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–Henry Brooks Adams

“At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher

only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education, is a

certain form of energy; the object to be gained is economy of his force; the

training is partly the clearing away of obstacles, partly the direct application of

effort. Once acquired, the tools and models may be thrown away.”

Basic ObjectivesAt the end of this class, you will be able to:• Understand some of the basic principles of producing contents for

television.• Carry out video editing using Adobe Premiere Pro• Package videos for broadcast and internet• Convert/compress files• Share files in various platforms like FTP and Cloud servers

Basic IntroductionAdobe Premiere Pro is a video editing software and like many other multimedia production software it works with a timeline structure and comes with audio and video transitions, effects and other tools for fine-tuning your video.Adobe Premiere Pro projects are stored with a .prproj extension. These files save project so that they can be re-edited over and over or create varied versions of a particular project. Finished work can be exported into various standard video formats that can be played on other devices and systems as DVD players, computers, tablets, mobile phones, web and even game consoles like PS3.

Basic IntroductionThe various file formats have different unique abilities and some are selective of media..avi.mpeg.mpeg2.mpeg4 .flv.mov

The Concept of Motion PictureA very longtime ago, photographers were unable to record sequence of action. They could only capture a single (frame of) action in the form of still shorts. To create the illusion of motion, they decided to merge films of continuous still shorts captured within a second. That was how recording cameras evolved. These cameras were able to continuously capture sequence of still actions within split of seconds. When these still shorts are run through, they show the progressive actions.

Frame RateThis refers to the amount of continuous sequence of still pictures that should be merged together to create the illusion of motion also known as persistence vision.Some researchers hold that with 25 sequence of shots played within a second, others argued that with 29 frames we can achieve the sense of persistence vision – motion picture. Hence we have the various standards of video frame rates such as 24fps, 25fps, 29.7fps, 30fps and so on. So frame rate is the amount of still pictures (frames) assembled to create a motion picture.

Bit RateThis is the size of data required to process each second of a movie clip. That is, the kilobyte of encoded media transferred from the source to enable playback of the movie.

Storyboard and ScriptThe purpose for these is to give guidance to the production crew – camera man, lights man and director on how to go about their various roles in making the motion picture a reality.They state the location, angle of shots, sequence of action, sound and dialogue on a scene to scene basis.

StoryboardThis is a graphical representation of the intended sequence of action that will make up a motion picture (movie). The major points of each scene that will form the clip are drawn out along with, often with the narration written in conversational style. The storyboard is created around the frames of major actions referred to as key frames. It originated from animation creation and is best used for advertising today and short clips.

Script for Motion PictureThe script is a written presentation of the sequence of actions and sound and also all the elements that make up the complete movie. It contains the description of the characters’ actions, their dialogue, the camera point of view and shot framing, visual and sound effects and the location of action. There are often presented in column form – a page divided into time, shot description/transition, character action, dialogue and sound effects.

Adobe Premiere Pro Interface

Basic Timeline ToolsSelection tool: This tool is used to select particular items on the timeline. It is also used to highlight items for modification.

Track Selection Tool: It is used to select items in a tracks in the timeline such that all the items in front of the selection can be shifted uniformly forward or backward without altering their relative position from one another.

Ripple Edit Tool: This tool helps you to change the start and end point of a lip on the the timeline without changing the duration of the clip itselt or affecting the other clips close to it.

Basic Timeline ToolsRolling Edit tool: It is used to adjust the start and end points of two clips where they meet, one rolling into the other without affecting the combined duration.

Rate Stretch Tool: It is used to Stretch a clip to fill an empty space left between the clip and the one next to it without affecting the next clip.

Knife Tool: Used for cutting/splitting clips.

Slip Tool: It is used to change the start and end time of a clip without altering its duration.

Basic Timeline ToolsSlide tool: This tool is used to reposition a clip in the middle of other clips. It cuts parts of the other clips in order to fit in.

Pen Tool: It is used adjust the level of brightness and volume of clips. More importantly, it adjust edit points on the timeline.

Hand Tool: it drags the timeline to bring hidden positions to view without affecting the clips on the timeline.

Zoom Tool: This is used to expand the timeline in order to enable you work on tiny clips and elements on the timeline.

Books to Read

Sight Sound Motion: Applied Media AestheticsHerbert Zettl

CartooningJohn Richardson

Let Us Put Them All Together

Coming up next week…

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