Premiere Progression Blog Post 30

Shard Warrior 2 Clip

I will now be adding a new clip to the trailer. This clip will go after the Carrying Clip. I am not sure why I choose to have this clip after the carrying clip. However, I have tried it next to others and it does not work. It looks quite effective after the carrying clips personally. I think this clips defiantly helps the trailer with the action part where the are soldiers that are trying to destroy the shard warrior but some of the soldiers died. I will be taking this second shard warrior clip from VTS_08_4_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 00:12:46:23 and 00:12:48:18. 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 'Shard Warrior 2'.

 

Shard Warrior 2 Clip in 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. 

 

Shard Warrior 2 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.

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 21%. 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 was not sure what I wanted to do with this clip, as the lightening is really done already I do not need to sort out the brightness and contrast; which would most likely be the obvious change I would made to this sort of clip. I will have a think about it, if not then I will leave it as it is.

Tools I have used in this post:

• In and Out tool
• Unlink
• Resize
• Crop