Resizing and/or flipping your images in Premiere

Sooooo… You’ve shot your animation, but your images are too big or upside down. Here’s how to change either (or both). For this tutorial, we’re going to resize the images shot for the clay homework (Thank you, Miguel, for letting us use your wonderful animation for our demonstration!).

The original images were shot with a large output size, about 5000 pixels across. Remember, we’re going only to 1920 across (and sometimes even smaller!).

Once you’ve imported your folder and dragged it to the timeline, select the magnifying tool.

Use this tool to make the timeline larger (so you can see individual frames).

Now switch to the select tool.

1. Choose the first frame in your timeline. We’re going to make this frame correct and then apply those changes to the other frames.
2. Now choose the Effects Controls (top left).

1. Select ‘Motion’ to open
2. Go to scale for resizing. It should start out at 100%. If we want to make it smaller, choose a smaller number.

I chose 20% which is 1/5 the original size. I can see to the right that that’s pretty good!

Now click on the word ‘Motion’ to copy your change to the image.

Just outside of the Video 1 track, click and drag to choose the rest of your images. The upper left effects box should say multiple clips selected. Control V (paste) and the changes should be applied to the rest of the images. Click outside the Video 1 track to deselect the images and watch the upper right display to see if it worked.

This can be a little tricky if you don’t click in the right places.

As for flipping your animation, do the same process as above, but instead of choosing scale, choose rotation and change it to 180 degrees.

Good Luck!

Making a QuickTime Movie using Premiere Pro

NOTE:Click on each image to enlarge
Click on Adobe Premiere Pro

Make a new project

Name your project

If you want, you can browse to find a particular folder in which to save your project. Otherwise, the default location will be used.

Go to ‘video’ and change the timecode to frames. Then click ‘OK.’

Now your Premiere workspace will appear. The upper right section will show you your film. The bottom right is the Timeline. The space for importing your folders (bin) will be in the lower left.

Before importing your folder of images, you must change the still image duration in Preferences:

First go to ‘media’ and change the frame rate to 24:

Then go to ‘timeline’ and change the still duration to 2:

and ‘frames’ and then click ‘OK.’

Now you’re ready to import your folder:

You will see a small box show up importing your images:

Then you should see your folder of images in the ‘bin.’ You should be able to drag the whole folder directly to the timeline (flush to the beginning):


Once your folder is in the timeline, you should be able to play your animation in the upper right. Just press ‘play.’
If it looks good, you’re ready to change the sequence settings for the desired final output. If, however, the pictures play out of order, you might have to ‘undo’ the drag to timeline and open your folder in the bin:

Be sure to put the folder in ‘list’ mode, instead of ‘icon view.’

Then select all the images:


Drag them into the timeline the same way you did the folder:

Now it should play in the correct order:

Time to change the sequence settings:

We want our final output to be 1920 across by 1080 down. This will result in a 1080p output with a 16:9 aspect ratio (you want that!):

TA-DA!

But now the image doesn’t fit right… oh, noes! We can fix that!

Drag the timeline to the left to make the individual frames look bigger (in the timeline):

Select the first frame:

Go to ‘effect controls.’

Open ‘motion’ under video effects:

Open ‘scale’ and slide the dot to until the image is the right size:

Now click on the word ‘motion’ and then go to ‘edit’ and then ‘copy.’

Now we have to apply the change to the rest of the images. Highlight the rest of the images, then go to ‘edit’ and click ‘paste.’

Now they’re all the right size (theoretically) and you can press play to see your animation:

If it looks good, you can export your animation:

Now it’s time to name the project and make sure the final movie is put in the right folder:

Now we need to change the codec (to H264) so that you can make sure your output will be 1920 by 1080p:

Unlink the width to height ratio and change the numbers to 1920 and 1080:

Then change the frame rate to 24:

It should already be ‘progressive’ (instead of interlace), but make sure. Then click ‘export.’

A warning may come up. It has something to do with future versions of Premiere not supporting certain non-legacy formats. Do it while you can, kids!
Now ‘save’ your project and quit Premiere Pro!

Storyboards!

This is a storyboard done by Steven Spielberg, proving one doesn’t have to draw well to get his message across. Remember: your storyboard can be this simple. Be able to explain what techniques you will be using and how your final project will flow.

Spielberg had to take many, many drawing classes before he could draw this!
Just Kidding!