Premiere Progression Blog Post 29

Carrying Clip

I will now be adding a new clip to the trailer. This clip will go after the Arrow Shooting Clip. I am not sure why I wanted this clip after the shooting arrow clip, but I thought it looked really effective. I suppose it is because I liked the idea as if that person was shoot during battle and was being carried to their grave. I also like the idea that the character is being carried. I know that the video is not the main character being carried, however, I like the idea it look like the main character being carried because they believe for her to be dead. I will be taking this carrying clip from VTS_08_3_x264.

 

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 00:25:22:09 and 00:25:25:22. 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 'Carrying'.

 

Carrying Clip added to the Project Clips Bin

 I then dragged the clip to the timeline at the end of the end of the music . The only problem with the clip was the writing on the clip which needed to be removed.

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 because I did not want the audio as I was going to be using different audio music for it.

Carrying Clip Unlinked and Audio Deleted

 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.

The clip in resize mode

 Here is the result.

Clip resized

 I then went and cropped the clip. I did this by going to the Effects panel tab in the same section as the project bins and then went to Video Effects > Transform > Crop. I then went into the Effects Control panel to the crop settings. I then set the crop percentage for the bottom only because there is text on the clip which I do not want to be viewed in the trailer. So, I set the percentage for the bottom crop at 15%. This was enough to crop the writing and enough that it did not take up much of the clip up either. I then repositioned the clip so that the two black lines on the clip were even at both the top and the bottom of the clip.

Video Effects: Transform: Crop. Crop Settings.

 Here is the final result.

Clip Repositioned

 I did not cut up the clip because I felt that the clip was long enough that you were able to see the the character being carried, but it was not too long that it took over the trailer. I am not sure if I wanted to change anything with the clip. I personally think that the clip should be more darker. This is because essentially the main character 'died'. So, I would have thought that it would have had a darker atmosphere because they have died and a darker power is 'going' to take over etc. However, I am still not sure whether I wanted to do anything to the clip or not.

Tools I have used in this post:

• In and Out tool
• Unlink
• Resize
• Crop