Subtitles of the Movie

OK. So far, so good. This is coming along really nicely, but now it's time to Fade Out this scene and go into a new one. So as the stars start coming down I want this Backdrop here to go away. So what we're going to do is put Animate On and we're going to Add a Key Frame for the car where it is as far as the backdrop is concerned. So what we're going to do is we're going to go to the Composite Controls, go to Surface and I want to show you a little trick here, I'm just going to Scrub like this and put it back down to 0. If we look in the Timeline we've added and Key Frame for that Property. So I'm just going to go ahead and scroll down and you see we have a Key Frame for the Opacity, just by scrubbing it to any number and going back to 0. What that means is it'll stay visible from the beginning of the Animation as you see by the Key Frame here, all the way to the Key Frame we just added by Scrubbing and then when we go over here and we go back to the Composite Controls we can now drop the Opacity down completely. So now we can take this guy and we can fade him out of view, so I'm going to get him out of here and then our new Backdrop shows up. So here's our new Backdrop and our car is no longer in view, how cool is that? So the new Backdrop appears and now we want to have the second set of Stars start showing up this way or rather just Ð I think one gigantic stream of stars coming at us will look real nice. So I'm going to go and Import on this Frame by the way, I'm going to bring it in right here, so I'll make sure I'm on the right frame, I'm going to bring in another star stream and I'm going to make sure Animates Off so I can scale it without animating that. I just want to scale this up pretty big; I'm also going to Rotate. So I'm going to grab it and I think I will Rotate it, let's see which way I want to go here. I think I'll go this way on the Z axis and I'm going to move it down and I want the screen to just fly by real fast so I'm going to put it right there and then I'm going to go to the Timeline and I'm going to Add a Key for that guy. So Animate is now On and then I'm going to Scrub a little bit like so and then I'm going to just move that group of stars in this Viewport so it just flies by, its like whoosh and this is helping us Transition into the logo its going to drop down. So let's go ahead and turn Animate Off and I'm going to Scrub and see how that whole thing looks. So here we are watching our commercial, things fly by, stars go by, the new star flies by and now we can bring in our logo. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to go to the File Menu, Import some footage on this frame where the stars go by and I'm going to go back to the Auto Show Folder and bring in the 3D Logo as an RPF, make sure Collapse is on if not you're going to see every single one of those Frame, click OK and here's our logo and its going to slowly turn into Auto Show 08. So you can see how complicated this Comp was but it looks awesome. So all you have to do at this point is just Scrub it, look at your timing, make sure everything looks great, adjust your lighting, see the stars coming by and have the Auto Show Logo come in off of the new backdrop and if you even want to, feel free to take this backdrop and rotate it just a little tiny bit to give some life to it, because it does have this nice spiral. But since it is oblong you might want to just re-scale it so that its more circular. So I hope you guys enjoyed this project and learned quite a few techniques as far as how to work with not only the Viewports but also the Timeline and also moving things from the Viewport as well as the Composite Controls. How to add shadows and how to really just take elements from different applications and put them together to create one completed Composite, it looks really, really cool. Don't forget guys if you want to continue working on the Composite feel free to add a blur to the stars as they fly by, as matter of fact I think I'll do that with you real first. I'm going to the stars here, I'll see which ones are the new stars and I'm going to just make sure I have the right ones and just make sure this is it, move a little bit, that's not the one I want. I want the gigantic stars so I'm going to have to click on each one of them until I find the right one and I'll scrub and you what you might want to do is just add a nice blur to one of the star layers. So just right click and add an operator and add a blur so that, that comes by not as jaggedy as that looks. So now it looks even better, so we have this nice blur of stars. Alright, so, once again hope you enjoyed the project, feel free to render this as a QuickTime movie, show everybody what you created in Combustion, take these lessons and create your own commercials, your own intros to shows and intro to a DVD if you want to and bring it into other applications so that you can do titles for short films and all other kids of great projects. So once again, hope you had fun and see you later.