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Finish editing your City Cuts' video and make sure you have all of the requirements and the following:
- total video is under 3 minutes
- each clip is 3 seconds or less except for the time laps & speed transition; if you have a certain clip that you feel really enhances your City Cuts and needs to be more than 3 seconds, email it to Mr. Heil for approval and explain why
- there is no shaky footage or panning to fast
- no clips have your shadow, finger, or any other part of yourself in the video (except for an intentional POV shot)
- make sure your clips change on the main beat
- the video focuses on the city as the main subject and the people in general and repeated people only ocassionally (e.g. 2-3 times).
If you shot your video with good quality (e.g. 1080 60 frames per second or higher), then your video clips will look really good if you slow them down by changing the frame rate in Premiere to 24 frames. Follow the video tutorial and change at least five clips (e.g. horizontal pan so it is not so fast and blurry) to smoother 24 frames. In addition, you can also change the speed of the clip to slow it down to make it look even more smoother and cinematic.
If you have any shaky footage, use the Warp Stabilizer effect in Premiere to smoothen them out.
An alternative way to make clips smoother, especially horizontal pans so that it is not too fast ist to slow down the footage (right click on the video clip and go to speed & duration) and make the clip more slow motion and shorter in length.
Go to your split transition and add a cross fade (screenshot on the right) between the clips so that it is a smoother transition. If you use a cross fade, there is not a clear clip cut so it does not have to change on a beat. Therefore, if there are any clips that you that you are having a hard time changing on the beat, you can use up to 3 additional cross fades.
Go to your insert cut and apply a scale zoom (example) but make sure it has a good zoom effect and not too slow and not too fast. Then add an additional scale zoom anywhere in your video.
To fade out your music add an exponential fade to your audio layer.
Export according to the render directions and upload the video to YT and name it City Draft Video and make sure you have all of the requirements in the video.
Do not do
Watch this tutorial starting at 2:30 and ending at 3:50 to add one Ease In effect and one Ease Out effect to any of your clips in the first 20 seconds. And one of each in the last 20 seconds of your video.To fade out the music at the end if you need to, go to where you want the audio to fade out and cut it (with the razor tool), then go to Effects Controls > Volume > Level and use the timer and keyframes (like in After Effects) to change the dB level from 0 to a negative number.
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