Premiere Progression Blog Post 34

Attacking Clip

I will now be adding a new clip to the trailer. This clip will go after the Arrow Shot clip. As I mentioned before in my previous post that this clip will work after the arrow shot clip. I really like this clip because you get a view of both views when it comes to the fight. For instance you see the enemy coming towards the hero trying to attack, but got to the hero view of attacking the enemy. I will be taking this Attacking 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 00:08:49:22 and 00:08:52:00. 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 'Attacking Clip'.

 

Attacking 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.

Attacking 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 results.

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 Effect: Transform: Crop. Crop Settings.

 Here is the final results.

Clip Repositioned

Tools I have used in this post:

• In and Out tool
• Unlink
• Resize
• Crop