jonnkakarotto wrote:Well, the link on
this page that is supposed to redirect to a video is broken, so I searched for it, and it's what I'm looking for. (Found
here)
My question is where do those white sections come from (in Premiere), and is there a black counterpart to them?
Other than opening the program up (on a different, not-mine, computer) I've never used Premiere, so I'm not sure if it can generate or has a feature to create a "white matte". I'm pretty sure you'll have to make your own in whatever image editing program you currently use. Same thing with a "black matte". Here's how I made the ones I use: open your image editor (Paint, Photoshop, etc. I'll use MS Paint for example). In Paint, it should open up a white image. Select
Image from the menu and click on
Attributes... (CTRL+E). To be safe, you might want to specify the size of the matte you are going to create (I'm not sure if most programs will work with odd sized images correctly). Change your
Width to 720 pixels (or 640 if working with square pixels) and your
Height to 480 pixels, assuming this is for NTSC 4:3 AR footage. For 16:9 widescreen NTSC stuff, Width of 848 (or 852) may be preferred, Magix (and my copy of Vegas) require you to specify the aspect ratio every time you import the matte image (or it would default to 4:3 even with project settings of 16:9) which started to annoy me. Save the image as a BMP or TIFF (preferred). Name it something that will help you remember what it is (I used White720x480.tif). For black, use the fill tool to change the white to black. Save this modified image under a different name like Black720x480.tif (genius!). Now everytime you need these matte images (black, almost never) you can drag it onto the timeline and adjust the duration to fit.
jonnkakarotto wrote:Also, how is the overlaying of footage-on-top-of-footage achieved?
Easy as pie. See the example image on the EADFAG page you linked? Just stack a clip above another and adjust the red line of the higher clip to the desired opacity (which lets the clip underneath it show through).
jonnkakarotto wrote:Finally, I'm looking for more of a black flash between beats (like in the mini-guide and that vid), so how do I achieve that?
Remember what you just did to make one clip show through another one? Just do the same, except without a clip below it (or, even though it is redundant, you could put the black matte under the clip). You'll need to set a point of where you want the effect to start and/or stop, adjust this to your desired length. This is the most basic of transitions:
The Fade. (Not to be confused with Phade, owner of this site.

) Adjust the duration and frequency of these fades until desired epileptic seizures occur (white fades, or flashes work better for this, btw).
jonnkakarotto wrote:Keep in mind, I'm a kinesthetic learner (learning by doing), so as much as I appreciate it, your help and guides only go so far.
Nonetheless, I appreciate all of it. Thanks.
Keep plugging away...