it was supposed to be quick. Also attached is an image of my completed
timeline. The top page in each case is the one "turning".
The process is basically in two parts - first to create "Pages" and
second the scene. I did my movie as widescreen because that's the
format of my telly - also the pages can be "wider".
First the pages
Find a book background. I put "book" into google images and used the
first one!
Find the colour of the books' pages (RGB or whatever) I did this using
mspaint but I'm sure photoshop will work as well.
For each video construct a full frame "page". Each page must be made one
at a time and exported (Movie>export). I contructed the pages so that
the odd pages were to the right of the centre line and even page to the
left. I used a colour matte of the colour obtained above as my background.
Second the Scene
Create a new project and add you pages and book to the media bin. Place
the book on the timeline with it's centre line in the middle of the frame.
At any given time up to three pages are visible. Two pages in the book
and the page being turned. At the start and end there are less pages.
I'll describe a mid section (Turning page 3 over to reveal pages 4 and
5). For the start and end you can remove one or other end pages.
Page 2 should be placed on the book and cropped (50% right) to fit on
the page. Likewise page 5 except cropped 50% left. Page 3 is cropped
as page 5. Apply "Basic 3d" to page 3 and keyframe "Swivel" from 0 to
90. Then replace page 3 with page 4 on the timeline and keyframe from
-90 to 0. Rinse and repeat. Once you have one page tunred you can
"paste attributes" to the appropriate other pages to save a lot of time.
I have a colour matt as the background because my image is not quite big
enough and I exported the whole movie so that I could speed up the
result. Add a quick bit of music and Robert is your father's brother -
as they say.
I found that if crop was below basic 3d in the effects then the video
moved around strangely but when it was above it everything was ok.
I hope that this helps someone,
Chris.
