#2.

                Turning my flip book into digital form was a pretty interesting process since I’ve never used an animation program before. The first step was scanning the index cards; I thought that was going to take forever so I was pretty pessimistic about it. My roommate has a wireless printer/scanner that he recently bought so out of the convenience of the scanner being there in my kitchen I decided to use it. Once I figured out which way the cards should go in and that I could set the scanner to only scan a 3 by 5 inches area then the whole process went pretty quickly, if you consider a little over an hour to be a quick process.  After about twenty index cards were scanned I was smart enough to put the scanner beside my computer instead of walking back and forth between the scanner and computer each time that I wanted to scan a new card.

                Once all of my cards were in a folder I felt like a huge noob. I had no idea what program to use to put all of my cards on a timeline. After deep thought I decided to put adobe premiere on my laptop even though I desired after effects. I haven’t ever used either of these programs but I have a Compaq laptop (the C on the top of it stands for crappy) and I wanted the convenience of working from home again. I ended up with adobe flash and as of 12 noon Saturday I hate it. It was confusing and annoying. I put my cards into frames pretty quickly but then I faced the task of changing the speed of the fps. I was pretty proud of myself for coming to the conclusion of putting the cards into two different layers  pretty quickly but having two layers didn’t allow me to have different frame rates for each one. I’m not sure if that was the programs fault or my own but I deleted a layer and exported mov files with different frame rates. I then had to face the issue of putting those mov files together with their different frame rates. I handled that issue by downloading some movie editing program that let me put the mov files together on a time line. It worked out pretty well.

                This assignment taught me that I really need to start looking at animation demos and reading the book for the class. I also need to do my next project in the mcmaster lab to use after effects or something instead of adobe. On a positive note I started my work early, I scanned my index cards on Thursday and starting my digitizing process on Friday. I finished on Saturday. I spent a whole 3 days on a project a few days before it was due instead of just waiting til the last minute and I leard a few things from it, so congrats to me.