transitions vs. motion

[guava65]

While putting together a slide show, I wanted to set a background photo and have several pictures transition over it( at less than full scree scale), center on the background, wait a few seconds, then transition out. The whole time the background will remain visible. I never figured out how.

I did not find any commands to that would allow me to set the scale to display the photo or include a transition. I ended up using the motion commands to get the job done. I'm hoping that someone will have a tip on how to do the same thing with transitions so I don't have to spend so much time fussing with scale and motion paths.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.


Aloha,
cg

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

I think Video >> Motion is the only way to do this, at least in Premiere 5.1c. Later versions might have something different.

This is basically the same thing as picture-in-a-picture.

Cheers,


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[calculus]

Put the background picture in Video 2 track with opacity set to 0 (I think). Use Video 1 track to do the up/down and transitions. The parts not covered of the background should show through, others should not.

chadd

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

cg,

Place the image (or video or whatever) you want to appear in your background in Video Track 1.

Stretch it the length you want to show it.

All the various things you want to fade in and out over it should be placed in Video Tracks 2 or higher. Those are called the "superimposition" tracks because you're superimposing images over something.

Expand the Video tracks 2 and up (whenever you need 'em) and you'll see the red opacity rubberband. Use the pointer tool to make new points on the rubberband, or move existing ones. The level of the opacity rubberband determines the opacity of the clip. So, if the rubberband is all the way at the top (100%), then the clip will be all visible. If the rubberband is all the way down (0%) then you won't see the superimposed clip.

If you make the starting point of the opacity rubberband at 0 and then ten frames in make a new point and set it at 100%, then your clip will do a 10-frame fade-in. Very handy!

Now, that solves your fading around problem.

To make an image appear smaller than it really is, you're basically looking at the same thing as picture-in-a-picture. And man, are there ever TONS of tutorials how to do that. The basic tool you're going to use is Video >> Motion, but what you're going to do is use the scaling part of motion to make the image smaller, and then move both the front and back frames to the same location. Voila, picture-in-a-picture!

Cheers,


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door