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Patrik Lindell
Stephen Shore
Darren Sylvester

SUBMIT TO OFFSET

GET PUBLISHED!!!! EXHIBIT YOUR ARTWORK!!!! SUBMIT TO OFFSET NOW!!!!

This is such an exciting opportunity to get your artwork out there! (you can tell just how exciting it is by the amount of exclamation marks!!!) DO IT!!! You've worked so hard over the semester to produce some amazing work, now is the time to show the world what you have done!

Burning your video to DVD

Open iDVD
Create new project. Name and choose location to save project.
Select relevant aspect ratio (standard or widescreen)

Before doing anything else, we need to make sure the settings are correct. In the menu bar > iDVD > Preferences > General > Uncheck show Apple watermark.
Projects > Video Mode: PAL
 

When it opens it will look like this:

 

         ^ Info button    ^ Show Drop Zones       ^Play

Playing in the centre is what the DVD menu looks like. Running along the right hand side is the menu themes you can choose from. Select a theme if you want a menu. You will notice grey 'drop zones', these are areas where you can drag and drop still images or video to play like previews before the the DVD plays. Be sure to drag and drop the image/video directly into the drop zone, other wise you will be adding a video or image to be played. Depending on which theme you have chosen there may be more than one drop zone. Click on the show drop zones button to identify all of them.

Click on the Info button (bottom left of the screen). It will give you the menu info where you can choose the music or the loop duration of the background for example.

It is not necessary to have a menu, as you can set the DVD to play as soon as it is inserted into the drive or player.

Click on DVD map (first button of the three in the middle)

                                ^ DVD map  

                                          

This shows you the flow of the DVD. As you can see you can drag contents into the first box to play automatically when inserted. I would use this option if I were showing a video piece at an exhibition on a loop. 

 

             ^ Info button

 Here I have dragged my video directly into the first box, then clicked on the Info button bottom left. The grey movie info dialogue box opened, I clicked on Loop Movie. This means that my movie will automatically play looped when inserted into the player. 

If you do not want that to be the case, you can click on the Add (+) button next to the info button. Add movie. This will add a box after the menu into which you can drag and drop your video.

You can add multiple videos or slideshows. It will look like this in the DVD map view:

Or like this if you unclick DVD map:

If you click on the video titles (seen here under Revolution Main), then the info tab you can change the font, colour etc. 

If you click on any of that text (ie Revolution main, sequence 2, test) you can rename them too. 

You can preview your DVD at any time by clicking on the play arrow.

Once you are happy with your DVD, click on the burn button directly next to the play button.

It will direct you to insert a black DVD. Then it will proceed to burn the DVD. You can make multiple copies easily by inserting another blank DVD when it has finished the first.

Exporting your video

File > Export > Quicktime Movie

Name and  choose location.
Settings: Current Settings
Include: Audio and Video (unless of course your video in silent, then you can just include video)
Markers: None
Make movie self contained is checked.


You may also like to export a version specifically for the web (eg.  your blog or vimeo), so it will need to be compressed into a smaller file.
File > Export > Using Quicktime Conversion
Name and choose location
Format: Click on Options.
Video Settings > Compression type > H.264
Frame rate: Current
Compressor Quality > Best
OK

Uncheck prepare for internet streaming.
OK

Motion controls in FCP

You can easily control the "motions" of your clips in the timeline to create some very effective looks.

Double click on the clip in the timeline. Click on the 'motion' tab in the Viewer window. Here you will be able to adjust the scale, rotation and position of the image, as well as crop it and feather the edge, adjust the aspect ration and the opacity, amongst other things, just by changing the parameters. 

 

For example you could have multiple create a grid of 4 videos just by scaling them to 50 and repositioning the centre of each.

You can easily change the speed or direction of a clip. With the clip selected (either in the timeline or in the browser) > Modify > Change Speed (command J). If you want the clip to play in slow motion change the rate to a number less than 100, if you want it to play quicker change it to a number greater than 100. You can also check the reverse box if you want it to play backwards. The number in the rate box will turn red if reverse is selected.

2nd Generation Video Artists

Pipilotti Rist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3DSvija2pc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGoAPGSdxhM&feature=fvst


Bill Viola

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h1E_y6Di74&feature=related

Gary Hill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDKtNSY2SAM

Tony Oursler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCkK-ljuhOE&feature=related

Stop Motion Animations

Check out some of these cool stop motion animations...

Roaming Sweets by Anita Bacic & Natalie Woodlock

19:09 by Alicja Kwade

Ahhh... by Alette Simmons-Jimenez

Davidson by Luis Bezeta

Heaven came from Hell by Oscar Seco

In Meiner Strasse by Heinz Schmöller


Check out the video art world animation page for more!