Adobe Audition Edit

I did this tutorial in Adobe Audition. I was able to get rid of the annoying background sounds and make my audio a little louder and more clear. It takes a couple of steps to accomplish the overall sound quality but they're all really easy. Hope this helps!

Custom Transitions in Premiere

Custom Transitions

1. Two images in Premiere, on separate tracks.
2. Go to New Item in the Project tab on the left hand sign and click black video. Drag the black video to the timeline and place it so that it overlaps both photos.
3. After creating an image in Adobe Photoshop that you want to use for your transitions, save it. The image can be anything you want to use in your transition.
4. Right-click on the black video and click on After Effects composition. Import your Photoshop image into AfterEffects.
5. Drag the Photoshop image down to the AfterEffects timeline and check the left-most box.
6. Keep dragging copies of the photo down in the same manner until you have enough images for your transition. Resize when appropriate.
7. To adjust the timing in which each image will show, you can toggle the gray bars in the timeline. Use the play button in the upper right corner to play the AfterEffects composition.
8. When you are satisfied with the timing of your images, return to Premiere. Adjust the black video so it overlaps with your first photo. Position the second photo so that it begins right where the black video ends.

Animating Stills Using Keyframes and the Bezier Curve

In my video, I want to animate a certain moment where I talk about how when I was little, I thought the moon followed me everywhere as I drove. To do this, I use the pan effect on an image of driving at night, and then I use keyframes to make a different image of the moon move on top of it.

First, I set a keyframe at the end of my clip to show where I would end up with the driving background.

Next, I moved to the beginning of the clip and set a new keyframe.

This gave me the pan effect for the background that we have talked about in class.

Next, I dragged my image of the moon onto my timeline and scaled it to size. I created a keyframe for the moon showing where it would be at the beginning of the background's pan.

I went to the middle of my clip (since my clip is 14 seconds, I went to 7 seconds). Even though the moon moved along with the pan background, I wanted it to move along a curve as well. I moved the moon's position, creating a new keyframe. The orange line on the picture of the moon indicates the curve that it will move along.

Finally, I went to the end of the clip and moved the moon again, setting the final keyframe. Again, the orange line shows the path that the moon will follow as the video plays.

Here is my video tutorial if you want to see it actually being done (no sound though). It's pretty easy but if anyone has questions, let me know!

Creating an Old Film Effect

Here is the video turtorial where I show how to create this old film effect that I'm still kind of experimenting with in the video. This method just relies on a couple of Premiere Filters.

1. Posterize Time

Drag this onto the clip and change the frame rate anywhere from 12 to 18 frames per second. This gives it the slow choppy feel that old films often had.

2. RGB Color Corrector
Change Gamma to 1.6
Change Pedestal to .2
Change Gain to .8

3. Tint
Change the White one to a Dark Orange Color
Change the Black one to a Light Orange Color
Change the Percentage from 100 to 40 so that there is only a slight tint and its not completely overwhelming.

If you want to add this effect to more than one clip but don't know which color you used, then when you're selecting a clip, copy and paste (or memorize) the color code in the bottom right of the color choosing screen and use the same code for the other clips.

Pan and Zoom with Ease In and Out

The First clip provided below is a tutorial of using the zoom feature in Adobe Premiere Accompanied by the ease in and ease out features. The clip first displays how to scale and position photos at the appropriate start and end points to create a linear zoom. The ease in and ease out features are then displayed.

The second clip shows how to use both pan and zoom along with the ease in and out features in Adobe premier. The clip shows how to set multiple pan and zoom points within the clip with linear motion. Additionally, the ease in and ease out features are displayed. It is also important to note that by decreasing your frame rate blur can be reduced while images are in motion.

Bruce Lee Push Animation

Peep the latest in CGI animation: I will be doing the description in class so don't skip if you can't understand what Im doing here. K have a good week everybodyy

Finding Footage Tutorial

When looking for footage to use it is very important to think about the look and feel that you are trying to portray. For my story, I wanted a more dark feel. Because of this, I tried to find footage that had more bluish hues and darker lighting. 

When finding my footage, a simple thing that I did was just google the things I wanted to see in the video and see what came up in a video search. From this, I just began to look through these sites and search these sites themselves. Some sites that I find useful are YouTube.com and Vimeo.com

Finding my stock footage was more difficult. The first place I looked was archive.org. On here I again searched what I was looking for in the video and scrolled through some to see if they had what I was looking for. This can be very time-consuming and difficult though. Another thing I did was thought of various old films I had seen that might have clips I could used. I looked those up in YouTube and used them. Then I would look at the related videos to find other similar videos. 

Once I found the clips I wanted to use, I put their url into clipconverter.cc which converts them to an MP4 on your computer.

Suggested websites:

YouTube.com

Vimeo.com

Archive.org

Clipconverter.cc