Haiyi Lin

Project Overview

I decided to modify an Ae Template first and then localize the video into Simplified Chinese. After the video is rendered in Ae, I will add additional dubbing and background music in Pr.

I download the template on a resource website – Evtato Elements.

Here is the original Ae template:

It’s an animation of a love story so I decided to modify it and memorize the moments of me and my boyfriend.

Modifying Video

Font

I didn’t have the font that the original video used, so I need to download the original font – A Year Without Rain according to the instruction from the template.

Text

One of the difficulty is to locate the text object. Different from the class tutorial, I didn’t have a hint of where the text object is hidden. So I spent a lot of time to find where are all those texts.

Images

This video required a large number of images, and I had to upload them myself. Considering that the video as a whole is hand-drawn animation, I processed the real pictures to make them more like hand-drawn paintings.

Then what I had to do was to replace the image in the location of the Polaroid photo in the video with my photo.

To perform this, first I needed to drag and drop my photos into the Assert Folder. Then I had to find the path to the photos and replace them.

I deleted the original texts and replaced it with the photo I prepared.

Render

After the adjustification is done, I added the file to render queue, and rendered it.

Since I deleted two scenes, there was a relatively long gap in the articulation. And, for unknown reasons, the animation of the last two photos was particularly fast. Meanwhile, the video is lack of background music, I need to find a suitable one in the music platform. These were the issues that I needed to make further changes inside Pr.

Editing with Pr

After importing the video into Pr, I chose an appropriate background music. Then, I speed up the overly long blank articulation.

Here is the final English Video:

Localize the Video

To localize the video into Simplified Chinese, I first edited the texts in Ae. Since the original font didn’t support CCJK, I downloaded another hand-written style font that supports CCJK.

With the same process, I edited the video in Pr again.

Here is the final localized Video: