Welcome
What to expect in this course
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What you need to know before taking the course
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Using the exercise files
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1. What Are Cinemagraphs?
Core features of a cinemagraph image
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A look at the cinemagraph movement
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2. Essential Shooting Techniques
Planning a cinemagraph shot
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Stabilizing the camera
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When to shoot video for cinemagraphs
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When to shoot time lapse for cinemagraphs
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Combining stills with video or a time lapse
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Choosing a frame size and frame rate
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File-format considerations
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Shooting a demo (putting it all together)
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3. Developing a Cinemagraph
Delivery-format considerations
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Bandwidth considerations
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Artistic objectives of cinemagraphs
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4. Creating Cinemagraphs with Photoshop
Loading a movie into Photoshop
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Loading an image sequence into Photoshop
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Adjusting frames rates in Photoshop
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Compositing the image with motion
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Creating and refining masks in Photoshop
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Looping strategies with Photoshop
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Color correction and enhancement
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Exporting a movie-based animation from Photoshop
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Converting to a frame-based animation from Photoshop
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Saving a GIF-based animation from Photoshop
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5. Creating Cinemagraphs with Flixel
Loading an image sequence into Flixel
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Loading a video into Flixel
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Trimming media to a new duration
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Creating and refining masks in Flixel
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Creating a loop method with Flixel
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Color correction and enhancement
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Refining the image with effects
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Exporting a movie-based animation from Flixel
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Exporting a GIF-based animation from Flixel
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Posting to social media
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6. Creating Cinemagraphs with After Effects
Loading a movie into After Effects
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Loading an image sequence into After Effects
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Adjusting frames rates and retiming clips in After Effects
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Duplicating and reversing a clip to make a loop in After Effects
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Splitting a clip to make a loop in After Effects
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Compositing the frozen image with motion
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Creating and refining masks in After Effects: Part one
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Creating and refining masks in After Effects: Part two
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Color correction and enhancement
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Exporting a movie-based animation from After Effects
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Converting to a frame-based animation from After Effects
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Combining After Effects and Photoshop to create a GIF file
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7. Creating Cinemagraphs with Cliplets
Importing time-lapse files into Cliplets
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Choosing the background frame in Cliplets
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Trimming and refining in the cliplet
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Exporting GIF images from Cliplets
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8. Optimizing the Images
Recompressing GIF images with Photoshop
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Recompressing GIF images from Flixel
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Recompressing video with Adobe Media Encoder
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Recompressing video with Apple Compressor
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Sharing and display strategies
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Ex_Files_ptm_cinemagraphs.zip
(2.5 GB)