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Tips for editing Videos in Adobe Premiere 6.5
James Twoteeth
GIS Analyst
Presentation Overview
•Background of Names Places Videos (stats)
•Tips for Cataloguing and documenting videos
•Editing in Adobe Premiere (capture, title pages,Tips, etc)
•Sensitive issues, suggestions.
Background
Original Work
“This Is My Land” (Khwi’ Khwe Hntmikhw’lumkhw) by Gary B. Palmer, Ph. D, is a workbook published in 1987. Dr. Palmer is a professor from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the Department of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies.
Elder Grammarians Lawrence Nicodemus and Lavinia Felsman
Funded by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council
Scope of the project Identify geographic features with Coeur d’Alene names (over 120)
Preserve Coeur d’Alene Language and Stories
Follow up work done by Graduate student Mathew Jensen (u of Idaho)
The Names-Places Project is a collaborative undertaking by the Coeur d'Alene Tribal Elders, the Language Center and the GIS Geographic Systems) program.
The purpose of this project is to preserve tribal culture by visiting geographic sites and recording video, audio, and still photos of Elders describing the site in both English and Coeur d'Alene languages.
GIS allows files to be linked to sites on maps that can be accessed with a "mouse click." Digital video, audio, and still photos of the site are attached to the map. The Tribe has recognized the potential of emerging technologies for archiving, preserving, and presenting cultural information.
Background
Scope of the Names-Places project
Enhancement and expansion of Dr. Palmer’s project using
computer technologies.
GIS mapping
Digital images
Audio recording
Video
Where I come in
To date, we have visited most of the 120 sites listed inThe original work for the Names-Places project.
We have about 85 finished videos for the project alongWith audio/video footage from other various tribal events.
Included in the tribalWebsite for use byTribal departments
Maybe get a chanceto look-at websiteLater?
Tip for cataloguing and documentingIt is very important to keep clear concise recordsof the site visits to help with archiving of the data, as wellas assisting the people that are editing the videos.
Keep in mind that the people that edit the videos probablywere not present during the site visit, so the documentationis all they have to go off of.
Archiving contents:
Site visit formsBurned CD of videosBurned CD of AudioBacked up VCR TapeMisc info (Adobe premiere Projects, drgs, etc.)
Documentation, Archiving and Backups
Trip record (paper) Field notes
Naming conventions By date, site #, and document (photo)
GPS data By date, site #, and document (photo)
VHS or digital to VHS copies
Audio cassette to digital CD
Digital photo to CD Storage Originals (cool, dry place such as a safe) Backups (stored off site)
It can bea simple formlike this.
Site Name:Date:Crew Names:
Misc stuff:GPS, description,Location, Photo names,Filenames, videos, etc.
If you have multiplesites on one tape, pleasemark down start/end timeson documentation
Title Slides would really be helpful like have aDry erase board and write Site name, video start/end timeand display them on camera
Or you can adopt a formfrom local SHIPO Officeto be consistent (CRM)
CDA Tribe CRM isa SHIPO Office so they adopted these on certain visits.
Field Techniques:
Audio tape during travel – Never have to much data Microphone
90 minute tapes - TAPE EVERYTHING NEVER MISS A GOOD STORY “RECORD, CUT LATER”
Video taping- TAPE EVERYTHING NEVER MISS A GOOD STORY
“RECORD, CUT LATER” Microphone wire/wireless Tripod Lighting Shade, dark background Slow pans Smooth zooms Shoot lots of footage
Video/Audio Capture/Editing
Gather lots of data – never have too much Use microphones Use a tripod Learn some digital editing software Adobe Premiere is very versatile Limit video clips to 180 seconds – Videos are enomorous
Hardware Tips
Computer – have a beefy machine to do this. lots of hard drive space (320x240 pixels @ 15fps = 100mb/min) video card sound card lots of RAM
VCR actually two for dubbing and archiving
TV actually two
Audio cassette player/recorder with dubbing capabilities
Editing in Adobe Premiere
Adobe Premiere takes a little bit to learn, but onceYou play around with it, it works very good.
Editing in Adobe Premiere
Remember all the footage from one site could beLike 1hr of tape (couple of GB as well).
If you put on a website you need to get that 1hr oftape down to about 3 minutes of a final video.
So a suggestion would be to listen and watch entirevideo and come up with a storyboard or sequenceof scenes to cut and edit, this will save you a lot of time.
Capturing Video
Sony DCR-VX2000
Capture via FIREWIRE Cabledirectly into Adobe Premieresave as AVI files.
Must capture into 3 minute segmentsor the video files will be too massiveto work with. When capturing, rewind next clip 10seconds, this way when you put multipleclips together there is overlap and theycan be fitted together better.
Transitions between framesor scenes.
Audio for editing,can cut and mix anything in Premiere (all sorts of music).
Video for editing, can importand mix anything in Premiere.
Title Pages can be Made of any jpg or img.
ADOBE PREMIERE 6.5 Interface
Title Pages can beMade and edited in
Adobe Photoshop, etc.
Usually takes about aday or two from start
to finish per video.
Output Formats
Generally it depends on your audience. We are putting ours on the web, so we stored our videos in 3 common formats:
RM (real media),FLV(Flash), WMV (Windows Media™ video file)
Usually when editing in Adobe Premiere you are workingprimarialy with AVI files, they are very big and slow to put on a website.
Sensitive issues
Rule of thumb Beware of showing the locations of things that can be vandalized.
Graves, sacred sites, etc.
Indicate on field forms if something is present that shouldbe kept private .
Sample Video Made in Adobe Premiere 6.5
