The following techniques will help you
create a lively video clip which attracts more viewers, like using the unique
and extraordinary 3D effect, creating stunning subtitle, integrating video in
video…
One of the simple yet common video
clip-creating apps is ProShow Producer. Using this software, users will quickly
have a video clip to show on laptop, TV, but if you want your video clip to be
livelier, you should experience the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 software. According
to that, the effects and acts in this article are mainly performed on ProShow
Producer and Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 software. You can find out more about using
these techniques on many other video-editing softwares (such as AVS Video
Editor, Magic Movie Edit, Corel VideoStudio Pro, Avid Liquid…).
Preprocess the source image
Normally, users will put up a video clip from
many static images, and can attach some videos. Then, if you want a high
quality video clip, you need to be detailed from the step of choosing the images,
source video, avoid letting one low-quality image or video become “the fly in
the ointment”. However, that doesn’t mean that all the bad images are not used.
If there is a not-good quality image (cluttering, lack of light, unreasonable
lay-out), but you are compelled to use in on the video clip, preprocess it by
using dedicated image editing software, instead of processing that image by
some “deficient” features of the film editing software in use.
For example, with the image with tone that
is difficult to see, you just need to put it in the CameraBag software, and
then chose another tone in many suggesting result. Of course, if you had
experience in editing images with Imageshop, you should spend time editing the image
with this software before using to put up a video clip because Imageshop will
provide you the flexible crop tools and the most variety color-combining ability
at present, accompanied by many eye-catching brushes.
Process
the image with CameraBag before making a video clip.
Build a script in advance
Besides, you also need to note the size of
the image which is about to be used. By that, if you made a video clip by
simply letting the images run consecutively, you should choose the images with
the same size or not too much difference. Otherwise, if the size of some images
had big difference, you should predefine a display script so it may look
stunning, for example you can let some small images appear slowly and cover a
big current image through the visual effects. Besides, the order of image
appearance is also a problem that needs to be considered, you should somehow
arrange to make in suitable, not insert images at random into the video clip
you’re editing.
Using “unusual” effect
For sure the video clip will be very
attractive if you know how to choose and use the “unusual” effects. On the
montage programs, the effects are usually divided into groups: effects on the
subject and scene transition effect. And when the new version is released, the
makers always expand the effect stock. Therefore, you need to remember updating
the latest version to have the novel valuable things in your hand.
The
massive effect stock of Proshow Producer software
However, there are effects that are always
be a decisive part of some software that has release for a long time, such as Fly-In
and Fly-Out scene transition effect (the current subject fly slowly in, and the
new subject will progressively appear), Wipes (after a rotation, the detail on
the current subject will be replace little by little by the new subject).
Especially, Zoom effect (zoom in/out) will be necessary when you want to show
more clearly a subject on the screen. It could be step-by-step zoom, smoothly
in a far-away boat to attract viewers to a tiny, vaporous and far-away object.
There is also a quite new group of effect,
which is always cared and developed by the maker, namely Motion 3D (a
spectacular group of effect in 3D format). You can notice of using these
effects to give your video a more modern breath as compared to using the
regular 2D-movement effect.
Besides, some professional film-editing
software such as Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 also provides users effects to attach
directly onto the video clip in freely period of time, such as Lightning, Lens
Flare effect. The use of these effect, together with a little of creativity,
you can make impressive highlights for your video clip. For example, when
shooting 2 eyes looking directly at each other, reediting by a lightning bolt
between; when a couple are kissing in the blue sky, it wouldn’t be more perfect
if there are some additionally colorful circles from the lens flare effect.
Lightning
and lens flare effects
Merge multiple of frames together
If you only put up a video clip in image
stile, videos that change constantly with some scene transition effects are not
really attractive. A lot of today’s software let you put up a video clip with
many frames, sound displayed at the same time, categorize in the groups of
Video 1, Video 2…, Audio 1, Audio 2… You should take advantage of this feature
to make a unique video in video.
For example, on Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
software, drag the 1st video in Video 1 timeline, then right-click
the word Video 1 > choose Add Tracks > enter 1 > OK. After that, drag
the 2nd video in Video 2 timeline. Then, enter Video Effects >
Transitions > drag Linear Wipe effect onto the 2nd video. At that
time, in the Effect Controls card of the 2nd video has Linear Wipe
item. Your mission is to drag the slider at Transition Completion field so as
to make the images of the 2 videos display at the same time and most
reasonably.
Make eye-catching subtitle
Subtitle is an essential feature of all
film editing software, but most of the amateur users don’t use this feature
effectively. By that, users mainly type, choose the kind of subtitle, the
appearance position, font, size, font color. A lot of software has some
eye-catching subtitle styles in available, when using a style like that, you
only need to adjust the improper parameter, like changing the font color to
make it stand out against the frame. In fact, users can make their own a
mark-private subtitle stream when applying an attached effect.
For example, recreate 2 subtitle streams
with the same content, put them on the same position on the frame, and choose
individual color for the created subtitle stream. Then, apply the effects for
the created subtitle to see the fruits of the creativity. As Video Transitions
effect> Wipe on Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 is creating the running text effect
in karaoke format (with this effect, 2 subtitle streams will be put together in
Video 2 timeline, Wipe effect is inserted between, and Video 1 timeline
contains the main video clip).
Publish video clip with the suitable
format
When publishing the end-product, you have
many choices of video clip format. At this step, you need to consider choosing
video clip format in order to be suitable of the using demand. The most
qualified format you can choose is Blu-ray. However, for most cases about
putting up a video clip and watching on computer, AVI or MP4 is suitable, but
if you want something slighter, you can choose FLV. After choosing the above
format, the program will itself sets up the parameter for the video clip, you
should continue processing to have an expected end-product.
Adjust
the video clip quality to be suitable for the images, original video.
For example, you only use images with the
size of 800x600 pixel in video clip, but you want to publish the end-product
video clip with Full HD quality of 1080p (1,920x1,080 pixel), it’s a waste of
storage capacity. Similarly, if you only make a video clip to share on the
internet, you need to set up the lower parameter, normally you only need the
640x320 pixel size, and that’s enough for the video frame of some current
website.
