Premiere Pro (Tutorial 3 - Export Media)

How to export media for a movie.

(Please go through the first and second tutorial if you are stuck or confused on the instructions)

The first thing you have to do is go to File > Export > Media. 

 It will then open up this page;

The first thing you then need to do is change the format to whatever you like, for example I will use QT (QuickTime). 

Once done tick the small box at the top to match the settings; 

And then you click the blue name that is labelled as output name; 

Change the name to whatever you like and browse the files to save it in whatever folder you would like also, and then simply click Export. 

This tutorial is over. 

Premiere Pro (Tutorial 2 - Animate)

Animating shapes in a sequence.

(Please go through the first tutorial if you are stuck or confused over some instructions.)

To animate shapes for a sequence you need to open up Premiere Pro, Open a new project and make sure the project is all set to the same editing. 

Once you have done that you go to File, New, Black Video.

Click Black Video and drag it onto the timeline to begin the sequence, this will be the background of the sequence and should look like this;

Once you have this you can then go to File > New > Colour Matte

You then choose a colour that you would like to use, by dragging the circle along the square for the brightness or darkness and drag the line up and down the side to slide through the colours.

 Once you have the colour you would like then name it so that when it shows up in the bottom left corner of the screen you can pick it out easily like so;

You then drag the colour onto the timeline to show it up on the video. It should look like this; 

 And on the screen it should look like this;

 This is the shape you will be using to animate on the sequence, but obviously it is too big, so to shrink it down and make it a more appropriate size, by doing what we did in the last tutorial. Changing the scale and position. To reach a simple square/rectangle like so;

If you would like to use a different shape you can go down the editing controls to this point;

 For example, if you would like a circle you click the circle shape;

 And by doing so your shape on the screen would change, like so;

But for this example I am going to keep it simple and use the rectangle/square shape.

So once you have shaped it, and made it scaled to the point you would like we move to the animating part of this tutorial. And to start animating simply drag the shape to where you would like the shape to enter the video(make sure it is actually off screen mostly though so it can appear to be entering) like so;

And then next to position and scale you will see a small grey clock; 

Click these so they turn blue. > 

This means it is now recording every little step you will make, and when you click these you should see a new tab open up like so; 

To actually animate the shape you must drag that blue tracker along the timeline in that tab, keeping in mind the further across you move it the less time your gonna give yourself to complete your actions, but you must always move this blue tracker before then moving the shape itself, like so; 

Every time you move the blue tracker a few grey pointers will mark the timeline, this is showing where it is going to save the movement up to that point, till you then have to move the tracker again to move the shape. 

For this example I moved it simply across the screen, but you could make it go up and down or corner diagonal across to another. 

NOTICE:
This is the same method you use to create animations using your own drawn and scanned in pieces of work, examples:

All you need to do is go on PhotoShop so that you can crop and rotate (Edit) the images so you can select certain patterns and such to create movements you want when you place them into Premiere Pro.




Once you have done this, you then use the same method as you would with the simple shapes you have used. By moving all the cropped and edited frames into a folder that you can ten import into Premiere Pro, and use.

But this is the end of the tutorial.

Premiere Pro (Tutorial 1 - Morphing)

Transforming One Image To Another Using Linear Time Frame Work.

Recently I have learnt how to morph one image with another on a timeline sequence using the app Premiere Pro, to do this successfully I had to learn the multiple steps needed to insure there would be as little problems occurring as possible.

Step one; Setting The Project.

Choose to make a new project if you are starting on a sequence for the first time, once this has been chosen you then have to name the project and make sure that it will be saved into a folder in your files that you will be able to easily pick out of.

Example shown here;

Once you have done this you then move to the next part of this setup, and that part will be underlined as Scratch Disks, As shown here;

Once this is complete all you have to do then is make sure all of the sections are set to
"Same as Project"

After you make sure this is set correctly, you simply press OK.

And then we move to the next step.

Step Two; Setting the Sequence.

This next part is fairly straight forward, you will have multiple sections divided in the beginning as shown here,

Now before you attempt to start anything, you have to make sure that the sequence is set to the right frame rate, as most everyday used Macs won't technically be able to handle 4K, so to prevent your Mac from crashing follow these steps;

1. Go to File

2. New > Sequence 

And then you should come to a settings page like this:

If you know what your Mac can handle when it comes to rendering images this part should be easy for you, but lets say you don't actually know, and so the safest option to pick in my opinion would be "AVCHD"

It will look like the image above, again if you know your Mac you will be able to choose easily. But lets pretend you don't again, and so the safest option would be "AVCHD 1080p25"

Once your page looks like this, just click OK.

Step Three: Putting Images onto The Sequence.

You should now be sitting with a page like this in front of you;

Simply go back to file and then select the folder of images you would like to use, or for easier access drag the folder from your desktop to this section of the page;

Once you have done this you should have a file there, like this ;

Click the file and it should bring up images of which you have chosen, like this; 

Now to start the sequence you need to simply select an image of which you would like and then drop it on the timeline where you would like the images to start showing;

It will look like this, unless you have not edited the bottom part to scale down or up to show each image in a more stretched out way or more closed in way.

Like this, 

Once you have got the images the right size you would like to be able to edit it and move it around easier, you then begin to add more images to create an ongoing slideshow of images, to begin with. Like this;

And then you drag the blue line as seen here;

Along the timeline to the first image, so that it'll show the image on top where the sequence will be shown, like this;

Once you can see the image that you think needs improvement click on the box in the timeline so that it looks like this;

And then at the top you click editing, like this;

And you should be greeted with a layout like this afterwards; 

It is then up to you if you choose to edit the image, for example if you choose to change the position of the image you would click position like so;

And then you grab the image and move it around till it is in a position that suits you.

Before positioning.

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After positioning.

 Like so, I am happy with how this image is positioned now, but I would like to scale it up to make the image bigger, so now I click scale shown here;

 And slide the bar along, right to make the image bigger or left to make the image smaller. For this example I will make the image slightly bigger.

And then the image will change size to what you desire for your sequence.

Once you have done all the editing to your images you then add Morph Cut, and to do that you must go to Effects, Video Transitions and then Dissolve, Morph Cut will be in the Dissolve folder.

You add it to the end and start of the image (Only at the start if you're connecting it with another image) and let it analyse. Like so;

Once it has analysed you go to Sequence at the top, and render the effects shown here;

You simply do this and then you have your working sequence.