Premiere almost leads to my downfall

 Good old Premiere, you love it when it works, YOU ABSOLUTELY DESPISE IT WHEN IT DOESN'T. Yeah... I am sorry blog right now was one of those times where it most definately was NOT working. Warning: I might get a little animated in this blog post I have thoughts.

Let me set the scene, i was finishing up editing, happy to finally be done with such a big project and excited to finally turn the page and then I export. When I look at the preview of the export, ALL OF MY CLIPS ARE COMPLETELY OVEREXPOSED WHEN IN THE TIMELINE THEY LOOKED FINE. But, no worries, it should just be a quick fix... right. I am not too bad with technology... right. Oh I was no naive.

Well I start searching around on the Adobe forums and Tada I immediately find a post. After figuring out what the solution is saying I switch around some settings. Honestly, I had no idea what I was doing at this point, but I thought it might have something to do with HDR settings, which I found kind of odd since I thought my camera didn't do HDR (Spoiler alert, Juan was right.) But, I ignore that and just follow the directions, change my export settings to export in HDR, and Tada the preview looks perfectly fine now. 

So I hit export thinking all is well... (all was not well). After exporting I look for my File, and it appears blank... Odd I think but maybe its just my computer acting up?

So I reset my computer, still nothing, and when I click it, nothing, it says a time, but it doesnt play and appears completely blank. 

So I chuck it into Premiere just to see what would happen, AND TO MY SURPRISE, when I put it into Premiere IT WORKS FINE??

So I export this file, just to see if by some black magic it works. And to the shock of no one same error as when I tried to export before. 

So I turn to old faithful youtube, and see what happens if I upload the file onto youtube, cause it could be my computer being silly who knows. And it seems to upload fine but the quality is horrible. 

After many more trials and tribulations and a search back into the forums, I learned that it had something to do with Premiere pro's HDR workflow. For some reason, Premiere had set my timeline to use this workflow even though my footage wasn't HDR. After troubleshooting and getting help from this guy's thorough explanation, I changed my timeline settings and everything finally WORKED. It exported just fine, the quality worked well, and all was well.

Editing My first CCR (Focused on questions 3 and 4)

Hey Blog, While working on my first CCR (editing on Premiere Pro btw) I've been trying to implement more multi-media forms of content so that its not just a static talking head.

During my filming I filmed a lot of short clips so that I didn't have to memorize long portions, this made the filming process quick but it led to having to work with a lot of short clips during the editing process. To avoid jump cuts I used Stock images and videos from Pexels.com, a website that provides royalty free high-quality images and videos to seamlessly transition between different clips and also create visual interest. 

Relevant clip used when talking about Screenplay Writing

Using cutaway Royalty Free clips to avoid Jumpcuts

While creating the text, it was a little boring to just have the text so I decided to add a little texture to it. For this I looked up on YouTube.com and found a paper white background. I customized the opacity for it and changed the colors around until it contrasted well with the font, and then layered it behind my font to achieve a more interesting look.

editing the text in Premiere Pro 2024

One of the effects I wanted to get, was to highlight some words in my blog that were pertinent to what I said. And found this great link on YouTube showing how to create a highlighter effect on Premiere. It's surprisingly easy, i just had to create a color matte with a highlighter color, and then put that over my clip, adjust the cropping, add some feathering on the edges and badam, a pretty convincing highlighter effect. I used this to highlight important pieces of evidence be it from my Blog or an online source. I also used the paper background with a lower opacity as well as a Gaussian blur on the clip behind the graphics I included to blur out the background in a cool way that brings the focus to the graphics.

 

Highlighter Effect with Keyframe animations!

Heres a full bibliography for all the sources used during this portion for Research and Images and Videos:

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Close-up view of the Earth free stock video footage, royalty-free ... (n.d.-f). https://www.pexels.com/video/close-up-view-of-the-earth-2062566/

Find any sound you like. Freesound. (n.d.). https://freesound.org/

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Person holding blue ballpoint pen writing in notebook · free stock ... (n.d.-g). https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-holding-blue-ballpoint-pen-writing-in-notebook-210661/

Person using laptop computer during daytime · Free Stock Photo. (n.d.-h). https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-using-laptop-computer-during-daytime-196655/

Person working at home free stock video footage, royalty-free 4K ... (n.d.-i). https://www.pexels.com/video/person-working-at-home-3254066/

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