Blog Post 2/27/22

 3D Text

    A title or the name of the music is usually introduced in a opening shot of the cinematics of the montage/edit. It's common for the creator to just give the song credit by replacing the text with the name of the song and the title. 2D text is still common to use however adding the extra layer of depth makes the text layer look more impressive into the video, not only showing the professionalism of the creator but also the interpretation on how creative he is when it comes to expressing the beginning of the montage/edit.

    This is a 5-6 minute tutorial on how to create a basic 3D text model that'll help me in the future to understand and use these for when I need them.

Blog Post 2/21

 Audio/Music Reacting Effect:

     In creating edits, a majority of the time, the audio is some how syncing to effects or overlays of the video file. I decided to research how to properly do so as it is an important effect and feature to host in these types of videos. Creating an Audio Amplitude layer saves a lot of time as it automatically produces key frames to match with the audio’s beat, treble, etc. Of course this can be adjusted to the according sound levels you like to combine it with. Once effects are in place whether it’s brightness/contrast, or positions, opacity, or even complicated blues, you can then assign the “pick whip” tool (which is enabled for use under the expression tab by pressing alt then on the layer.) to the Audio Amplitude layer for it to them mimic the key frames, syncing the effect with the audio.

    This effect has not been trialed yet however will soon to be in the production phase of this "film." So far this tutorial was the most modern one I could find relating to this subject. I'm extremally excited to see in action, because manually doing this process is extremely time consuming and I hope that this will make this section of editing a lot easier and faster in future projects.

    

2/13/22 Blog Production Blog Post

 

Reflection:

This film was different, I'm not used to being in front of the camera so that was new to me as well as trying to implement different composition shots because it was suggested to put different angles into my film. I enjoyed the process however, it reached me out of my comfort zone, although the editing process was a little bit less heavy than it was on the last film manly because I was focusing on other parts of the project.

Blog Post 2/13/22

Monday: Editing

Tuesday: Learning Adobe After Effects 

Wednesday: Learning Adobe After Effects

Thursday: Experimenting With Clips

Friday: Experimenting With Clips

Personal Key Binding Reminders:

    To edit a lot faster, and professional, its important to know your basic key bindings to save seconds or even minutes of time just by pressing a singular key. In my understanding of Premiere Pro, this is an area I personally have been severely lacking on which is something I plan to change in the future, due to the fact that key bindings really cut down the process to edit with certain actions. The list I provided below is the basic/ beginner or important key bindings to remember while editing in Premiere Pro. (Personal Opinion) As well as a quick reference guide so I know where to go if I forget which action is tied to which key.

Key Binding List:

Undo-        CTRL Z

Redo-         CTRL SHIFT Z

Select All-         CTRL A

Audio-           SHIFT G

Audio Gain-            G

Group-             CTRL G

Ungroup-         CTRL SHIFT G

Export-              CTRL M

Render In And Out-          ENTER

Zoom In-      -        (Timeline)

Zoom Out-      =    (Timeline)

Cut Tool-      C

Selection Tool-        V

Ripple Delete-        DELETE Key

Speed-        CTRL R

Ripple Trim-      W (Personalized Keyframe)

Text Tool-      T

Marker Tool-     M

2/6/22

Monday:

Video Editing

Tuesday:

Non Related Activates

Wednesday:

Non Related Activates

Thursday:

Non Related Activates

Friday:

Non Related Activates

Aspect Ratio:

    What Is Aspect Ratio:

        Aspect Ratio is the dimensions of the width and height of a TV screen. These also define the thickness of the backbars, usually defined in cinematic versions of the film, or a cinematic shot. There's also different aspect ratio for phone, tablet, and smaller monitor screens. These are important to remember for when it comes to exporting and rendering.

These are examples of TV aspect ratios with inches represented to the left of the ratio.

These are the basic aspect ratios for phones vertically that's used in apps such as Tik Tok.

These are also the commonly used ratio aspects for tablets.