Process of Final editing...

As I have mentioned on the previous post I have finished editing my work with Alex Burn-Smith.

The process of final editing was not so easy, it required more time than I thought it would.

As soon as I have finished animating all of the scenes and shots I then rendered each shots in PNG image sequence to put into after effects. Some shots required multiple animations so I ended up with several rendered files.

Multiple files of rendered image sequence

We then put all the files into after effect to put all into one film.
Watching through the film multiple times and fixing the timing of each shots until I was happy with it.
Some shots needed to re-render because I have spotted several mistakes.
One of the shots I had to fix was the title scene. The original clip was way too short so I've decided to extend by 2 seconds to fit into the video Better.

The next step was animating the Butterfly on After effect. Since the timing of the Butterfly did not match with other animations we had to render the butterfly separately and add it afterwards.
This has probably took the longest to get the right speed and right movement. A lot of fixing and changing were required on this part.

Also adding bright glows onto Shot 13, 14 and 19 were done by the same principle, animating the glow and the girl separately and combine them with after effect. By doing this we were able to have 2 or 3 different timed animations in one shots.

I had to animate extra glows and glitters at this stage with Photoshop to make sure all the shots has everything they need.

When I was happy with all the animations we have watched the film over and over again to make sure I am 100% happy with the work. 



We have finished editing and rendering on 2nd May (Friday) and I have sent my work to my Audio producer so that he has about 2 weeks to work on the music.

My aim was to get everything done by the end of Easter holiday but the editing and fixing took longer than I thought.