I am editing a video for a friend. I am having trouble achieving this effect in Premiere 6.0 . I knew what I would need to do, so it was planned out and shot very carefully, but the actually editing is a real complication since I have never done this before.
Let me paint the scene.
It was a goal post for a football game on a dark playing field at night. The lights were spotlighted on the goal post. The camera was set up on a makeshift tripod and set to record while the actor did his thing. It never moved. The shot was still and carefully planned.
The actor was to run in from his mark, leap up and grab onto the goal post and hang from his fingertips. He had various marks and then we filmed him sitting on the top of the goal post walking across making "stomping" motions on key places on the pole where his hands were when he was hanging.
The plan was to take it into editing and cut it to bits, overlaying the pieces one on top each other to make it look like there were multiple actors.
For example. There goal post was marked with three locations, A, B, and C. The actor ran in from the left side and clung to spot A. We filmed. Then he ran in from the middle and jumped on part B. We filmed. Then he ran in from the right and clasped onto part C.
When we filmed, the camera was put in one place, we pressed record, and walked away. So it was never moved. That way the entire goal post with parts A B and C are always on screen, all the time. Its just that, when the actor was swinging from the pole on section A, no one was on B or C. In editing, we wanted to do a matte or something where while he was swinging on A, the filmed scene where he was also swinging on B would be there, and when he was on C would come up. So it would look like he was swinging from sections A, B, and C at the same time- or that there were three of him at once.
So, my question is, how can I acheive this? What transparancy/matte/alpha-channel/voodoo must I use?
I have experience with Premiere, but its basic cutting and splicing. I've never really delved into the effects. That is why we did this shoot, for experience.
Help please and much thanks. If you want to show off your video clips as reference I would be super thankful too.
-AGVKrioni
You'll want to use some simple garbage mattes to isolate the individual elements (if the person passes in front of other instances of himself, you'll need to use difference mattes instead). Although possible to achieve in Premiere 6, you will have terrible headaches working around the program's limitations (As I recall, you can have only one layer with keyed or matted transparency). You'd be much better off working in another program, preferably a compositing system like After Effects.
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I can get a trial of After Effects... but it won't save so thats pointless nevermind. I've never used it anyway. Yeah I'm working of trial software... always trials. Anyway, um, okay so I know a garbage matte is just going into transparency and moving the four little Boxes around to choose the area of the effect I am applying but, which effect would I do after that for a simply smooth.. hmm maybe I wouldnt need an effect... Interesting... i'll see what happens..
