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Creating Cinemagraphs with Photoshop After Effects Flixel and Cliplets

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English
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3-4 hours
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Overview

Learn how to use Photoshop, After Effects, and two dedicated tools—Flixel and Cliplets—to explore the possibilities of cinemagraphs: static photos that contain areas of motion.

Learn how to use Photoshop, After Effects, and two dedicated toolsâFlixel and Clipletsâto explore the creative possibilities of cinemagraphs: static photos that contain areas of motion. Rich Harrington explores assembly techniques in each program and illustrates effective shooting and post-production techniques to improve the end results. The final cinemagraphs can be used in websites, banner ads, emails, presentations, or even digital signage.

Syllabus

Welcome

What to expect in this course
What you need to know before taking the course
Using the exercise files

1. What Are Cinemagraphs?

Core features of a cinemagraph image
A look at the cinemagraph movement

2. Essential Shooting Techniques

Planning a cinemagraph shot
Stabilizing the camera
When to shoot video for cinemagraphs
When to shoot time lapse for cinemagraphs
Combining stills with video or a time lapse
Choosing a frame size and frame rate
File-format considerations
Shooting a demo (putting it all together)

3. Developing a Cinemagraph

Delivery-format considerations
Bandwidth considerations
Artistic objectives of cinemagraphs

4. Creating Cinemagraphs with Photoshop

Loading a movie into Photoshop
Loading an image sequence into Photoshop
Adjusting frames rates in Photoshop
Compositing the image with motion
Creating and refining masks in Photoshop
Looping strategies with Photoshop
Color correction and enhancement
Exporting a movie-based animation from Photoshop
Converting to a frame-based animation from Photoshop
Saving a GIF-based animation from Photoshop

5. Creating Cinemagraphs with Flixel

Loading an image sequence into Flixel
Loading a video into Flixel
Trimming media to a new duration
Creating and refining masks in Flixel
Creating a loop method with Flixel
Color correction and enhancement
Refining the image with effects
Exporting a movie-based animation from Flixel
Exporting a GIF-based animation from Flixel
Posting to social media

6. Creating Cinemagraphs with After Effects

Loading a movie into After Effects
Loading an image sequence into After Effects
Adjusting frames rates and retiming clips in After Effects
Duplicating and reversing a clip to make a loop in After Effects
Splitting a clip to make a loop in After Effects
Compositing the frozen image with motion
Creating and refining masks in After Effects: Part one
Creating and refining masks in After Effects: Part two
Color correction and enhancement
Exporting a movie-based animation from After Effects
Converting to a frame-based animation from After Effects
Combining After Effects and Photoshop to create a GIF file

7. Creating Cinemagraphs with Cliplets

Importing time-lapse files into Cliplets
Choosing the background frame in Cliplets
Trimming and refining in the cliplet
Exporting GIF images from Cliplets

8. Optimizing the Images

Recompressing GIF images with Photoshop
Recompressing GIF images from Flixel
Recompressing video with Adobe Media Encoder
Recompressing video with Apple Compressor
Sharing and display strategies

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

Richard Harrington

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