Kimmtech » Adobe Premiere

Split Alpha

Kimm — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:03:49 +0000

Blue Screen

Kimm — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 04:13:44 +0000

The blue screen I used was a rack 15′ by 20′ that sported a chroma key blue cloth curtain. I would probably try a green screen for the next project. The blue often shifted to grey when automatic focus had to be used on the camera and that made keying really difficult. I used Keylight, a keying filter that comes with the Pro version of Adobe After Effects to do the keying at first. More about this in another post. I also used Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) Linear Color Key extensively. In the end I think I got consistently better results from BCCs filter.

Storyboarding

Kimm — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:50:50 +0000

For my end of the quarter project I used the "story boarding" feature in Premiere Pro to keep the project organized. What’s funny is – Premiere had a much more sophisticated, useful story boarding feature several versions back which they removed for some reason from subsequent versions. You could then organize your clips and print a report to work off of. The picture here was captured with Print Screen – the only way to get a visual reference report out of Premiere as of version 2.0. Nonetheless – this limited version of story boarding is still useful. I used it to lay out my clips and organize them visually. I then simply dragged and dropped the whole story board onto the timeline and with only a few tweaks had a big chunk of work done.