Timeline Organization

Overview

Make sure that all of your DV video clips have been exported through Quicktime at either 480 or 720 and are in a DV folder on your Google Drive and named properly.

Create a new AE project and place the following files into AE (but not on your timeline yet). These files you insert must be located in your Google Drive and cannot change locations or you will get the rainbow of death screen error.

Insert your audio file and all of your DV video clips. Then take the first video clip (Location #1 Main front stationary camera) and watch the first 20 seconds and set up your new AE project in the same way.

Now take your video clips from your AE bin and arrange them on your AE timeline.

Start with inserting your intro clips and make sure to name the layers approriately (e.g. est shot, vertical pan, etc):

Intro Order

1. An establishing shot (extreme long shot showing the dancer in the environment) [~2-3 seconds]
2. Short Long shot [~2-3 seconds] Low angle medium shot vertical pan; do not pan higher than the head [~2-3 seconds]
3. Transition from the vertical pan right into an arc shot
4. Vertical pan, then arc shot

Then for the dancing videos, use the following number order list below and make sure the layer file names are correct (e.g. A.front.1, A.front.2, A.front.3, B.side.1, B.side.2, etc).

1. Location #1 Main front stationary camera
2. Location #1 Secondary side variation camera
3. Location #2 Main front stationary camera
4. Location #2 Secondary side variation camera

Add your extra footage (e.g. jumper, clone, etc) to the layers below the other two top layers of your dance footage and label all layers accordingly (e.g. Clone) but you do not need to edit these effects in this checkpoint.

Mute all of the layers and add your song as the bottom layer. If your song is at home, then add it when you get home if you are in class.

For the green screen spots, add four markers on the timeline and name then GS1, GS2, & GS3. Later, each of the four clips will be about 4-5 seconds each of the dancer on the green screen. Download this green screen image (you will replace it with your video after you film it) and insert it three times into different places (at the top of your timeline) during your dance video: one towards the beginning of the dance, two somewhere around the middle, and one towards the end. Try to evenly space them out and not too close together along the timeline. Once you decide where you will insert the green screen dance clips, try to have the dancer dance the same or similar moves they did for those four sections of the dance. These green screen shots will be closer up so choosing times when the dance focuses on the hands, upper body, or head is the best since the feet won't be seen.

Do not spend more than an hour working on it at home. When you are finished, take a screenshot of your entire timeline and post to Schoology along with the short intro video you rendered above. Your timeline will be checked for accuracy to make sure each of the layers are aligned to the music correctly.

Do not do:

In AE open a new composition that is the same dimensions as your video and name it DV Project Your Name. Then on different layers (name the layers front and side) in the same AE composition (keep the wide shot as the top layer) and line them up in AE so they are in sync with each other. Use curves and lighting to improve your lighting if it is too dark. Then take your song mp3 and sync it with the dance footage.

Take a screenshot of your AE timeline and post to Schoology.