From the course: Learning Premiere Elements 2022
Animating effects
From the course: Learning Premiere Elements 2022
Animating effects
- [Instructor] Key framing has many applications in Premier Elements and it's especially useful for creating custom animations and custom video effects. So we're going to create a pretty basic transition here using a video effect that typically is not used for creating transitions. Let's move our play head back to the beginning of the movie. I can do that just by selecting the timeline and then pressing the home key on my keyboard. We'll go to the tool bar on the right and from the effects panel, we'll do a search on crop. Here's our crop tool. We'll drag it down onto our clip and you can see that crop by default has some basic settings here. It's already cropping our image within the video frame. Now I can make adjustments to crop by dragging on these sliders, or to me it's more intuitive to select crop here in the applied effects panel. Let me toggle it back open. And when it's selected, I get these little blue corner handles and I can create my own crop just by dragging on those. So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to create a transition that starts with a cropped image of this man's face, and then over the course of a second or so, it's going to widen out to show us the entire video frame. So as we did with motion in our last video, we're going to open up the key frame controller for crop. There it is. And it's the same basic principle. We're going to create a set of key frames by toggling on animation. And these initial key frames represent the initial positions of our crop effect. Then I'm going to drag the play head out just a little bit. And I could drag on these corner handles again, or I could just slide all of these sliders down to zero. And that's it. Notice new key frames have been created. We have just built a short transition from a cropped version of the video to the full video. So let's close this panel by clicking on the button here on the toolbar, move the play head again back to the beginning by selecting the timeline and pressing home, and then let's play it and see how it looks. Very nice. We used key frames to create an animation. So I'm going to select that clip on the timeline, go over here to applied effects on the toolbar. And I'm going to delete that effect. We could, for instance, take a black and white video effect and we could create a transition from black and white to color or add the old film effect. And we could create a transition from an old film look into a modern video look just by using key frames to represent the various settings. Going to go to the effects panel. By the way, if this drives you crazy that the panel stays wide after you shut the key frame controller, you can just drag on this little gripper here on the seam and push it closed. Okay, so we're going to remove crop from our search engine and we're going to look at the perspective category and find an effect called basic 3d. Now basic 3d is going to roll our video around in three dimensions. As you can see, we've still got the key frame controller over here. I'm going to close it by clicking on this button at the top right of applied effects. There we go. And with the effect we can create swivels, we can create tilts, we can move the image far from us. We're going to create another transition using key frames. So let's open up the key frame controller again. That'll widen out the panel. Move the play head back to the very beginning of the clip. Notice it also moves the play head here on the timeline. And we're just going to swivel this thing out as far as we can. We're going to push the swivel slider. The tilt slider, we'll tilt it so that it is just about invisible. There we go right about there. And then we'll push its distance out as far as we can. Then for basic 3d we'll toggle on the animation by clicking on the stopwatch. This creates our initial key frames. This is our starting point for our animation. Move our play head in a couple of seconds and we'll remove the effects. Or in other words, we'll slide swivel back to zero, tilt back to zero. And I think distance to image, I think goes back to one. So I'm just going to select that number and type one. There we go. So now we have our full frame and this is our stop point for our animation, and once again, you can see that the key frames were automatically created. So let's close this panel, move the play head back to the beginning of our timeline by selecting the timeline and pressing home. And then here's our swivel tilt animation. Kind of fun and crazy, huh? Now once you understand how key frames work, you'll probably see all kinds of effects and animations that are available to create in Premier Elements. They can be used to create motion or animation in a video. They can be used to intensify an effect. And as we'll see in the next video, you can even use key frames to set the levels of audio at specific spots.
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