DAY 13

Today I finally finished up the Hairshow video after having to restart it over 3 times. I added the rest of the transitions to the remaining photos and decided that I wanted to have a really cool intro title of some sort. So I googled it and watched a few videos, and the only one that was helpful in the way I was wanting to do the intro was this video: Click Here. This tutorial shows how to make a simple 3D intro but doesn't look as well as I want it to. I think I will end up using After Effects for the intro as it has a lot more features and there is quite a bit  more tutorials on it than Adobe Premiere has.

DAY 12

Today I added some more transitions to the rest of the pictures. I had to make the song a bit longer because there were too many photos to fit the song perfectly, so I made the same verse play twice and made it sound like the actual song so it didn't sound edited. I also added a clapping sound effect at the end of the video to take up the leftover room in which the audio didn't cover over the video. I noticed some doubles of pictures too and deleted them.

DAY 11

Today I decided to use the song Wake Me Up - By Avicii for the video. I got this song off of youtube and used an mp3 downloader to download It. Here is the mp3 downloaded that I used: http://www.youtube-mp3.org/. To use it you have to copy the link of the youtube video URL, and paste it into the website. Wait for it to convert and click the download button and it will download to an mp3 file which I can drag from the downloads folder into the timeline of Adobe Premiere. There are different layers so it didn't work when I tried to drag the music file into a video layer. I had to make sure to drag it to the audio layer which is labeled A1,A2 or A3. I also added transitions in between each photo to make it more interesting. I added transitions through about 3/4th of the photos and didn't have time to finish.

DAY 10

Today I searched for a song that would be around the length of the video which is about 5 minutes. Alot of songs are usually around 3 minutes so It was really hard to actually find a song that was less than 5 minutes and would be suitable for girls also. Im not sure if im going to use it but the song I am using so far is Wake me up by Avicii. I also deleted a few double of the photos so it made the video a bit shorter as well.

DAY 9

Today I used this video (CLICK HERE) in order to help me figure out different things with Adobe Premiere and make it easier to make the slideshow. I learned that I can stretch the audio of the song to match the length of the video, but if  I make it too long it distorts it and makes it sounds really bad. I also looked at the speed/duration (side click on the clip) of the song to see exactly how many frames it is, divided that by how many photos I have, created a new project, and went to Edit>preferences>general and set the amount of frames I got from the division, into the default frame duration. I made the frames a little bit more than I should have, and the song is a bit short for the actual video now so I had to find a new song.

DAY 8

Today I started looking up music for the video which was at the most 3 minutes long, because the pictures were all added up to 3 minutes. To increase the frames the pictures showed up for, I went into Edit>preferences>general>and and adjusted the still image default duration to 30 frames instead of 120 which it was at before. That changed the video length from 15 minutes to 3 minutes. I also started to add some transition effects in between each photo. To do that I went into the effects tab>Video Transitions> and dragged the transition I wanted in between the two photos. I am going to try and mix up the transitions so they aren't the same every photo.

DAY 7

Today I worked on the Hairshow video, and it took some time but i finally figured out how to actually increase the speed in which the photos are shown for, and they each go for about 3 seconds and then continue to the next one. In the background I installed Adobe After Effects.

DAY 6

Today I got the video files from a USB and imported them into Adobe Premiere. I need to edit a bunch of photos from the Hair-show and make it into a slideshow. I then started to put the clips together and realized that the duration was 5 seconds for each photo and there was about 150 photos, so overall the video was 15 minutes long, which was way too long. So I then searched on Google to find out a way to change the duration and figured out that I needed to go into preferences>general>and change the duration from there. I haven't figured out the music Im going to put on the video yet.

DAY 5

Today I connected my laptop to a wired internet connection, and realized it was a lot faster than using wireless. Basically the whole class I waited for Adobe Premiere to download, extract, and install, now that I am changing from Game Maker Studio, to Adobe Premiere and After Effects CC. Tomorrow I will probably work on Premiere while After Effects downloads in the background.

DAY 4

I am writing this on day 5 as I was sick on day 4 and couldn't come to school.

DAY 3

Today I continued on the creation of my Game Maker game. I finished off on the coding part, and continued on to the actual visual part, which is a lot easier. I started on creating a basic plat-former setup, and decided to switch from Game Maker Studio, to Adobe Premiere and After Effects. I began downloading Adobe Creative Collection (The upgrade from CS6), and while i was in the middle of doing that, my computer crashed. So I restarted my computer and did the download again, but I couldn't finish the download in time for the bell.

DAY 2

Today was a lot more eventful then yesterday, as I learned some basic physics coding in Game Maker. I made a plat-former with those skills, but haven't yet created a game. I also connected a second monitor to the laptop I use. I use it to watch a tutorial on one screen, and do my work on the other. This makes work a lot more efficient.

DAY 1

I just joined the class today, created this blog, and downloaded Game Maker Studio. I think I've decided on doing GameMaker.  I messed around with it a little bit too, Didn't really do too much.