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Premiere Pro cs3 Podcast #26: Creating ESPN Style Video Effects (part 3)
In part 3 of this podcast, host Jeff Schell shows you how to take a clip of a football game -- or any sports event-- and add a Track Matte effect to highlight or emphasize specific players, similar to effects used on ESPN SportsCenter. Jeff walks you through the steps of defining the region to be emphasized by using the Pen tool in the Premiere Pro Titler to create a matte shape.
Then Jeff shows how to add the Track Matte to create your matted video. Jeff shows you how to use the Black & White and ProcAmp video effects to dim the background video. Jeff also uses the Gaussian Blur effect to soften the edges of the matte shape. And finally, Jeff ties it all together by nesting th track matte sequence into the original sequence, and applying a Cross Dissolve transition to gradually fade in the video.
http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=310964
Posted at 12:00AM Feb 18, 2008 by Jeff Schell in Status | Comments[1]
Just a general comment.
First of all let may how much I enjoy the podcasts and mange to learn from them but it struck me when I first came across them that they were specific to CS3.
Obviously a lot of them are applicable to other versions of PPro as well and I just thought it might be better to state which versions apply to each podcast or say CS3 only?
Apologies if my brain has possibly misunderstood and I don't want to give you any more unnecessary work.
Many thanks again for your efforts, they are much appreciated.
Posted by Paul McBride on April 01, 2008 at 06:06 AM PDT #