Leanne
Stone
Learning premiere pro
Introduction to adobe
When first learning about Adobe CC and all the individual pieces of software we first researched a little bit about each piece of software, this knowledge will be extended as we experiment with each software. To learn how to use Premiere Pro when first logging on I watched this tutorial series to learn the basics about keyframing, transitions and the interface as a whole.
My first video edit
Above is the link and process screengrabs from my first time opening and experimenting with Premiere Pro. Before this lesson I had got 15, 30 second, clips of videos from my home and mine/ friends pets. I imported all these videos into Premiere Pro and started messing around with different video effects and controls. I found these controls quite easy, I originally thought it would be more difficult to control this software but once I was able to navigate and control the interface adding effects and transitions was quick and simple for me. I decided after finding some audio off of Bensound.com that I wanted to experiment with a change of mood in the video to see what I could so with the resources I had available. Therefore I went back onto Benshound.com and grabbed a deeper tone and used a audio transition to try and fade the happier audio into the one I had found here. I think for my first edit this went pretty well as I was confidently adding and cutting videos, laying videos I had got off of websites such as Pexels.com to create a more cinematic style towards the end of the video. I feel towards the end you can start to see my confidence build as I chose videos with a variety of shot choices and styles. The thing I found most difficult was trying to get a smooth transition in the audio, I still feel the one in the video is patchy and could be better, I would like to learn more about audio.
Keyframe video edit with still images
In this session we were focusing more in depth into the things we could do with keyframes in Premiere Pro, we were originally given an image of a cartoon car and a cartoon background of a house on a road. We recapped the basic controls of Premiere by making the car travel from one side of the screen to the other, we had to use the effect controls to scale the car and keyframes to make the car travel. We then were left to experiment with keyframes so I decided to add more to my scene. I added multiple things moving across the screen to give the impression of a busy road street. I found all my images as png's on chrome and was able to easily import them into my scene. I decided to mess around with the opacity of the fire I was putting into my scene also. I then decided I would add a new backdrop and show the inside of the plane to have a personal, zoomed in effect. This way I could also experiment with what the backdrop would look like if it was moving around and what effect this would cause. The last thing we talked about was easing in and easing out keyframes which I had sometime to mess around with towards the end. This can be seen when the flames engulf the screen of the eye at the end, I used an ease in and ease out keyframe type so that the flames would not suddenly appear and it would get slower worse much like real flames would. The most challenging thing here was making these still images appear as if they are actually moving and have character, I realised towards the end for example if a character is walking they need to move up and down as well as across to create the illusion they may actually be walking, other then this I found adding keyframes and images quite easy and am happy with the audio change and the overall pace and tone that the music also helps create.