Today my partner and I began editing our 360 film clips on Adobe Aftereffects. Having been a while since our initial tutorial on the software, we had both forgotten most of the basics and so did some research and asked for assistance from our tutor to get started. We both soon realized that we had been overly ambitious with how we wanted to edit our clips, as Aftereffects can be quite finicky, and thus unfortunately had to compromise our vision to suit our skillset.
We began with a random clip – one from the canteen – as all the clips will have to be imported individually into Eevo (the website we’re using to edit in the interactive element of the film); it doesn’t really matter which particular order we edit them in.
To create the effect of a futuristic world in which this film takes place, we decided to edit the lighting within the scene. We thought bright, almost neon blue lighting would be fitting for this spaceship canteen, instead of the regular white/orange lighting, and so placed various gradient ellipses on the lights in the clip.
Due to our initial struggle with using Aftereffects, this was unfortunately all we were able to achieve today, but we have set up plans for editing each scene, including the order in which they will appear for the final film. We intend to continue working on this tomorrow, ideally finishing all editing on Aftereffects, so we can begin editing the interactive element next week. This gives us wiggle room in case there may be any last-minute tweaks to be done before the final due date.
