HOLLYWOOD
HAS NOTHING ON ME
Yesterday
I spent doing a Adobe Premiere Pro video editing course – it was
fun but very hard work and definitely not for beginners. I hope to do
a film making unit as part of the degree which is why I did this
course. It took place at the premises of Digital Arts Studio in
Belfast and only cost £45 – other training providers are for
profit and very expensive. I had been desperate to study this and had
seriously considered a part time course in Ballynahinch which isn't
far and is not very part time at all involving 3 whole days a week
for a year and who would look after my mother?
My three
favourite parts of yesterday were opacity, matte and vignetting.
Opacity
involves layering two clips on top of one another so that both are
partially visible. Here is an example I made. One clip is a waterfall
I got at the course yesterday and the other is a flute player I
filmed at Chinese New Year celebrations here in Belfast. I did it for
the practice.
With
matte you can insert a geometric shape in one clip which has another
video inside.
A
vignette involves an oval or circular area any colour you like
surrounding the video clip playing in the middle. I did a lovely
experiment of a pink vignette surrounding a clip of a bee feeding on
a flower – I saved it to a USB stick but it wouldn't play at home
so I had to do a the opacity video mentioned above as an example for
this blog – it took ages to download Premere elements 13 and then
the clips were very jerky and also I couldn't get the adobe creative
cloud to work but I think it's ok now. It kept me up very, very late.
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