DV Signature

Overview

You will create a swipe of your signature to place in your dance video. [example]

Directions

Open a new AE composition that is the default widescreen dimensions and 5 seconds long in duration. Read all these directions before you view the video tutorial on the Handwriting stroke and make sure you do the following:

You will not have to create a vector cartoon character of yourself and do not write by Your Name. Instead, you will type the first name of your dancer in large font so that it fills much of the composition and place it left aligned in the middle of your composition. Use a font that looks like handwriting. You can use dafont.com if you need to get a font and you can type the name in the preview box (example). In the tutorial, use a thick stroke that is contrasting color to your freeze frame so that it shows up well on your background. Do not use any white or black background layer and choose the font stroke color of your choice. When finished delete your background layer because you do not need it so that it will be transparent.

Before you export, go to your Effect Controls (located at the top right) and change the Paint Style to On Transparent so that everything other than your handwriting is not shown.

If you want to find the effect controls for your text layer on the timeline, click on the search box in the timeline and type stroke. You can also move your keyframes here.

ExportWhen you are finished, go to Composition > Add to Render and click on "Lossless" in the Output Module...and change the Format to QuickTime and the Video Output to RGB + Alpha (this is like saving a photo as PNG and will make the black transparent when exported).Make sure the finished video is about 5 sec and post the video clip to your YT and the YT link and AE file to WP and the spreadsheet.

Do not do:

group's production name,