I'm embarassed to even ask... (Premiere Question)

[homerpez]

Never thought I'd be back at "newbie"...

Anyway, here's a simple, yet elusive, question about Premiere 6.0...

I want to snip off the end of a video clip (did that), and select the VERY LAST FRAME.

I want to hold on that last frame, and specify how long to stretch it out for (we'll say, 2 seconds).

I also want to be able to apply filters to it (fades, transitions etc). Specifically, a slow fade to black (cross dissolve, nothing in the other video track).

Where I'm stuck is getting the last frame to hold. I right-click on the video track, go to "Video Options --> Frame Hold" and then "Out Point". I export my movie and the whole video is just that one frame.

What's the REAL solution to this? Obviously I guessed wrong.

[resnullius]

have you checked on adobe's web site they have very complete manuals, if you don't feel like looking tell me i'll have the answer tomorow, ('i,d check in my books but my comprehention skills and my explaining skill tend to start getting less good past a certain time of night..(and my patience for looking in technical manuals)) or icq me so we can discuss in ways less aceptable to these forums...
icq# 51341985

[resnullius]

Actually i've though of a simplistic way of doing this... watch your video fullscreen, push print screen button on approriate frame. import in premiere, strech to disired lenght, and then do your fx transitions or what ever you fell like.

[homerpez]

Or maybe this?... (I always start thinking of solutions while I'm at work and 30 miles away from my home computer)...

I could razor a single frame out, and then change properties if the snipped part to be a longer duration?

I'll feel so stupid (and smart) if that actually works...

(The Adobe "help" wasn't helpful in this regard... that's what got me the entire movie being one frozen frame!)

[resnullius]

it might work... anyways if you want premiere documentation tell me... be more than happy to send it.

[zeppage2]

Export the chosen frame as file-> export timeline -> frame. save as .bmp

Re-import the .bmp, double click on the file in the project window. When the frame image opens in a separate window, click the duration button and adjust to taste.

Don't forget to add an audio layer...

[furwatup]

Thats what I would suggest with the right click and duration thing but that might draw that one single frame out to 2 seconds or whatever so maybe just select the frame copy it and keep pasting it until you have 2 seconds worth of video.

When I use the duration thing my video goes way bad on quality here is and example maybe somebody could help me? I take home video of my friends and I at the sand dunes jumping and riding our quads and bikes then bring
home capture and edit in premeir 6 I like to add the effect of somebody when in the air in slow motion and the above method is the one I use but it causes very poor quality in that section of video in the end vcd is there any other way of a slow motion effect or any suggestions. One more question does video loose quality when edited and what not in premier?

sorry not to start a new topic but this is right along the lines of what I was on here to ask about

[resnullius]

furwatup, i'm not surfe i understand your question but the normal way to slow down a video is to cut the part you want to slow, paste it in a video track, right click and you'll see a speed option, play with the percetage till you get the disired effect.

[furwatup]

resnullius, you did excellent deciphering my jibberish, that is what i do when i try to slow a clip down the problem i have is when i render my final movie the quality of the clip that has been slowed down is terrible what I was wondering is that is there another way to slow a clip down

my source footage is only a sony 8mm cam so maybe that is the end problem and i never will get a good quality out of it, by the way what is the resolution of 8mm tape, is it just 352 x 240 same as any tape?

thanks for all help

[homerpez]

I'll try the export/import bitmap idea too... I did it by changing durations of a slice to a longer duration... it has the effect of "flickering" mercilessly, and I guess there's something under right-clicking "Video Options" or something to help eliminate that (though I don't know if it works yet or not...

Now, I have an embarassing new problem. I have apparently messed Premiere up to where clips, even when imported at the right framerate, are the wrong duration! They worked before...

I've been exporting .swf files to uncompressed AVI and then to Premiere for editing. Every one I did yesterday imported with the correct timeline (if it was 10 frames/sec and 60 seconds long, it would import to the timeline as 60 seconds worth of video). Now, no matter what the input source, or output frame type, it always puts it in the wrong timecode!

And, it doesn't seem to matter how many frames/second I output to either... I can have the .swf file output as any framerate (10, 12, 15, 20, 29.97) and it still ends up the wrong duration by the time it gets in Premiere.

What happened?!?! (Hope that problem made sense) What can I check/uncheck/look for to fix this problem?

If you want to compare this to the FILM/NTSC problem in Premiere (where the video duration will end up about 70% of the audio duration for the same time), that's what it looks like.

What I want, is to be able to input a video at the correct frame rate and have it end up the right duration in Premiere...