Lesson Plan 5 - 10.9 Music / Titles and Complete Project 1

Premiere Demo (20 min)

TRIMMING: 
-If you want to trim the beginning or the end of your clip, place the pointer (v) over the edge you want to trim until a red handlebar thing appears.  
-Pull this out or push it in to trim the clip, or extend something you had cut before.
-There are a lot of ways to cut on the timeline, but we'll start with those

TRANSITIONS:

-Source Window>Effects>Video Transitions>Dissolve>Cross Dissolve

-Grab the Cross-Dissolve effect and drag it onto the clip that you want to either fade in/fade out or cross dissolve

-Faster Way: Command D, this will add a Dissolve at the beginning of your clip.  If you want to Cross-Dissolve between two clips, select them both and hit Command D. You can lengthen or shorten this effect just like you would any video clip

-Fast Way For Audio: SHIFT + COMMAND + D
-Slower Way: Project Window > Effects > Audio Transitions >Crossfade>...try all three..

-Feel free to browse through the other Video and Audio Transitions. 

TITLES:

-Create a New Bin in your Source Window called Titles
-Go to File>New>Legacy Title> …and add the text you would like…
-Save
-The title will now appear in your Source window. 

-Go ahead and put it in your Title bin just to be organized. 

-Now drag the title onto your timeline in the place you would like it to be. 

-Pull the edge out or push it in to make it longer or shorter

MUSIC:
-Place your music file inside the Audio folder on your hard drive in your project folder
-Now go into Premiere and import this file
-Drag this file onto your timeline onto Audio Track 1 or 2 (if you have a track on 1)
-You can cut and trim your music track just like you would a video track

-Lock your picture track so you don’t have to worry about accidentally cutting your picture track

WORKSHOP (1hr)
-use the rest of the time to *hopefully* finish your piece but you have until next Sunday night to send it in

-Maybe 30 minutes before the end of class (if needed/wanted), we’ll do a demo on exporting,  uploading and embedding to their Vimeo

-Export and Upload to Vimeo
-Embed on your Blog

EXPORTING REFRESHER:

-You can follow along on the reference guide but remember to use settings below - NOT quicktime settings in reference guide - This will save you time.

-Export what you have into a Mp4/MOV file using the following settings:

-File > Export > Export media

-Use the following settings:

MP4 SETTING FOR VIMEO (ONE WE WILL BE DOING FOR ASSIGNMENT 1):

Format: H.264

Preset: Vimeo 1080p HD

Output Name -CHANGE OUTPUT NAME with today's date -: Define A Space_YourName

Video Codec: H264* if the custom preset is not showing up, your codec may not be set to H264

Frame Rate: 23.97 (should be gray since you are on a Vimeo 1080p =HD preset)

Field Order: Progressive (should be gray since you are on a Vimeo 1080p =HD preset)

Aspect: Square Pixels (1.0)

Width: 1920
Height: 1080

EMBEDDING YOUR BLOG ON VIMEO:
Reference Guide Pages 28-29 

TROUBLESHOOTING:
If you are working on something and get stuck just google the issue. There are a million dudes out there mansplaining how to use Premiere Pro. Some are annoying and some are really good. I think you also have access to Lynda.com through the Hunter Library for FREE. This is a great resource and if you are into Premiere Pro you may want to take online lessons. That is how I initially learned.

Here are a few decent tutorials I quickly found on Youtube:

Lighten up images:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPvuGSG6B9A

Creating Fades in audio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izZy5EWxrDE

Create a Legacy title in Adobe Premiere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=canTAKfeIV8

Warp Stabilization:
-Highlight clip you want to stabilize
-Control click the clip and scroll down to "Nest"
-In the Project Panel, click on "Effects"
-In the Search Box type in "warp stabilizer"
-Grab the effect and drag onto the clip
-You should be good to go...

Tutorial (:30-1:49)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIPdDpNvc60

If you get an ERROR read that says, "Warp stabilizer requires clip dimensions to match sequence", just follow my written directions above and that should get rid of it.

Tutorial for Warp Stabilizer ERROR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKcoyf5KVF8

Program Panel Image is Blown Up - Scale To Frame Size: Also, something came up last week that you will most likely see somewhere down the line. An image in your Program monitor will be blown up or enlarged and you have no idea why. 
Try going into your sequence/timeline, highlight the piece that is enlarged, right click and scroll down to "Scale to Frame Size" and see if that works. (See screengrab below)