Effects in premiere- CREDITS

kearlywi · Post by **kearlywi** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 12:31 am

Ok a couple of quick question for those of you in the know. These questions mainly refer to the "Rammstein - Feuer Frei (Gundam Wing)" AMV I downloaded on Kazaa (an amazing and quite professional looking AMV). Of course, you don't have to see this AMV to understand my questions, but if you are having trouble visualizing them download this AMV for clarification.

First, how can i make my clips do a transparent fade in over and over (so that it kind of looks like the screen is pulsing)?

Secondly, the AMV's author, "Session 01" created a cool looking sleeping panda that quickly crosses the bottom of the screen in the foreground. If i make an AMV, I want my credits to simply appear and fade as a separate layer in front of the ongoing AMV rather than interupt the AMV with a special credits screen like O' so many AMV's do. How can this be done?

Thirdly, I have seen some AMV's where the credits are posted in a professional manner (like real music videos), i.e.

ANIME: Love Hina
SONG: Right Now
BAND: SR-71
ARTIST: Mr. Peepers (Bah!)

Again anyone know how to do this? Thx.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 6:29 am

Make a image in photoshop. Either text or a graphic. Make sure you make it with a transperant background. Save it as a PSD file. Import that into Premiere. Goto the Transperancy Setup and choose a keytype of Alpha Channel.

Apply the Transform effect from the Effects list. Under Distort or Perspective(maybe some where else if you moved it).

Adjust the height, width & position until it's where you want it. You can click on the corsshairs to the left of the position coordinates then click and drag in the monitor window to move around with the mouse.

You can use keyframes to animates this sequence. Then use the rubber bands to fade it in or out.

~klinky

kmv · Post by **kmv** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 8:05 am

... and the rubber bands is how you make the other clips "pulse" in and out too.

BTW the editor of that video is SpPanda.

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 8:07 am

You could also do the same thing with an image in After Effects. I generally think it handles motion better than Premiere, and makes keyframing easier (since everything in it is pretty much keyframe based).