• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Compositing a wide/medium shot overlay

  Posted by Paul Traynor on November 7, 2014 at 10:15 pm

  Hi all–

  This is my first post on CC, although I’ve used the site as a resource for quite a while.

  I’m new to Adobe CC, and I need some help compositing an overlay of a medium shot over that of a wide in Premiere. The footage is of a live performance– single speaker, almost bare stage, just an oriental rug with two monitors running the same slide deck on either side. The wide master was a locked-off full stage shot, featuring both monitors. But halfway through the hour-long production, the camera operator zoomed in, cropping out one of the monitors, and about a third of the total image. Basically everything is still there, except the left monitor.

  I would like to overlay the new ‘medium’ shot ( the one minus a monitor) over the wide master from earlier in the recording, to create a new “wide” shot for the second half of the presentation. I figure I can easily change the content on the monitor with a picture-in-picture composite, and the speaker stayed on the rug, which is in both shots… but I’m not sure exactly how to line up and composite the two shots, particularly how to soften and blend the edges so it looks like the same shot.

  I’m not a very technical editor, so I’m not even sure or if my terminology is correct– and I apologize if this is a topic that’s covered in another thread. But any suggestions for fixes, or even for the property terminology to use to seek the proper Premiere tutorial(s), would be most welcome.

  Thanks!

  Paul Traynor
  Hay Moon Media

  Oki Pienandoro replied 11 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Oki Pienandoro

  November 10, 2014 at 5:10 am

  I assume the whole sequence was still video, right ?
  So i didn’t have to wrote how to do a camera track ?

  Anyway,..
  You can blend the edges using mask, then apply the mask in Premiere.
  The “track mattes key or image matte” is in the video effects library.

  The “mask” is only a black and white image with gradient.
  The white will become solid, and the black part is where the image will be transparent.
  The “grey” area is where the image become semi transparent.

  Example :
  

  Track matte method :
  1. Make the “soften edge mask” in photoshop.
  2. Import the mask in premiere, drop it above your master video track.
  3. Apply that “track mattes” in your master shot, set the layer mask target into the video track you drop earlier in step 2, set the matte to Luma.
  4. Drop your footage replacement (left monitor) below tor master shot.
  5. If the result was inverted (the which supposed to be opaque become solid), you can reverse the matte.

  Image matte method (less messy):
  Basically the same as above, the only difference is instead of dropping of to the video track, you can choose the file matte you made in Photoshop and import them using the setup button (the little button on the left of reset button.

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  Sorry for the english, not native speaker.

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