DV I310 Lab 11

In this lab we will use Adobe Premiere to create a small movie out of several movie clips on a theme of favorite programming language.

Log on to Canvas, go to the course section, to Files, Week 11, Lab 11. Download the video clips that you find there to your account, as well as a gif image and the mp3 files.

If you work at home, you can record a short clip of yourself telling us what your favorite programming language is and use it in this project.

Open Adobe Premiere Pro from the CS 6 Suite. In the introduction dialog, choose the option to create a new project, then give it a name such as Programming Language or Lab 11. Leave the default options in the first dialog and DV-NTSC Standard 32 Hz for the second one.

Add the selected clips to the Timeline in the order in which you want them. Use the zoom to increase the resolution of the Timeline.

Move the cursor to the beginning of the Timeline. From the Title menu choose New Title - Default Still. Give it a name such as Title.

First check the box next to Background to set a color for the background, then click on the black rectangle next to Color and choose whatever color you want. Then set the Fill with a contrasting color. Then using the text tool (marked T) type the title of your movie, like Favorite Programming Language. Set the font and size of the text so that it fits in the safe zone (marked by a rectangle), then center it using the buttons on the left side of the editing window.

Once you are satisfied with the title, you can close this window. The title should appear in the Project area on the bottom left side of the window.

Drag the title from the resources to the Timeline on the track Video 1 and adjust its duration to 4 seconds by dragging the right side of the title bar to the left.

The clip should be display in a cutting area that is the top left side of the screen.

Use the yellow tab to select the place in the clip where you want it to start playing (usually a little before they begin to talk). Then click on the { button to set the beginning of the section you're going to use. Then find the end of the section to use, place the yellow tab on it, then click on the } button to set the end of the section. Then drag the whole clip to the Timeline on the track Video 1 after the title. Repeat for each of the clips and add them to the same track of the Timeline one after the other.

In Tools area on the bottom left side of the window, click on Effects, then open the tab on Video Effects. Try different effects (Ctrl-z to undo) by dragging them from the Effects menu onto the clip you want to apply them to in the Timeline. Use the playback to see the effect.

Again in the Effects menu, open the Video Transitions tab. Click on View Video Transitions in the Edit Movie category. Add an effect of type Dissolve to the beginning of the first clip. Select a transition for each two clips in the sequence, then drag it and drop it in the Timeline over the clip to apply to. Note that some of them can use a single clip at a time or a little bit of both. Use the playback to test the effects.

Click on Import pictures under Capture Video category and import the Java image. Drag this image to the end of your Timeline. By default this image will play for 5 seconds. Adjust its duration to about 7 seconds by dragging the right border of the image in the Timeline. Add a transition effect to it such as Iris Box and any other effect you want.

Choose one of the mp3 files provided, or go to the site:
http://www.freesoundtrackmusic.com/
and look for another audio clip you may like better.

Import the audio clip into the project. Double click on it to open it in the editing area. Select a beginning for the section you want to use and click on the { button to set it. Then drag it to the Audio 2 track in the Timeline at the beginning. Adjust the end of the audio clip to match the end of the whole movie.

It may be necessary to apply an audio transition filter if you had to duplicate a short clip to avoid an abrupt change.

Click on the little arrow next to the name Audio 2 to show more details for this track. Over the sound data you should see a label Volume:Level. If it's not what it says, click on this label to select Volume Level. Then you can drag down a yellow line you see over the clip to adjust the volume of the clip.

The goal is to reduce the volume of the music enough to be able to hear what the people are saying. You can adjust the size of the display of this track to make it easier to edit the volume. You can also adjust the volume of each of the video clips up to hear the speech better.

Once you are happy with it, add a Crossfade effect (any of them) to the beginning and the end of the track Audio 2 so that the music starts and ends progressively.

Save your work (Ctrl-S).

From the Title menu choose New Title - Default Roll and give it the name Credits. Write "With:" followed by the names of the people in the clips you chose in order of appearance (see file names on Canvas), then under "Editor:" place you own name, and then below add "Soundtrack:" and then either freesoundtrackmusic.com if you chose the Space Martini track, or Nine Inch Nails if you chose one of the Ghost files. Set the text in a smaller font than the title and the color you want. Align it either to the left or centered.

It doesn't matter if it gets out of the page on the vertical, as long as it fits horizontally on the page.

Then select the entire text and from the Title menu click on Roll/Crawl Options. Check both the Start Off Screen and the End Off Screen options. Then set the Ease-in at 1 and the Ease-out at 4.

After this you can close the credits editing window. You should see it in the credits title in the Project space. Drag it to the Timeline under Video 2 and align it on the right side with the still Java image. This way the credits should be rolling over this image.

Save your project. From the File menu choose Export - Media. In the Export Settings choose MPEG2 as the file type, then under the presets choose NTSC DV High Quality. The file size should not be more than 20Mb. An estimation of the file size should be shown at the bottom. Change the output name and location to whatever you want, then click Export. Go to the folder in Explorer and check that the file is there. You can play it to check the result.

Upload to Canvas: in Homework 11, the resulting mpg file. Let me know if the file size is too large to upload.