Premiere Progression Blog Post 26

Water Flowing Clip

I will now be adding a new clip to the trailer. This clip will go after the birds and witch clip. This clip is based on the main character getting hit with a body of water. I thought this clip would look and work really well in the trailer. Again I am not really sure why I choose this clip to use, I suppose it is because I feel that I have not used many sources from this video which I have got a hold of. I also think that I like this clip because I like the way the whole water comes and hits the main character and it makes you think, what did they do to survive that bit of water. I will be taking this water from the Tombraider Walkthrough.

I made sure that the source tab was on in the viewing panel and dragged the walk-through to the viewing panel. I then used the In and Out Tool to make a mark at 00:00:00:00 and 00:00:00:00. This clip is where shards of glass fall onto the floor. I then dragged the clip down into the Project Clips Bin and renamed it 'Water Flowing'.

Water Flowing clip in Project Clip Bin

 So, I started by separating the video and the audio, however, this time I kept the audio. I did this by right clicking on the clip on the timeline and went to Unlink. I then selected the audio and deleted it as I have found the perfect piece of music for the trailer.

Water Following Clip Unlinked and the Audio Delete

I then moved onto to resizing the clip. I did this by double clicking on the clip in the clip view panel (right hand side viewing panel) till an orange lining around the clips and had little squares which I used to resize the clip. I resized the clip that the edges of the clip were touching the overall fit of the trailer. 

So, I have decided to try to resize the clip so that there are two black lines which will match with the previous clips by double clicking on the clip in the view panel on the right hand side of the screen. However, this did not work very well, because I resized the clip with a corner square, then tried to widen it with a square on the right hand side, and it just resized it in the wrong way. So, My only option at the moment is to crop it.

I used the crop and it worked out loads better than I anticipated. I thought that I would be loosing a lot of the video clip from both the top and the bottom, however I did not. Which was a big relief, otherwise I would have had to go back and resize all of the clips, meaning that I could loose quality and become pixelated.

To get to the crop I went to the Effects Panel > Video Effects > Transform > Crop. I then selected the clip and then clicked on Effects Control. I changed the crop percentages for both the top and the bottom only. This is because I still wanted the width to be the same size as the fit, but I wanted to cut some off the top and the bottom on that it matched the previous clips [as mentioned above]. I only went with 20% because it was enough that it looked like the other clips, but also enough that a lot of the clip is still in tack and that you can still see everything that happens.

Video Effects: Transform: Crop. Crop Settings

I did not change anything on this clip. I felt that the brightness and contrast of the clips was brilliant, especially on the water, as the background and some of the foreground is really dark. Then there was this body of water which was really quite bright, maybe as said due to the darkness of the other parts. Overall, really like the effects used to make the clip really realistic and how they made the water look really realistic and how they created its motions.

Tools I have used in this post:

• In and Out Tool
• Unlinked
• Crop