Xena vids

[Dee Dee Warren]

Okay some of you know that I am learning Premiere Elements simply because I want to make some Xena videos. This will likely take me over a year. I have to watch the series again (poor me) to select scenes. Now, I know the names of what episodes suck so I won't watch those again. I have chosen two Evanescence songs to work with. I have to find the name of the second one, but the first one is Haunted with the subject matter being Ares' obsession with Xena.

[Dee Dee Warren]

Oh the second one is Whisper and if any of you know the song and know Xena know how perfect it is.

[The Plain Jane]

Oh the second one is Whisper and if any of you know the song and know Xena know how perfect it is.
How many seasons of Xena have been out?

I liked Hercules: The Lengendary Journey myself.

[Dee Dee Warren]

There are six seasons out.

Well I started the vid project, I don't know many premiere tricks and stuff so it will be pretty cheesy and bare bones.

I am actually starting with Hercules footage, from The Gaunlet episode, then moving directly to mixing The Gauntlet with A Friend in Need part II.

[Dee Dee Warren]

I think I am going to end it with that scene from All Locked up and Tied Down where that prisoner says to Xena "You know it always bothered me that you never paid for your crimes." And Xena says, "Well then we have something in common. It always bothered me too."

[Dee Dee Warren]

Okay I finished the video but it is pretty huge right now. How would I make the file smaller? It is like 836MB right now.

And if anyone wants a looksee, let me know.

Trout, Leroy will definitely want this.

[Piebald]

Dee Dee, I've wanted to do something similar, but I don't have a reliable way to rip video clips from DVDs. Is Premiere elements something which does that well?

Are you able to put video clips together, add music over them, etc.? As well as rip video clips?

[Dee Dee Warren]

Elements does not rip DVDs, I had to use a different program for that. There are two that I used (each one performed a bit differently depending upon the DVD actually) - I will PM you the programs I used though a Google search will reveal quite a bit of DVDripper freeware. Premiere Elements is what I used to piece it together and do transitions and title screens and multi-layers and stuff.

[Piebald]

Elements does not rip DVDs, I had to use a different program for that. There are two that I used (each one performed a bit differently depending upon the DVD actually) - I will PM you the programs I used though a Google search will reveal quite a bit of DVDripper freeware. Premiere Elements is what I used to piece it together and do transitions and title screens and multi-layers and stuff.


Thank you! I might invest in premiere when I have the money. Windows Movie Maker is starting to conk out on me.

[Dee Dee Warren]

The newest Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements just came out bundled together for a decent price. I will have to PM you when I get home as I don't remember the program names for the rippers.

[Piebald]

The newest Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements just came out bundled together for a decent price. I will have to PM you when I get home as I don't remember the program names for the rippers.

okey dokey, no problem, I am at work as well (at the computer, reading TheologyWeb between Data Entry .. :duh:) . . .I already have photoshop elements, I am hoping I can get Premiere for relatively cheap .. like under a 100 bucks maybe?

[Dee Dee Warren]

Yeah you can get it for under a hundred. You can probably get PE2 for pretty cheap now since PE3 came out, and from what I understand the differences are not all that great. I just got PE3 but haven't loaded it yet. The newer versions of Photoshop Elements though are worth getting.

[Dee Dee Warren]

I got it down to 20MB in .wmv format. Whoever would like to have a copy let me know. I am submitting it to one Xena fan site, but I don't know if it will be hosted since it is so "Friend in Need" heavy and I am so opposed (to put it midly) against any alleged homosexual subtext, just pretty much into the fighting and "dark side" versus "good side" part of the story.

[Piebald]

Have you considered YouTube?

[Dee Dee Warren]

Nah I don't want to do the YouTube thing.

[Dee Dee Warren]

I know you guys are dying to see it

http://www.preteristsite.com/videos/xena.wmv

19.5mb

I am not going to have it there permenantly so grab it while you can

[Dee Dee Warren]

rated V for violent though - viewer beware

[Sparko]

nice job!

but if you ever decide to do a xena video with cher music for ivo, I will hunt you down.

[Sparko]

Spin transition...

I am hoping it is the same in premiere elements (I have premiere 6.5)

There are normally two tracks Video 1A and Video 1B and there is a transition track between them.

You first put the scene you are ending on track A, and the scene you are transitioning on track B. Overlap them slightly by however long you want the transition to last.

Drag your Spin transition from the transition list to the transition track. Make sure it lines up with the beginning of track B and the end of Track A. There should be an arrow on the transition box, make sure it is pointing down. It determines which way the transition goes. You change it by clicking on it directly.

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That should be it. But if you want to play with it, you can double click on the transition and it will open up a dialog box that lets you change the settings.

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This is basically how all transitions work in premiere.

[Dee Dee Warren]

Elements isn't like that. There isn't a separate transitions track, transitions go in the actual video track. I think though if I center it over the two, I would get the effect you mentioned. I will try that on my next try now that I know a lot of the pitfalls I ran into.

[Sparko]

Elements isn't like that. There isn't a separate transitions track, transitions go in the actual video track. I think though if I center it over the two, I would get the effect you mentioned. I will try that on my next try now that I know a lot of the pitfalls I ran into.

Go to the top menu and see if you have a menu called Window. If so

Go to Window/Workspace and see if there is an option called A/B Editing.

If there is, choose that and it will switch your editing mode from single track editing to A/B split track editing like I show above. That is much better for doing transitions.

[Dee Dee Warren]

I will check that out tonight. I don't think there is though because I have been through several PE training courses and nothing like that was ever discussed.