Notes on editing

In today's lesson we learned how to make the green screen have images on top of it and what we had to do was we had to find an image from google so for example a park for instance and we would save the image and then import it into the Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 which is the software I'm using to edit this video.

We would have to check that the settings are set to composition and it's better to have one of the settings for the video on "aggressive". We also had choke and soften settings and the soften setting basically softens the edges while the choke setting sharpens the quality up. What we also got taught today is that the picture that we want to import on to the timeline needs to be below the actual green screen video but we had to go into a setting called "keying" then click on "ultra key" and place it over the green screen video part that we wanted on the timeline. After we did this we would go to effects and get something called a "colour pipette", select the pipette colour to green and click on the actual image (the green screen version) and I would work! What I also did apart from saving and adding pictures from Google is u went on to YouTube and imported a video of a dinosaur roaring and cropped the video down to the size that I wanted and did the exact same with the colour pipette and ultra keying etc but the scale and positioning of the video wasn't quite right so what I did was I went to my tools and I basically used a tool called "scale" & "positioning" where I could enlarge the video and place it where needed. At the bottom of the screen you can see the notes that I made while being taught these skills.

 I also faded out the music at the end of some of the tracks like you can see me do here just to make it feel like it's not just straight away jumping into another piece of music.

In this picture you can see the image dip to white and basically what you have to do is click on effects at the bottom left of the screen, go into video transitions, click on the "dissolve" folder and drag the dip to white effect on to the end or start of your video but if you have a green screen effect then you have to drag and drop it twice on to the video file and the image on the green screens' file.

Adding text is easy as you just go to title and then add title then this screen will pop up, you can then type your text in and check what fonts look best before finalizing, when you're done you just cross off then box and it should be at the bottom of your source videos, the finished result is the picture below where I also added a sheen effect.

Adding tracks is what the picture to the left consists of. What you do is go to sequence then add tracks and add however many audio or video tracks you want.

What you see here is me listening to the audio files that we have just recorded in the sound booth and separating which ones are which. The pictures you see below that is me copying the audio files on to my external hard drive and saving them on there.

The first picture you see is me cutting down the audio tracks so that they play straight away, you then click on the wave image below it to just drag the sound on to your timeline and the second image is of muting tracks so that I can monetize the other tracks and listen to them. The green "M" is the button used to mute tracks.

 This picture is of me adjusting sound to fade in while the characters voice comes to an end which worked well. To do this you need to select your current audio track, press "ctrl + alt" and press wherever you want your point to be. you need to make two of these points on your audio line that you can see on my picture and the distance between these two points is what's being edited. You just grab one of the dots and drag it up or down to change the volume. (up is louder and down is lower)

This image is a screenshot of all my audio tracks and what i was doing is making sure every piece of audio hits the -12 mark so that its the right volume.

 This image that you can see is audio fading out but instead of fading in from a characters voice its going to fade out to match the video footage.