From the course: After Effects Guru: Integrating Type into Video Volume 2

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Examining the footage and planning the animation

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From the course: After Effects Guru: Integrating Type into Video Volume 2

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Examining the footage and planning the animation

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- In this chapter we are going to create a promo for a night race event with a call for action in the end. This should be a fun project that involves 3D camera tracking, type and placement in 3D space, shadows and materials set up, as well as synthetic pulses and basic keying as well. So, we'll have a bit of everything over here and as usual we are going to start by analyzing the footage and plan the animation. So first off I want to show you the clip that we are going to use. In this video clip we see a runner jogging across a bridge at dusk. This clip was probably shot at high frame rate with a low angle camera, with some kind of an optical stabilization and we will use it to communicate a night race effect. Actually this is going to be a teaser video to let people know that the registration is open and to illustrate this I have already created a simple mock up that described the direction I wished to take this spot. So I went to the Adobe Typekit Service and examined here fonts and…

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