Working as a Pocketnest Intern week 2: June 22nd-June 28th
Second week of working for Pocketnest has been great. I am receiving great feedback, and I am learning many new things from editing content outside of my comfort zone. At first I wasn't so confident in my editing skills, because dealing with motion graphics is something I am not comfortable with doing. There are some new techniques and tricks I've learned through editing this demo video on premier, that I would love to share. I ran through some problems, and had to figure out a way to overcome them.
1. Blurry exports
Every time I exported my demo, a lot of the graphics seemed to be blurry when played on my laptop. When I played the video on my phone, it was perfectly fine. It was very frustrating to me, since I have never dealt with this problem. I did some quick google searches, and nothing that was suggested fixed my problem. I would replay the video on my timeline, and it would show up all blurry. When I paused it on the timeline, it was clean and sharp. If anyone experiences blurry text or graphics on premier, there are about four things that might be able to solve this problem.
-Exporting Graphics through Photoshop and Illustrator BEFORE importing them into Premiere
-Exporting Premiere sequence at a different setting (Try 4K instead of 1080HD)
-Change sequence settings from Mercury Playback, to Software Only
-Render effects in and out
For me, it was a matter of exporting my graphics on Illustrator and photoshop, and then changing the export settings on Premier. I used a format of H.264 (like usual), and changed HD to 4K. I am not entirely sure why this worked for me, but I am assuming the resolution on the photos I was using was very high, and the sequence settings had to match the resolution of those photos.
2. Creating a scrolling effect through a phone
Unfortunately, premiere doesn't have a beautiful effect button to automatically scroll an image. For one of my tasks, I had to create a scrolling effect inside of an iphone and laptop. I had some experience with creating a scroll on premiere, so I gave this one a try.
-Make sure the PNG phone/device file is on top of the image you want to scroll on the timeline
-Place a "crop" effect onto the image you want to scroll
-Scale and crop the sides to fit into the phone, bring down the opacity to neatly set it in place
-Set key points on position, top crop, and bottom crop
-Move cursor on timeline to beginning and set desired starting point by cropping bottom
-Move cursor to end of the selected clip, crop bottom and top, and move position all the way down to the end of the image.
When you play the clip back, it should look like the image is scrolling on a phone/laptop!
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