Livening up video presentation graphics?

October 5, 2009 7:04 PM

What is the best way of creating a moving graphic timeline in a video presentation?

Helping a client who is making a video presentation. At the moment I'm going to make a graphic image in Photoshop or In Design that is wider than the video frame and then pan across that from left to right in my video editor, but there's got to be a better way to do it right? I'd like to liven up the graphic by highlighting the points on it as they go past the center of the screen and things like that. So software recommendations? Work flow recommendations? What do they use on the fancy documentaries for this kind of thing?

posted by merocet to technology (2 comments total)

I would start with your same photoshop approach, then load that into an After Effects comp of similar proportions. Have your popup messages or whatever appear on that comp at the appropriate times, and then nest that comp in one with normal screen proportions and do the panning from there.
posted by joe defroster at 7:39 PM on October 5

2nding Joe, that's how I'd do it, assuming you have After Effects.
posted by Scoo at 7:03 AM on October 6