Welcome to the third session in this series on
Adobe Premiere...
I started this session with looking at the video on green screens. This is what drove me to Premiere in the first place. iMovie does a horrible job with this task, and I wanted something better. It took me awhile to learn my way around through trial and error. This tutorial would have been helpful back then. It showed how to use the Ultra Key tool to eliminate the green screen. This is a great tool because you can really tweak it using the Matte Creation tool found under the Ultra Key.
I also watched the short little clip on changing your video from day to night. Wow this is cool. I knew you probably do this, but thought it was be very difficult and time consuming. Wrong! By simply using the Fast color convertor and RGB curves, I was able to change my city scape to evening.
I watched the short little tutorials on adding titles, lower thirds and rolling credits - all I have used before and had no problems, but just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything. I was happy to know I was on the right track.
Exporting for me has always been a trick - we all want the best quality and smallest size. I always run into having my files too big. This tutorial was helpful because it gave me some options to look into that I wouldn't have tried on my own because I didn't know what they were. The tutorial mentioned that the most important factor was the codec, not the format. The codec is what makes the difference in the file size and quality of the video. This tutorial suggested trying H264 video codec because this happens to also be a format ad will produce a high compression, but retains the quality of the image. Another suggestion was FLV because it will produce a small video, with descent quality.
Here is a video I created to show what I went over in the Adobe Premiere tutorial. I started with using layers. I recorded Grace signing about our dog Sandy. I then let Grace video tape Sandy outside. I put the video of Sandy in layer 2, so it obscured the video of Grace, but you still had the audio. I also added a title. The next scenes are of Paige and Lauren signing, and this is where I used the green screen effect. I found a picture of a rooftop from the community pages (copyright-free) of Flickr.com to match the song they were singing. I also used the layers here as well - the song continues but the video switches to Grace and Lauren jumping on the trampoline. The video ends with the girls singing on the rooftop again. The scenes jump and I don't like it, but I didn't go over transitions (although I know how to use them) in this three part series.
A day at the Kramer's
Well, that's all I have from this 5.5 hour tutorial of Adobe Premiere. I am only 3.5 hours into it, and will finish up soon.
Up next on my Lynda.com tutorial: Premiere's New Features and Color Correction, and Adobe After Effects.
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