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The same situation occurs for lectures, interviews,
speeches at wedding celebrations, etc.
The exercises in this chapter assume that you are
somewhat familiar with the
Casablanca Prestige
user interface. The instructions given are therefore
not as detailed as before.
You will create a music video such as those shown
by various television music channels. The main
function you will be using is Insert-editing, which
you will learn about here.
Step 1: Preparations
At first you require the raw footage. You need a
fairly long scene, preferably a continuous one,
where the music is always synchronized with the
artist‘s lips. A singer friend of yours filmed with a
camcorder will suffice. A television news speaker
or commentator will also do.
The complete raw footage (your "background")
should ideally be 30 seconds long or longer.
Now you need some scenes that you will overlay
onto the background with Insert-editing.
Such scenes can contain much more than the
background video, (for example a sunset, a car
race, etc.).
Trim these Insert scenes so that each one is about
5 seconds in length. For three inserts you will
need at least 30 seconds of original video.
Step 2: Edit
Now go to the " Edit " menu. Put the background
scene from the scene bin into the storyboard with
"
Add ".
Select the first short scene to insert from the scene
bin and click on the "
Insert " button. You are now
in a time-setting menu in which you can freely
place the pictures (not the audio) of the insert
scene onto the background (the background vi-
deo is displayed on the screen)
This menu is the same as the Range menu. At the
moment, the insert scene is positioned at the very
beginning of the background scene.
You will see that there are two functions here,
"
Trim"
and "
Position
".
" Trim " allows you to trim the scene being In-
serted. (This can also be done in the main Edit
screen).
"
Position " lets you designate the start point where
the Insert scene will appear in the overall 30-se-
cond background scene.
You will let 3 seconds of the background scene
run before the first insert scene appears. Set the
selection button in the panel above-left to "
Posi-
tion
" so that the option "
Start
" appears below it,
which you should now click.
With
Start you can specify which frame of the
background will be the first to be overlaid by the
Insert scene.
Scroll to 3 seconds (the time is displayed to the
right in the menu) and confirm with the left
trackball button. The "<” and ">” buttons below
Start allow frame-by-frame changes, if needed.
Click on the right trackball button in order to
return to the "
Edit " menu.
Now look at the storyboard. There are now three
scenes in the storyboard – the one in the center
contains an Insert symbol. First the 2-3 seconds
background, then the insert scene, then the rest of
the background. The insert scene has been mar-
ked with the Insert symbol. The overall length of
the storyboard is still 30 seconds.
This division into two background scenes (which
would become one again if you were to remove
the insert scene from the storyboard) makes it
possible to overlay additional insert scenes onto
the same background.