Adobe Premiere clip transitions

With Adobe Premiere you can have clips just change to another, you can manually lower the brightness to give a fade, or you can use one of the many inbuilt transitions. These are located in the effects tab of the bottom left panel where the project and all the folders with clips is by default, on the top of this panel theres a slide bar, as some of the tabs are off to the left or right.

in effects, go to Video Transitions and then pick any of the folders to get different effects.


These can just be dragged and dropped into the project sequence, they all go in between clips and apply different effects.


The highlighted section is the transition, it snaps to be between 2 clips. Some transitions will make more of the clip from the original video show as it has to overlap and play more.
below shows the transition.

Adobe Premiere selecting area of footage adding to sequence

Using Adobe Premiere you'll want to take parts of existing videos to use in your project, to do this import the video you wish to take a clip from. You can do this by dragging and dropping the video into Premiere.

Place the clips and full videos in folders within Premiere:

I've also named them so I know what on earth each clip is.

To cut a bit from a vid, drag it from the folder area to the top left area or double click it, now you can play the vid using the controls below it. The buttons either side of the play/stop button allow you to move one frame forward or back, this can also be done using the mouse scroll wheel while the cursor is over the vid. This allows you to find the exact frame you wish to start or stop the clip you want to extract.

When I reach the frame I want to start my clip from I press the "{" button bellow the video, and when I reach the end I press the "}". The section of the vid will be highlighted on the progression bar below the video. To save this clip for future use I click on the video and drag it to the folder area, and rename it. it is now set as the clip as default but still has all the data of the full video.

If I drag the clip to the right side into my project sequence, it will play just the part I selected, but if I hover over the edge of the clip a red icon will appear, if I click with this showing and drag out it will make the clip longer and will play what came after the lip in the original video, I can also do this to shorten a clip.

CHnaging the size of clips already on the sequence and moving them around can be made easier by zooming in on the sequence timeline by Alt+scroll




This is due to snapping, to either other clips or the nearest second/millisecond etc.


The project sequence area has multiple levels "Video 1-3" "Audio 1 - 4". This is so you can have video and audio overlap/fade into one another for better effect. The Audio and video of each level can be hidden by clicking the eye or speaker icon on the left side.


The volume and video and be stopped whenever I want during the sequence using the yellow line that can be seen going through all the clips of video and sound. This is the level, so if I drag it down on volume it will get quieter or off, and for video it will fade to black. Though as default moving it will alter the volume/brightness for the entire level of the sequence, so I need to as points, with these points in place I can move the point and  the yellow line with move form point to point, so one can be high another low and this when played will be like a fade, and depending on the distance between the two that will alter the speed.
To add points I use the pen tool:
 With this selected I simply left click on a point on the yellow line and a point will appear.
Two points are usually needed at least, in this case I'll do a fade out, so I need one point to stay high and another to move low.


Bellow shows premiere, on the top right is the sequence playing as it reaches the fade.


and again, but with it through the fade:

Starting with Adobe Premiere

I am going to begin my 1 minute trailer for the film I made a DVD case cover and disk label for.

make new Project:

Display Format is timecode as I want to work into time, and not by frames or feet (which is for physical length  of film).

I can now pick a Sequence preset, this is the resolution, fps and Progressive or Interlaced (progressive draws all 1080 lines of resolution so you get a true 1080 picture not a 540 doubled, where as interlaced draws odd frame lines then even for each frame so you never actually see the full image).


Before picking a preset I looked as the details of some of the movies I might be taking clips from.

The nearest preset which fits the average of all the movies is AVCHD > 720p > AVCHD 720p25 (25 being the fps or frame rate)

Illustrator Gradiant

I've added a gradiant to the grey disk, I did this by selecting to circle shape and then up on the top bar and click teh first square.

Then pick the gradiant box, which is White to Black.

the circle then gets the gradiant, then I select the gradiant tool from the side bar, this makes the tool appear on the image which lets me change where the graiant starts and the angle aswell as length.

on the right of the above image is the gradiant windwo which is accesed from the right side bar clicknig on graiant, here I cna change what colours the graiant uses aswell as adding new colours and chnaging the distance between them.

Finshing to lines

Now I have traced all the lines I'll sort the colours out and effects.

first I just made the lines red to match image I traced.


I then changed the stroke to a gradient.

Some of the liens are over other liens where I want them to be behind, to fix this I seelct the line/shape and then left click it, go to arange then send to back, which sends the shape to the very back of everything on the layer, or send backwards which sends it behind the shape directly behind it on the layer.

Finished label trace

Finished the trace of the Iron man chest image, to curve the joining line I used the convert anchor point tool to get a handle then curved it.

I then mirrored the shape I made and the top and bottom lines to the left side, why selected them then copying, pasting in place. this is so they are on the right level as before for the other side when I move the over using the right arrow key so it moves just along the x axis.

Then flipped the selected shapes horizontally, by going to object, transform and then reflect, which brings up a new window where I select horizontally and click ok.


Result:

Adding points, cutting lines.

To finish the iron man chest image trace for the disk I need to cut some of the circles I made nd rejoin the left lines and curve their edges.

To add a new anchor point to my circles I use the Add Anchor Point Tool found under the pen tool

Using this I hover over the area of the line I want to add the anchor and left click.


I then did the same to the bottom, now I can select the 2 points on one of the circles and press the scissor icon at the top.

Which results in the the shape being cut at the anchor points making 2 new shapes, and blew shows the line I want to keep, the rest can be deleted. This was then repeated for the outer circle.

Ti get the curved edge I select the end anchors of each of the lines

then press the icon ta the top which joins the 2 end points.

This creates a new line which joins the 2 shapes together from the points selected, this was repeated for the bottom points.

With this I can now create the curved the line using the handles.

Disk

Started tracing the iron man chest image, using at the moment only the Ellipse Tool which is found under the Rectangle Tool which is default.

I created the circles to line up with the markings of the chest, to get them perfect and in line with the dick I found the center of the disk, this can be see as it will say "Center" when the cursor is in the center. Then I held down Shift and Alt and right clicked and dragged to create a circle, holding Shift and Alt makes the circle come out from where you click so the initial click is the center of the shape, and not so where the cursor moves is the corner of the shape. 

Below shows all the circles done, the image i copied in was in the "center" but appeared the image wasn't completely centered in its self, so I lined all the circles up with the left side so all the spacing was the same. 

Due to the image no lining up 100% I'll finish the left side parts which aren't full circles then copy and flip them onto the right side. 

I did 2 circles for this part of the image:

So that they would have perfectly curved and in keeping edges, I will cut and join the ends.

DVD Lable Mock

Trying desgisn for the DVD Disck Lable, as the case has Iron man on, feels fitting to have Iron Man on the DVD. As the disk is a circle the most fitting thing is to have his chest circle of his armour on the disk as it'll fit perfectly. 

I Google image searched for "Iron Man Chest" and found many images of the actual chest from the film, but one, shown below, seemed best.


I'll place this in the project with my DVD guide and vectorize it, allowing me to alter it freely as add colour textures etc.
Here is it simply pasted into the project below this text, and resized to fit.

CD Lable Text

After finishing the DVD Case Cover, I'll now move on to creating the DVD Lable for the disk.

I'll be using the template for the DVD I created before, and will first be applying the text I created in Illustrator to it.

I opened the project where I first created the text and the template project and copied the text over. The text was far too large for the DVD, so while holding down Shift I dragged the corner Select point of the text and made it smaller. Holding shift means it will keep its scale.

Here is the text on the template and scalled to fit within it. However the stoke effects have no scalled, with it and so are very large.


To alter the size of the stroke effects I go either to the stroke tab on the side.

or the stroke at the top.

Both while having the text selected. I'll then make the stroke smaller.


I placed the text lower down below the DVD center hole so the whole text could be seen, I also made it smaller so it can all fit.

Final Cover

Finished the main bulk of the case cover, I've now added Logos to the back and spin of the cover, aswell as the title to the spine in the correct font. Also on the back I have added frames from films representing scenes from what the case cover film will be of, and text to fill it up being a synopsis etc.


Photoshop doesn't have the option to save as a PNG (Even though it did before) the above image is it as a JPEG. As a JPEG the colours seemed to be all messed up, below is the image screen capped.

Lens Flare

I want to add lens flare to my cover, coming from the front of the ship on the back.

To do this I'll first need to change my projects' colour settings to RGB, otherwise the lens flare option will be grayed out. However changing to RGB will mean I have to rasterize my project which will remove all the Adjustment layers such as Hue and levels.



Due to this I'll copy the ship, Blue ship and space over to a new project, then after flatten and copy back. To copy the blue over I duplicate the layer by right clicking on it then picking the destination as my new project, I do this as the blurs' transparencies can't be selected by crtl clicking the layer.



To apply a lens flare you need to go to Filters > Render > Lens Flare, this will bring up a window where I can pick 1 of 4 different lens flare effects, the brightness, as well as move the flare source around on the image which also move the flare.


The lens flare is only applied to the selected layer, because of this the result isn't very good:

To fix this I'll merge the layers, then copy back into main project.


Lens Flare;