Adobe Premiere Helper

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Adobe Premiere Helper

• Random Stuff and Keyframes

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Customize Timeline View

• If you want to see more a preview of the video
  files, click the button to see the frames or to
  show head/tail (default is just head)

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Title Templates

• Little known fact there are cool title templates!

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Title Help

• Cant figure out how to change a titles color?
  Choose Fill on the right! You can even change it
  from Solid to Gradient!

Note that you can change the Font, Font Size,
lots of other stuff, at the top check it out!
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Fade a Title In and Out (like a blink)

• Put the title on a line and click on it
• Click Show Keyframes button
• Then, click to where you want to be able to see
  it fully and click the Insert Keyframe button and
  a dot appears (also look in your effect controls
  and youll see the diamond there, too

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• Now, drag to the beginning of the clip
• Click and add another keyframe
• Drag that keyframe to the bottom
• If you look at the Effects Control, youll see
  that it is at an opacity of 0 (invisible)

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• If you scrub (drag) the timeline you will now
  watch it fade in slowly between the two poitns!!

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• To fade it back out you know what to do
• Scrub to the end of the clip
• Insert keyframe
• Drag down to the bottom, zero

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Just a side note

• If you want the title (or video or anything) to
  stay up awhile, youll want a fourth keyframe
  with points 2 and 3 both set to 100 or full
  opacity/visibility (more of a plateau than an
  upside down V)

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Add a Picture on a Title

• Draw a shape for the picture using the shape tool
• At right under Object Style, click Rectangle and
  choose Logo instead (notice Logo shows up where
  the shape was)
• Click the Logo Bitmap box and then browse to find
  your image

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Tada!
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Remove White Background From Image

• If youve created a title with a logo and its
  one color, you might want to get rid of the color
  and just have the logo
• Click the video/title and then under Effects
  (Project window) choose Video Effects and RGB
  Difference and drag it onto the clip

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Ugh

• Yeah, that turned out fuzzy
• Quick fix in the Effect Controls window
• Increase Similarity until the white all goes
  away

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Snapshot a Frame

• Drag to the exact spot of the picture/frame you
  want of the video
• Click File, Export, Frame
• Save it and it will end up in your Project window
  so you can add it to the timeline

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Closing Credits (Title Roll)

• Change Title Type to Roll
• Create a text box that is bigger than the visible
  screen and type the stuff in

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Then

• Click the Roll Options button
• Check Start Off Screen and End Off Screen
• DO NOT let the top part hang off the top edge
  (like this onebad!)

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Crawling Title (like emergency scroller)

• Same as the previous one just pick Crawl instead
  of Roll
• When doing the text box, make it start at left
  and go past the right margin as far as you need
• Dont forget to set options to start/end off
  screen! ?

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Fade Out

• Click the video clip
• Drag the playhead to the place you want the fade
  to start
• Click Effect Controls

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Fade Out

• If you cant see the Opacity number (100), click
  the down arrow at left
• Click Add/Remove Keyframe button to put a diamond
  at the spot the fade needs to start

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Fade Out

• Click and drag the playhead to the end of the
  video clip (where it should be faded out to black
  all the way)
• Click Add/Remove Keyframe button to put a diamond
  at the end spot
• Click that ending keyframe
• Drag the opacity down to zero!

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Bringing in Images

• If you have an image in Photoshop (for example)
  that you have cut out and made transparent AND
  saved as a PSD format, you can bring it in and it
  will be awesome!
• Notice this pic is way too bigcovers the whole
  video

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Resize

• To resize his big ol head
• In Effect Controls, choose SCALE and lower the
  number (this is set to 20)

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Motion Keyframing the Bouncing Head

• Activate the Motion section and Position for
  Effect Controlsclick the clock or the diamond to
  put in a keyframe

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Next

• Now, scrub the timeline to the point where you
  know you want the head to move to (its
  following the person, or leading, rather)
• Add a keyframe
• Click and drag the head to a new location (it
  will automatically alter the position setting)
• If you scrub now, youll see the head move from
  point A to point B!! Yeah!! You can keep going
  and add more (lots more) keyframes to make it go
  all over the place, jump around, etc.

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Fade Out Audio

• Click on an audio line (zoom in)
• Click the little no sign button to Show Clip
  Volume and youll see a little yellow audio line
  appear
• Move the scrubber to where you want the audio to
  start fading out and click the keyframe button

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Almost done fading

• When you clicked to add a keyframe, a dot
  appeared. Scrub to the end and insert another
  keyframe (to the SILENCE! Point)
• At the ending keyframe, drag the dot all the way
  down so it is 0 dB (silence) and it should
  gradually fade from dot 1 to dot 2! ?

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Bonus Strange Thing

• Say you wanted some little video going on during
  the big video that is in a shape of some sort.
• Well, first, create a title of that shape (big)

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• Drag the title on a video line and then turn the
  eyeball off (you dont really want that big white
  circle, you just need its shape)
• Put the video you want IN the shape on a line
  higher than the big video and
  resize/reposition that video using the
  motion/scale options in Effects Controls

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• Now, drag a Track Matte Key (Video Effects) onto
  the baby clip
• Then, expand the Track Matte Key control and set
  Matte to the video line of the circle (the one
  with the lack of eyeball going on)

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Tada!