I'll be out of town Tuesday and Wednesday so I'm uploading and posting today.
The video is finished and I'm pretty happy with it. I spent longer than I had hoped on it, not because of setbacks, but rather I wasn't happy with what I made. I spent whole evenings working on the credit sequence (its only a couple seconds long) only to look at what I made and not like it. I must have gone through eight different ending sequences in After Effects before I settled on the one in the video. I started with one that was basic text, but I thought it was too boring and scrapped it. Tried doing a digital-ish background with text, and thought it looked too cheesy. Then I spent some time making my own background in Photoshop, which took me a few hours to tweak.
I imported the PSD into After Effects and worked in 3D to get the floating effect I wanted with the camera pan. I must have changed what I wanted the camera to do and which way I wanted things to move, etc, etc a gajillion times. It ended up being simple, yet elegant and that's what I was shooting for. I also tried a few intros in After Effects, but as I expected, I liked my original enough that I used it as my signature intro.
The editing also took a long time to assemble the footage and find the good shots. Once again it brought back a lot of memories of my drifting days. Most of those people are no longer driving and the cars have been sold/wrecked, and the same goes for myself. I enjoyed the project as a whole and the video, while being nothing spectacular, will be around for me to remember in the future. I look forward to working on my After Effects skills after I graduate in a few months, I tend to enjoy editing/creating more when I'm not worrying about making the grade. Great class!
