• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Removing a Piece of a Video CLip

  Posted by Matthew Gonzalez on June 12, 2011 at 2:04 am

  I Need major help. Basically I want to recreate the album cover for the femme fatale remix single, but as a video with the heads moving basically. Now I have all the clips and they are all set up into different video layers, but I can’t figure out how to make the triangle shapes. How can I cut the video clip so that it looks like a triangle instead of a rectangle???

  

  Jon Barrie replied 15 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Todd Kopriva

  June 12, 2011 at 5:50 am

  You could draw a matte with the Four-Point Garbage Matte effect.

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  Jon Barrie

  June 14, 2011 at 12:52 pm

  This is some advanced stuff and worthy of a tutorial, but I will endeavor to help by text.

  There is always more than one way to skin a cat, so this is one way:
  – Make a Sequence just for the Triangluar video.
  – Place the video on track 1
  – Make a New Title and set the show background video button (top right) to on so you can see the video in the Title Design Area
  – Use the Pen tool to shape out the Triangle.
  – Make the fill white and uncheck any outter edges or shadows.
  – Make a Rectangle that fits the whole area and make it fill to Black.
  – Right click the Black Rectangle and “Arrange>send to back”
  – Now the white triangle should sit on top of the Black fill BG.
  – Add this Title to Track 2 directly on top of Track 1 clip length.

  In the Effects Panel type in Track Matte
  – Select the effect and drop it onto the video clip in track 1
  – Set the Effect Controls settings to see Track 2 as the Matte and you should now have a video only showing through the white triangle area.

  Make a new Sequence to composite the final edit with.
  – Add the build Sequence for the triangle to Track 3
  – Add the Left video to Track 1
  – Add the Right video to Track 2

  You might want to add crop effect to the clip on Track 2 to compose better. Track 1 clip will be under all the other clips and won’t need a crop, just move it into position.

  Edit away…!

  – JB

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