Once all the parts of the animation were rendered I was ready to edit them together in Premiere Pro. It was a nice feeling going back to a program I was very familiar with after the frustrating struggles with 3DS Max. I started by importing all the rendered scenes, both the .mov’s and the bitmap still’s that I had rendered. I trimmed the clips to required lengths and dropped them into the timeline.

After I had my moving clips where I roughly wanted to be I then placed the bitmaps on the timeline. I used bitmaps for when the animation was still because there is no point rendering still motion. By using bitmaps I was using a lossless image type so the stills would not be noticed. I then went back to max and created an intro still which I thought to be much more effective than a simple photoshop graphic intro.

I used ‘fade to black’ for my transitions where I have used them. I used a fade to black with a black screen for a few seconds in order to show a period of time passing after the character is sewing his heart.

I then created a thought cloud in photoshop to show my character having an idea. I can create this directly from Premiere Pro by selecting File > New > Photoshop file. This opens up photoshop with a canvas the perfect size for the video. This also allows me to edit the file and the changes are made in premiere when the file is saved which is a good example or Adobe premiere pro & photoshop integration.