As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm going to be integrating my CG assets into an augmented video background. I'm not very well equipped for recording video footage but I managed to find a friend who had a video camera for me. The only downside was that this video camera is a few years old and doesn't shoot in any sort of high definition quality. Although, the footage didn't blur too badly when I stretched it to the 1024 x 576 resolution needed. The camera also output its videos to the .MOD format, which was very annoying as it isn't a widely recognized format by any post processing software. After a couple of hours of painfully sifting through the internet for free file converter's that didn't watermark, I was informed that Adobe Media Encoder CS4, a program I had handy all along, can convert it.
Above is the camera and tripod I used for all of the footage.
All of the footage I recorded were still frame videos. I chose to have no panning or zooming, etc to make the footage fit my cartoony style. In most cartoons there is next to no camera movement, rather, the cameras stays perfectly still as the cartoon switches between shots. A good example of this is Seth Macfarlane's "Family Guy".
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