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Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 HOTSHOT

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Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 HOTSHOT

Overview of this book

Adobe Premiere Pro has become synonymous with video editing, in the same way Photoshop has become a byword for image manipulation. To unlock the true potential of this powerful software you don't need you to take expensive training courses or spend hours trying to get your footage “just right”. Work through this practical guide and truly master Premiere Pro CS6 using real footage with engaging examples.Using the included source material (available via digital download), this book will help you discover a plethora of features and functionality hidden within Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 that can truly augment your skills and take your footage to the next level. By covering a diverse array of topics in a practical manner, you will gain a full understanding of how to approach pretty much any video editing project you want to tackle with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.Starting off with an entry-level project to get both new and existing users up to speed, "Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Hotshot" dives right into a series of engaging real-world projects that help you understand how you can harness Premiere Pro's full potential. With an explicit focus on practical real-world projects from concept to publication, this is the definitive guide for people who want to make the most out of this powerful software.As you progress through the book you'll encounter problems of poorly shot footage; news reporters who stumble over their dialog and camera crews who fail to deliver key scenes, leaving you to scavenge and then hide your trail. Not only will you develop a full understanding of how core features work, you'll also have a clear grasp on how to make your footage stand out from the crowd.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mastering Adobe Premier Pro CS6 HOTSHOt
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

An L-cut and a UFO!


In the last section you created a J-cut using cutaway shots that lead into dialog. The opposite of this technique is to have the dialog lead into a cutaway shot. This is called an L-cut.

In this task you will create a simulated shot of a UFO (supposedly shot on a mobile phone) and then insert that shot into the Timeline as an L-cut. To do this you will use a great, but often underused feature in Premiere Pro CS6, Nested Sequences, and you'll do some creative work with the motion and blur effects to sell the shot. This is to make the clip look like a shaky mobile phone recording. You've covered effects like this in Project 1 and Project 2, so again the instructions will be sparse in order for you to put into practice the skill sets you have learned so far.

Engage Thrusters

Create an L-cut and use Nested Sequences to add a UFO scene to your interview. Perform the following steps to do so:

  1. You'll start this task by first creating the shot of a UFO that's supposedly been taken...