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Premiere Pro CS3 virtual Camera
Hi all,
I’m currently putting together a video and need some help with Premiere to solve and/or speed up the process.
The Idea for the video is to have a background that is made up of a grid of 4×4 videos (16 total) and zoom into certain “video panels” on the background. At the moment, I’m currently doing this by manipulating scale and position settings. The problem, is that the videos don’t seem to follow a predictable path, ie, they don’t stay in their grid. I know that the scale and position values entered at each point are correct (I’ve done the maths) but the videos will overlap in their motion, they always end up perfectly in the grid, but I can’t seem to get it to stay that way while the grid is moving.
The other thing is, does anybody know of an easier way to do this. The original idea was to just have a massive video (4096×2304) and use after effects to apply the virtual camera motion, but this was too heavy, even for my system and would have taken ages to render. So any suggestions would be great.
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4 Replies
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Create the 16 panels in one sequence of Premiere and then nest it into another sequence. That way, when you zoom around the ‘wall’ of videos they remain in the same relative position.
The problem you will still have is the size of the video and the computer being able to process it. If you want to have each video at full resolution when you zoom in, you will have to create a sequence that is 4 times as high and 4 times as wide as the original footage, like your original idea for After Effects. One way to help is to only have video in the master sequence when it is showing in the nested sequence. So, when you are zoomed all the way out and can see all 16 videos, you will have to have video in all the tracks of the master sequence. If you zoom in and only show 1 video, you can remove the video in the other 15 tracks, making it much easier for the computer to deal with those parts. If you are zoomed in most of the time you should be fine. If you are showing all 16 video streams very much you will have a real struggle.
Good luck.
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Hi, thanks for the reply
What I’m currently doing is just making the massive resolution video. It will take several hours to render (about 6) but that’s something I can do over night. I was then thinking of just importing it into a standard sized sequence and using the scale and motion effects. It appears to be the fastest and easiest way to get this done. I believe that the problem I’ve been having with the video’s not staying in their grid was due to the acceleration applied by premiere on the motion I was doing.
Thanks for the tip about only having only the visible videos on the sequence, I’d be wanting to keep the videos to a maximum of 90% scale to keep the feel of the grid going through the whole vid. But that means I can usually remove 7-9 clips from the timeline. Thanks again 🙂
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Would doing this in After Effects work better? Premiere is not 3D – After Effects has this capability, meaning, you can have your video zoom towards the camera without the other videos overlapping.
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Yeah, I thought about using after effects. I’ve finished the video now. I just made the gigantic video background and nested it in a new sequence. Was quite quick and easy, and worked quite well. But thanks for the tip
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