Premiere Pro CS6 help?

[Norchie]

If I have multiple "video layers", how do I edit all of that together? My descriptions are hard to follow, but let me explain it with an example. I have my gameplay, and at the top of that I have my facecam on top of the gameplay. I want to zoom in, but don't want to modificate the size, but I just want to zoom in. Sorry for being a Premiere Pro noob ^__^

 

[Brotastical]

If I have multiple "video layers", how do I edit all of that together? My descriptions are hard to follow, but let me explain it with an example. I have my gameplay, and at the top of that I have my facecam on top of the gameplay. I want to zoom in, but don't want to modificate the size, but I just want to zoom in. Sorry for being a Premiere Pro noob ^__^

Hmm. so what i'm reading is that your face-cam is to small?

You can double click on the face-cam layer and be able to move and re-size it to any position at will.

If this wasn't the problem, please explain more

 

[Aviticus_Dragon]

Video Layer 1 - Game or whatever footage
Video Layer 2 - Facecam

Go into video effects - Distort > Transform (Hard to remember off the top of my head but you want Transform). Drag Transform to your Video Layer 2. Go to the effects tab properties and under Transform, shrink the size of your facecam to maybe 25-30% for height and width. Modify the attributes for position or anchor point to move your facecam to a corner you want it to appear.

If you want to zoom in on the regular footage, then you want to apply a transform and increase the height/width and keyframe it, use a "Camera View" video effect, or add a Zoom transition effect to whatever video layer you want to apply the effect to.

 

[evilmuska]

Video Layer 1 - Game or whatever footage
Video Layer 2 - Facecam

Go into video effects - Distort > Transform (Hard to remember off the top of my head but you want Transform). Drag Transform to your Video Layer 2. Go to the effects tab properties and under Transform, shrink the size of your facecam to maybe 25-30% for height and width. Modify the attributes for position or anchor point to move your facecam to a corner you want it to appear.

If you want to zoom in on the regular footage, then you want to apply a transform and increase the height/width and keyframe it, use a "Camera View" video effect, or add a Zoom transition effect to whatever video layer you want to apply the effect to.

Shouldn't he be able to just adjust all of that from the "Motion" section of the video? I've never had to apply Transform to do zooming/resizing, should be built directly in to any clip you drag in, just click the dropdown. Unless this has been changed between CS5.5 and CS6, idk.

 

[Aviticus_Dragon]

Shouldn't he be able to just adjust all of that from the "Motion" section of the video? I've never had to apply Transform to do zooming/resizing, should be built directly in to any clip you drag in, just click the dropdown. Unless this has been changed between CS5.5 and CS6, idk.

It's hard to tell without actually seeing what he's trying to do and the funny thing is there's like 10 different ways to do things in Premiere, After Effects, etc. But you're right, if he hasn't spliced the video into multiple parts on video layer 1 or 2, then he could just adjust that setting for the entire thing like you mention.

 

[evilmuska]

It's hard to tell without actually seeing what he's trying to do and the funny thing is there's like 10 different ways to do things in Premiere, After Effects, etc. But you're right, if he hasn't spliced the video into multiple parts on video layer 1 or 2, then he could just adjust that setting for the entire thing like you mention.

Yeah. And even if he has spliced it up, he should be able to just adjust it on one clip, right click in the Motion section, copy that setting, and CTRL-V paste it on each subsequent one. But yeah, it really depends on the situation.[DOUBLEPOST=1400865017,1400864564][/DOUBLEPOST]You gotta watch it with that Copy/Paste stuff tho. Doing it with Motion is fine most of the time, but if you do it for some other effect you dropped on there by hand, like say Crop, you run the risk of stacking 2 copies of the effect in one clip rather than modifying the current setting of it.