"Twirl In" Tutorial Adobe

Image twirling – Adobe Premiere

I was going to put together a tutorial for you all about my application of my video, but lost my voice so that isn’t exactly help to you. Instead, I’ve put together some helpful steps below detailing how I edited my swirling rabbit hole video, as I was originally going to show you.

1.     Place your image into the sequence in the desired area. Go to the “Video Effects” section in the bottom left hand pane on the screen and drag the “Twirl In” effect onto the image.

2.     Next, you double click on the image and it will bring that up above the sequence. Go to the effect controls in the top left pane and it will bring up the same window in which you find the “Opacity Options.” You should see a tab for the “Twirl In” effect and should click the little triangle next to the words to open all of the editing options.

3.     If you were to make no edits, the image would remain a square and it would twirl into the center as seen above, showing the outside of the image first and slowly revealing the rest as it progresses. Below, you can see that the twirling will end at about half way through the image’s life in the project.

4.     When I was editing my rabbit hole picture, I played around with the twirl angle and twirl radius by dragging to two white buttons above. Instead of placing them in the same place, I dragged one to the left and the other to the right to give the distorted, fantasy-like twirling effect where the center moves before the edges.

5.     I also changed the twirl center to get the edges to move as seen below. If you leave it in the preset conditions, the image will remain a square throughout the entirety of it being shown.

6.     Note: I’ve found that the velocity above looks best when it is slower than 3 or 4/second.

If you have any questions or would like me to show you anything else regarding the twirl, feel free to let me know.

Revision Plan

As my project currently stands, there are a lot of directions that I can contemplate going in and each little detail that I change or add seems to slightly change the way that I view the story that I’m telling. My story stands around two and a half minutes, though I could still slow down my speech a little more – that is one of my biggest problems, as I tend to be a relatively quick speaker. I plan on slowing down a little more but I also want to re-evaluate all of the descriptive words in my piece and make them more sensory because it was such a sensory experience. I have begun to add music, specifically that of the artist it is about, and had placed other small sounds into the piece, but I need to make sure that those sounds are not overkill that I’ve placed in there just for the sake of adding sound. That won’t make up a good project and the timing of all of the audio is key. I am adding video in the place of some of the still images from various places and plan to look at the project as a whole to make sure that it doesn’t look too computer-processed like the rabbit hole portion of my first draft. One of the biggest things that I want to change, though, is that I want to add to my story. After rereading it a little bit, I understand as an outsider why the narrator is telling you the story, but I don’t completely get that magical, almost surreal feeling that I was trying to convey to the audience and I’m trying to find the words to do that. Every aspect of the piece will have changed in some way since the last draft, as I’m sure it should. I want to take out the “I” words and replace them with group actions as the piece progresses and focus in on specific little details. I believe that the biggest challenge will be the narration-music combination. I’m such a visual person that I understand how to make my images and video convey a feeling, but the audio will be a little bit more difficult to tweak.

Revision Plan - Forme

Story Text: After revising and line-editing last week, I got the audio down to three minutes which gives me enough room to add the videos, images and sounds. As far as the text is concerned I will probably have to edit it again in the coming weeks when I receive feedbacks from the class.

Audio Images and Videos: I was able to find a solution to get a clean recording. I will have to rerecord again after feedback. Since I am working my own video clips, I always have to re-record the video each time I change something in the story. So I am planning on getting most of my video online. I tried University of Pittsburgh archives videos but I did not find what I am looking for yet. I will still be looking for the right ones. With what I have so far, I will work on re-structuring the story to have a clear plan. I will still have couple shootings of myself telling the story, but it will be limited to 3-5 clips. I will have one at the start of the story, another one showing me looking around. There will be 1-2 scenarios, comic I hope, depicting me asking myself questions and trying to understand what is happening to me.

I will also have still pictures. So far I have what I want to use. I don’t think I will be working on them unless I feel the need to do so after I receive feedbacks from class.

Background Sounds: I got a lot of sounds online and I have already inserted them to my story. It seems a bit noisy though, especially the classroom noise and chatter I inserted. I am playing with the volume, but I still feel like it is distracting. I am thinking it might be due to the fact that I am not being able to take my focus away from the background sounds. I hope I will judge better in the next couple weeks when I work on the rest of the story.

Revision Plan - Gabriela Tremont

I’ve made a few changes since our last copy was due. I shortened my audio clip and made sure I incorporated only sentences that I felt were necessary to tell my story. I removed a sentence that began with “I realized,” and I tried to ask more meaningful, less-cliché questions. I kept all of my pictures from France in black and white, but I changed the pictures from Italy back to color. I also incorporated a few new videos that I took while abroad. These include videos from France and Italy.  I’m still working on editing those.

I plan to find more relevant still images for my video. I want them to be authentic and genuine depictions of my family. I’ve found that I have a solid number of pictures from France because I was there so long, but not enough from Italy. I mention several names of family members in Italy, but I don’t have photos of all of them to show. In the near future, I’d like to obtain some old family photos to incorporate. I’m having a bit of a hard time accessing these because they’re at my house in New York.  When I go home for thanksgiving break I plan to find a multitude of these photos and add them into my project.

I think my old family photos will illustrate an interesting and authentic view of my family. I mention how the last time I met my family in Italy, I was only a year old. I’d like to incorporate pictures from that event. Other than that, I’m also interested in adding more sounds to my video. Perhaps the addition of city sounds in the very beginning would render themselves well. I’m currently working to remove photos from my video that feel too impersonal.