help in Premiere 6.0

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help in Premiere 6.0

Postby dowhatnow » Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:44 am

I've got questions...

How do I add transitions on beat?

When previewing, my video looks really, really choppy, but the audio's fine. What's wrong?

If it helps any, I'm using the .avs files I got out of VDM.

Thanks in advance.
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Postby Sierra Lorna » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:21 pm

Did you press the Enter key to actually preview your video, or are you just trying to play your project through? If you actually let it render by pressing the enter key and are watching the preview and it's still choppy, your computer probably just doesn't have enough memory to play it. Try using a different video codec for your Previews, or maybe just split your project into sections, which can help your computer out greatly.

I'm not sure what you're talking about with the transitions... Syncing is syncing, you do it manually. :?
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Postby dowhatnow » Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:33 pm

Thanks. I'll give that a try. It could also be the fact I have 200,000K+ of my memory taken up by FireFox... Curse the double-edged sword.

I understand you synch manually, but I'm asking how. I'm still not entirely clear on transitions in the first place, so any help you could give me would rock.

Thanks again.
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Postby Willen » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:00 am

There is a little section in EADFAG that covers basic syncing in Premiere. http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... dio5a.html It's useful for basic technique in any video editor, but since you asked about Premiere...

And there's SQ's Mini-guide to Action Sync, with a section on non-action video sync basics too!

Transitions are, at the most basic level, something used to denote or make a change from one scene to another. Examples are fade-to-black, cross-fade (fade the previous scene into the next), wipes, and dissolves. Even the most basic straight cut is a transition in a way. I'm not sure what you mean by adding transitions on beat, unless you are talking about syncing?
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Postby dowhatnow » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:02 pm

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?

Also, how is the overlaying of footage-on-top-of-footage achieved?

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?

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.
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Postby Willen » Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:05 am

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. :P ) 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...
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