Creating Hollywood style movies with Adobe Premiere elements 7

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ekert, Paul, Author.

Contributor:

Plumer, Carl, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adobe Premiere elements.

Motion pictures--Data processing--Editing.

Motion pictures.

Cinematography--Special effects--Data processing.

Cinematography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 345 p.) : col. ill. + 1 DVD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Peachpit 2009

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Creating Hollywood-Style Movies with Adobe Premiere Elements 7 is a book that will help users get to the next level in video editing, and that next level goes beyond simply splicing together clips and creating simple titles. In no time readers will be overlaying multiple tracks of videos and adjusting transparency; creating Picture-in-Picture overlays; using key frames and motion paths; setting and refining greenscreens and bluescreens; using color effects for emotional impact; and a whole range of other special effects to help them tell their story"--Resource description page.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction

1 Hollywood Movie Titles: Adding a WOW Factor

Preparing the Project

Adding Media to Your Project

Adding Media to the Timeline

Creating the Main Title Text

Flying Solo: Adding the Fill Clip to the Timeline

Filling the Title with Clouds

Creating a Drop Shadow for the Title

Adding a Fade Out to All Media Clips

Making Adjustments, Rendering, and Exporting

2 Hollywood Movie Titles: Using Color and Motion

Installing New Fonts

Flying Solo: Preparing the Project

Creating, Cropping, and Coloring a Freeze Frame

Flying Solo: Creating the Second and Third Freeze Frames

Creating Credits for Each Freeze Frame

Animating the First Actor's Freeze Frame and Credits

Flying Solo: Animating the Second and Third Actor's Freeze Frame and Credits

Creating an Opening Title

Flying Solo: Creating the Closing Titles

3 Hollywood Movie Sound: Narration, SmartSound, and Sound FX

Adding Mood Music to a Movie

Mixing the Music Track

Adding SmartSound Music to a Movie

Flying Solo: Mixing the Retromovie Music

Adding Sound Effects to Your Movie

Creating a Narration Track

4 Hollywood Movie Titles: The Star Wars Title Effect

Creating Your "Long Ago" Text

Building Your Opening Logo

Animating Your Logo

Flying Solo: Preparing Your Scrolling Text

Making the Scrolling Text Scroll

Changing the Speed

Transforming the Shape of the Scrolling Text

Animating the Scrolling Text

Flying Solo: Adding the Star Wars Theme Music

Flying Solo: Adding Some Project Polish

5 Hollywood Movie Titles: Creating the PiP (Picture-in-Picture) Effect.

Flying Solo: Preparing the Project

Flying Solo: Creating the Opening Text

Animating the Opening Text

Creating the Digital Countdown Clock

Animating the Clock Using Title Clips in Sequence

Synchronizing the Clock Clips with the Beep

Flying Solo: Adding the Four Video Clips to the Timeline

Applying a PiP Effect to Each of the Video Clips

Reversing the PiP Effect

Flying Solo: Adding a Soundtrack and a Voice-over

6 Hollywood Movie Looks: Using Preset Effects

Applying the Air Brush Effect

Applying the Old Film Effect

Adding Some "Flash" to the Clip

Flying Solo: Adding Some Period Music

Flying Solo: Applying Some Camera Shake

7 Hollywood Movie Looks: Custom Building a Movie Look

Creating a Cinematic '60s Movie Look

Copying Effects and Settings from One Clip to Another

Creating a Cinematic '70s Movie Look

Creating the Home Projector Look

Flying Solo: Adding Some Music

8 Hollywood Movie Time: The Passing of Time Effect

Marking the Individual Scenes

Removing Time (Frames) from the Clip

Adding a Cross Dissolve Between Clips

Adjusting the Transitions

Adding Sound FX

Flying Solo: Using Titles and Fades

Adding the Music Track

9 Hollywood Movie Time: Fast Times

Adding the Foreground Video Clips

Flying Solo: Increasing the Speed of the Crowd

Matching the Appearance of the Two Clips

Flying Solo: Adding the Soundtrack

10 Hollywood Movie Time: The Power of the Force-Reversing Time.

Adding a Jedi to the Timeline and Removing the Garbage

Creating a Clean Key

At Last! Selecting Reverse

Adding a Selling Shot

Flying Solo: Removing the Green Screen from the Inserted Clips

Adjusting the Jedi's Scale

11 Hollywood Movie Effects: The Hidden Identity Effect

Adding the_Interview.avi Clip to the Timeline-Again!

Creating a Hider Object to Hide the Face

Synchronizing the Hider Object to the Action

Flying Solo: Applying the Mosaic Effect to the Second Clip

Applying the Track Matte Key Effect

Applying a Blur Effect to the Image

12 Hollywood Movie Sound: #% Word Removal-The Bleeping Effect

Finding and Marking Bad Audio Moments

Removing the Audio at Each Bad Audio Moment

Flying Solo: Adding Sound Effects to Each Bad Audio Moment

13 Hollywood Movie Effects: The Night Vision Effect

Removing the Existing Colors from the Clip

Adding the Green of Night Vision Using the Tint Effect

Flying Solo: Adding Noise to Simulate the Graininess of Night Vision

Adding Darkness to the Nighttime Clip

Adding an Overlay to Simulate Night Vision Goggles

Turning the Little White Circles into True Goggles

Adding Blurriness to the Goggles for Additional Realism

Adding the Setup Scene

Flying Solo: Turning the Setup Scene to Night

14 Hollywood Movie Effects: The Beam Me Up Effect

Adding the Transported Man and Creating the Freeze Frame

Adding the Transporter Beam to the Timeline

Creating a White Matte.

Applying the Track Matte Key to the White Matte

Location, Location, Location: Adjusting the Transporter Beam

Adjusting the Opacity of the Transported Man

Adding a Bright Flash to the Transported Man as He Rematerializes

Flying Solo: Applying the Transporter Sound

15 Hollywood Movie Effects: The Sinister Ghost Effect

Adding the Ghost to the Timeline

Creating a Mask

Animating the Mask

Refining the Mask and the Ghost

Flying Solo: Polishing the Project

16 Hollywood Movie Effects: Working with Clones!

Marking the Clones Entrance Points

Applying the Crop Effect to All Clips

Adjusting the Crop Effect for Each Clip

Adding a Little Image Control

Fine-Tuning the Entrance of the Clones

Adding Some Lightning Power

Creating a Duplicate Lightning Placeholder for Clone 2

Polishing the Visual Effect

Flying Solo: Adding Sound and Music

Rendering, Exporting, and Creating

17 Hollywood Movie Effects: Lighting Up Light Sabers

Flying Solo: Adding the Beam.bmp Clip, then the Corner Pin Effect

Keyframing the Light Saber

Adding Some Polish to the Beam

Fading the Saber In and Out

Adding Sound FX to the Saber

18 Hollywood Movie Green Screen Techniques: The Enchanted Elf Effect

Using Videomerge on a Green Screen Clip

Applying Color and Contrast Effects to the Elf Clip

Adjusting the Videomerge Effect

Colorizing the Elf

Adding the Foreground Clip

Creating a Multidimensional Environment with the Garbage Matte Effect

Shrinking and Adjusting the Elf's Starting Location.

Making the Elf Vanish

Flying Solo: Adding and Mixing Some Playful Elfish Music

19 Hollywood Movie Green Screen Techniques: The Nightly News Effect

Flying Solo: Creating the TV News Background Text

Adding the Anchorman

Resizing and Moving the Anchorman

Adding the Lower-Third Graphic

Adding Lower-Third Text for the Anchorman

Flying Solo: Creating the Hawaii Reporter Scene

Adding a Cross Dissolve to End the News Feature Report

Flying Solo: Adding a Little Music

Flying Solo: Mixing the Music Levels

20 Hollywood Movie Green Screen: The Super Hero Effect

Flying Solo: Adding the Cloud Background

Flying Solo: Adding Superboy

Cleaning Up the Green Screen Key

Adjusting the Direction and Speed of the Clouds

Setting Our Hero's Flight in Motion

Adding a Little Rotation to Our Hero's Flight Motion

Flying Solo: Adding Super Music and Super Sound Effects

21 Hollywood Movie Trailer: Creating a Movie Trailer Using InstantMovie

Organizing and Choosing Your Clips

Selecting a Theme for Your InstantMovie

Customizing the Final Output of InstantMovie

Let It Rip: Creating, Rendering, and Exporting

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612432644

9780132089241

0132089246

9781282432642

1282432648

9780321637895

0321637895

OCLC:

1027153861