom In Minus Key = Zoom Out Or use slider at the bottom of the sequence panel

Cutting Footage with the Razor Tool

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Lifting and Extracting, Deleting and Ripple Deleting Footage

Next you will export from Premiere. Continue to the next page.

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Exporting Out of Premiere Next you will export your footage out of Premiere as an FLV.

1. Click somewhere in the Sequence Panel to make that Panel active.

2. Click File>Export>Media

3. Make sure your settings match the screenshot

4. Click Queue. This will launch Adobe Media Encoder.

Click on the text here to bring up a dialog Box so you can choose where to save the file and what to name it. Save: In your N Drive Student Folder>Rotoscope Folder Name: rotoscopefootage

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5. Double-check all settings and make any necessary changes.

6. Click on the Green Play Button to render your footage.

It will be saved to the folder you chose in Step 3.

7. Once your render is finished, you can close Encoder. The next step is to import your video into Flash. Continue to the next page.

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Still working on revising these instructions from this point on.

Be ready soon

Export out of Premiere as 12.5 FPS/FLV

Import into Flash Set doc to 1280 x 720/12 FPS

Export out of Flash as MOV using export video

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Import Footage into Flash

Now its time to bring your footage into Flash to rotoscope.

1. Open Flash 2. File>New 3. Change the Stage size to 1280 x 720. Click OK.

4. File>Import>Import Video 5. Choose Embed FLV in SWF and play in timeline 6. Click Browse button and choose your edited rotoscope footage. 7. Click Next>

8. Click Next> again.

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9. Click Finish

10. Rename Layer 1 Footage. (Double-Click on Layer 1)

11. Lock the Layer.

12. Make a new layer and name it Rotoscope.

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13. Select the Rotoscope Layer. (Clicking on the layer name selects all the frames in that layer)

14. Right-Click on the selected frames and choose Convert to Blank Keyframes

15. The result.

From this point forward, the directions are much more general. Let the creativity flow!

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Choose the color you want to work with and click on the paintbrush. If youre outlining, choose a nice thin brush, and (I recommend) pulling the smoothing preference up to 100 (under Properties). That gives it a nice calligraphic look.

Click in the first blank keyframe and draw/paint away! Repeat with more keyframes, and so on, and so on

Create more layers. You can create layers for highlights and shadows if you want to rotoscope them separately. Definitely create a layer for your backgrounds. This should be the bottom most layer, you can keep it beneath your video layer, and when you want to see the animation, simply hide the video layer by clicking on the eye in the timeline (hiding and unhiding layers is a very helpful tool for rotoscopers!)

Create a layer for the rotoball. The best way to handle the ball is NOT to rotoscope it (when you can avoid it), but create a sphere (using the oval tool) and create a Motion Tween.

When your ball transforms, you can do a Shape Tween. Shape tweens can be messy if you try to do complex objects in one layer. Try breaking them up into as many layers as necessary.

Decide on a color scheme and a pattern to animate for your background layers, try using motion tweens.

When youre finished, DELETE THE VIDEO LAYER!

Enjoy. Tweak. Get it right!

Export as a .MOV file and upload.