How to Make an iPod Commercial
Commercials for the iPod consist of a person who moves around the screen. But unlike a normal commercial, only the silhouette of the person is seen. It is possible to make your own iPod commercial with a silhouetted person using the Quicktime Pro and Adobe Photoshop software programs. These programs will work on Macintosh or Windows-based computers. The work needed to do this is fairly straightforward and the time needed to make the completed commercial will have been well spent.
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Instructions
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Go to the Apple website and download Quicktime Player for a Mac or Windows-based computer to the desktop of the computer (see link in Resources). Click on the icon of Quicktime and follow the menu directions to install the program. Restart the computer if using a Windows-based computer.
Go to the Apple website, then pay for and download the serial number for Quicktime Pro. Run the Quicktime program. Go to File>Registration and enter in the serial number where indicated. Quick Quicktime to turn the program into Quicktime Pro.
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Run Quicktime Pro. Go to File>Open File and navigate in the window to the video of the person that will be made into the iPod commercial. Press "Open" to load in the video and close the window.
Go to File>Export and select "Movie to Image Sequence" from the drop-down menu next to the Export tab. Name the video "Working Commercial" and press the "Save" button at the lower right of the window to save the video as a series of individual pictures in order. Quit Quicktime Pro.
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Run Adobe Photoshop. Go to the File menu and load in the first picture of the "Working Commercial" picture sequence. Select the Magic Wand tool from the Toolbar and click on the background of the first picture. Go to Select>Inverse to reverse the picture. Press Command-C on a Mac or Control-C on a Windows-based computer to copy the picture. Press Command-N/Control-N to create a new canvas window to work on. Press Command-V/Control-V to paste the picture of the background onto this new canvas.
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Click on the person using the Magic Wand tool. Inverse the person using Select>Inverse. Press Command-C/Control-C to copy the entire picture. Press Command-N/Control-N to create a new canvas window to work on. Press Command-V/Control-V to paste the picture of the person onto this new canvas.
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Press Command-N or Control-N to create a new canvas. Create 3 layers on the new canvas by selecting Layer>New Layer x 3 from the menu. Select a color and fill the background layer with a solid color. Copy and paste the cutout picture of the person into both layers 2 and 3.
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Click on layer 3 so that it is active. Command Click/Control Click to select the cutout picture of the person. Set the foreground color to black and use Option Delete-Alt-Backspace to fill the selected cutout of the person with the black. Save the picture with a number 1 to an empty folder on the desktop of the computer.
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Repeat the above steps with every individual picture that was saved from the original video.
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Run Quicktime Pro. Go to File>Open Image Sequence and navigate to the folder holding the pictures that were altered in Photoshop. Select the picture labeled as number 1.
Go to File>Save As and give the file a name like "Finished iPod commercial". Press the "Save" button at the lower right to save the file to the desktop as a Quicktime movie.
Click on the Quicktime movie to watch your finished iPod commercial.
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Tips & Warnings
Make copies of the finished video and the finished pictures altered in Photoshop. This will be of help should you need to redo a picture or remake the video.
Other programs can interfere with the conversion processes that are used by both Photoshop and Quicktime Pro. Do not have other programs running when you are using Photoshop or Quicktime Pro to avoid potential problems from lack of memory or interference.
