Hello,
This is my first post at FXShare - looking forward to networking, learning and sharing with this community. To start I will describe my trade background as it might help with suggestions regarding how I might be able to best help myself here.
I'm a portrait / hand-drawn artist by nature, and in college picked up extensive Photoshop and Adobe Premiere video editing training (I graduated from the Character Animation department at CalArts, in the School of Film & Video). I'm pretty proficient at drawing and using Photoshop for airbrushing, graphic composition and logo design work. Where I fail is at using Adobe Illustrator, Flash, and AfterEffects. I took several sessions worth of Flash and AfterEffects training but never paid attention closely enough to actually pick up enduring skills (I skipped ALL Flash classes but remember traces of AfterEffects terms like "3:2 Pulldown" and such - I had to use AfterEffects to process and output my Premiere-edited animated films).
Here is my question:
I am attempting to build a website for myself that would showcase my graphic design and hand-drawn artwork, and would like to build a "title sequence" for myself. I've uploaded samples to YouTube of the effect I'm looking to recreate.
- The title sequence you see before this movie trailer starts is what I'm looking to do: American Graffiti sample trailer
- Here is the sequence in likely its original state - before it was "remixed" as in #1: Jurassic Park 2 sample trailer
- This is a different effect - although I'd like to learn how to do this too: Twister sample trailer
Can I somehow create these effects using a combination of Photoshop and Premiere? Or is this going to have to be an AfterEffects job? (I do actually own AfterEffects and Flash, and 3D Studio Max as well, just have not learned how to use them yet.) And if AfterEffects would be needed for the job, are there any tutorials out there findable online - like step-by-steps that would describe how to create sequences like the ones above?
Thanks for any help or direction you guys can provide!
P.S. - Anyone know of any "pay per license" sites like iStock.com that carry the same movie trailer-quality sound effects you might actually hear in a movie theater?