Working with Photos in Premiere Pro | Video Editing Tips

hey everyone my name is Boone and today I'm working on a little piece about Abraham Lincoln naturally this piece is going to consist of a few still images now when you're working with still images inside of Adobe Premiere Pro the workflow can be a little bit different than as when you're working with just standard video clips for example when you're working with still images you have to consider the varying resolutions that you might be encountering sometimes you need to do touch-up work and then you have to consider adding movement to make your image more visually dynamic so today I'm going to show you a few best practices that are gonna make working with still images in Adobe Premiere Pro nice and easy [Music] so still images can come in a number of different shapes sizes and resolutions so one of the first things you want to take a closer look at is the size of your photograph and compare that with the size of your particular sequence if you want to scale that photo up at all you want to make sure that you have a high enough resolution so that everything stays in sharp focus when you scale it up for example this photo of Lincoln is twenty five hundred by three thousand pixels now here's what it looks like in a 1920 by 1080 standard HD sequence I've got plenty of room to work with here to animate it move it around scale it up now here's the same image and an Ultra HD 4k sequence I'm gonna have to scale this up a bit to fill the frame and the more I scale it up the more pixelated is going to become now this really shouldn't be that much of an issue for this particular sequence because I'm not scaling it up that much but you really want to pay attention because if you have some low resolution images in your project they might cause problems so if you're just looking for a quick way to automatically fit your image to your frame I'm gonna show you how to do that so here I have a 1920 by 1080 standard HD sequence open I'm gonna grab this same photograph and drop it in and here you can see right away it's already too big this is a nice high resolution image but I want to automatically fit it to fit within the frame so now this is quite easy to do I'm gonna right-click on the image and I have two different options here actually I have scaled a frame size and I have set to frame size now it's important to understand the difference because these do very different things first scale the frame size well to see what this does I'm gonna open up the effect controls panel with the layers selected I'm gonna go to window and select effect control so now I can see all of these properties here pay particular attention to the scale attribute it's set to 100 right now because this photo is that 100 so I'm gonna right click and I'm gonna select scale to frame size now what this is doing is essentially re sampling the image and that's really important to know because what as it resamples it's removing pixel information so you're actually losing quality in your photo here and if I decide to rescale this back up I'm going over a hundred you can see now I'm at 177 and it's going up so that way you know that you're going well above 100 percent of your new resampled image which means you're gonna lose quality I'm going to go ahead and undo this undo that scale to frame size now if I right-click and I go to set to frame size if you look over the scale attribute it is now step 236 which means it didn't resample it you didn't lose any of that pixel information so now when I go to scale it up I can scale it back up to 100 all that information is still there if you have a preference here you can actually set a default so if you go to edit preferences media you can see right here it says default media scaling and I have those two options right here so once you set that default preference the next time you reopen Premiere Pro and you drop a photo into your timeline it's going to follow that default alright so I've got my image here and now I want to add some life to it and I can do that by animating and adding some keyframes but before I do that what I want to do is I want to position my anchor point now the anchor point is that essentially the center of your layer and that any animations you make or any attributes that you adjust it's going to center around that anchor point so what I want to do for this particular photograph is move the anchor point to his face somewhere probably between his eyes because right now it will default to have that anchor point right in the middle of the photograph so if I go over to my effect controls panel and I click on the anchor point I can see right here that the anchor point crosshairs and right here I can manually adjust the X&Y position so if I move the Y position I'll be able to move it and place it kind of right between his eyes here now this thing is ready to animate so now I could just leave it like this and just edit my photos together but that would be incredibly boring so what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to add some movement to this by just doing some basic keyframes so I'm gonna open this area back up in my effect controls panel and let's say we want to start maybe down near his hands and then have the camera kind of move up position wise and maybe do a little scale animation to his face so this is also known as the it's called the Ken Burns effect for the famous documentary filmmaker Ken Burns who does all the PBS historical documentaries what I want to do is go to the beginning point here and I'm gonna hit this little toggle animation button it's a stopwatch symbol so I'm going to turn position on and then I'm gonna move it to its start point so I'm gonna grab the Y attribute and let's say we want to start down here at his hands then I'll go over to maybe the four second mark here and then we'll go end up on his face and now I'm going to add a keyframe for scale here and let's have it scale up just a little bit maybe a hundred and ten and now since we move that anchor point it's scaling nicely right and right around that anchor point so if I take a look at this it's looking ok but it's quite it's not very smooth so one way I can smooth it out is to grab these key frames and I can select both of them at the same time and just choose ease out to add some easing and I grab these two and under temporal interpolation ease in so now that'll smooth the in-and-out let's take a look you can see there it's much there we go I'm gonna actually zoom out here and make this a little bit longer maybe 10 seconds speaking of duration you can actually change the default duration that still images are in Adobe Premiere Pro so for that just go over to edit preferences and then select timeline now right over here third from the top it says still image default duration I can specify whether I want to see that in seconds or frames right now it's set to 5 but let's say I'm working with a bunch of photographs and I want them all to be around the same length this is gonna help me speed up that workflow a lot so since Premiere Pro is in the Adobe family it plays very well with Photoshop and this is very very powerful so here I have the same photograph of Lincoln and you can see this one has some some scratches here so let's say I want to get rid of this actually let me just set this to frame size and you can see there on his jacket here or some on his arm so what I what I can do is I can actually right click here and it says edit in Adobe Photoshop so I'm gonna click on that that will automatically launch Photoshop now if you're working with a lot of historical images this can be a huge part of your workflow so it's important to know how to do this now once we get into Photoshop I'm going to show you just one particular thing that you can do that can take you a long way so you don't have to don't be intimidated by Photoshop thinking that there's so many tools that you have to use you know a bunch to make your photos look nice you can do a lot with just one tool ok so here I am in Adobe Photoshop and the tool that I like to use is the patch tool if you go over here it's right under here shortcut key J with this selected I'm just going to zoom into the spots here this is a pretty big one so all you need to do is click and drag around just real fast once that's selected click within there and just drag release and then deselect I'm doing ctrl or command E and just like that you can you can kind of patch these areas up real fast and it works out real well do you select select you can see how quickly I can patch up these little blemishes and this can this can work on a lot of different things you can remove wrinkles and just like that with one tool I fixed that cleaned it up real quick and now the cool thing about this is all I need to do is save it and now which one watch what happens when I go back to Adobe Premiere Pro those automatically are removed that updates so if I ever open this up in Photoshop again and make any changes that is going to reflect inside of Adobe favorite Pro so I have the movement here it's looking pretty good but it's still pretty plain and bland there's more I can do to it one thing I like to do is add overlays for this particular piece I think some film grain would look pretty nice because this is an historical image so I happen to have this free pack from Shutterstock here and we're going to leave a link in the video description these are five free film grain overlays they have eight millimeter 16 millimeter 35 millimeter and I've got them here in the project so I think this 8 millimeter would be really good and these are actually Ultra HD so I'm going to drop this over my clip here quickly duplicate it actually let me just resize it first because it's quite large right now this again is a 1920 by 1080 sequence so again I'm going to use that set to frame size and then I'm going to go to the effect controls panel under opacity there's a blend mode option I'm just gonna set this to overlay and now that foam grain should be applied I can hold alt do a duplicate here to run the course of the sequence and then just trim trim the fat there let's take a look at this with the film grain applied oh yeah that's like five hundred percent better now well the film grain looks incredibly good it's done wonders to this particular image there's still more I can do so if I go to window I'm gonna open up the luma tree color panel and what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna work on an adjustment layer now I could just throw it on my photograph here but there's a few reasons I don't want to do that for what I'm gonna be adding a vignette and if I added just the luma tree effect here it's gonna add a vignette to the photograph and not to my frame so what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna click on this button here and I'm gonna add a new adjustment layer and the frame size is perfectly fine I'm gonna drag that on top here another reason to use this is because you can put the adjustment layer over multiple photographs as a as apposed or as compared to applying that luma toria feck to multiple photographs so I'm gonna make sure I have the adjustment layer selected and now I'm gonna go and first thing I want to do is just add that vignette so I'm gonna crank this down here and move the midpoint in and then you know really feather it out maybe you just surround this a little bit and there's a ton of different looks you can get here I don't want to go too crazy I mean I couldn't give it like a little faded film look that's just gonna you know wash it out a little bit bring the black level up and maybe something like that okay I hope you enjoyed the tutorial if you did be sure to hit that thumbs up button and if you want to see more content like this be sure to subscribe to the channel and hit that notification about and I'll see you in the next one [Music]

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Length: 12min 33sec (753 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 08 2020