Monday, October 31, 2011

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This is an example of a Lower Thirds title, which means that a text bock opens up in the middle of your video clip. You might use this kind of title when trying to capture something or even to add a caption to a specific place in the video. I learned that this text box that appears during the video is used and placed at the lower one third position of the frame, hence the name Lower Thirds. It is different because this is not an introductory title and is more of a small detail that can be used in the video. It is different because it only pops up for small amounts of time.

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This is an example of a template title, which means that you can use a specific and creative template to add a title anywhere in your clip whether its in the beginning or in between the clip. You might use this kind of title when trying to draw attention to your clip and simply adding creativity and bringing it more alive! I learned that this clip is a little harder to make, or at least thats how i felt, because there were more options involved with it such as selecting the actaul template that will fit with what you are trying to do with the video clip. However at the same time it was more fun because i got to be more artisitic with my project and make it more of me as opposed to just having to do it for a grade.

Titles Workshop



This is an example of a regular title, which means that this is the title that would normally be used at the beginning of a video clip . You might use this kind of title when introducing a video or even at the end like for the credits. I learned that each title has a unique charactersitic that serves its own purpose such as this title because it is more general and is the simplest title to use and make.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Extracting Workshop



A simple cut in the timeline means that you are deleting a clip and it is NOT sliding over. When you cut, the other clips in the timeline they are deleted from the timeline.
A ripple edit is when you delete a clip from the timeline but at the same time, you are sliding the remaining clips over to make the whole video flow. You do this by right clicking on the clip you want to delete and instead of hitting 'cut' you hit 'ripple edit' in order to slide all the other clips back. When you ripple delete, the other clips to the right of the deleted clip and are slided to come right after the preceding clips without leaving a gap.
Lifting and extracting are two ways to cut and delete at one time. To do this, you set an in and an out point of the portion you want to delete in the Program Panel and then depending on what you want to do, click lift or extract which is found on the lower right corner of the Program Panel. Lifting is like cutting or deleting a clip only, while extracting is like the ripple edit option, in terms of what happens to the other clips in the timeline.
This is an example of an extract edit. I decided to ripple edit the two clips where I did because it added consistency and flow to the video as a whole because there were some parts where the horse was doing nothing and we felt that those parts were unnecessary in the video. Also, with the way we did it we added to the climax of the whole video.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Insert Edit



This is an example of an insert edit. An insert edit places a clip in between another one while keeping the other clip the same length and in this edit, you do not cut off any part of the original clip, you simply place the new one in between the original one. To do this, you simply drag the new edited clip, while pressing “ctrl” on to the spot where you feel is the best place to put the clip so that it may split the original clip in two but not exactly delete any portion of it. I decided to insert the 2nd clip where I did because I felt that, there it would be a perfect place because this is where the horse is running around the hurtle and by inserting the clip here it would show her expression and also I liked the effect of the horse going in around the hurtle and then having the second clip in position, and then transitioning into the horse going out around from the hurtle into the climax of the clip, or when the horse jumps the actual hurtle. I feel that an insert is used to keep all the action of an original clip and also adding new information or clips to that already. Maybe there’s a project with a lot of information that you don’t want to delete or overlay, then an insert edit would be the one to adhere too because it would keep your original clip plus a few more facts. An insert is different than an overlay because it simply gets inserted in the middle of a clip instead of deleting a part of it.

Overlay Edit



This is an example of an overlay edit. An overlay edit places a clip over another one while cutting off the other clip as well and placing the new clip on top of it. To do this, you simply drag the new edited clip on to the spot where you feel is the best place to put the clip so that it may overlay the original clip already found in the timeline. I decided to overlay the 2nd clip where I did because I felt that, there it would cut off the part where the horse hides behind the hurtles because I reasoned that either way the horse would not be showing so it would be the perfect place to overlay the second clip. I feel that an overlay is used to delete unimportant parts in a clip and replace them with a more significant or reasonable clip, so as to bring the audience more into the clip. Also i think it would add some differentiation instead of the clip being monotone showing the same thing. An overlay is different than an insert because it deletes a portion from the original clip by the second clip and would probably be used to block out an unimportant scene with a more interesting one.