Comments on: New logo design video

By: Rex

Rex — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:34:26 +0000

Very nice logo creation! great work! more power to you!

By: German

German — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:37:36 +0000

Ooops!! I think you already answered my inquiry about video compression in your answer to my question about the software you use!

Thanks Steve… you are very kind.

By: German

German — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:33:50 +0000

Hi Steve…thanks for your kind explanation…by the way…what is the most reliable option to compress a mov video from my digital camera so it can be seen by or sent through e-mail to other people?
Also I want to know this because I am new on video editing and I am planning to upload some promotional videos to my new web site without loosing quality…you know that on advertising the video quality is too important to consider if you want to sell.

: )

By: Steve Douglas

Steve Douglas — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:58:02 +0000

HI German. All our logos are designed using Adobe Illustrator. If the logo started originally as a sketch, we scan them into Photoshop, output as a .jpg and trace by hand using AI. The video itself was set up in Flash – probably not the best way to do things – with the logos fading in and out using tweening alpha channels on two layers.

After I had the Flash setup, I rendered the movie as a Quicktime (Youtube doesn’t seem to like the default QT that comes from Flash, so I had to re-save the file using Quicktime Pro). The soundtrack was recorded using Live! and Reason. I converted the .AIFF file to .MP3 using Audion (iTunes does a decent job as well) and then dumped it into the Flash timeline.

By: German

German — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:26:12 +0000

Hi Steve…what is the Program that you are using to trace the drawing in that video?
thanks

By: Steve Douglas

Steve Douglas — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:20:34 +0000

Nicole! Nice to hear from you (and thanks for the kind words). Hope the new place is treating you well – the gang misses you too…

By: Nicole King

Nicole King — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:31:19 +0000

I like to swing by the blog every so often and get caught up on what has been going on at the studio since I left the team in September. What can I say — I miss you guys!

I checked out the presentation you’ve put together. It is amazing, and a great portfolio piece! Keep up the great work guys!

By: Steve Douglas

Steve Douglas — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:14:47 +0000

Appreciate the comments Marcy. Creating a series of How-to videos is something that we’ve been kicking around for a while now. We’re planning to turn some of our help and logo design tips into a series of video (and podcast) presentations in the not-too-distant future.

By: Marcy

Marcy — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:31:13 +0000

Nice work! Though it would be nice if you created a video that is more informative for designers. Maybe you could create a “how to” video or some tips that designers could use when they are designing logos.

By: Steve Douglas

Steve Douglas — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:26:18 +0000

Thanks Ryan. I used Flash to develop most of the animation and rendered it using the default Quicktime engine. Unfortunately, You Tube doesn’t seem to like the .movs created from Flash so I had to re-render the .mov using Quicktime Pro (takes a long time but it reduced the size from 98 MBs down to 19 MB without any appreciable loss of quality. If you’ve got a healthy site of pipes, you can download the hi-resolution stereo version here). As I mentioned I simply used the .jpgs from our site, but would like to re-do with new .pngs if I ever get the time. That would allow me to lose the watermarks and Daily Logo frame artwork. Trouble is, there’s almost 400 logos in the animation and it would take a very long time to set up. Next video I’m going to set up in FInal Cut.