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The tutorial

Advanced Camera Movement and Fast Editing Techniques

I have decided to make a tutorial on camera tracking and editing as I feel these skills in production greatly enhance presentations. Furthermore I felt there was a large knowledge gap within student videos this year using cameras in their Crysis presentations. Videos with a large bulky black nanosuit marine can be distracting and lowers the professionalism. Also a positive aspect is that the learning curve is easy and to be adept at editing complex camera fluidity does not take long to master.

It was only in the last scene in Exp 1 that I used a camera, and I felt disappointed that I had not developed the skill to use cameras earlier for the previous animations (as I was having problems of the nanosuit character shaking around on platforms that move over a certain speed). Carrying over this basic knowledge helped greatly in the Exp2 video as I was able to pan the camera around more eloquently thus improving the overall feel and quality of the video.

The Tutorial will be based upon setting up a scenario and showing a pre-made cut-scene as the goal to achieve. Hopefully I will be able to demonstrate this tutorial quickly by using techniques that I feel are useful for the user, but not entirely obvious from the first instance. The video will be labeled ‘Advanced’ as I would like to indicate to viewers that they should have some basic knowledge in Crysis.

As the tutorial begins I should have a completed version and an empty version. So now I could essentially break up to two separate videos when editing the video in Vegas, one to show the goal and the second ‘how-to’ part to begin afterwards. For me the objective when making the tutorial is to communicate clearly while repeating important key elements in the video, this way the video demonstrates a rhythm which teaches the viewers the work flow and thought process.

For this tutorial to be good the start cut scene that indicates the goal must present complex camera panning that is deliberate and controlled. This would inspire the viewer that this is something worth learning. Because I feel my camera panning is good, it would be handy to share this among others.