The long, slow process...
The footage I took was for three distinct 'scenes'. The storyline is that I am remembering my son, who now lives on the other side of the country to me. In scene 1, I look at the stairs, and see him walk down them. In scene 2, I see him playing games on the sofa. And, in scene 3, I see him running towards my auntie's house. The catch is that I am just imagining this, and in each scene he fades out of existence. The fade effect will be achieved in After Effects. Before I can do that, I have to actually get the clips required for the scenes.
My footage was all shot on the one tape, and therefore I have to lift the sequences I want from it. For this, I will make heavy use of Premiere's Monitor window.
The tool that will be of the most use to me is the tool to set In and Out points.
The Monitor window has 2 screens. The left screen is the unedited video, ann the right screen is a kind of preview. If I run video in the left window, I can click the 'Set In Point' tool, or just press I, and that will mark the start of the footage I want. I can then click 'Set Out Point', or just press O, to mark the end. I need to do that several times, as I need a minimum of 6 pieces of footage for my story.
Scene 1 is of Josh walking downstairs, so I start with that one. Now, this was actually the second scene I shot, so I need to move about a third of the way through the footage. This is a simple matter of moving the pointer on the left window timeline to the appropriate position.
I choose about 4 seconds of the empty stairs, and move them down into the timeline. This allows me to export this as a movie. My reason for this is so I can then play about with it in After Effects.
I then have to repeat the above process with footage of Josh walking down the stairs, along with the other footage for all three of my scenes. So, I take some empty sofa footage, and some footage of Josh on the sofa. And then I cut out bits from outside, both with and without Josh in them. All of these are exported, so that I can open them up in After Effects, for the spooky 'fade'.
My footage was all shot on the one tape, and therefore I have to lift the sequences I want from it. For this, I will make heavy use of Premiere's Monitor window.
The tool that will be of the most use to me is the tool to set In and Out points.
The Monitor window has 2 screens. The left screen is the unedited video, ann the right screen is a kind of preview. If I run video in the left window, I can click the 'Set In Point' tool, or just press I, and that will mark the start of the footage I want. I can then click 'Set Out Point', or just press O, to mark the end. I need to do that several times, as I need a minimum of 6 pieces of footage for my story.
Scene 1 is of Josh walking downstairs, so I start with that one. Now, this was actually the second scene I shot, so I need to move about a third of the way through the footage. This is a simple matter of moving the pointer on the left window timeline to the appropriate position.
I choose about 4 seconds of the empty stairs, and move them down into the timeline. This allows me to export this as a movie. My reason for this is so I can then play about with it in After Effects.
I then have to repeat the above process with footage of Josh walking down the stairs, along with the other footage for all three of my scenes. So, I take some empty sofa footage, and some footage of Josh on the sofa. And then I cut out bits from outside, both with and without Josh in them. All of these are exported, so that I can open them up in After Effects, for the spooky 'fade'.
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