Archive for January, 2008

Sound Adjustment

If the visual part of a movie is perfect but the sound is not, then the movie looks amateurish. Fortunately, Premiere offers sophisticated tools for getting the sound right. We’ve already discussed how to add new sound tracks to the timeline. Now you need to understand how to adjust each sound track so that everything [...]

Timeline

Once you have your shots figured out, you need a place to arrange them in the proper order and hook them together. The place where you do that is called a timeline. You line the shots up in sequential order. Then you can play them as a sequence.
With just three concepts — capture, shots [...]

Windows Movie Maker

For those beginners who would like to learn more on the basics first, I suggest that you try to use Windows Movie Maker. WMM is video creating/editing software that is included in recent versions of Microsoft Windows. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie. The “Drag and [...]

Transition

Sometimes simple cuts from one clip to the next work well, but other times you might want to use fancier transitions from scene to scene. For example, you might want to use a dissolve, or a wipe or a fade. Premiere has all sorts of transitions available. Simply choose one from the transitions area and [...]

VIDEO EDITING BASICS: Linear Editing Part 1

by:mheo soriano

Linear Editing
Linear Editing is the process is basically mechanical in nature. Here, you can easily edit
using Camcorders, VCR’s, Edit Controllers, Titlers, and Mixers .
In Linear Editing the editing is performed one cut at a time or in linear steps (or a series of programmed cuts) to its conclusion.
Linear Editing consists of three [...]