OCTOBER  1
PHOTOPAN

 Photopan motion background and dvd menu package

Unique ideas to make your video projects "bright and wild and beautiful "
PHOTPAN image pan

Instructions

The wmv hd 1280 video preview file of the photopan shoe shine effect can be downloaded here (30mb)

  • Difficulty level easy (photoshop basic skills required to include your images - after effects requires render output only)
    This release includes After effects video builder 7.0+
    fonts required Encore hd1280 dvd menu 1.5+
      photoshop psd
    effect images
    all versions
      audio wav format
      effect videos wmv format

  • The packages are after effects 7.0+ and encore 1.5+ based, fully edit capable with the most simplistic integration of your media available.
    make your projects shine ....

Download the project pack (40mb)

STEP 1 Download the pack which includes all necessary files
STEP 2 install the supplied font
STEP 3 examine the above preview to best understand what you are trying to recreate

The effect is created from a Photoshop image
STEP 4 including your images to this photoshop image

It is very easy for you to include your images in the file,
open photoshop oldpaper.psd from the effect images folder
it is the key to easily including your own images.

The various layers are shown opposite, please note that AFX imports this image as a single flattened file, so the layer order is not essential.

STEP 4a - open any image you wish to use in photo shop
From the photoshop menu choose select -All then Edit copy merged
this will place your image in the clipboard switch to the old photo image
STEP 4b open the layers panel as shown opposite
mouse click on the PHOTO 5 HOLDER layer to make it active as shown in blue

STEP 4c CTRL+ mouse click on the image layer thumb to load the image selection as shown Ensure you click the image thumbnail as illustrated with the hand cursor over the thumbnail.
if you complete this correctly, the photo will be highlighted with the selection border.
STEP 4d Choose Edit - paste into This will paste your image into the selection
choose edit- transform - scale to adjust the size of your image to the correct visual appearance use the drag handles to resize to fit the existing window.
press enter to apply the transformation.

STEP 4e Enter your required text to each of the text layers for photo 5

REPEAT THIS PROCESS FOR EACH OF THE FIVE HOLDERS WITH YOUR IMAGES AND TEXT
SAVE THE FILE

Please retain the position of the photos as the afx buider targets their current location

 


STEP 5 Open oldpaper.aep into After effects and render the video to your required format
Please remember that Pal and ntsc ws video outputs are simple downscale from the hd1280 format
we have a comprehensive video tutorial on this available here.


STEP 6 Finally assemble your created motion background with the Encore dvd menu provided and compile
again remember that Encore will auto import the HD menu provided to pal or ntsc as widescreen format simple adjustment to the readable text size may be necessary within encore.

You will have to repeat this entire process for each

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