HP Picture book, I need to do it really well

[J. Sormaz]

Alright so this year's variety show at my highschool is themed 'Freeze frame' so my brother and his band are going to play the picture book song from the HP commercials and I am going to make an edit to it, showing different well known teachers/students ect in the school

well Variety Show at my school is a pretty big deal, they fill a huge auditorium for like 4 nights straight. So i dont want to do a mediocre job. i am just wondering what tips you guys have to do this well. I am filming with a vx2000 and editing in Premiere/Aftereffects.

any help appreciated, heres a link to the HP commercial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbcbZ15IRQ0
as you can see in some of the 'related videos' its not very well down

any tips?

[jin08611]

http://www.cmivfx.com/tutorials.asp

Tutorial 23: Rebuilding the HP Picture Frame Commercial

good luck!

[J. Sormaz]

thanks, but that doesnt really help me out with specifics in after effects

[casey warren]

Basically you have to use empty picture frames and then in After Effects rotoscope out the persons face or background, use this masked layer of the frozen background as the picture inside the frame, then you need to corner pin track the mask. However, After Effects doesnt allow you to motion track a mask itself. So what you need to do is create "null layer" and then track the corners of the frame. After this, copy the keyframes that are created on the null layer to the layer with the mask on it, then your masked layer of the frozen frame will track with the picture.

[R!ff R4ff]

Actually I've seen it done with motion tracking instead of rotoscoping which is way to tedious for me. In AE you'd throw in some 3D motion to get the freeze frame picture to move with the frame as you tilt it. I've never done it myself and only seen it once. There's a tutorial over at creative cow "Creating a Glassy Look using Adobe After Effects" that shows you same tools you'd use for this effect. If someone has written a 'how to' specific to this effect, I haven't seen it but my guess would be to start searching the creative cow AE forums.

[Steve_Arm]

Holly cow! This is a very cool commercial. Are you going for the same effect? Good luck. From what I see, you need to freeze specific frames, then motion track them with the white frame when it moves and still keep them inside the frame with track mattes. It's easy but needs exact preplanning to work with the shots.

[J. Sormaz]

yeah, deffinately going to need a lot of preplanning. i just shot something of myself as a test, and really messed it up. its going to take some time and alot of work

[J. Sormaz]

anyone else got ideas for finetuning or whatever? like if the picture changes light how to make it fit

[spawn4ever]

I hate to rehash REALLY old threads but i've never managed to acheive the perfect effect in AE. I've seen some small and not effective tutorials out there but nothing to write home about. And i would really like to be able to reproduce this cool commercial. I'm not an AE expert or even intermidiat for that matter, i'm much better at Premiere.

So i beg someone out there, if they could put together a few screen shots, or even better a 5min tutorial on how to do this, i would appriciate it SO much... Or you can just tell me no F'n way and see you in Hêll. :cry:

Thank you in advance and hope to hear from one of you very soon.