The first video I used to progress and develop my skills I used during the research and planning stage of our trailer. I edited the animatic on Adobe Premiere Pro and as I usually only use Adobe After Effects I needed a basic tutorial to know how to cut the photos to the correct length, match them with the music and how to create a new project and composition to begin with. The video gave me the skills to edit a lot of the animatic, however, to do some of the effects on the photos such as the flashes and fading out I had to use another source to learn how to use these functions of the editing program. As I am familiar with After Effects' interface, I knew what to look out for when adding new things such as text and effects as Premiere Pro was entirely new to me, but the Adobe functions are the same.
I used this video in order to learn how to use adobe premiere pro cc 2015 in order to animate text in order to create the titles for our animatic so that I could get an idea for how they would be animated. Instead of using a plain text to show where the title would be I wanted to get a sense of how the ending text of the trailer would look. As I was new to premiere pro I had to use video tutorials in order to develop my skills in the program and this developed my skills into a range of programs and not just after effects. This video taught me how to find and use the tools and effects in premiere pro, basic things like key frames and fading I already knew how to do as these skills are transferable but I need to learn where everything is in this new layout. The crew and legal text I created in Photoshop I put in as an image file as it would not be animated, this is the same for the background to the coming soon text too. My skills in Photoshop were already well developed enough due to the fact I take photography as a subject and I have been practicing graphics in my own time for years.
Cinema 4D is a program I used to regularly use but I haven't used it in years and so when creating the production companies intro for our trailer I had to use a video tutorial in order to remember how to animate the text, this video gives a tutorial to very basic text animation but it was enough to jog my memory to all the tools that Cinema 4D has. I just needed a video to get me started again with the program as it is very complicated and there are lots of settings and tools that I need to be re familiarised with before I could attempt to create a logo for our trailer.
The final way that I developed my skills as an editor was by learning to use the masking tool in Adobe After Effects CC 2015, I learnt how to use this tool in order to create a creative transition for the main title to appear on screen alongside fading onto the screen. I am well practiced in After Effects so I already knew how to use most of the tools and effects in the program well but the only tool that I never have really touched is the masking tool. So I watched this video in order to learn and understand how to the use the tool to its full advantage so that I could create whatever effect my mind came up with in order to make the trailer exactly how I imagined.
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