All tagged 2017-14

Justin Odisho: How to Scribble Animation Write-On Line Effects in Adobe Premiere Pro (No After Effects)

Justin Odisho: How to Scribble Animation Write-On Line Effects in Adobe Premiere Pro (No After Effects)

Sean Schools
Tutorials, Effects
Learn how to create a Animated line or scribble trail right in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 using the write on effect in this tutorial. —Justin Odisho

Add some visual candy to moving objects in your footage with the Write-on effect in Premiere Pro. Tutorial-master, Justin Odisho, shows how to animate simple scribble effects and motion trail-lines that follow the action in your shots.

The first step is identifying shots that will work well with this effect. Look for objects or points that move through the frame. For example, in this tutorial Justin animates a stroke following the feet of a subject doing a cartwheel.

Next, apply the Write-on effect to your clip. Notice the small dot that appears in the middle of the screen. This is the first point of your stroke. Now it just needs some motion. Watch Justin at 1:02 begin to animate the stroke to follow the subject's feet by keyframing the Brush Position.

With all the keyframes set, Justin customizes the look of the stroke at 1:56. The Write-on effect in Premiere Pro lets you change the Color, Size, Hardness, Opacity and Length of the stroke. All of which can be animated as well. Let your creativity run wild!

Chung Dha: Easy Self-writing Text Tutorial in Adobe Premiere Pro

Chung Dha: Easy Self-writing Text Tutorial in Adobe Premiere Pro

Sean Schools
Tutorials, Effects
In this Tutorial video I am showing you in an easy method how to achieve the self-writing text effect inside of Adobe Premiere Pro, without needing to make a lot of titles and inside of Premiere Pro. There is no preset for this so just watch the video. —Chung Dha

Ever wonder how to make text "write-on" by itself? Did you know Premiere Pro has a Write-on effect? In this Premiere Pro tutorial, Chung Dha teaches how to animate the Write-on effect to reveal your text so it looks like it's writing on the screen.

First, create your text using the Title Designer in Premiere Pro. Script or handwritten fonts work particularly well with this technique. Then apply the Write-on effect to a Transparent Video clip above your text in the Timeline. 

Next, Chung makes some preliminary changes to the stroke length at 1:41. But starting at 2:10 Chung begins keyframing the path of the stroke that will reveal the text. He uses keyframe bezier handles to finesse the path around the curves of the text.

The next step is critical. At 4:36, Chung increases the Brush Size so that it covers all the text. This is important because any text outside the stroke will be visible before the write-on animation. 

Keyframing the path on the text is a time-consuming process that looks much faster when sped up in a tutorial. Power through! The reward of seeing your text write-on is well-worth it! 

Now for the magic. At 5:49, Chung applies the Track Matte Key effect to the Title clip, and selects the track with the Transparent Video clip as a Matte. Now the Write-on stroke animation reveals the Title. Alternatively, the Write-on effect has it's own Reveal Original Image Paint Style which does the same thing as the Track Matte Key.

ProVideo Coalition: Search Bins: Premiere Pro's Best Kept Organizational Secret

ProVideo Coalition: Search Bins: Premiere Pro's Best Kept Organizational Secret

Sean Schools
Tutorials, Metalogging
If you’re an Adobe Premiere Pro user, you’re going to want to read this article. It’s over a thousand words. If you’re an casual user? I think it’s still going to be worth it. I’m going to talk about Search Bins. —Jeff Greenberg, ProVideo Coalition

Workflow junkies rejoice! Premiere Pro's "best kept organizational secret" is now public. Adobe Master Trainer, Jeff Greenberg has released his Search Bin project file for Premiere Pro. It's a project file with dozens of pre-made Search Bins based on Premiere Pro's metadata schema. 

But what does a Search Bin do in Premiere Pro? In short, Search Bins collect clips in your project based on specific search criteria. In the article, Jeff creates a Search Bin for "good" clips using Premiere Pro's boolean metadata Good column. Any clips marked Good automatically populate the Search Bin. It's important to remember that all the clips in a Search Bin are duplicates - Search Bins don't move any of your original media.

So what else is included in Jeff's Search Bin project file? He provides a partial list in the article:

  • Actor Name
  • Subclips
  • Clips named Interview
  • Clips named B-Roll
  • Shot Motion (tilt, pan, dolly)
  • Shot types (CU, MS, WS)
  • Words ending in “ING” (Action verbs)
  • Name “VO”
  • Name “Whoosh”
  • Offline (boy do I love this one.)
  • Adobe After Effects projects
  • File type (JPG, MOV, PNG, etc.)
  • Codec (ProRes, DNX, h264)
  • Frame rates
  • Frame sizes

Now just imagine all the clips in your project automatically organizing themselves in your project. The only thing you need to do is add the appropriate metadata to your clips. You can add metadata to multiple clips using the Metadata panel. Jeff explains how in the article.

The Search Bin project file is free; all you need to do is enter your email. If you're ready to elevate your organization in Premiere Pro, read the article and download the project file.