It's Alive! It's Alive! But what is it?

dvxwheelr

dvxwheelr

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The best way to start this is to explain what I did. I opened a new project in PPro1.5 in 24p advanced and widescreen. I then imported six picture files and put them in the timeline. I increased their size and zoomed in on them to make them fit the widescreen monitor, and then exported them to a movie file. I opened the movie file in Windows Moviemaker to ad some effects not found in Ppro. I exported this as an avi ntsc file which I then imported into my Ppro project. They played fine but were reduced to regular size (from widescreen). I zoomed in to make them fit in the widescreen window. I plan to use then as background for blue screen footage shot in 24p advanced. My question is what do I have here? 30p or 24p? Will they conflict with the blue screen footage? They play fine now.
 
I would think it would depend on the settings you used when you exported. I've never used Windows Moviemaker but I guess I'd be surprised if it understood 24pa footage.
-Dan
 
Dan
Moviemaker is probably one of the best non-pro editing programs and it has some great effects like panning across a frame in any direction. It does seem to have a problem with widescreen though, and I'm sure it doesn't recognize 24pa. That's why I'm wondering what I have.
-dvxwheelr
 
dvxwheelr,
I should probably give it a try sometime. You do know that you can pan across a frame (are we talking still frames?) in PPro as well? It might be that Moviemaker is easier to use for this but be aware that each time you render out your footage from one program to the next that you can start to degrade your image. Probably not a big issue with a greenscreen background though.
-Dan
 
Dan,
In Moviemaker you can pan in any direction on still or moving frames. You can also zoom in and out giving a still the impression of being movie. I also wanted the snow effect.
dvxwheelr
 
It's there in PPro, probably not as obvious. Every clip on a timeline automatically has the 'motion' effect on it. Highlight a clip on the time line and go to the effects control tab. Click open the motion effect and you'll see 'position', 'scale', 'rotation', etc. attributes that you can control via keyframes. This allows you to pan, zoom, and rotate as you wish.

I'm not knocking using Moviemaker, just pointing out that you can do the same in PPro. You can decide which suits you best.

The snow effect sounds like fun. There's a tutorial for doing snow in Premiere over at www.wrigleyvideo.com although it's for Premiere 6.5. Lots of other good tutorials at that site if you haven't seen it before. The snow effect tut is at

http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial/tutdes_makesnow.htm

-Dan
 
Thanks for the information. I would prefer to do it all in PPro if I could. So thanks again.
-dvxwheelr
 
An update for anyone following this thread. I used the tutorial above to get snow in Ppro but found that the original picture's opacity suffered somewhat and it looked washed out. The snow disappeared when I darkened and added contrast. This didn't happen in Moviemaker. Also, I added the white noise effect to the white spots (snow) for a more layered look. In Ppro i used the blur effect to soften the snow. The Moviemaker files brought into Ppro transferred to dvd beautifully, but I'll have to wait to see how they do when and if I tranfer to film.
dvxwheelr
 
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