Premiere Progression Blog Post 31

Shields Clip

I will now be adding a new clip to the trailer. This clip will go after the Shard Warrior 2 clip. I choose to have this clip because to be honest, there were not many other clips which I thought would work well with the trailer. This was one reason I choose this clip. The second reason was because I like the clip itself. I like the way the two armies kind of run into each other ready to fight. I thought this brought a bit more drama into the trailer. I will be taking this shields 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 00:08:09:01 and 00:08:12:00. 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 'Shields'.

Shields Clip in 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.

Shield Clip on the timeline 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.

 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 Effect: 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. For this clip, I decided to try and add a little more sunset light to this clip. I thought this might bring the sunset lighting which I also had on the army walking to the castle and the arrowing being shot on the beach. I thought this might be a good effect to give as the light will still be there on that certain day as technically within the film this would be a whole scene, but obviously split up for the trailer. However, I do not want to add too much that the red overpowered the clip. So I added enough red that you can see it and make it look like some sunset light has reached the court.

I did this by going to the Effects Panel which is located on the same section as the project. I then went to Video Effects > Colour Correction > Colour Balance. I then went into the Effects Control Panel and changed the RBG colour effects for the red colours only. As, I mentioned above I changed the settings so that the red was natural, but enough that you could notice it.

Video Effects: Colour Correction: Colour Balance. Colour Balance Settings

Tools I have used in this post:

• In and Out tool
• Unlink
• Resize
• Crop
• Colour Balance