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Stages of Video and Audio Production

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Audio

Assignment #11 - Podcast

Video

Assignment #10 - Clip ReconstructionAssignment #12 - Sequence EditingAssignment #13 - Lower ThirdsAssignment #14 - PSAOptional #15 - CG in film

Graphics

Graphics can be used from a variety of sources to help enhance your video production:

JPG, GIF & BMP from Photoshop or the Internet
Single frame exports from existing video footage
Screenshots from your computer desktop

The bottom line is that the images SHOULD be sized properly for video display, or they can appear SQUASHED or STRETCHED and very amateur.

There are TWO main shapes or "aspect ratios" used in North American Video:

4:3 is an older "Tube-Style" for letterbox television sets

720 x 540 pixels
640 x 480 pixels

16:9 ratio "Widescreen" Television sets

1280x 720 pixels

1920x1080 pixels

Stages of inserting a graphic into your video

1) Load your image into Photoshop or some other photo editing program and choose the CROPPING TOOL

2) Set the DIMENSIONS:

The options at the top of the screen will allow you to customize the HEIGHT, WIDTH and RESOLUTION

For example, enter 1280px, 720 px or 1920px , 1080px

You will need to put in the px if your default is set to inches. 1280 in. x 720 in. is VERY big and can crash the system

3) Define your crop

Drag the mouse to define the area you want to keep.

Note you CANNOT change the shape, but you CAN control the starting points and ending points. You have to "find" the best area that fits your crop.

Click the check mark to proceed

4) Adding other graphic layers

Once cropped, you can add like smoked edges, blur and colour overlays to make the image into a more interesting title background

If you choose to add titles, remember to stay within "Title-Safe" regions on the screen.

BTW: Photoshop titles can be very effective, but adding your titles in Premiere to a plain graphic gives you more flexible editing, and allows you to animate the text.

5) Adding MOVING graphics

Quite often the difference between an amateur looking video and a professional looking video is titling. It doesn't have to be done in PS, Premiere now has an Essential Graphics section where you have access to all sorts of advanced titling options.

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