What programs are being used to make this photo montage?
There was a post some time ago about a guy wanting to make somthing similar, but not as intricate. He wanted to use a photo of his refrigerator and the photos that were on it. He was running into problems of quality loss. I believe he was just using pan/crop in Vegas.
I especially like the part where the newspaper is zoomed in on and reveals hundreds of tinier photos that make it up as well as the intro.
Edit: Maybe I should read before asking questions :) Here is a cut from the write up.
"Of the two videographers, only Josh Fozzard of Moonlight Memory exercised the option of contacting the family to talk about the montage as he was planning how to do it. "I had lots of photos, but nothing I could pull together as a story," Fozzard says. He ended up dividing his montage into sections, he says, each with signature effects mostly achieved in After Effects. He arranged the older, faded photos with their rough edges clipped and pinned into a scrapbook that the "camera" passes over in the first section. He then used photos of Jim Cox as a young man, before his marriage, with a stock-footage effect called "film clutter" used between cuts in the second section. He captured Renée and Jim's courtship and marriage in the third section using "a pile of photos flying in" and assembling like puzzle pieces, all done in After Effects; and he showcased their children in the fourth section using a 3D sphere effect from a the 3D Assistants plugin from Digital Anarchy. In the final section, he resorted to more traditional pans and zooms, ratcheting down the intensity of the effects as the montage pushed past the 10-minute mark."
j razz
There was a post some time ago about a guy wanting to make somthing similar, but not as intricate. He wanted to use a photo of his refrigerator and the photos that were on it. He was running into problems of quality loss. I believe he was just using pan/crop in Vegas.
I especially like the part where the newspaper is zoomed in on and reveals hundreds of tinier photos that make it up as well as the intro.
Edit: Maybe I should read before asking questions :) Here is a cut from the write up.
"Of the two videographers, only Josh Fozzard of Moonlight Memory exercised the option of contacting the family to talk about the montage as he was planning how to do it. "I had lots of photos, but nothing I could pull together as a story," Fozzard says. He ended up dividing his montage into sections, he says, each with signature effects mostly achieved in After Effects. He arranged the older, faded photos with their rough edges clipped and pinned into a scrapbook that the "camera" passes over in the first section. He then used photos of Jim Cox as a young man, before his marriage, with a stock-footage effect called "film clutter" used between cuts in the second section. He captured Renée and Jim's courtship and marriage in the third section using "a pile of photos flying in" and assembling like puzzle pieces, all done in After Effects; and he showcased their children in the fourth section using a 3D sphere effect from a the 3D Assistants plugin from Digital Anarchy. In the final section, he resorted to more traditional pans and zooms, ratcheting down the intensity of the effects as the montage pushed past the 10-minute mark."
j razz