Post Production

With each of the renders now complete it was time to put the clips together to create the main video for the presentation. Inside Adobe Premier Pro, Tom and I used Stuarts narration audio clip and placed a number of still images to be displayed along side the narration. The 3D renders were then added so the animation would play once the narration has ended. With everything in place we exported the video file as an AVI. This took some time and with a few failed attempts when experimenting with different file types we eventually got a stable video.

The video was then imported into Cakewalk Sonar 6, a audio editing application which was ideal for adding some of  Tom's sound clips to the video clip. By changing the placement and the volume of the audio it was easy to create a realistic sounding steam engine.

When trying to export the now complete video to a Quicktime movie file the application failed the process. However we then tried exporting the video as an AVI and this was done successfully. The final video is at a high resolution to give a good professional quality to the content. Furthermore not much quality was lost during the exporting process from Premier Pro and Sonar 6, and so overall as a group we were very happy with the end product.