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welcome to the first takehiko's mapping tutorial (english version).
for our test we will use after effect and resolume avenue
first steps:we don't have a 20000 AL video projector and a 1100 castle to project on..so we will use 2 boxes a basket and a little box in my bedroom and i project over the desktop screen,then i put the camera front of projector objective and i take a shot.
then we open after effectwe have to make a new composition with the same resolution of our output.insert the picture taken before in the AE composition, trying to resize and fit it more similar to what we can see with projection.
now we have to make a solid layer with composition size, put it not visible and with pen we have to draw a shape that we want to animate.
in the same way we have to make many shapes as are object to animate. this can be long as you have complex object to shape on.
for this tutorial we think that 6 shapes to map and animates are good.
now we can make a very simple but nice animation, different for every piece, appling the standard video transitions of aftereffet
after applies the effect to our layer,we have to set a keyframe to the start of composition, then go to the end of composition andset the transition to value 100% and we set a new keyframe.
there are many king of transitions, most of them are good for this purpose.
when we finish the animations, we can export all composition as a video or export every layer as different footage.
the most important thing is remember to switchoff the background picture ;)
if you export the single footages, is better do it with the alpha channel.
i decided to project everything with resolume, so i chose the dxv codec;in the codec setting we have to chose to use alpha channel and remember to chose also in the colour setting.
i did 6 renders, everyone with same settings (i clone the first one) switching every time only one layer
now we have our footages ready,
open resolume, make a new composition with output resolution.
load in resolume every clip and project them adding effects when necessary and triggering them with midi.
when i load in resolume i need to move some clip in x/y axis for some pixel becouse someone kick the projector, thanks to resolume i did it without remake all clips.