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The UCI video I posted last year seemed to be fairly popular - unfortunately I hated the camera I used to shoot it. So once I bought a better camera I went right back and spent a beautiful Sunday afternoon wandering around Aldrich Park. Anteaters, make sure you spend a lot of time here. You'll never regret it. Music by Dexter Britain. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more videos like this. Or check out my website at http://aheideman.com to see additional videos that haven't made their way to YouTube.

#uc irvine #aldrich park #panasonic #gh2

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Made this for a brand new digital film festival, the Filmatic Festival, that will be hosted at UC San Diego.

#ucsd #uc san diego #filmatic festival #artpower #After Effects #myprojects

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UCSD's ArtPower! and Sixth College teamed up to create a mentorship program for high school students, and I was tasked with editing a video about the program. The footage itself was shot by Benjamin Steen.

#myprojects #uc san diego #artpower #sixth college #film practicum #high tech high

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UCSD's ArtPower! and Thurgood Marshall College hosted a night of animation during Welcome Week 2013, and I had the pleasure of filming and editing a promo video for them.

#myprojects #uc san diego #spike & mike #animation #artpower #Glidecam

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Setup - Ah, the joys of working with friends.

#myprojects #Glidecam #Canon #T3i #filmmaking

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Smooth Clutter - A fun little experiment in stabilizing iPhone footage. Protip: Don't. At least with an iPhone 4.

#myprojects #stabilizer #iphone #Glidecam-ish

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Dead Drop - Indulging my interest in Clancy-esque spy stories.

#myprojects #Canon #T3i

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Stairs

#myprojects #Glidecam #Canon #T3i

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Back in June, I edited the Sun God 2013 Trailer for Associated Students Concerts and Events at UCSD. The smooth Glidecam shots are also mine.

#myprojects #sun god festival #uc san diego #Glidecam

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AARI - A really fun - and frustrating - project. I animated everything in four days or so, and it took two computers somewhere around 40 hours to render the shots. Why? Oh, because we screened it in 4K at UCSD's Qualcomm Institute.

#myprojects #After Effects #Trapcode Form #animation

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break; - A mini web series - most certainly inspired by The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Emma Approved - that follows the friendship between Glenn, a brilliant but reclusive rocket enthusiast, and Rickie, a party enthusiast.

#myprojects #vlogs #web series

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The Observer

#myprojects #Glidecam #T3i

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Mammoth Lakes, CA - Lake Mary, Rock Creek Lake, and Devil's Postpile

#mammoth #lakes #devils postpile #rock creek #glidecam #canon #t3i #myprojects

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Redondo Beach Pier with a Glidecam

#redondo beach #redondo #pier #glidecam #canon #t3i #myprojects

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Zot zot zot! A little Glidecam montage of UC Irvine

More of a test than anything else; still needed to get the balance right at this point.

#uci #uc irvine #zot #glidecam #canon #t3i #myprojects

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I did check the motion blur. And then rendering took 40 hours. And that was with the shots split between two computers.

I'm happy with this video. I'm exhausted, but happy. I also wish I'd had the time to make a couple more shots and get virtual coverage. So really, I'm pretty happy with it. Relatively speaking. The 4K aspect of the project makes everything slightly better. As do the lens flares.

I enjoy working with After Effects and I started getting excited the moment we proposed this idea for our 4K project. I actually suggested we do the time lapse idea for that one and then work on this idea in HD for our final project. I had my doubts about doing this in 4K. So of course we went and did it in 4K.

Everything worked out fine. Technically I was scaling the 3D models up from 1080p, but since we were using particles, After Effects was just drawing larger vector shapes. And that was really my only concern.

Editing 4K was, as usual, slightly problematic. The proxy version was fine. Unfortunately, I sped a couple shots up and those changes didn't carry over to the 4K version. So after some initial confusion, I figured out why our audio wasn't quite synced up and got ready to export.

                                          Because why not?

Then, thanks to Jon's computer rendering After Effects compositions for 40 hours straight (and the fact that he hadn't restarted it or even closed AE since it finished), his memory was completely shot and the initial attempt to render out a 1080p version was estimated to take 3 hours. Quick reboot, and that time is down to 30 minutes. The 4K TIFF sequence told me it would take 2 hours so I went home. I'm sure it went up to around 3, but in any case it finished and Jon got it to class without any problems. Except he proceeded to tell me the files got wiped and I almost had a heart attack. I swear, if I'd had a heart attack, I would've killed him.

Fingers crossed there aren't any problems with encoding. But for now, I'm going to take the rest of the night off and worry about finals in the near-ish future.

  Oh, and there are also a couple easter eggs in the video. I couldn't resist. Seriously, give me complete control over anything and there's a 100% chance there'll be a nerdy reference somewhere in it.

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Here's our group's final project presentation outlining our concept and process.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ObE95h2cnFi8NPTv7x4w39po08Hm3pZHH9TCWD6KqTM/edit