need help with premiere, hard to explain, picture included 1

[kusazero]

Hi, I have a video which looks like the picture in the link below, there are 2 black bars top and bottom, with white scrolling text on them.

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h311/possibilities4u/premiere.jpg

I want to have that 2 black bars exchanged places, meaning, top bar become bottom bar, and bottom bar becomes top bar.

I use Premiere Pro v7.0, and the file I wanted to edit is a mpeg file. I dont have the source file.

I only have little experience with video editing, mostly just cutting clips, and join them, and replace sound track, never really done "editing" before.

Thanks.

 

[Akribie]

To edit MPEG in Premiere Pro 1.0 (= Premiere 7.0) you have (as far as I am aware) two choices: buy the MainConcept MPEG plugin; or convert from MPEG into something Premiere can handle (eg DV) before editing.

Having got the movie in an editable form on the timeline, it is fairly easy to chop bits out and move them around.

You will need three versions of the video running in parallel: one for the bottom; one for the top; and another for the middle. The top and bottom go at the top of the stack with the middle section at the bottom.

The techniques for swapping top and bottom are similar. Use Motion to move the top-frame track down so that the top is now at the bottom of the frame covering the original bottom area. Move the bottom track up so that the bottom section covers the original top. This assumes that the top and bottom edges are clean. If they are not, then you can use either the crop effect or a 4-point garbage matte to tidy up the edges.

 

[kusazero]

Thanks, I had that "concept" of running 3 videos at once in mind, just do not know how to do them.

Yes, the edges are clean.

Does premiere have a function to convert my mpeg to DV? or I HAVE to get that plugin?

And thanks for clearing up the version number.

 

[kusazero]

Or, are there any other plug-in can serve the same purpose?

Thanks again.

 

[Akribie]

Premiere Elements 2 and (as far as I am aware) Premiere Pro 2 can both natively edit MPEG on the timeline. Earlier versions cannot without an add-on.

I am not aware of an alternative plug-in to MainConcept, but Virtual Dub is generally said to be a good free converter into, for example, DV. Personally I use Canopus ProCoder, but that is an expensive answer to your problem.

 

[kusazero]

Thanks again, I also thought of another solution. I am not with my Primiere computer now, so I could not try, but I was thinking of super-imposing new scrolling text to the old ones, can that be done in Primiere?

Although I really do not want to do that, as the text scrolls are synchronised with the video and music, as an amateur, I think it would be really hard for me to reproduce the same result, more importantly, the tempo and vibe of the presentation.

As a side note, do you know of any website that have tutorials or guides for my problem? Or a guide to search in google, like keywords? I will ask for friends in the multimedia industry to see if they have a laptop with Primiere Pro 2 that I could borrow for my little project.

Thank you.

 

[Akribie]

There are lots of helpful video tutorials on the web. Start with:

http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial/tut_premierepro.htm

Lots of good info and links at:

http://ppro.wikicities.com/wiki/Main_Page

and

http://forum.videohelp.com/

and

http://www.stevengotz.com/premierepro.htm