Creating Timelapses: Animation
Lesson 56 from: Adobe Premiere Pro CC Video Editing: The Complete GuideAbba Shapiro
Creating Timelapses: Animation
Lesson 56 from: Adobe Premiere Pro CC Video Editing: The Complete GuideAbba Shapiro
Lesson Info
56. Creating Timelapses: Animation
Summary (Generated from Transcript)
In this lesson, the instructor demonstrates how to create a timelapse animation in Adobe Premiere Pro CC. The instructor shows how to zoom in on a specific part of the image and create keyframes to create movement. The instructor also explains how to make a looping video by cutting the video in half and swapping the clips.
Q&A:
How do you zoom in on a specific part of the image in Premiere Pro CC?
To zoom in, you need to lock the position and scale of the image and then change the scale to 100%. Double click on the image and select the part you want to zoom into.
What is the mantra for creating keyframes in Premiere Pro CC?
The mantra is "position, time, keyframe." Make sure to position the image where you want it to start, set the timing, and then create keyframes for position and scale.
How can you create a looping video in Premiere Pro CC?
To create a looping video, find a good spot in the middle of the video and cut it in half. Then swap the two clips by dragging and dropping while holding down a modifier key (Option key on Mac). This will create a seamless loop when played.
Can you explain the process of creating a looping background in Premiere Pro CC?
After creating the loop by swapping the clips, you can add a dissolve transition between the two clips. This creates a smooth transition between the end and beginning of the loop. You can then copy the looped section and paste it as many times as needed for a looping background.
Lessons
Understanding Editing: Bootcamp Overview
07:25 2Understanding Editing: Overview
25:25 3Understanding Editing: Video Examples
25:07 4Tour The Interface: Digital Video Workflow
16:38 5Tour The Interface: Project Panel
12:28 6Tour The Interface: Choosing Your Shot
07:18 7Tour The Interface: Music And Voice Over
10:31 8Tour The Interface: Video Tracks
05:26Tour The Interface: Edit Markers
08:46 10Building a Rough Cut: Cut Planning
21:46 11Building a Rough Cut: Selecting Media
25:01 12Building a Rough Cut: The Edit
30:50 13Building a Rough Cut: Edit Points
13:43 14Refining Your Edit: Preparation
10:29 15Refining Your Edit: Making Cuts
25:19 16Refining Your Edit: Using Markers
16:31 17Refining Your Edit: J and L Cuts
15:57 18Refining Your Edit: Replace Edit
05:04 19Working with Audio: Overview
17:43 20Working with Audio: Levels
13:36 21Working with Audio: Music
10:00 22Working with Audio: Mixing And Syncing
14:50 23Transitions: Overview
13:44 24Transitions: Effect Controls
09:31 25Filters & Effects: Overview
18:05 26Filters & Effects: Using Multiple Filters
22:18 27Motion & Animation: Motion And Animation Overview
09:40 28Motion & Animation: Movement With Still Images
26:56 29Motion & Animation: Picture In Picture
10:57 30Motion & Animation: Motion Effects
17:08 31Titling & Graphics: Overview
27:11 32Titling & Graphics: Advanced Tools
11:03 33Titling & Graphics: Roll And Crawl Effects
08:01 34Titling & Graphics: Working With Photoshop
12:17 35Speed Changes: Overview
21:12 36Speed Changes: Stills And Variable Speeds
06:23 37Color Correction: Overview
07:39 38Color Correction: Lumetri Scopes
11:32 39Color Correction: Contrast
21:37 40Color Correction: Advanced Tools
15:12 41Color Correction: Adjusting To A Master Clip
07:45 42Finishing: Prepping for Output
14:53 43Finishing: QC Edit Points
24:56 44Sharing & Exporting: Overview
29:05 45Sharing & Exporting: Size And Quality
24:46 46Ingesting Media:
28:39 47Ingesting Media: Transferring And Importing
31:15 48Media Management & Archiving
26:10 49Multi-Camera Editing: Overview
14:26 50Multi-Camera Editing: Creating A Sequence
20:04 51Multi-Camera Editing: Switching Multiple Cameras
15:31 52Multi-Camera Editing: Finalizing
12:37 53Creating Timelapses: Shooting Strategies
18:04 54Creating Timelapses: Editing Images
14:21 55Creating Timelapses: Importing Strategies
18:47 56Creating Timelapses: Animation
05:58 57Advanced Editing Techniques: Take Command Of Your Timeline
22:36 58Advanced Editing Techniques: Transitions
07:57 59Advanced Editing Techniques: Keyboard Shortcuts
12:00 60Advanced Editing Techniques: Preference Hacks
21:15 61Thinking Like an Editor: Editing Choices
31:55 62Thinking Like an Editor: Telling the Story
23:50 63Special Tools: Warp Stabilizer
17:59 64Special Tools: Morph Cut
06:56 65Special Tools: Green Screen
20:16Lesson Info
Creating Timelapses: Animation
Go here I'm gonna start with this time lapse, people are enjoying it and I'm gonna go ahead and I'm going to lock in position and scale. And then I'll go down here and I can now change this to 100%, I'll just type in 100%, and what I'm gonna do is pick the part of the image that I wanna zoom into. I'm gonna double click on it, and maybe I wanna zoom into, I'll look around, let's go into this little house over here, okay. It has created the keyframes. Let's go back to the first keyframe, hit static, start to move, I just am doing now a camera push with a time lapse using all the skills that we've already learned and it looks really, really cool. I'm gonna do the same thing now, I'm gonna go ahead and hit Undo. Instead of doing a push, I'm gonna go ahead and take the same image, I'm gonna start it, I'm gonna hit my little clocks here, okay. Hit my stopwatch, okay. Now I'm gonna start it at 100%, one, o, o, boom. Position it. Down here I wanna make sure I see the house but really the clou...
ds are the exciting thing. Start right there. Position my play head where I want the action to start, that's what we tend to forget to do, we tend to forget that it's position, time, keyframe. That's your mantra, position, time, keyframe. Position, position, position, okay. Position, and then I lock that, this is the position where I'm on the shot, my timing, where I am on the timeline, now I say make a keyframe, position and scale. Then I move it to a new position in my timeline. I'm sorry, the new place in my timeline. Timeline's always the important thing. Slide that over, all the way to the end. We did this with the panorama, when we were working with the stills and now it automatically creates the keyframes. I could push, I don't wanna do that. I could pop in an extra one that I don't really need but I do it by habit, and now I hit Play and there we have a nice pan along with our clouds moving. So that is the magic of really working with individual images creating these really cool time lapses and you know, I could make 'em on time lapses all day. I will throw it open to the class if you have any questions on what we did or how you should do things and go for it. Can you recommend smooth ways to either repeat it or you know go backwards? Okay so, let's say I have a time lapse but I wanna repeat it. I wanna create some sort of like a wallpaper I wanted to. So here's the trick to make something repeat. I love questions because I would never have explained this yet I know how to do it. So I wanna make what's called a looping video. So the trick is, with any video that you wanna make a looping video, you find a good spot in the middle and you cut it in half. So I go command K, the cut tool, and now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna swap these two clips. I'm gonna put this at the very beginning. So I could go, bring this over, bring this back, I'm gonna teach you a new technique. I wanna just swap these two clips and this works with anything. So if I drag it and let go, it would just overwrite. That's not what we wanna do. But if I hold down a modifier key, let me do that zoomed in so you can see what I'm doing, so I'm pulling to left and I wanna kind of point out that there's a little pop up down in the lower left hand corner when you start doing things. It's a, oh if you hold down the option key, you'll do this. If you hold down the command key, the control key, you'll do this. Obviously I'm not, see. So I drag this over and it says, oh, an overwrite I just drop it. If I wanna do it as an insert, hit the, and this is Mac specific because this is a Mac, use the command key, and then if I wanna duplicate our shift, there's all these different options. So if I use the command key, let's see if I have enough fingers to zoom out, okay. So bring it over, command, it actually did a swap edit, insert it and then put that to the end. So now, if I play this, you're gonna see a huge jump, of course, boom and we learned that there is no extra media here because I just used it all. So you know, I don't care. This is the end of clip one, this is the beginning of clip one. They're different already. I'm gonna go ahead and ripple trim that so I have space, ripple trim this so I have space, and I'm just doing an arbitrary amount, and now I'm gonna go ahead and put a dissolve, which is my default transition I hope still, in between here, maybe even stretch it out and this is great with clouds, and what's gonna happen when I play it, is you'll see a dissolve and now I can either put it in a situation where it automatically loops or if I really wanna put this maybe as a background, select it, copy, move my play head, paste, and you can paste as many as you want, but because of the way I built it, you would think there would be, this is really where the world changes. This is the original connection of the clips. There's no change there because this was really the whole clip that I cut in half. So now what it's doing as it gets to the end, it's dissolving, it's dissolving, and I can go ahead and I can have this as a looping background as long as I need and that's the trick that I think is really cool that we wouldn't have had had you not asked that question.
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