Feedback please…My first Premiere Pro video….

[Steven L. gotz]

It could use some punching up. The Saturday Night Fever thing was pretty decent, but the whole fast motion thing could have been cut. You can also use some of the audio from one portion of the clip while showing another part, just to lead in and out of different sections. L cuts or J cuts were not used from what I can see.

The office scenes were slow in comparison to the more interesting server room. The talent showed a completely different excitement level as well.

If this is to be one of a series showing all of the different departments, then getting to know the people can be important. If this is just the one department, you can use a little bit of footage to introduce and humanize the IT guys, but dragging on with the Star Wars stuff was a little boring.

Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5

[Tim Kolb]

Well, I think that viewers can tire of the “Cinema Verite” shoulder float thing…also, most employees aren’t very good on-camera when they have to make things up off the top of their head (or even try to cover a long list of bullet points from memory). This guy wasn’t bad, but if you’re going to do this on a regular basis, your luck will likely run out. I find myself wishing you could do even some rudimentary lighting…

I would recommend sitting the people down and setting up an interview first. Light it so the person looks good, mic them with a lavalier or a shotgun mic and have them talk to you just off to the side of the camera. This ends up being more comfortable for the person on-camera and the viewer as well as the person speaking will be far more comfortable talking to a person than they are talking to the lense.

You can still do the walk through stuff, but intercut it with the interview…even using some of the interview audio as “narration”…along the lines of what Steven was suggesting. Your cool effects and that sort of stuff can still happen as you transition between the interview footage and cover footage…

This format would also give you more control over pacing as you can cut unnecessary stuff out through jumping around visually and you aren’t tied to the entire length of a particular on-camera segment…not to mention you most likely won’t have the sort of “thinking what to say next…” sort of stammering from your person as they will be responding to your questions on specific topics that they can easily and articulately answer…and you structure the continuity.

This approach would make your IT guys appear much more expert and give your production a nice bit of “TV polish” as well…

TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
Creative Cow Host
2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
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[Steven L. gotz]

I love the Creative Cow. Where else can a new editor get an opinion on their video from an Emmy Award winning editor?

Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5

[Leon Willis]

hi please can you tell me what format / size / codec you used to compress the vid. it downloads fast and i need to upload my vids as i’m just starting out up-north and struggling with compressing.
thanks
http://www.madammim.co.uk

[Marcelo Lewin]

Thank you all for the great feedback. I will take all of your suggestions into consideration for my next shoot. Cheers!

Marcelo Lewin
marcelo@thedailyfarce.com
https://www.thedailyfarce.com/

[Marcelo Lewin]

I used Sorenson 4.0 Windows Media 512K Stream to create it. I hope that helps.

Cheers!

Marcelo Lewin
marcelo@thedailyfarce.com
https://www.thedailyfarce.com/