Tiling In Premiere Pro?

[HarveyCee]

Is there a way to tile a small JPEG photo, to make a full-screen background for titles?

I'm using Premiere Pro 2.0 with no "After Effects" installed.

[edDV]

Is there a way to tile a small JPEG photo, to make a full-screen background for titles?

I'm using Premiere Pro 2.0 with no "After Effects" installed.

Premiere calls it "Mosaic". The effect can be found in Video-Stylize and is adjustable by layer.

[Brainiac]

I think he means tiling as in replicating a small image so that it spans a certain area, as in seamless tiling? I don't know of any way in Premiere off hand.

Brainiac

[HarveyCee]

Yes- tiling, as in repeating the small jpegs, side by side (on all four sides) to fill up the screen.

[edDV]

Lots of free software out there. Premiere filters could be used to defocus or color correct.
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/java/Kali/
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/texturespatterns/Creating_Textures_Patterns_Seamless_...ackgrounds.htm

[Safesurfer]

If you have the freeware Wax installed as a plugin, you can use FreeFrame plugins. There is a free Tile FreeFrame plugin available at http://freeframe.sourceforge.net/downloads.html , it's part of the Pete's plugins download. Once set up it is very easy to use.

[HarveyCee]

Safesurfer- I have the petetile.dll in the Premiere Pro plugin folder, but it doesn't show up as a selection in the PP2's program plugin menu. What further do I have to do?

[Safesurfer]

You know what, I looked at the Tile effect (hadn't looked at it in ages) and I don't think it's what you need - it creates more of a mosaic from the image with mirroring. Sorry.

[poisondeathray]

A couple of free easy ways to do this for a tiled still:

1) use imagegrabber 2, you can configure you output options (e.g. tile size, spacing etc...)

2) save as background wallpaper image in desktop, specify tile effect

[HarveyCee]

Installed it, but don't know how to make it work in Premiere Pro 2.0

[poisondeathray]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are trying to do?

My 2 suggestions were to generate a tiled still image - which I thought was for a background - which you could then import into premiere (or any video editor for that matter)

I thought you meant something like this: a repeated still image that is tiled?

[HarveyCee]

PDR,

Yes, you got it!
That's what I want to do, but Imagegrabber has no instructions with it.
No "help" menu.

[poisondeathray]

No problem, it's pretty easy:

1) open you image file : file=> open file , in file types, use the drop down menu to select "all files" instead of "all movies", then open the image

2) push the camera button (2nd last), and enter the # of frames - in my example above I used 9

3) File=>save file and enter your options, eg. size, spacing, shadows, etc... In my example above, I turned everything off

Cheers

[HarveyCee]

Okay- I'll go and try it. It might take a while before I get back to you, but rest assured, if it works, I'll capture a UFO and name it in your honor!

[edDV]

Add a few Premiere filters and you have a good title background.



Video Filters

- Levels
- Directional Blur
- Basic 3D
- Ramp
- Bend
- Edge Feather

Title Generator

- Kerning
- Leading
- Directional Shadow

This is Premiere v6.5 title preview window (not fully rendered).

[HarveyCee]

PDR,
I got it. Now, all I have to do is work on experimenting with columns and frame amounts so as to eliminate the edges/borders between the JPEGs, as much as possible.

edTV, That's very creative. Good suggestion.

Thanks to both of you from Nevada (UFO capital of the world)!