Adobe Premier Editing

garveyj · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 877 City: Savage, MN

Can anyone tell me how to do some good editing for my video to go with the beat of the music? What I want to do is make the video fade in and out with certain parts of a song.

Can anyone help me with that?

thanks

Zach M · Posted: Mar 18, 2003 8:59 am Post subject:

click the little arrow next to the sound file that you imported. This will show the rise and fall of the song. That will help you get it on beat.

garveyj · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 877 City: Savage, MN

I can get it on the beat, but do you use transitions, or video effects? do you use keyframes, and if so...How?

Zach M · Posted: Mar 18, 2003 9:03 am Post subject:

I'd use transitions. Use a cross fade to black, and if you don't want it to fade completely out, put the next clip on video 2 wherever you want it to enter. Does that make sense?

derrick lenz · Posted: Mar 18, 2003 9:16 am Post subject:

to do a transition you have to have one clip in video 1a and the next clip in 1b the transition should go in the transition area in between. you should over lap the clips to get a good transition. also to actually see the transition remember that you have to render the work area. i forgot to do that when i started.

BillJ · Posted: Mar 18, 2003 10:36 pm Post subject:

Another way to do it is to put a clip in Video 2 then fade it in and out using the transparency tool. For example you could have a 30 sec clip in Video 2 that is just black video and your riding video in Video 1a. When you want the video to be black, have the transparency set on Video 2 to show all black, then quickly fade it to full transparency when you want the 1a video to show.

Play with it and you'll see that it's really easy to use and faster than trying to put together a bunch of clips with transitions in 1a and 1b.

Steelerguy · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 518

Good Point Billj, I was messin around last night with transitions.. took way to long.... Also when looking at your transition you can see them right away by holding the ALT key while dragging the timeline bar across the clip...

tyybo · Soul Rider Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 340 City: Fargo

Try to use a newer macintosh they have an awesome program called Imovie it takes like 3 days and you will totally understand it