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 Graphic overlays
Most overlaid graphics are simple captions, or perhaps a logo in the corner of the screen. More ambitious graphics could be animated programme titles, or even computer generated characters. Whatever they may be, these can, for the most part, be treated in the same way, which is to key them on (probably using an alpha matt).
Most overlaid graphics are simple captions, or perhaps a logo in the corner of the screen. More ambitious graphics could be animated programme titles, or even computer generated characters. Whatever they may be, these can, for the most part, be treated in the same way, which is to key them on (probably using an alpha matt).
Basic text can be created with the title creator in Adobe Premiere (most programmes have something similar), or using Photoshop (I like Adobe programmes, okay?) if you want a bit more control. Doing the former will mean that your titles are set up and ready to go automatically. Animated text can be (fairly) easily created with Flash (export it as a Quicktime movie to get it into your video editor), while CG actors can be easily created by spending £1,496,368.73 on expensive software and devoting 483 hours to every 17 minutes of footage.
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| Adobe Premiere Overview
This tutorial is based on Adobe Premiere 5.1 for Apple Mac. The Windows version is very similar but newer versions of Premiere (version 6+) are slightly different.
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| Learn Lighting with GUST
Learn about lighting in Adobe Premeire. How and Why to use it.
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| Introduction to Chromakeying
Chromakeyer is basically a device which replaces everything of one particular colour with parts of another picture. This technique is known to most people, although normally they refer to it as "green screening" or something similar.
Chromakeyer is basically a device which replaces everything of one particular colour with parts of another picture. This technique is known to most people, although normally they refer to it as "green screening" or something similar. Keying (there are other varieties, such as luma-keying or green screen keying) is used in a huge variety of films and television programmes to achieve all sorts of effects.
Almost every time you see a close up of Harrison Ford dangling off a cliff in Indiana Jones, it is chromakeyed. All that stuff in The Matrix was chromakeyed (although they had a lot of other stuff going on too). Pretty much every scene in Star Wars episode one was keyed together (excluding the ones that didn't exist outside a computer in the first place), and then Jar-jar Binks was keyed on top of that (unfortunately).
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| The Project Window
The project window is the main footage library for your project. In it you can see the names of all the footage in your project, and some other information about those footage files, such as duration, and how many times you have used them on your timeline.
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| The Timeline Window
The timeline window is where you assemble your grand vision.
The timeline window is where you assemble your grand vision. Placement of all your video and audio clips is controlled by placing them on the timeline, which forms the main area of the timeline window, with various buttons and tags at the left hand edge.
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| Transitions
On the right you can see the Adobe Premiere transition window. It contains a list of the different 2D and 3D wipe effects available to the Premiere editor.
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| The Navigator Window
The navigator window contains a small map of the timeline for your entire project. Its main purpose is to allow you to move to specific parts of your timeline quickly, which can be done simply by clicking on it.
This tutorial is based on Adobe Premiere 5.1 for Apple Mac. The Windows version is very similar but newer versions of Premiere (version 6+) are slightly different.
The navigator window contains a small map of the timeline for your entire project. Its main purpose is to allow you to move to specific parts of your timeline quickly, which can be done simply by clicking on it. It also shows you where your work area is currently located, and which part of the timeline is currently visible on screen. The number at the bottom tells you the location of your edit line (in time code) and the controls next to that allow you to alter the magnification of the navigator window in order to zoom in and out. if you zoom in, it is possible for the timeline window to show only a part of your timeline in the navigator window, which will then be able to scroll horizontally.
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| The capture window can be opened either from the file menu (file>capture>movie capture) or by pressing F5. If you wish to use device control (to remotely control a FireWire video player, for example) then you must turn this on (file>preferences>scratch disks and device control) before opening the capture window. if you are not using device control, the capture window will look much simpler than that pictured.
Capturing Footage
Explanation of the capture window in Adobe Premiere.
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| Transparency Effects
Transparency effects such as chromakeying and lumakeying can be easily applied to a clip through the transparency menu.
Transparency effects such as chromakeying and lumakeying can be easily applied to a clip through the transparency menu – clips>video>transparency, which opens the window shown on the right.
The first thing to do is select your key type. Chromakey allows you to select any single colour you wish, and also set the similarity, blend, threshold and cutoff settings, using the preview in the top right corner to find the settings to produce the best result. Lumakey removes all areas which are brighter/darker (depending on settings) then the threshold. The various alpha matte keyers, remove areas of the picture as indicated by the image's alpha channel.
An alpha channel is an extra grey-scale image attached to the visible picture, and parts of the visible picture are made transparent depending on the brightness of the grey-scale alpha channel.
The difference matte keyer is an interesting option, which compares the current frame of video with a separate picture (intended to be a picture of the background from the movie). Any part of the picture which is the same in both images is made transparent. This allows keying effects without use of a chromakey screen, but results are not necessarily of the highest quality.
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