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So you bought a pre-made template used by thousands of others and edited the text...

cyberferret 11y ago
Exactly. Rather than pay a four figure sum like thousands of other others. I figured that there would be people in the same boat, with limited finances, who may like some pointers to ways they can achieve the same.
- daveguy 11y ago
  Watched the video. It's pretty slick for $100. I went back to see how much you paid for voiceover, but your wife did it -- that's cheating! Like saying I made an explainer video in a day for free and oh, "my brother is a producer". I guess you could always do that part yourself to cut down on cost. How much would a voiceover actor have been? Did you need to work with Adobe after effects or was it just a library type dependency? If so, what did you think of it, how difficult was it to learn and work with?
  - retrogradeorbit 11y ago
    You could use something like voicebunny for the voice over if you didn't have access to talent.
    - Agustus 11y ago
      Thank you for posting this link.
    - cyberferret 11y ago
      Good tip. Coincidentally, a couple of years ago someone suggested my wife audition for Voice Bunny to be added to their talent pool for contract jobs. She never did though.
  - cyberferret 11y ago
    I totally concur it would be cheating if she was a professional voiceover artist. But in reality, she isn't. She's a counsellor by profession, but she has a really nice speaking voice, which I knew and wanted to use in this case. She has been asked by other people we know to do voice over work for ads etc., but she has turned them down on the grounds that it is not her every day job. I guess she couldn't turn me down though... ;)
  - cyberferret 11y ago
    Oops, I forgot to answer your question. I surprisingly found AE quite easy to pick up. I did Flash action scripting many years ago, so the concept of key frames etc. I was familiar with and managed to get to grips with. Most of the time came from trying to understand the template I bought. The designed had gone deep with multiple embedded templates within each other to get the animations to work, so I had to unravel some of them where I wanted to change the images or paths. I am sure I was hack handed at a lot of it, but it gave me the results.

Exactly. Rather than pay a four figure sum like thousands of other others. I figured that there would be people in the same boat, with limited finances, who may like some pointers to ways they can achieve the same.

daveguy 11y ago
Watched the video. It's pretty slick for $100. I went back to see how much you paid for voiceover, but your wife did it -- that's cheating! Like saying I made an explainer video in a day for free and oh, "my brother is a producer". I guess you could always do that part yourself to cut down on cost. How much would a voiceover actor have been? Did you need to work with Adobe after effects or was it just a library type dependency? If so, what did you think of it, how difficult was it to learn and work with?
- retrogradeorbit 11y ago
  You could use something like voicebunny for the voice over if you didn't have access to talent.
  - Agustus 11y ago
    Thank you for posting this link.
  - cyberferret 11y ago
    Good tip. Coincidentally, a couple of years ago someone suggested my wife audition for Voice Bunny to be added to their talent pool for contract jobs. She never did though.
- cyberferret 11y ago
  I totally concur it would be cheating if she was a professional voiceover artist. But in reality, she isn't. She's a counsellor by profession, but she has a really nice speaking voice, which I knew and wanted to use in this case. She has been asked by other people we know to do voice over work for ads etc., but she has turned them down on the grounds that it is not her every day job. I guess she couldn't turn me down though... ;)
- cyberferret 11y ago
  Oops, I forgot to answer your question. I surprisingly found AE quite easy to pick up. I did Flash action scripting many years ago, so the concept of key frames etc. I was familiar with and managed to get to grips with. Most of the time came from trying to understand the template I bought. The designed had gone deep with multiple embedded templates within each other to get the animations to work, so I had to unravel some of them where I wanted to change the images or paths. I am sure I was hack handed at a lot of it, but it gave me the results.